[WIP] enhanced funnel smoke

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Letum

There are one or two coal burning destroyers in ganme, right?
Clemsen class?

No. Destroyers were all burning oil by 1915. No WW1 DDs used coal, and certainly none built between the wars or during WW2.

Ok, Seth I'm not. --wry grin-- But I thought I'd take a little break and download FRAPS and give it a whirl.





Now back diving in amongst particles, colors, opacity . . . --shudders--

[iambecomelife]

Originally Posted by Albrecht Von Hesse

Ok, Seth I'm not. --wry grin-- But I thought I'd take a little break and download FRAPS and give it a whirl.





Now back diving in amongst particles, colors, opacity . . . --shudders--

Man, those stokers sure are polluting the atmosphere. I suppose that there was no EPA back then.

[Wolfehunter]

Great work on the dark greys. Give the smoke some depth.

[bigboywooly]

Originally Posted by Albrecht Von Hesse

@iambecomelife: Thanks!! That's the sort of info I was needing. That'll be a great way to sort them out: by funnel/stack height. Now I just have to create a monster convoy of one-of-each and look through them. --wry grin--

Whu not check the sil file in each ships sea folder

Originally Posted by bigboywooly

Whu not check the sil file in each ships sea folder

Ummmm . . . because Ich bin eine retard? D'oh!

That'll help speed things up, yep yep yep! Danke!

Ok, this is the pre-final version of the coal burners:



I've started classifying, then editing and modifying, all the ships. Not sure how long that'll take. There's quite a few! :rotfl:

[Sailor Steve]

Um, yeah, that looks like coal smoke to me.

[Jimbuna]

Very classy Albrecht

[TarJak]

Nice work Albrecht!

I'm in the process of categorizing the various ship classes (which is going a whole lot faster due to BBW's suggestion of using the .sil files!). In doing so I had a 'hmmmm' moment.

Should the heavier warships (battleships, aircraft carriers) also have the very faint smoke like the DDs, DEs and the like will have? I checked out what that'd look like and it just looks . . . odd.



What do you think? Give it the same smoke as the modern, diesel-burner merchies, give it this smoke, or create a forth smoke for the heavier class warships?

[mengle]

Originally Posted by Albrecht Von Hesse

I'm in the process of categorizing the various ship classes (which is going a whole lot faster due to BBW's suggestion of using the .sil files!). In doing so I had a 'hmmmm' moment.

Should the heavier warships (battleships, aircraft carriers) also have the very faint smoke like the DDs, DEs and the like will have? I checked out what that'd look like and it just looks . . . odd.



What do you think? Give it the same smoke as the modern, diesel-burner merchies, give it this smoke, or create a forth smoke for the heavier class warships?

perhaps a litle bit more, something in between

spoken of smoke , i was wondering when a ship sinks and go backboard or wathever i notice the smoke do not go up like it should be, can this stockbug be fixed ?

[Jimbuna]

The larger ships were longer between boiler overhauls. I'd suggest lighter than a coal burner but darker than an escort.

[HundertzehnGustav]

STOPSTOOOOPPPP alle Maschinen zwomal HALT
Yikes!

let me ask you- will you give the light smoke to the old four funnel DDs too?
light smoke for a ship built during WWI?

There we have an interesting problem: old Warships, built before, lets say 1930 should have medium smoke!
Auxiliary warships like converted trawlers and similar ships have medium smoke too.

What do you think?

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

looking verry good


keep up the good work - BDU