"VonDos & Co" shipyard! (big images!)

[VonDos]

@Gap thanks a lot mate!

Talking about mimic a gray-painted wooden deck, what about this?




Best regards,
Vd

[gap]

Originally Posted by VonDos

@Gap thanks a lot mate!

Talking about mimic a gray-painted wooden deck, what about this?

Yes and no, in theory wood veins and the edges between adjoining planks should be barely visible under the paint coating. As you got it now, it looks like the guys at the RN shipyard had run out of paint and had to thin it down with their precious grog ration

In my opinion the base texture you are using looks a bit too disomogeneous, and too low-res. A quick search on the web gave me many alternatives that are probably better suited

P.S: the new stern island looks

[VonDos]

I'll save grog rations as soon as possible =) while waiting, an "up to date" general pic, with all progress put togheter in the same unit in musem (as you can see, this is wath you can found choosing different years..).

Originally Posted by gap

Yes and no, in theory wood veins and the edges between adjoining planks should be barely visible under the paint coating. As you got it now, it looks like the guys at the RN shipyard had run out of paint and had to thin it down with their precious grog ration

In my opinion the base texture you are using looks a bit too disomogeneous, and too low-res. A quick search on the web gave me many alternatives that are probably better suited

P.S: the new stern island looks

A question for everyone: do someone know rigging configuration between masts in ww2? There was something, 3, 4 cables, antennas or nothing?

edit: Civil \ Military flag added..

[gap]

Originally Posted by VonDos

Amazing work!

I see that the AMC version flies the White Ensign now. Did you use the workaround I had suggested a while back, or how else did you manage doing that?

[radiator]

Originally Posted by VonDos

Excellent work!

[the_frog]

Hello,

the masts carried the radio antennas. These are the 6 to 8 cables usually running from the top yardarm of the fore mast to top yardarm of the main mast (= aft mast in this case).

The changing of the flag is nice. Just a comment on the placement of the flag -- the flag is at the aft flagpole only when in (or entering/leaving) harbour; at sea, it is at main mast. That's why the main mast usually has a longitudinal yardarm.

Cheers

Originally Posted by VonDos

Very good work ! Are the textures changed with SH3 Commander ?

A small thing : the walls under the red funnels are very white compared to the hull, could it be corrected perhaps ?

[VonDos]

Originally Posted by gap

Amazing work!

I see that the AMC version flies the White Ensign now. Did you use the workaround I had suggested a while back, or how else did you manage doing that?

Three solution has been tested for obtain this.
Finally i choose different library object for different years.

Originally Posted by radiator

Excellent work!

Thanks a lot!! :-)

Originally Posted by the_frog

Hello,

the masts carried the radio antennas. These are the 6 to 8 cables usually running from the top yardarm of the fore mast to top yardarm of the main mast (= aft mast in this case).

The changing of the flag is nice. Just a comment on the placement of the flag -- the flag is at the aft flagpole only when in (or entering/leaving) harbour; at sea, it is at main mast. That's why the main mast usually has a longitudinal yardarm.

Cheers

Huge thanks mate! I'll create different nodes for different main masts in different dates ;-)

Originally Posted by Kendras

Very good work ! Are the textures changed with SH3 Commander ?

A small thing : the walls under the red funnels are very white compared to the hull, could it be corrected perhaps ?

Thanks! No, textures and model details are changed using library objects and eqp file.
White walls are so white just in museum, btw lights problems will be correct soon.

Best regards, Vd

[the_frog]

Hello,

the light issues result from 3D objects either not edge splitted or imported with vertex normals. I case of imported vertex normals just re-import the 3D object and un-tick the vertex normals in the import dialogue.

Cheers

[VonDos]

@the_frog Thanks a lot!!

Here's an up-to-date pic with nw flags position, cables\antennas and a timeline of unit during war's years:



1) Neutral unit: civil livery, lightened windows and red\green signals, unarmed, red civil insigna. PRE WAR

2) Darkened unit: unlightened windows and signals, unarmed, again red insigna. FIRST MONTHS OF WAR

3) Converted AMC: grey livery, unlightened, heavy armed, different model with 2 funnels only, scout plane, island, added small command deck, different masts and pipes... white military insigna. FROM 1940

[gap]

Originally Posted by the_frog

the light issues result from 3D objects either not edge splitted...

A quick addition to the tip by the_frog: Silent3ditor spits automatically edges which are contiguous in the 3D mesh, but separated in the UV map (if you don't believe it, just import/export a model to/from S3d and reload it in your 3D editing program), so you don't need to modify your model's geometry directly, i.e. edges which are split in the UV map act anyway as "hard edges"

Originally Posted by the_frog

...or imported with vertex normals. I case of imported vertex normals just re-import the 3D object and un-tick the vertex normals in the import dialogue.

...and a question for the_frog: do you mean that unticking "import vertex normals" is always a good measure, or it should only be done in case of weird lighting issues?