[REL] Thomsen's Ships V3.1 is out! All credits to H.SIE (10/12/2008)

[Jimbuna]

Woah!....Connect 4

[Philipp_Thomsen]

Originally Posted by WEBSTER

so just to be clear on this:

1. controls the pitch and roll effect by changing the center of gravity
Like a pendulum effect.
2. controls acceleration and slowing of ships by changing the ships drag
Nope, it control how "heavy" the ship behaves. More drag means it's more difficult for the wave to bound the ship up and down, left and right. If you let the drag=zero, the ships will behave like a rubber duck on a bathub.
3. controls acceleration of ships by changing the engine power
Like when you put the 5th gear on your car at 10mph and try to accelerate.
4. controls turning radius of ships by changing the amount of drag the rudder has
Yep! Ships that heavy and that big don't turn like sport cars!
am i understanding that correctly? :hmm:

and with #2 you changed it to (drag -> LR and UD = 0,75) and i want to understand how did you arrive at those numbers from (drag -> LR and UD = 1,0) because i might want to try a different setting and wish to understand it better to know what numbers to try

The 1.0 value is cos I was trying to make the ships steadier as possible. But I see that this great value (1.0) is making the ships lose too much speed while turning. I kinda had that one coming. That's why I said 0.75, cos that's the new value I'll put in all ships. The V1.0 of this mod has 1.0 in all ships, which I'll change to 0,75, which seems to be the right value.

Above in green.

[Philipp_Thomsen]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Woah!....Connect 4

Daydreming...? :hmm:

[Graf Paper]

Originally Posted by jimbuna
Woah!....Connect 4

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Classically, elegantly, and hilariously understated.

[Sag75]

Originally Posted by Philipp_Thomsen

I think we can reduce the dragging by 25%. That way, the ships won't lose that much speed while turning, although the ships will roll and pitch 25% more.

..I like the way the ships now take the waves in their bow: you can see the bow enters in the water and then comes up... I think it's a nice effect that should be kept.. Anyway, just a bit more roll in small ships/boats may be expected in heavy seas.

I departed from Lorient and saw the minesweeper have difficulties to exit the harbour. However, PT you may make the minesweeper parameters closer to the original one: in fact the minesweeper is only in german harbours.......

[Philipp_Thomsen]

Originally Posted by Sag75

..I like the way the ships now take the waves in their bow: you can see the bow enters in the water and then comes up... I think it's a nice effect that should be kept.. Anyway, just a bit more roll in small ships/boats may be expected in heavy seas.

I departed from Lorient and saw the minesweeper have difficulties to exit the harbour. However, PT you may make the minesweeper parameters closer to the original one: in fact the minesweeper is only in german harbours.......

Yeah. There's some ships with wrong data, I've checked. There's one DE with merchant data. I messed up some things, but they're all easy to fix.

[MLF]

PT

Have just been attacking a convoy with this mod enabled. Immersion at 100%. This is really good. No more bobbing bathtub models. Watched destroyers and corvettes attacking - brilliant. Merchants plodding along but pitching and rolling realistically.

Thanks for this.

Regards

MLF

Originally Posted by Philipp_Thomsen

Above in green.

ok so even though it is shown as a comma in the file the "," is really a decimal point in all these values?

[Sag75]

That's good!
PT, during a convoy attack, your mod produces more messed ships!

I increased the contrast in this image to show you the confusion into convoy array after a torpedo attack:


This is why large ships take now more time to turn or modify their speed! I saw large merchants go across part of the convoy, messing and/or stopping closer ships!

nice!

[Philipp_Thomsen]

Originally Posted by WEBSTER

ok so even though it is shown as a comma in the file the "," is really a decimal point in all these values?

In my head, 1.0 and 1,0 are the same sh!t.

But yeah, the 1.0 or 1,0 are decimal points.

[Philipp_Thomsen]

Originally Posted by Sag75

That's good!
PT, during a convoy attack, your mod produces more messed ships!

I increased the contrast in this image to show you the confusion into convoy array after a torpedo attack:


This is why large ships take now more time to turn or modify their speed! I saw large merchants go across part of the convoy, messing and/or stopping closer ships!

nice!

Anything I can do for realism!

Just wondering if an NYGM 3.1 version will be made available ? Or if you want to mai lme the changes you made I could have a look at putting a compatible version together ?

[Philipp_Thomsen]

Originally Posted by Uber Gruber

Just wondering if an NYGM 3.1 version will be made available ? Or if you want to mai lme the changes you made I could have a look at putting a compatible version together ?

Why would this ships be incompatible to NYGM? :hmm:

[asanovic7]

Originally Posted by Philipp_Thomsen

I'm not sure what do you mean... :hmm:

That poem that occupies the space on thread..

[Philipp_Thomsen]

Originally Posted by asanovic7

That poem that occupies the space on thread..

You mean my signature?

I freakin love it!

It's the most absurd truth, TIME IS ALL WE HAVE!

The rest is just illusion.