My 9m Sailboat

[Cerez]

Here is what it looked like by the time of her rechristening ceremony end March this year:

Gorgeous! And I love the personal special interest reference.

You have a flair for design, Pieter -- you do.

[pirate flag] <-- Rocks! This pirate approves.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Thank you kindly, @Cerez!
It was quite the collaborative effort, but it worked out pretty well in the end.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

My life, my thoughts, my feelings.

 

[Grey Roger]

@Pieter Boelen: now that you've dropped the Amsterdam from your signature, and have something a bit smaller, should we replace the Amsterdam with something a bit smaller for your namesake in PoTC?

That's not entirely a joke - if you want the game character to have something like a sloop or ketch textured to look like your Atlantis, say the word and I'll make it happen.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

should we replace the Amsterdam with something a bit smaller for your namesake in PoTC?

No.
But I'll settle for something like this:

 

[Grey Roger]

A four-master probably isn't happening unless someone wants to build it in Maya, or at least put a whole new rig onto an existing ship. The cabin midships probably also isn't happening unless you want your ship to be a steam frigate. And a sharp clipper bow will definitely need a new model built in Maya.

Otherwise, the nearest match would be a mostly flat-decked ship with three masts, at least three sails on each of fore and main masts, and jib sails rather than a sprit topmast. That's basically a frigate, preferably from "Revolutions" or "Napoleonic" periods. Any particular preference?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Any particular preference?

My creativity, as a little kid, dreamed up that drawing.
My preference now is to see what other people's creativity can dream up.

 

[Grey Roger]

So it's a challenge? Very well...

To me, there is a fundamental problem with the way the Flying Dutchman is depicted in DMC and AWE. To illustrate, here's a painting which I plundered while redecorating Lucia's house. (Bartolomeu's Lucia, not Ardent's. )


See the difference? Flying Dutchman, not Sinking Dutchman. So let's have a bit of fun:


This piece of amusement turned out to have a useful side effect. The painting shows relatively dull sails, not the bright red of our crimson sails, so I tried to use tan sails, then ran a FreePlay as a Cursed character. The curse turned the sails ragged and also white. Crimson sails stayed crimson when cursed, tan sails didn't. A Windows search for "sail_torn_red", to find out what red sails were doing and tan sails weren't, showed that I'd missed something when I created tan sails. "NK.c" has a function "GetCharacterCursedSails" which assigns torn textures based on the original sail texture and if there isn't one defined for that sail texture, it defaults to white. With a suitable line added for tan sails, it now curses them properly.

 

[The Nameless Pirate]

This piece of amusement turned out to have a useful side effect. The painting shows relatively dull sails, not the bright red of our crimson sails, so I tried to use tan sails, then ran a FreePlay as a Cursed character. The curse turned the sails ragged and also white. Crimson sails stayed crimson when cursed, tan sails didn't. A Windows search for "sail_torn_red", to find out what red sails were doing and tan sails weren't, showed that I'd missed something when I created tan sails. "NK.c" has a function "GetCharacterCursedSails" which assigns torn textures based on the original sail texture and if there isn't one defined for that sail texture, it defaults to white. With a suitable line added for tan sails, it now curses them properly.

Nice, I probably wouldn't have noticed it had you not pointed it out.

See the difference? Flying Dutchman, not Sinking Dutchman. So let's have a bit of fun:

Is this going to be a part of the main mod?

 

[Grey Roger]

Nice, I probably wouldn't have noticed it had you not pointed it out.

Neither did anyone else. Presumably anyone playing a cursed character from the start did not choose one of the small ships which get tan sails by default; and nobody has been playing "Tales of a Sea Hawk" in Arcade mode, then picked up a naughty coin while still sailing the lugger with which you start the story. And I wouldn't have noticed it because I play Realistic mode and don't normally use the cursed start for FreePlay.

Is this going to be a part of the main mod?

Probably not, partly because I've no idea what a ship raised about 20 units above sea level is going to do to gameplay, and partly because I can't think of any useful purpose for it. But if you want a flying ship, it's easy. Define the ship in "ships_init.c", then find the 'refShip.WaterLine' line and subtract 20 from it. (Or try other values.) The one in the screenshot is just a clone of "Lineship1", which is the Black Pearl from the stock game and which bears a lot more resemblance than the film Dutchman to the ship in the painting.