No. Destroyers were all burning oil by 1915. No WW1 DDs used coal, and certainly none built between the wars or during WW2.

Ok, Seth I'm not. --wry grin-- But I thought I'd take a little break and download FRAPS and give it a whirl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0NecrPKE7k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj9EW5jH8QY

Now back diving in amongst particles, colors, opacity . . . --shudders--

Man, those stokers sure are polluting the atmosphere. :-? I suppose that there was no EPA back then.;)

Great work on the dark greys. Give the smoke some depth.:rock:

Whu not check the sil file in each ships sea folder

Ummmm . . . because Ich bin eine retard? D'oh! :doh:

That'll help speed things up, yep yep yep! Danke!

Ok, this is the pre-final version of the coal burners:

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l1..._21585_531.jpg

I've started classifying, then editing and modifying, all the ships. Not sure how long that'll take. There's quite a few! :rotfl:

Um, yeah, that looks like coal smoke to me.

Very classy Albrecht http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...s/thumbsup.gif

Nice work Albrecht!:up:

Input request
 

I'm in the process of categorizing the various ship classes (which is going a whole lot faster due to BBW's suggestion of using the .sil files!). In doing so I had a 'hmmmm' moment.

Should the heavier warships (battleships, aircraft carriers) also have the very faint smoke like the DDs, DEs and the like will have? I checked out what that'd look like and it just looks . . . odd.

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l1...115028_812.jpg

What do you think? Give it the same smoke as the modern, diesel-burner merchies, give it this smoke, or create a forth smoke for the heavier class warships?

perhaps a litle bit more, something in between:)

spoken of smoke , i was wondering when a ship sinks and go backboard or wathever i notice the smoke do not go up like it should be, can this stockbug be fixed ?

The larger ships were longer between boiler overhauls. I'd suggest lighter than a coal burner but darker than an escort.

STOPSTOOOOPPPP alle Maschinen zwomal HALT
Yikes!

let me ask you- will you give the light smoke to the old four funnel DDs too?
light smoke for a ship built during WWI?

There we have an interesting problem: old Warships, built before, lets say 1930 should have medium smoke!
Auxiliary warships like converted trawlers and similar ships have medium smoke too.

What do you think?

looking verry good :rock:


keep up the good work - BDU