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WIP Centurion

No, the Centurion is far from finished. The foremast (mast2) has texture problems that are keeping me from finishing her. I don't want to starting attaching things to it when I know another one will be coming along sooner or later.
 
Yeah, unfortunately I'm having a hard time getting the fixed masts exported from Maya to GM format. :modding I'll let you know if I managed to get them sorted.

modernknight1 said:
Ships are like Christmas presents to me. They inspire me to do more.
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Have you seen the Russian frigate I'm working on, yet? Perhaps she could be another source of inspiration? ;)
 
That is indeed nice Armada and it does inspire me. Can't wait to try her out. Although I think you all know I have a soft spot for the 16th/17th century ships.

I have actually been scouring the Russian sites and material for a ship they built for Corsairs that looks just like the Predestination that Peter the Great built. I WANT THAT SHIP. I haven't found it yet, but found some others that were well worth having and have imported a bunch of em.

I got really angry at them not sharing a while back, but several of you pointed out - "well why not go look for the stuff you want". So I did and well I am a lot more familiar with Russian now and my youngest son actually has a degree in Russian linguistics. I got most of the stuff I was after and am adding to the Era's mod. (Lots of new weapons) You would not believe how many of our modders ships I found in their stuff from the Build mod. LOL:D I have no guilt in taking the stuff.

I have been waiting for the Centurion for a long time and will be very happy to finally see her finished.

MK
 
modernknight1 said:
That is indeed nice Armada and it does inspire me. Can't wait to try her out. Although I think you all know I have a soft spot for the 16th/17th century ships.
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Ah yes, how could I forget? I do agree there are some very attractive early vessels, though my preference is 18th century ships, including the Centurion. :D

modernknight1 said:
I have actually been scouring the Russian sites and material for a ship they built for Corsairs that looks just like the Predestination that Peter the Great built. I WANT THAT SHIP. I haven't found it yet, but found some others that were well worth having and have imported a bunch of em.
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That sounds interesting. Do you think you could share a few of your finds?
It's quite shocking how our custom-made ships have popped up in other mods without our permission. Did they even give us credit, do you know?
 
Giving credit where credit is due is all I ask. We give credit in the Ships_init.c for every ship.
 
I always give credit. The GOF team has always given credit. I may be going solo on eras right now, but that's only because I want it to have an exact FEEL. The other GOF team members have always been faster than me so stuff will get fixed 100 mph, but often before I am fully satisfied that we got it right. I am going to bring them all in when I'm ready and they all know that. Professionally when I was in charge of large technical efforts for the gov't everyone always wanted to get involved. I had to tell many to go away. Just as in those cases as now I am exercising very strict "configuration management". I am not in a hurry and the quality will show through I think. I'm almost ready to post some screens of LATE ERA battles that I think will really make people notice. ERAs will be available to everyone. I just get mad sometimes at the complete silence here and total lurker-only population.

It has been impossible for the GOF team to give credit for every ship, but we sure tried. Many of the ships were old or reworked and when we asked around no one knew who was the original creator. There are only a handful of those.

On the Russian sites I found read me's in their files, but not mentions of PA! or modders names. Not to say they don't exist, but I didn't see any. The way I see it is that they posted it online. I complained they didn't share and people told me to go look for content. I did. No names of creators are mentioned, so I will credit them to the appropriate Russian version/mod when the time for documentation comes. I plan to share my finds here as well. So you've seen the Dutch frigate in the post. Craiggo has agreed to help me. I have been doing more too and there are more screens there. Here's a couple screens of one of them. It is a sloop called the Veinard. It looks like the regular POTC/COAS sloop, but looks are deceiving. She is much bigger! She mounts 18 guns. Been having a lot of fun with her and have given her impressive stats. Cheers! MK

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OK gents, by some miracle, I think I've managed to fix the mast problems. The textures were getting messed up because of a problem I had actually seen before, so I should have noticed it sooner. :facepalm
As I explained, I've re-exported all the masts with modified stays, so that they won't look so weird when any of the masts fall. Their textures all look fine, too.
See HMS_Centurion_masts.7z in my SkyDrive folder.
 
Hylie Pistof said:
Another one! :facepalm :whipa
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I know, more rigging work; sorry about that. :oops:
I'm trying to get things done so I can get back to my frigate project, which has been pushed aside by a massive heap of other stuff recently.
 
It's not the work load I'm concerned about. I normally have lots of time and am happy to do this, except that a big real life project is looming which might take me away from this for a month. It is just bad timing.
 
Well, not much can be done about that I guess. :rumgone
I wouldn't worry about getting it all done ASAP, even if Pieter wants to get a new patch done for Build 14 while you're away. We can add anything left over at a later date. :)
 
OK, I ported her into GOF-Eras. She is really nice. She looks really close to finished. She was missing a bunch of textures though. I borrowed some from other ships and got her mostly clothed, but she still has no mast or shroud textures. Also missing flag locators. I need to expand my learning into this area whenever I have time so I can help you guys out more. Heres some COAS screens. MK
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Looks like you're missing the figurehead texture too. Looks great in that game engine! :) The aspect ratio of the images seems a it off though...
 
MK, see if these textures help: HMS_Centurion_textures.7z
They will only work with the fixed masts I uploaded, so make sure you've got those too.

Kris has a point about the aspect ratio. It looks like the ship has been squashed horizontally. Any idea what causes that distortion? o_O

EDIT: Cap'n Armstrong, some of the textures were already in PotC, but not in CoAS, so they weren't already uploaded.
 
I've been losing track of all the new ship work again. Do we have this one in PotC yet? :facepalm
 
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