From a non-technical and more general point of view, I'm just curious... I'm sure we ALL are!
1. When you say that the damage model needs work, do you mean that it doesn't blow up quite nicely yet? Or that it doesn't incur the black scarring marks?... From a gaming standpoint, I hope you make it explode nicely... As long as it goes ka-BOOOOM, who cares about black marks (much...)?
*It would be cool if damage could deform your Vosper, but I'm being realistic in assuming you won't be able to do that...
2. Have modellers gotten to the point where they can add reflections to their models? I noticed that in your screenshots, the Vosper currently does not have a reflection. Just wondering.
3. Does a Vosper really travel that low in the water? Although I'm no Vosper expert, the waterline looks quite high.
4. As realistic and as detailed as your Vosper is, it won't be much more useful (or
ahem... useless) as an Elco... I guess what I'm getting at here is: warships may be cool, but it'd be even cooler to have more merchants. Yep, so the question is, WHEN?
5. I'm running under the assumption that modellers soon will be able to import more things than just ships, such as airplanes, subs, guns, torpedoes, weapons in general, and other various objects... am I right? or am I right?? (please, I hope I'm right

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Thanks, and nice work by the way... SH3 keeps chuggin' along.