[TEC] Adding/Importing new units / SH5 Damage/collision models

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by stoianm

Yes, evil But I couldn't figure out how to do it correctly until now

[Zedi]

Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith

Yes, evil But I couldn't figure out how to do it correctly until now

This is actually correct. Warships should dodge torpedoes because their speed. And the "bug" mentioned by Stoian will not work on the boats. First of all you will need to set ur torpedo at 0 meters to hit the boat, secondly .. at 42 knts that boat will just fly all over you, you will have to be really fast to keep her in your aim.

This guy is serious business and I advice to retreat when you spot one of these boats around you. If he spot you, he will trigger the whole allied flotilla in the area, there is just no way to escape. Things will change dramatically very soon in the SH5 campaign.

Im very sad about her textures, wish we could have a tutorial about the SH5 skins and how we can mod it. Reaper did a great job on skining few merchants.. but I have my doubts that there is a way to make a new alpha channel for these skins. And this boat badly need a new skin as right now looks very ugly, even if the model is very good.

[stoianm]

Originally Posted by Zedi

This is actually correct. Warships should dodge torpedoes because their speed. And the "bug" mentioned by Stoian will not work on the boats. First of all you will need to set ur torpedo at 0 meters to hit the boat, secondly .. at 42 knts that boat will just fly all over you, you will have to be really fast to keep her in your aim.

This guy is serious business and I advice to retreat when you spot one of these boats around you. If he spot you, he will trigger the whole allied flotilla in the area, there is just no way to escape. Things will change dramatically very soon in the SH5 campaign.

Im very sad about her textures, wish we could have a tutorial about the SH5 skins and how we can mod it. Reaper did a great job on skining few merchants.. but I have my doubts that there is a way to make a new alpha channel for these skins. And this boat badly need a new skin as right now looks very ugly, even if the model is very good.

Yep... you are right... is to fast...and i agree.. is very ugly... look more like cartoons... i hope somebody can fix the texture

[jwilliams]

Originally Posted by Zedi

Things will change dramatically very soon in the SH5 campaign.

I have been waiting for this day for over a year. Thanks to you, TDW and many other modders SH5 is really starting to shine.

I look forward to the release of your campaign mod.

Originally Posted by Zedi

Im very sad about her textures, wish we could have a tutorial about the SH5 skins and how we can mod it. Reaper did a great job on skining few merchants.. but I have my doubts that there is a way to make a new alpha channel for these skins. And this boat badly need a new skin as right now looks very ugly, even if the model is very good.

I agree about the textures. But I think that its more important to get these extra ships into SH5. Texture Repaints can always be added at a later date.

Keep up the good work.

And thank for making SH5 campaign more realistic.

[Zedi]

Bam-Bam-Bam



I cannot upload a better quality screenie due to size limit, but trust me, it looks MUCH more better in reality! I have no clue of what Im doing nor any experience in this field, but seems like things are shaping up slowly. Added a normal map and the ships now already have reflection, also brighter and darker sides.. and most important thing.. textures. The are now colored in blue just to figure out what part need to be worked out. But its working, I can make these babies shine!

Now I would love to know 2 things:
TDW, the textures for the gun and lights where are stored? Are these textures from the common database, same on every SH5 ship? Or they are simply just missing?

Can anybody give me a colored pic about these boats to have a clue how they should look like? Screens from SH4 will do it.

[Sepp von Ch.]

Originally Posted by Zedi

Bam-Bam-Bam



Can anybody give me a colored pic about these boats to have a clue how they should look like? Screens from SH4 will do it.

Some camouflages (source- Osprey: New Vanguard 074-British Motor Torpedo Boat 1939-45; Squadron Signal: Vosper Mtbs):

[Zedi]

Thanks! So the default color is also gray. I saw few in military green, black and even blue as I did my test textures but they seems to be custom made colors.

I think we have enough gray ships in SH5, so this will have to be a bit different. Will see what I will figure out, still a long way to go until I will have a good texture file, Im still learning how to do this. I think I will try with green as these guys are lurking mostly along the coast, so they will be harder to spot.

[Sepp von Ch.]

Originally Posted by Zedi

I think we have enough gray ships in SH5, so this will have to be a bit different.

I agree Zedi.

This look very good:

[Sepp von Ch.]

To ZEDI: I thought of what has been written, that TDW prepare mod with new ships from SH4 with perfect damage modl and publish it in these days. I understood it wrong?

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...&postcount=122

[Zedi]

Is true, he will try to import some stuff, but he has also his own personal life. Is the reason why he gave us the knowhow, so anyone can jump in and help. He already did way to much to improve this game.

C'mon people, this is not rocket science.. here is the chance to be the hero who enhanced the SH5 merchant fleet and gave the community some new stuff to sink :P

[Rongel]

Sneak preview! Well I really haven't done much yet, just copied the SH 4 ship to SH 5 and fiddled with rosters, it was a suprise that it shows in game already. It doesn't take any damage yet, and the textures are static, no shadows and ugly wake... Maybe Zedi or TDW could make a small tutorial how to make the textures dynamic? I didn't see any info about that yet.

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by Zedi

I cannot upload a better quality screenie due to size limit, but trust me, it looks MUCH more better in reality! I have no clue of what Im doing nor any experience in this field, but seems like things are shaping up slowly. Added a normal map and the ships now already have reflection, also brighter and darker sides.. and most important thing.. textures. The are now colored in blue just to figure out what part need to be worked out. But its working, I can make these babies shine!

Now I would love to know 2 things:
TDW, the textures for the gun and lights where are stored? Are these textures from the common database, same on every SH5 ship? Or they are simply just missing?

The textures for the guns and light are not missing - they are embedded in the guns files.

Can you explain about this normal map, and what about the reflections? You see reflections on water now? Where did you put this normal map?

[Zedi]

Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith

The textures for the guns and light are not missing - they are embedded in the guns files.

Can you explain about this normal map, and what about the reflections? You see reflections on water now? Where did you put this normal map?

Sorry for the confusion, I was talking about the water reflections on the boat hull. The boat have no shadow or its own reflection on the water yet and thats not something it can be fixed by working on textures.

So there is nothing we can do with the guns texture? Can you change the texture path for them, so we can use external textures?

[Stormfly]

very good news guy`s