well, the mindset was the darker the boat, the harder it is to see on the surface at night. of course, only on the darkest of the moonless nights was the boat invisible, so they soon discovered that a lighter gray boat was harder to spot on the water at night.
for some odd reason though, they did not implement these changes on the Narwhal and Nautilus. better for me, the mastah paintah!
and I don't have an issue with the shininess.
also, I tried blue, and the proper shades were destroying the details of the texture, so that's why I decided against it.
I moved all the nodes (water running, etc even included 3 on the upper gun deck, you will only see them run when you are in a storm or surfacing, but it looks a lot better) so I beg of you keltos, next .dat I send to you, please take note of the nodes' placement