More Detailed 1st person (or even 3rd person) deck

[mackattack211]

lol i am a noob at this game, and at modding, so i dont really know what can and cant be done, but just throwing a few suggestions out anyway.

I dont know about anyone else, but i think that the 1st person view on deck while sailing can be great but a tad boring.
What would be a cool addon would be a more detailed view, i.e more ropes around the place on deck, maybe scale it up a bit bigger (depending on how big the ship was), but not overdoing it lol, and having barrels and other items sitting around the place.
Maybe a good thing to base it on would be kind of how the boarding action deck is, but different for different ships, scale it down a little depending on the ship again, and even being able to climb up rigging to crows nest etc. etc.

And maybe even being able to go below deck, into cannon decks, cargo holds, kitchen and captains cabin.

Once again I am a noob at all the modding stuff so I dont really know whats capable and whats not.

Anyways there just some suggestions, I think it would make sailing alot more interesting, if your looking for realism, or just fun somehow lol. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />

Oh and one more thing, don't forget the crew! noone likes being on deck alone!! haha

 

[Harmsway]

There is a crew in the supermod. Everything else you mentioned sounds wonderful.

 

[Aconcagua]

The crew members seem to me just a nuance too big (at least at the lugger - so far the only ship I used, have installed the mod just recently). Perhaps one could scale them to 90 %?

Having more models would be nice, too. So far, I have groups of all alike seamen on deck, almost as on a military ship...

Had a look at the search files, but it seems as if all this stuff is hidden in the dll files (PEOPLES_ON_SHIP.dll, Sailors.dll).

Where to get the source code?

 

[Mumbala]

Crew memebers in 1st person view is something i don´t like about supermod. If the models simply stand up near cannons, and stop walking in circles around deck, perhaps it would be worth the processor resources they are spending, only to aestetic reasons.

Other than that, no idea about the DLLs.

 

[Aconcagua]

Principally I like the people on deck, makes you feel not that lonely. But I dislike their behaviour, too. They just walk around aimlessly (and in a quite hectic)... Just standing at the cannons, as Mumbala proposes, however, is as unrealistic as the current solution.

I'd prefer to have some sailors less, and the remaining doing more different things: stand, sit and lie around, discuss with each other, work like swabbing the deck and repairing things or whatever can be done on a ship.

Perhaps the behaviour can be adapted to the player's commands, like this:

- changing course: more hectic on deck (all lying and sitting sailors stand up)
- changing sails: more hectic, and more people climbing up the rigs (ok, for the latter it would be necessary that changing sails needs more time)
- nothing is to do: more people are enjoying free time - and all actions slowed down a little
- ship is damaged, wood/sail cloths provided: more sailors doing repair jobs (if sails damaged, more people in the rigs - and not only climb up and down, but stay there some time and have some special actions)
...

Problem is, that all the sailor's stuff seems to be hidden in the dll's mentioned above, and I can't get there.

I had a look at the dlls with the small dll viewer tool to be found here: <a href="http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/dll_export_viewer.html" target="_blank">http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/dll_export_viewer.html</a>, but only could find one method which seems to be called from the engine.exe only. So I couldn't even find a way to switch the sailors off (for those not liking the sailors at all).