Is this supposed to happen...?

[akdavis]

While not that extreme, I've always had problems with flickering black areas on certain parts of ships at certain distances after they take damage This is over multiple patches, a switch to a new vid card, and with and without any number of mods. Try sliding the "3D ship damage" slider all the way to the left under graphics options. For me, that gets rid of the artifacts (but also gets rid of the cool 3D damage). Obviously the problem in my case lies with something in the 3D damage textures and how they are applied to certain ships at certain LODs. The artifacts usually disappear if I view the ship up close.

[Fincuan]

Looks like the torpedes are excessively efficient, and what you are seeing is the normal damage effect in SH4. When a torpedo hits, the textures in the "damaged" area turn transparent revealing the damage model behind them. Webster's mod makes the torpedoes a lot more destructive than the stock ones, and hence you get bigger damaged areas sometimes extending up to the superstructure.

[gimpy117]

should I take off the damage mod or is it historical???