improving existing mod - Rubini's water streams mod

panthercules · 07-03-08, 06:17 PM

Welcome back indeed!

Took a quick look at this, and I'm really liking it so far. Very impressive the way the mist/spray is working, as shown below:

One thing though - while the spray is looking real good, it seems a little odd that it's all spray and no actual water drainage. I really have no idea since I've never actually seen a type IIA in heavy seas/high winds, so I'm totally speculating here, but it seems like maybe there should be some water running down the side of the hull, with some smaller portion of of that showing as spray/mist. I haven't had a chance to sail around waiting for calmer weather (will that even happen in a single mission, or is the weather fixed?), so maybe it would look more like I'm expecting if the winds weren't so high, but in particular it seems a little strange having all the water flowing up as the boat plunges back down into the trough of the wave - I would think that some would, but that some would keep running down the side of the boat, but maybe (1) that's not possible with the limitations of the mechanism you're playing around with, or maybe (2) I'm just wrong in thinking that there would be more real water and less spray/mist coming out of those holes.

In any event, none of this is intended as criticism so please don't take it that way - I think this is really awesome work that you've been able to figure out how to make any of this actually work and I'm really looking forward to seeing this work progress.

Thanks for doing this

07-03-08, 06:17 PM	#28
panthercules The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,336 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	Welcome back indeed! Took a quick look at this, and I'm really liking it so far. Very impressive the way the mist/spray is working, as shown below: One thing though - while the spray is looking real good, it seems a little odd that it's all spray and no actual water drainage. I really have no idea since I've never actually seen a type IIA in heavy seas/high winds, so I'm totally speculating here, but it seems like maybe there should be some water running down the side of the hull, with some smaller portion of of that showing as spray/mist. I haven't had a chance to sail around waiting for calmer weather (will that even happen in a single mission, or is the weather fixed?), so maybe it would look more like I'm expecting if the winds weren't so high, but in particular it seems a little strange having all the water flowing up as the boat plunges back down into the trough of the wave - I would think that some would, but that some would keep running down the side of the boat, but maybe (1) that's not possible with the limitations of the mechanism you're playing around with, or maybe (2) I'm just wrong in thinking that there would be more real water and less spray/mist coming out of those holes. In any event, none of this is intended as criticism so please don't take it that way - I think this is really awesome work that you've been able to figure out how to make any of this actually work and I'm really looking forward to seeing this work progress. Thanks for doing this __________________