Expanded Navies mod

[gap]

Originally Posted by Captain73

You say about the program http://s3d.skwas.com/?

No, DDS (Direct Draw Surface) is a bitmap graphics format developed by NVidia corporation and supported by many games, that can be edited with the most common image editing softwares, such as Photoshop, GIMP (freeware), Paint.NET (freeware), etc.

dds support is native of Pain.NET and a few other programs, whereas if you are using Photoshop or GIMP you will need for their appropriate dds plugins:

for Photoshop: https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-...dobe-photoshop
for GIMP: http://code.google.com/p/gimp-dds/#Downloads

The most straightforward way of changing colors of stock SH5 ships is by editing their ambient occlusion maps, though understanding how those maps are rendered on top of ships requires a lot of guessing. You can have more than one color pattern for each unit, and for each pattern you can set a start and end date.

Have a glance at this quick tutorial by me for some more details on the subject (look especially at the last inset)

Originally Posted by gap

No, DDS (Direct Draw Surface) is a bitmap graphics format developed by NVidia corporation

Uh, not quite.
MicroSoft developed the dds format.

[gap]

Originally Posted by privateer

Uh, not quite.
MicroSoft developed the dds format.

That's right

Is that big hammer meant to punish me for my horrible mistake?

Originally Posted by gap

That's right

Is that big hammer meant to punish me for my horrible mistake?

Nah. I'm doing alot of demolition work and it's kind of a joke with the crew.

[gap]

Originally Posted by privateer

Nah. I'm doing alot of demolition work and it's kind of a joke with the crew.

[Fish In The Water]

Originally Posted by gap

Is that big hammer meant to punish me for my horrible mistake?

Ya, Microsoft needs all the credit they can get.

[Cybermat47]

Anybody got any ideas for what ships I could do next?

[lesec74]

Originally Posted by Cybermat47

Anybody got any ideas for what ships I could do next?

sorry , but it's only military boats?

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by lesec74

sorry , but it's only military boats?

I'm thinking about adding merchants.

[Cybermat47]

Any ships you guys want to see? I'm thinking about doing merchants, but most other mods seem to have that covered.

[mikaelanderlund]

Is it possible with different colored ships and merchants? A bit boring when all are gray. Thanks for this great mod

[sk065]

More british DD types or the Iowa class BB?

[spydar1959]

I don't know if you could convert them into SH5, or just take a look at them for referance, but all the exrta ship mods from SH3-4. I know there are a lot of ship mods for SH3 that would be interesting here. The converted whale ship, Q-ship, and the coastal light ship. So I would just go down the list and see what floats your boatand go from there.

[keysersoze]

Originally Posted by Cybermat47

Any ships you guys want to see? I'm thinking about doing merchants, but most other mods seem to have that covered.

I don't have any specific suggestions, but I wanted to offer some resources to you in case you decide to undertake a merchant mod. I was looking through my university's library today and came across a fairly substantial number of old ship registries and identification guides from about 1890-1960. I didn't have time to thoroughly examine all of these documents, but many of them contain extensive information about ship length, beam, mast height, tonnage, name, date launched, etc, along with lots of pictures. At least one appeared to be a 1940s era recognition booklet with ship silhouettes, just like those modeled in the SH series.

If this kind of information would be of use, I would be happy to do whatever I can to collect, compile, and scan the relevant parts for you. No worries at all if you're not interested, but I thought it would be worth offering.

[Cybermat47]

^^^

That would definitely be worth a look, if not for me, then for other modders.