[WiP] sobers better boats mod
 

Changed the overall color of the ship to be more battle grey .

http://files.filefront.com/WIP+sober.../fileinfo.html
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/1690/yam1af7.jpg
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/6876/yam2wq3.jpg
Question . The damn turrets are the original color . Where is the .dds file for those please .
lighter version
http://files.filefront.com/WIP+sobers+better+boats+mrrar/;8973918;/fileinfo.html

Thank you... a worthy mod indeed. Every time I see a front line USN warship all streaky and rusted out like a tramp steamer I'm thinking no way! You might see something like that in ABDA (an old flush deck, or the Marblehead or Houston early on), but otherwise those ships were quite well maintained through out.

JD

im guessing at guns in the main textures folder & judging by the shape on the dds probebly guns_radar_002_001 guns_radar_003_001 guns_radar_001 guns_radar_T01 but i think the last ones for subs.

nice mod btw, never yet seen a navy that doesnt have its sailors painting out rust every spare minute of the day.

Looking good Sober
 

I will have to see how the new caustic's for the ship's I am working on look's on the new texture work your doing.

I am sure i can get them a lot better than this .

Nice work Sober!
 

I was thinking about the same mod, because the sh4 warships does look abit dull..

BTW a question
 

If we could enhance the resolution of the ships it would be awesome :hmm: (for those who have fast gfx-cards ;) )

That would be great, yes. The models themselves are very good, so they just need some texture work on them to really bring out their quality. Too bad Juju isn't around any more - he did some great work on a couple of the SH3 ship skins.

I have had a gutful of this mod to be honest . I will not do any further work on it . I hope someone brings out a mod with nice battle grey hires ships . cheers .

ok
 

Okay I understand, yes we need Iambecomealive from SH3 to make new ships for SH4 and Juju for the new hires versions... :hmm: I can take a look at this and see if it's doable,but seeing some of the posts over at the sh3-forum i can see it's not an easy thing to do.

..And right now I have plenty to do on ROW beta :p

IMO I don't think there was much wrong with the actual colour of the IJN ships. The grey looked ok to me. I think that IJN Grey is actually a lot lighter than people think. If better hi res textures could be made I think that would be a major improvement. Might be a bit of frame rate kller though.

don't forget the gun's Kriller2 there are textures for them
 

Gun's and gun's radar's and I beleve some of the torpedo textures are for the ship's torpedo launchers and maybe some of the gun's are related as well not shure though.

But looking good so far Kriller2

thanks Leo I have made a thread for the wip and we will see if there is time for making yet another modification, it was sober who inspired me and said it was ok if I took a look at this BTW.