[REL] Open Horizons II (old thread)

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by Rongel

No, the PT Boat is the same version than in Das Campaing test mod. So please TDW send your new boat to Zedi. Nice to see some new faces! Or new torsos, whatever!
Yes, you can delete the ship textures form Tex-folder! Every SH 4 ship should have textures in the ship folder only, that is where the cfg is pointing.

How about I send it to you (or SteelViking) and you can move the textures and what all you all are doing to them. I think you guys have this under control

[Rongel]

Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith

How about I send it to you (or SteelViking) and you can move the textures and what all you all are doing to them. I think you guys have this under control

You can send it to me too, I'm idle now anyway . I'll check it out. Somebody asked some time ago that could your boat fire torpedoes, I'm guessing that it can't right now, but do you know if it's possible to do, and how difficult it might be? It would be a great detail!

[stoianm]

Originally Posted by Rongel

You can send it to me too, I'm idle now anyway . I'll check it out. Somebody asked some time ago that could your boat fire torpedoes, I'm guessing that it can't right now, but do you know if it's possible to do, and how difficult it might be? It would be a great detail!

Those boats cared torpedoes only for ships... not for uboats... i saw few pictures with boats like these that had few depth charges... so i do not think we sould add torpedo on them

[Rongel]

Originally Posted by stoianm

Those boats cared torpedoes only for ships... not for uboats... i saw few pictures with boats like these that had few depth charges... so i do not think we sould add torpedo on them

That is a very good point! And it's not that important anyway, I don't want to spend days figuring out stuff that has negative impact on realism. Ofcourse it would be great to see these little beetles charging to enemy convoys firing torpedoes, but I think there is already a game for that: PT Boats: Knights of the Sea

I have heard awful things about it, even nastier comments than they said about SH 5

[Zedi]

Made a test with the new units and this is the status.

Rongel's ship is just perfect. Has crew, the light/dark sides are correct, not much bouncing.

Elco has crew, but with no lifejackets, only 3 sailors/officers holding binoculars. Also the boat dark/light sides seems to be wrong/mixed.

Akita still have her bow too low in water. Has crew on board but her light side of the hull is a bit too shiny.

The passenger ship is a mess. Her light/dark side is mixed and the roll &pitch is too high.. is bouncing on the water like a lifeboat. Also, the dark side is too dark, almost black.

Nets are ok.

Mines or dolphins are causing "camera out of sector" error soon as I use the external camera. I dont know for sure which one as I dont have a separate mission for the updated versions, so im using the mission I made where all these new unit are placed all together. If you guys can use the external cam in that mission, pls send me your version of mines and dolphins.

Hope I can get an update on the buoys from SteelViking when done.

[SteelViking]

Originally Posted by Zedi

Made a test with the new units and this is the status.

Rongel's ship is just perfect. Has crew, the light/dark sides are correct, not much bouncing.

Elco has crew, but with no lifejackets, only 3 sailors/officers holding binoculars. Also the boat dark/light sides seems to be wrong/mixed.

Akita still have her bow too low in water. Has crew on board but her light side of the hull is a bit too shiny.

The passenger ship is a mess. Her light/dark side is mixed and the roll &pitch is too high.. is bouncing on the water like a lifeboat. Also, the dark side is too dark, almost black.

Nets are ok.

Mines or dolphins are causing "camera out of sector" error soon as I use the external camera. I dont know for sure which one as I dont have a separate mission for the updated versions, so im using the mission I made where all these new unit are placed all together. If you guys can use the external cam in that mission, pls send me your version of mines and dolphins.

Hope I can get an update on the buoys from SteelViking when done.

Zedi, the bouys do not have a shadow map. Not even embedded. I can extract the textures for them from the .dat files, edit them, and replace the old ones. But, I don't think that's what you were wanting.

Can you give me some guidance on this issue.

Edit: Are you wanting me to add a shadow map to them? Never done it before, but that doesn't mean we can't.

[SteelViking]

Zedi, I will go ahead and work a little magic for one of the buoys. I will send it to you and if you like it I will do the same for all the buoys. If you don't like how it turned out, back to the drawing board.