[2025.1] Upgrade DepthMeter
This mod (savegame compatible) improves the submarine’s behavior when diving/surfacing, improves the submarine’s behavior when crash diving/surfacing, and makes the boat’s buoyancy negative when the boat is stationary.
Now more details about each function:
Now, during an crash dive, the boat’s buoyancy will decrease (negative tank) and there will be a strong trim to the bow.
If desired, these parameters can be adjusted in the mod’s “Config” file.
Parameters for adjustment:
CrashDiveNegativeTankMassVII – Negative Tank mass of Type VII boats
CrashDiveNegativeTankMassII – Negative Tank mass of Type II boats
CrashDiveTrimVII – trim adjustment for Type VII boats
CrashDiveTrimII – trim adjustment for Type II boats
Now, when surfacing or emergency surfacing, the boat will have a trim to the stern. If desired, these parameters can be configured in the “Config” mod file.
SurfaceTrimVII – trim adjustment for Type VII boats
SurfaceTrimII – trim adjustment for Type II boats
With the default settings of the mod, boats of type II/VII will begin to sink at depths greater than 60 meters if both motors are in stop mode. Therefore, it is important that the boat is always in motion.
If you don’t like this feature, you can disable it or customize it to your liking.
MaxStopDepthVII – the depth at which a type VII boat in “stop” mode will begin to sink
MaxStopDepthII – the depth at which a type II boat in “stop” mode will begin to sink
StopMassVII – mass added to type VII boat mass to make it sink (to disable the negative buoyancy function of the boat in “Stop” mode, simply set it to zero (it should look like this: StopMassVII = 0f;))
StopMassII – mass added to type II boat mass to make it sink
Fixed uboat bouncing on the water as much as possible
Added an increase in natural water influx when diving deeper than 200 meters. This feature only works when the "Realistic Bilge" setting is enabled.
This functionality can be customized. The Config file contains two parameters:
DeepDepthThreshold = 200f; (depth at which the increased water influx begins)
DeepDepthMultiplier = 2.0f; (multiplier for the amount of water that will enter the boat)
Has been added boat trim (about 10 degrees) when the difference between the target and actual depth is more than 8 meters
This functionality can be customized. The Config file contains next parameters:
DiveTrimVII = 0.35f; – trim adjustment for Type VII boats (Dive)
DiveTrimII = 0.7f; – trim adjustment for Type II boats (Dive)
SurfaceTrimVII = -0.3f; – trim adjustment for Type VII boats (Surface)
SurfaceTrimII = -0.5f; – trim adjustment for Type II boats (Surface)
