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Old 06-18-08, 08:54 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker
I can't say for certain, but I do know that many of the parts of vessels in this game share areas on the "skin" texture. The way the model was set up to be skinned may be the very reason that there is no waterline color for the ship. My 3D knowledge is very minimal, but I'm guessing it would take a goodly amount of work to retexture the ship so that the waterline is a seperate part of the skin texture. Wish I could tell you something good, but.....

Edit : I gotta learn to quit posting while someone else is or type faster LOL
well as i understand it the waterline simply copies a duplicated version of a mapped out horizontal and verticle section on the dds file accross the ship model everywhere below a predetermined horizontal line on the ship so i dont think its the way the game generates the image is the problem. i think it is the file that says where to look for the color block. but i am totally guessing about all this here.
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