WIP/New Unit Screenshots (56K Warning)

iambecomelife · 01-04-06, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Looks real good so far.

Boy, do I feel stupid though. I was having a discussion with JScones about the ship lists in SH3 Commander. I was offended at sinking a ship called 'President Jefferson' in 1939, because I knew it to be a real C-type freighter and the Americans of course didn't enter the war until the end of 1941. I commented that no British merchant was going to be named after an American president...and now here's a reference to a real 1908 British merchant called 'President Grant'.

I quote myself: "Boy, do I feel stupid".

Can't wait to see that big combination ship in the water.

I did some poking around about this ship's history, and she was actually a GERMAN ship, originally. She was impounded by the Brits during WWI and seems to have maintained her name. I was surprised myself that the Germans named a ship after an American president. IIRC a lot of Germans fought for the Union during the Civil War, so maybe that's why...

This thing needs a little more tweaking to correct various errors, mainly with the rigging and nodes. A little warning: its damage model is a compromise between realism and detail level. In order to place many of the ventilators, etc I needed to include them as fixed, non-destructible objects. Also, masts #3 and 4 are linked together and will collapse at the same time. The boats, funnel, some ventilators, and the crane/masts are all destructible, though. I'm not including the bridge as a separate object, since it's a little weird for one 88mm shell to cause the entire bridge to collapse.

@AG124 - I only had time to work on 1 ship last weekend, and decided to do either a President Grant-esque cargo liner or a factory ship; I guess you can tell which one won out. :rotfl: Since you want to do one of the old factory ships I may make mine a late model 1930's-40's style ship. I wish we could have whalers as a distinct unit class of their own so that we could make absolutely sure they wouldn't be too common.