WIP - Another Small Tanker

[AG124]

I was sick of my relative lack of ship building, and was inspired by some small Japanese tanker designs that I have just recently found. I started building, and before I knew what happened, I had kitbashed a new tanker. The model is based on Japanese designs, but is pretty generic and could be used for any nation. It is not ready for release however, but here are some shots.

http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/2221/013jo.jpg

http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/4681/028cv.jpg

http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/1880/037ur.jpg

http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/1276/043od.jpg

[bigboywooly]

:up: Nice one:up:
Boy you sure do love them tankers
Looks good - type101 ?

[Der Teddy Bar]

I Love your work....

Can anyone assist in putting a texture back onto a ship?

I have AG124's Lake ship zoned and just needing some minor work on left over parts but when I save the DAT the textures are lost...

[AG124]

Looks good - type101 ?

Thank you. Yes, it will be a type 101, and the tonnage will be about 3,480 GRT.

I wish I could help you fix the UV Mapping, Der Teddy Bar, but I have no idea how to do anything like that.:damn:

[Wulfmann]

Just a thought.

If you increased the draft would that lower the ship? You could make two versions of every tanker and we could place higher ones in west bound convoys and lower/deeper ones in the east bound ones.

Thinking out load.

Thanks for the tease, those are great ideas. It would be nice if one day a 40 ships convoy had 40 separate models.

Wulfmann

[malcymalc]

Teddy,
Somewhat off topic but the previous ships released by AG124 which are now gracing my current set-up included an add on file to up the number of hit-points from stock to NYGM.

I realise that you are busy on Ship Damage 2.0 work rezoning etc but is it possible to do a similar thing for the other ship models out there? It occurred to me that this might be a stepping stone to full NYGM Ship Damage 2.0.

Regards
Malcolm

PS: AG124 I really like your ships too. I am looking forward to meeting them at sea.

[bigboywooly]

Any progress on this or your others AG ?
And whatever happened to the Lake ship

[AG124]

No luck so far - they are all crashing the game when they break in two. I am continuing to try, and may make some progress soon I hope.:yep:

[bigboywooly]

No luck so far - they are all crashing the game when they break in two. I am continuing to try, and may make some progress soon I hope.:yep:

Ouch
Best of luck sorting them :up:

[mr chris]

Good luck with your new tanker AG124. Love your work, you and the other modders who are adding more ships to the game are doing a fantastic job:up:
I look forward to the release.
Keep up the great work

[Lupo]

I look forward.....:p and love your work!!!:up:

mfg lupo!

[GT182]

Very nice tanker AG.

Hope to see it soon with a Brit or neutral flag on it, if possible. ;)

BTW..... what did happen to trying to make the loaded ships ride lower in the water?

[Stiebler]

GT182 said:
BTW..... what did happen to trying to make the loaded ships ride lower in the water?

Der Teddy Baer had raised this issue for NYGM some months ago (before Wulfmann mentioned it, actually), and had put forward examples of a single merchant ship that were duplicates with different riding depths (heavy laden, normal loading, in ballast). These worked well enough, but the team considered that the cost (RAM, download time) of adding an extra two types of every merchant ship was excessive. Frightful, actually.

Someone else, I think from one of the German SH3 Forums, suggested independently that the depth be altered for the ships in the campaign files. Now this works well enough for single ships in campaign_SCR.mis, but convoys - the relevant part - all occur as single groups in campaign_RND.mis. If you lower the depth for the group to simulate heavy loading, the whole group sinks by the same amount. That is unfortunate for the escorts, which tend to sink when below water!

So we abandoned the concept. Good idea, implementation not practical.

Stiebler.

I hope I get rid of this silly atavar soon. It doesn't look anything like me.

[Edit: Oh, I have. Now I'm a planesman, not someone from Bangkok.]

NYGM Tonnage War Mod - Leading Edge Realism (http://www.subsim.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=49428)

[GT182]

Thanks Stiebler for the info. I was away for a bit so I didn't know the outcome and it was all cancelled. Too bad as it would have been nice.

Even if they only did it for single ships and not the convoys it would be a welcome change I think. No worries tho, there's other more important things to mod. ;)

[gerd peter meyer]

@ AG124
I can't find this fine "Another Small Tanker" on your FileShare site. :hmm:
There are many other wounderfull ships. Thanks for them all.....:up:

[mr chris]

@ AG124
I can't find this fine "Another Small Tanker" on your FileShare site. :hmm:
There are many other wounderfull ships. Thanks for them all.....:up:

I do not think i has been released yet.

[bigboywooly]

@ AG124
I can't find this fine "Another Small Tanker" on your FileShare site. :hmm:
There are many other wounderfull ships. Thanks for them all.....:up:

No its not released yet
Note the WIP in front = Work In Progress

[rasmus1896]

Yeah nice work . when will this ship going to be downloadable?

AG124. realy your ships look very great.

[sh3rules]

Nice. Are you going to release it in gray, or are you going to paint it more like the Pyro or the Chatam? In any case, I'm looking forward to sinking it! Any plans for a mega tanker? Something to put the T3 to shame? :D

[AG124]

No plans for any other tankers right now. I am at a standstill because of the CTD problem I am having, plus I have other work to do at the moment. As for the SJT paint job, I was planning on only releasing it with one skin but may include a black or blue one as well. Actually, it is a pretty generic design and could easily be used by any nation - not just the Japanese.:hmm:

If I release another ship soon, it would be the Belize Freighter (~2,300 GRT) but she is nothing to get excited about as the kitbash looks very much like the parent. There is a picture way back in the "Mod Request for More Ship Types" thread somewhere.

[gerd peter meyer]

No plans for any other tankers right now. I am at a standstill because of the CTD problem I am having, plus I have other work to do at the moment. As for the SJT paint job, I was planning on only releasing it with one skin but may include a black or blue one as well. Actually, it is a pretty generic design and could easily be used by any nation - not just the Japanese.
If I release another ship soon, it would be the Belize Freighter (~2,300 GRT) but she is nothing to get excited about as the kitbash looks very much like the parent. There is a picture way back in the "Mod Request for More Ship Types" thread somewhere.


@ AG124
anyway, i am looking forward your new ship (with or without skin) :up:

[TarJak]

Great looking tanker. Can't wait till you release it.