Fluyt update

[Hylie Pistof]

My allergies cleared up for a bit so I decided to see if I could see well enough to do anything in TOOL. The victim chosen was the old small fluyt for two reasons.
1) The sails on it have always bothered me.
2) It happened to be the ship I am sailing today.

It turns out my eyes are working fairly well today, so here is one days progress. Is the mizzen too small?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Cool, MORE improved ships!

 

[Armada]

Very nice! That sail layout already looks much better.

 

[Hylie Pistof]

It's already mostly done. It just needs the rigging cleaned up and some sails fine tuned. That mizzen still looks too small to me but the only replacement is the one off the Rossiya, and it is the wrong color. Then comes exporting to all the other fluyts.

 

[Hylie Pistof]

Ok, here are the two small fluyts. The other big fluyts will also get upgraded, but I do not know when, as I will now be tearing out a perfectly good motherboard and replacing it with a new one just for testing. Nothing will be done until this puter is running sweet again.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gpalg0tpyyfcivy/duhXtiCICb/repaired ships/beta 3/small fluyts.7z

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Cool, thanks!

And good luck with your hardware issues.

 

[Hylie Pistof]

Up and running with the new motherboard. Like the other one better.

 

[Hylie Pistof]

Found out that the two small fleuts had very different sailing qualities with fleut1 being very fast and fleut2 being very slow. This fix in the shipsinit.c should make them the same. Fleut2 also had the wrong walk file.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

UGH! Thanks for catching that!

 

[Hylie Pistof]

First pic of a big fleut. The flags/pennants need work. Is the jib too big?


Yah. Much better.

 

[Hylie Pistof]

The NL_Fleut50 and PO_Fleut50 are updated. Their shipsinit.c entries are modified to make the flags work better and an old exploit where one could buy a tier 6 small fleut and repaint it into a tier 4 large fleut is fixed.

That only leaves the fleut of war 34g to do.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gpalg0tpyyfcivy/CDrtXqW7_E/repaired ships/beta 3/big fleuts.7z

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Eeeexcellent, thanks again!

 

[Hylie Pistof]

Oops!

This is a small update for the big fleuts. Only the camera is changed as I accidentally left it too low.

 

[Hylie Pistof]

Done! The two small fleuts, the two big fleuts, and the fleut of war 34g have been updated. They are all a little bit different from eachother.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gpalg0tpyyfcivy/w-OUCO14Ts/repaired ships/beta 3/big and small fleuts.7z

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Wow, that's cool! I especially like your idea of making everything a bit different!

 

[Hylie Pistof]

It wasn't intentional to make them a bit different. The ships themselves are all a little bit different so I had to make little changes here and there to make everything fit ok. The small fleuts are the most different.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Well, NOT your idea then; but I still like it.

 

[Hylie Pistof]

I don't know how I missed it but I got 4 ropes wrong on the hull of fleut2. I didn't notice until a bit ago during a boarding battle. That did not end well either.

Anyway, this is the fleut2 GM with 4 locators repositioned so it is a straight drop in replacement.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Cool, thanks!

 

[Hylie Pistof]

I am working on the PO_Fluyt50 and have run into a problem I can not fix. It now has 4 anchors. It has the 2 old ones and now also has 2 giant ones. I can remove the smaller ones but can not remove the large ones. Personally I think the smaller ones fit better.
How do they look to you?