Development updates

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It's a new year and I am eagerly travlling to see what lays ahead, at the horizon! It looks promising!

On a personal note, I have been on this forum for many years, so some of you may know me allready.

But for those who does not, I am a music teacher who allways loved to play subsims, flightsims and military sims on my free time.

I had only been a hobby programmer for some years as I started working on Battleship Command.
Now during my parental leave I decided to study software development at a HVE (Higher Vocational Education), and since programmers are in high demand here in Sweden,
I am allready in the process of signing the contract for a nice developer job.
So soon I will be a PROFESSIONAL programmer!

Battleship Command is progressing steadily and I am now deciding the scope for demo 3.0 so that I have a goal in sight.
As it looks now I need to bring up the detail and texture level of the warships to atleast the same level as the merchants.
I've started to build new interiors for the Scharnhorst based on the actual plans of the ship, that needs to be finished at a basic level atleast.
And then the demo needs to be built, with missions, some bugfixes and some small features needs to be added.
It's impossible to set a time frame, so I'll just say "soon".


Cheers!

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And first out we have the Suffolk who is getting some new textures and added details.
Here she is with new hull texture and lower superstructure texture. Up next for a repaint is the upper superstructure.

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Here's one of my favourites, the Nelson class with a fresh set of textures and details.
Apart from the untextured guns, she's looking quite badass.

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Another battleship is getting refurbished.
Plenty of new details in the model.
Now I am adding textures and checking how they look ingame.

At the moment I am quite conservative with texture resolution and vertice count, so that I can see how the minimum level of detail affects my engines performance.

Which class is this?

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With this beauty being close to finished (for this iteration), it means I am pretty much done with the British ship roster for the upcoming demo 3.0.

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And here she is, reimported into the game.
In duty protecting a large convoy.