New 3d warships - Cruiser, Destroyer, Minesweeper

[GottaLove88s]

Man I can't wait to see a dogfight with those things! I wonder if you can make an animation where they fly around a couple of tiles as they "dogfight" quick question will you add Torpedo Bombers with the Dive Bombers?

Dogfight: I guess this is possible. Stay stunned I'll test that this afternoon. Well if I have time.

I haven't a model of Torpedo Bombers.
Thanks to GottaLove88s, we have a Corsair, a Zero fighter and a Val Bomber with a bomb.

I'll test to render a torpedo shoot. For Destroyer first. Then for Submarine and perhaps planes.

Am still hunting decent low poly models of the 'Kate' and Avenger (or Dauntless) TBDs... So far nothing that meets my quality (believable but with a style in keeping with Slith's comic book animations) and poly hurdles (ideally around 2,000 polygons... Other aircraft are around 5,000... Max 16,000 for sure).

Anyone seen anything good on their travels around cyberspace?

[Amaris]

A very preliminary try of dogfight:

[Amaris]

Transformation of a cruiser into a battleship:

[Amaris]

And playing with the particles effects:



As only one turret can turn, the animations of the other turrets haven't a correct orientation.

[Amaris]

An other try of a bigger battleship:

[Amaris]

[GottaLove88s]

Was I right, or was I right?
Told you creating 3 gun turrets for the bigger BB would look hot.
Buuuuuut, i see you've been adding extra deck guns too.
Man you have the skills aplenty Amaris!!

An other try of a bigger battleship:

[LandMarine47]

Can you make a battle ship that can launch Recon Planes? That would be wicked cool

[GottaLove88s]

Hehe, just got your PM reply on this...
Your Amaris class battleship totally Rules mon ami...
I'm gobsmacked... WOW!!

Was I right, or was I right?
Told you creating 3 gun turrets for the bigger BB would look hot.
Buuuuuut, i see you've been adding extra deck guns too.
Man you have the skills aplenty Amaris!!

An other try of a bigger battleship:

[GottaLove88s]

Ok, wish list time...

Amaris please may I have a NAM4 file including the following models:

1x Carrier (USN Essex class)
1x Carrier (IJN type, your Essex with cutdown bridge, and flight deck re-skinned with Akagi jpeg)

1x Battleship (the new triple-gun turreted 'Amaris class')

1x Heavy cruiser (will use the light cruiser model)
1x Light cruiser (will use the destroyer model)
1x Destroyer (will use the minesweeper model, reduced in size to keep mast height shorter than light cruiser please)
1x Submarine (slightly reduced in size to keep it about the same length as the new minesweeper please)

3x freighter/tanker/transport models
3x carrier-borne aircraft models (Val, Zero, Corsair)

I can live without perfect animations for now...

But WOW, I do believe that it's time to try out our 'Summer Collection' in a simple little scenario...

[Amaris]

Can you make a battle ship that can launch Recon Planes? That would be wicked cool

I'm thinking about. Many battleships had reconnaissance aircraft on board:



For scripts it isn't complicated to do.
But for 3D model...

[LandMarine47]

BTW I'd been meaning to bring this up but can the remove wreck option be removed? Is there a way for units to float over carcasses of dead ships without having to remove them? I think it's highly unrealistic that a ship can just clear another one when if in real life it would probably destroy its own Hull.

[LandMarine47]

A very preliminary try of dogfight:

As for this any way to add little flashes of light to replicate gun fire? And there should be a 50% chance of the plane having a successful sortie. Sry for all this work I'm adding just want to help make the mod as realistic as possible.

[GottaLove88s]

BTW I'd been meaning to bring this up but can the remove wreck option be removed? Is there a way for units to float over carcasses of dead ships without having to remove them? I think it's highly unrealistic that a ship can just clear another one when if in real life it would probably destroy its own Hull.

That's easy... Just make the cost to remove a wreck in ocean so expensive that it's not actually possible.

I've also tried to explore 'water' tiles of 3 different colours/depths...

1. Deep ocean (accessible to all ships),
2. Shallow seas & rivers (accessible to smaller ships; too shallow for subs to be able to dive),
3. Beach shallows (accessible to landing craft, amphibious, troops and vehicles only; ie. your troops won't die any more if your LCA is killed right next to the beach)

At the moment, it's not possible to do that, because Slith's animations always revert to land animations (dirt explosions, etc, rather than splashes in the water). Pip has kindly said he'll try to look into it, hopefully for BA2... It will be great to have now we're going down the full 3d naval fleets route...

There's a thread up on this here -> viewtopic.php?f=105&t=41426&hilit=ocean

Once (if?) we can get the 3 different types of water tile... if a ships sinks in deep ocean, it's gone. No wreck. If a ship sinks in rivers/shallow seas or beach shallows it's there until the end of the game...

But for now, we'll just have to keep it so that shipwrecks stay in place (call 'em artificial reefs, that other ships can't sail over ).

[Amaris]

I'm thinking about. Many battleships had reconnaissance aircraft on board:



For scripts it isn't complicated to do.
But for 3D model...

Well, well a new class (without correct texture for now):

[Amaris]

A very preliminary try of dogfight:

As for this any way to add little flashes of light to replicate gun fire? And there should be a 50% chance of the plane having a successful sortie. Sry for all this work I'm adding just want to help make the mod as realistic as possible.

You're right.
But I focus first on ships.
And I still learned how to do with gmax.

[GottaLove88s]

VERY NICE adaptation of the heavy cruiser... Those triple gun turrets really are the business...
Small print, but it would be cool to grey spray the default black 'deck cabling' fore and aft in the skin jpg... so it doesn't distract from the actual guns...

[GottaLove88s]

Ok Gents,

Here's the working draft of the first 'The Island' Pacific map...

The Japanese control a well fortified island, with a port and two airfields. The US carrier group, battle fleet and transports approach from the north and northeast...

Please sign up for an alpha test if you're interested...

The alpha will include a full combination of IJA, IJN, USN and USMC naval and ground units... Am waiting for latest fleet models... The map is designed to provide plenty of opportunities for sneaking warships around... Plus a smallish island to put up a genuine landing challenge...

I'll need alpha-testers to sign up to an 'honour code' to delete old versions as soon as we've got it to final... I have to be careful what we do until I understand the smallprint on contracts for our original 3d model downloads... See you in the Pacific!





NB. Before someone mentions it, yes PC players will get the lovely shimmering water effects (they're not seen here, because I'm dev-ing in the Mac version... Sorry )

[LandMarine47]

Ok Gents,

Here's the working draft of the first 'The Island' Pacific map...

The Japanese control a well fortified island, with a port and two airfields. The US carrier group, battle fleet and transports approach from the north and northeast...

Please sign up for an alpha test if you're interested... It will include a full combination of IJA, IJN, USN and USMC naval and ground units... Am waiting for latest fleet models... I'll need alpha-testers to sign up to an 'honour code' to delete old versions as soon as we've got it to final... I have to be careful what we do until I understand the smallprint on the original 3d model downloads... See you in the Pacific!

You can count me in! Can't wait too meet you at sea

[Amaris]

A preview of the fleets: