A floating piece of wood with random letters on it would be swell. Imagine cruising along and seeing floating barrels, crates and some junk reading something partial. You could even have the officer spot it and have it display with the name "Floatsam" on the map, and have the TGA shape be the sunken ship icon.

Oh, and while I remember it, I'd like you to know that there are now three barrels floating about in Bergen harbour;). Whether or not I decide to include them in NorOps* is a different question.

*only with your go-ahead, 'course.

Floating Coconuts
 

How about a Coconut with PT-109 msg scrawled on it.. We could say it drifted to the Atlantc side and forget about the timeline issue....

I love the pretense where in a game you are playing you sink and destroy ships carrying hundred or even thousands of souls some cannot bear the thought that they might see a body or two on the waves or even a limb or two....

The sooner the ostrich head is back in the sand hole the sooner the train barrelling towards you goes away???????


For me the more realistic the game is the better it plays.....

Take that Pirates barrell and render it as an oil drum. Change it to a sphere and stick some percussion spikes on it for a mine, keep the mods a coming...

:rotfl:

YEAH What he said!!! and then some.

I doubt if any one put to sea in the 1940s with wooden barrels, can youy do an oil drum as well.

No critisism intended just thougth an oil drum would be nice perhaps a few wooden boxes etc

Moin,
No problem. More units are under construction:

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/7...rate001ht6.jpg

A set of crates will be released soon. The *.zon files drive me crazy actually. Hope I´ll get the point sooner than later. The barrel´s *.zon is in revision too.

Regards,
DD

Outstanding DD :up: This brings "more life" to the game

All Hail the Diving Duck

:rock:
Über
:yep:

Very nice work DivingDuck! :up:

Although I agree that we should not start another "Life boat" thread, I think they would be a nice addition to scripted missions or movies. So if you have enough time, I think some of us would like to see life boats ;).

Cheers!
Mr. Fleck

I noticed that some cargo ships carry trucks, could these be put on the docks ?

I asked for tanks and trucks and the like as Land units a long time ago, but nothing ever came of it. Would be nice, though.

You could go in a different direction also, and have some U-boat specific items floating such as a logbook, charts, captains hat, wooden framed chalkboard with depth charge count (dont know if a wood frame would float slate) and misc food items.


:help:

Moin,

@SK + Venatore:
should be no problem to place a truck on the pier.


@Payoff:
the problem with very small items is, that the object´s pivot center is pretty close to the water line. That´s why they tend to float above the water in the troughs of the sea.


And this is the actual status:

• barrel_01 is finished, *.zon and *.sim reworked
• lifebelt finished
• models of crate_01 thru 03 ready, adjusting *.zon and *.sim
• planks´models under construction
• oildrum model is ready, adjusting *.zon and *.sim
• destroyed rowboat under construction

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/8...10120034da.png

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/1...belt001qx7.png http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/8...belt002np8.png

Regards,
DD

:rock:

This is so mind bending! Amazing work there mate!

Now we only need some circling sharks and disembodied body parts... or mayhaps not:p.

@DivingDuck: Im really impressed of your work, mate! You really know your way around the 3D stuff! Thank you for the contributions you have given/are giving to the sub-simming community! I believe i have everyone behind me on that!:up::up::up:
Now: Get back to work! ;)

Related question (a more serious one): Is it possible to make the various types of smoke, fire, and oil slicks into land/air objects for scenery purposes (by making invisible sea/air/land objects and attaching the effects to them?

I'd love to leave harbour late-war seeing smoke plumes and fires rise from some of the buildings following bombing raids.

Moin,

@SK:
it´s a pretty good idea to place a dummy funnel object in a building. The major part would be the adjustment of the smoke column, I think.
Don´t know if one can bring fire to the buildings/installations too. To start the fire you would have to tell the SHIII engine that your "vessel" (building) has been destroyed.

Regards,
DD

Well, my idea was to place his "smoke/fire" object inside or on top of the building, to make it look like it was the building that burned.

Wow, looks good so far DD. Nice work. :up:

Hi

are the reworked barrel and lifebelt available for download already? And I see a crate in the water on the last screenie. Ready to release also?
Keep up posting screenshots showing the progress of your work. I love it. I especially like crate 1 /row 2, crate 3 / row 2 and crate 2 / row 3.

Filax