Fixed Correcting "Early Explorers" Period

[Pieter Boelen]

As far as I can tell, all the ropes are connected, she's got pennants and with the hull returned to the CoAS original, the bow wave seems fine too!
Extra details can be returned to her as soon as Jack has those ready. But for now, I think she's good to go!

And of course the regular request to @Armada....
Any chance of giving her a place with the ship interface screenshots?

 

[Hylie Pistof]

Where did you get that Golden Hind bortout? I got the standard green one.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Where did you get that Golden Hind bortout? I got the standard green one.

@Jack Rackham made it. And quite nicely too!
You can find it in here: http://piratesahoy.bowengames.com/potc/JRH/Golden Hind & davyjones chest pic 2015-06-23.7z

But if you have a bit more patience, I'm currently finishing up a proper new Installer EXE that has this version included.
Hopefully I can post that one before midnight my time (1.5 hours from now).

 

[Armada]

And of course the regular request to @Armada....
Any chance of giving her a place with the ship interface screenshots?

Sure, but she's pointing the wrong way in your screenshot.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Sure, but she's pointing the wrong way in your screenshot.

Really? I forgot. Perhaps it is time for the wonderful world of MIRRORING!

Or did you want her shown from the bow? I deliberately shot the stern because that is where you can see the Golden Hind texture.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Also, a fully operational version of Francis Drake with the Golden Hind is now included in here:
http://www.piratesahoy.net/threads/build-14-beta-3-5-internal-wip-for-testing.24817/
Extra details and a matching interface screenshot are to be added later.

 

[Armada]

Really? I forgot. Perhaps it is time for the wonderful world of MIRRORING!

Or did you want her shown from the bow? I deliberately shot the stern because that is where you can see the Golden Hind texture.

Nice try.
All the other ships are shown sailing towards the camera (from right to left), so a bow shot would be best for consistency.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Nice try.
All the other ships are shown sailing towards the camera (from right to left), so a bow shot would be best for consistency.

This one then:

 

[Armada]

I said "from right to left", but it will do.

Looks like she's sitting quite high in the water, though.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I said "from right to left", but it will do.

Totally NOT the same image mirrored:

Looks like she's sitting quite high in the water, though.

That would probably be for @Hylie Pistof to tweak.

 

[Armada]

It's fine, I already mirrored it. New shipsBR.tga.tx and pictures.ini are here.
Make sure the ships_init entry uses SHIPS4 as its BigPicTexName.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

It's fine, I already mirrored it.

I was admittedly not entirely serious there...

New shipsBR.tga.tx and pictures.ini are here.
Make sure the ships_init entry uses SHIPS4 as its BigPicTexName.

Thanks a lot! Working in my game now.
I'll probably need to make a new Installer EXE to include that though because it is too large for a ZIP.
Oh well, there's time enough for that tomorrow.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Which reminds me.... She needs an entry in RESOURCE\INI\TEXTS\ENGLISH\ShipModels_descriptions.txt too:

GoldenHind_Descr{The 'Golden Hind' is best known for her circumnavigation of the globe between 1577 and 1580.
She was originally known as the 'Pelican', but was renamed by Drake mid-voyage in 1578.}

 

[Jack Rackham]

I thought she was too high too in the sea from the beginning but @HyliePistof lifted her up 0.5 m.
Okay to sink her a little?

 

[Hylie Pistof]

You are sailing that ship empty! With full holds she sits maybe a little too low. All of my screenies are with full holds and look at the difference.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

My shot was right at the start of the storyline.
Is there not a ships_init.c setting that defines how quickly the ship responds to getting Cargo loaded?
That way she could be set to be Ok in both cases, right?

 

[Jack Rackham]

You are sailing that ship empty!

Aha, this game is very claver.

Another thing Pieter, the clean GoldenHind.gm you are using doesn't have Hylie's changes of ropes.
I'll fix that as I anyway have to add locators.

I have checked and yes i can make my adds as GoldenHind_deck.gm with the TOOL. No beep.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Another thing Pieter, the clean GoldenHind.gm you are using doesn't have Hylie's changes of ropes.

You sure? I thought I exported the locators from Hylie's file and re-imported them into the clean version before I uploaded?
Anyway, doesn't matter if you'll be posting the fully correct version later anyway.

I have checked and yes i can make my adds as GoldenHind_deck.gm with the TOOL. No beep.

BRILLIANT!

 

[Armada]

I have checked and yes i can make my adds as GoldenHind_deck.gm with the TOOL. No beep.

When you've done that, it might be worth importing that deck GM into Maya, so you can export it back without any lighting issues.
Alternatively, you could try importing each object to attach them to the hull in Maya instead of TOOL. That way, you can export the entire hull as one GM file without the beep.
Just some suggestions to think about.

 

[Jack Rackham]

Thanks Armada.
I have tested in game and noticed no lighting issued so far. I think I try to fix the _deck in TOOL and later try to
do some Maya experiment.