[WIP] - Japanese Merchants for SH4 & SH3

[iambecomelife]

I made a large British freighter the other day and I realized that if it was shrunk it could be used to make several generic Japanese freighters. Two of them are almost finished and I am planning a third that will look similar but will have the superstructures closer together. Ideally I would like them to be useable for both SH3 and SH4. These skins are early war but it will be easy to create grey and green camo skins for Spring 1942 - Summer 1945.

ONI-208-J and similar manuals are really useful for finding out ship shapes. Many of the merchant classes were very similar - it can be tough to make each one visually interesting on its own.

[kriller2]

Looks good, I have waited for you to make some better merchants for SH4 knowing your nice work from SH3 modding forum

[McHibbins]

Yeah !! The Merchant-Master of SH3 is here ! Great

[tater]

Woot!

tater

[AOTD_MadMax]

Oh yes iambecome, this is really great.
You know, i love you ...........

Cant wait to get it !

Greets

Maddy

[Ducimus]

Those ships are beautiful. It would almost be a crying shame to put a torpedo into one of them!

[CCIP]

Originally Posted by tater

Woot!

tater

same thing!

I've been tempted to message you a few times and ask if you were planning to convert some applicable merchants from your work to SH4 - but I figured you had your hands full enough with the Merchat Fleet for SHIII...

REALLY glad you came over here and are working on this too

[DeepIron]

Really excellent work! I'm with Ducimus, it would be a pity to torpedo them, they look so good... But I could get over it!

If you don't mind me asking, what are you using to model these in?

[rascal101]

Hi there IAMBECOMELIFE,
I wanted to ask if there is any progress re your Merchant Fleet mod, I've been waiting for this for ages and wondering if its still on the cards and if I should still await the mods release. The next upgrade for GWX is due soon and I'm hoping your incredible merchant skins will be a feature or at least compatable.

Regards
J

Originally Posted by iambecomelife

I made a large British freighter the other day and I realized that if it was shrunk it could be used to make several generic Japanese freighters. Two of them are almost finished and I am planning a third that will look similar but will have the superstructures closer together. Ideally I would like them to be useable for both SH3 and SH4. These skins are early war but it will be easy to create grey and green camo skins for Spring 1942 - Summer 1945.

ONI-208-J and similar manuals are really useful for finding out ship shapes. Many of the merchant classes were very similar - it can be tough to make each one visually interesting on its own.

[LukeFF]

Originally Posted by rascal101

Hi there IAMBECOMELIFE,
I wanted to ask if there is any progress re your Merchant Fleet mod, I've been waiting for this for ages and wondering if its still on the cards and if I should still await the mods release. The next upgrade for GWX is due soon and I'm hoping your incredible merchant skins will be a feature or at least compatable.

Dude,

Show some courtesy to the rest of us and don't repost iam's images in your quoted text. It's unnecessary and takes up space for no reason at all. A PM works just as well, especially considering your question isn't even related to SH4.

[McHibbins]

I Think it´ll be damn hard job to add new ships to SH4 even more to make them compatible to all these mods outside. Try, what you´ve done for SH3 before. Keep up the good work Skipper

[DeepIron]

I Think it´ll be damn hard job to add new ships to SH4 even more to make them compatible to all these mods outside.

Actually, there has been quite a bit of work done in this and we're only missing a couple of key components, both of which are being worked on currently.

It's only a matter of time true believers...

[iambecomelife]

Originally Posted by LukeFF

Dude,

Show some courtesy to the rest of us and don't repost iam's images in your quoted text. It's unnecessary and takes up space for no reason at all. A PM works just as well, especially considering your question isn't even related to SH4.

These ships actually are part of the MFM progress. I am releasing them for both SH3 and SH4. There has been a tremendous amount of progress made compared to the first version I submitted to the beta testers - nearly every freighter and many tankers have been revamped thoroughly. I am also developing a new, SH3Commander-friendly way of changing skins as time goes on - this can also be used to adjust parameters like tonnage, ship durability, and average top speed as the war progresses. At first I was conflicted but now I'm glad I didn't make the beta tester's version the release version.

[tater]

Necro-bump!

As you can tell from a raft of necro-bumps, I'm getting jazzed on jap merchants again...

A couple hundred bucks worth of new books probably has something to do with it

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by tater

Necro-bump!

As you can tell from a raft of necro-bumps, I'm getting jazzed on jap merchants again...

A couple hundred bucks worth of new books probably has something to do with it

Okay, I'm interested...what books have you been buying?