Solved Ship-Specific Sails Question

[Pieter Boelen]

I've already removed the special sails from the standard CrimsonBlood

The following ships have custom sail textures too:

"PO_Caravel50" has "sail_petros_blue_white.tga"
"Schooner50" has "sail_petros_blue_white.tga"
"Barque3_50" has "sail_Petros_black_red.tga"
"PO_Fleut50" has "sail_petros_plain.tga"
"SP_Galeon50" has "sail_petros_plain.tga"
"GaleonWar" has "sail_petros_plain.tga"
"Galeon50" has "sail_petros_plain.tga"
"Xebec3" has "sail_barbarossa_plain.tga" (were made to match though)
"XebecAS" has "sail_petros_blue_white.tga"
"PiratCorvette50" has "sail_Petros_black_red.tga"
"CrimsonBlood" has "sail_Petros_black_red.tga"

Almost all of those are Petros' work, as you can see. He liked having his own ships with his own sails and I agree they look nice.
But do they stand out too much compared to the other ships? Many of them do see storyline use in especially the Bartolomeu and Assassin storylines.

 

[Armada]

Almost all of those are Petros' work, as you can see. He liked having his own ships with his own sails and I agree they look nice.
But do they stand out too much compared to the other ships? Many of them do see storyline use in especially the Bartolomeu and Assassin storylines.

Do they stand out? Depends on the time period, I suppose. I'd expect sails like these to be limited to the first two periods, but I know some of those ships appear in many more periods.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

 

[Hylie Pistof]

I like them. Variety is the spice of life.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I'm marking this as "solved". Apparently nobody minds these sails and I do agree they add a bit of variety.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Now here's a question on Sail Selection that I'm quite confused on, really.

What if you FIRST play the game and select your own emblemed pirate sails or something. But LATER you acquire a ship that has special sails set, such as the Flying Dutchman or so.
Your Flying Dutchman will now get the sails you had previously set. So to get the CORRECT sails, you have to set them manually in F2>Ship>Choose Sails.
This becomes a problem when you are in a fleet of ships where some ships have their own sails set and some ships do not,
because ALL ships without special sails will follow the player. Imagine for example this fleet:
- Player: Empress - Sails manually set, because player previously had some sort of emblemed sails in use
- Companion 1: Flying Dutchman - Used ship-specific sails and looks fine
- Companion 2: Dauntless - Doesn't have special sails, so must follow the player ship. Result = Dauntless with Junk sails

So my main question is: SHOULD the player be allowed to override the pre-set sails for certain ships?
Or should ship-specific sails ALWAYS take precedence

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Hum... Looks to me like the whole Sail Selection code is more than a little bit confused. Well, it has to be if I have had to write THIS hack to fix stuff:

    // PB: Fix scrolling through sails appending the folder names ad infinitum -->
    FileStr[1] = strreplace(FileStr[1], "Ships\Sails\", "");
    FileStr[4] = strreplace(FileStr[4], "Ships\Sails\", "");
    // PB: Fix scrolling through sails appending the folder names ad infinitum <--

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Pah, that interface code is crazily confusing. I'm going with the EASY solution:
Pressing the "Default Sails" button immediately removes the player's selected sail type, so ALL ships in your fleet will return to normal sails.
So if people don't want their Junk sails on the Dauntless, at least they can fix it by clicking one button.
There!

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Oh, and here is a example of what could happen. Seems a bit odd-like, don't you think?

 

[Talisman]

That does looks Weird

 

[Pieter Boelen]

HA! I think I came up with a brilliant solution to this: The Default Sails button now simply restores your entire fleet to default sails AND immediately closes the Sails interface.​

So then at least it has a CLEAR use and purpose.​

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Just for the sake of it, I have just made the missing emblemed sails and created a new setting for "Weathered Emblemed Sails".
So this includes:
- ALL nations' weathered sails
- American pure white sails
- Stock game Personal and American sails

See here for an example of the weathered USA emblem:

Just in case people like playing with emblems on, at least they'll have more options now.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Oh.... and I also figured I'd make the Dutch emblem on pure white and weather sails look like the DUTCH flag instead of the Italian one.
Whoever came up with the idea of making that red-white-and-GREEN???