Polacca by De Zeeroovers

[Hylie Pistof]

This ship has been added to the latest WIP Beta 3.2. The ship is still being worked on but is pretty good already.

So far raising the waterline to -0.6 helps a lot.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Waterline value change incorporated for the next upload.

 

[Hylie Pistof]

I found out why some ropes were not showing up. It seems the fals had the same numbers as some of the ropes. Re-numbering them has all ropes showing now. So here is a new Polacca folder with the fixes.

It replaces the one in your beta 3.2 WIP-->resource-->models-->ships folder.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gpalg0tpyyfcivy/T-VEYZmJ-f/after Beta 3 ships/polacca.7z

 

[Hylie Pistof]

After bouncing back and forth between a waterline of -0.6 and -0.7 I have settled on -0.7. I personally like a taller ship.

I am still tinkering with the sailing qualities. Right now she is fast and can sail pretty deep into the wind. Maybe too fast. I recently got chased by a 7 ship fleet while I had empty holds and the only one that could keep up or catch me was a fast war galleon.

 

[Armada]

With the wind, most other square-rigged ships of a similar size should be able to keep up and even outpace the Polacca, but against the wind she should have the advantage, I'd say.

 

[Hylie Pistof]

Right now she has the speed of a light fluyt and the ability to go into the wind just a smidgeon less than the Hoy. Also this particular one is a small fast version and the larger ones are up to 1 knot slower. Methinks I'll knock her speed down just a touch.

 

[Hylie Pistof]

Methinks I'm done with the Polacca. This is a good all around ship that should be popular. She is slightly slower than the square sail ships in one wind and slightly faster in another wind.

 

[Captain Armstrong]

Nice! It's great to see such an interesting type in-game, I'm sure she will be fun to sail!!

 

[Hylie Pistof]

With full holds this ship is sitting at or above the waterline.

 

[Hylie Pistof]

I have raised this ship up and the bow wave separates from the hull looking ugly. The proper way to raise the ship out of the water is to reset the waterline in the model.

 

[Hylie Pistof]

I just managed to get the repainted version in the game. It shows up in the shipyard and I can repaint the old one to look like the new one. Now to put the package together.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I just managed to get the repainted version in the game. It shows up in the shipyard and I can repaint the old one to look like the new one. Now to put the package together.

She's looking good! Nicely different from her original skin.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

@Hylie Pistof: I've got your variant working almost right in the game, but I'm missing texture files "DECKPLANKSU2_E.TGA.tx" and "NOOD.TGA.tx".
Can you please upload that one?

 

[Hylie Pistof]

Here is deckPlanksU2_e.tga.tx.

There is a mystery involving NOOD.tga.tx as I can not find it, and a search in the polacca GMs does not find it there either. This is a double mystery to me as I remember seeing it recently and thinking what an odd name it is and what ship might it belong to. The problem is that now I can not find it anywhere. There is no call for it in my .log files either.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

There is a mystery involving NOOD.tga.tx as I can not find it, and a search in the polacca GMs does not find it there either. This is a double mystery to me as I remember seeing it recently and thinking what an odd name it is and what ship might it belong to. The problem is that now I can not find it anywhere. There is no call for it in my .log files either.

Maybe it was another ship then. The missing deck planking was the bigger issue anyway.
Thanks!

 

[Pieter Boelen]

@Hylie Pistof: Would you consider your "Polacca_N" texture to be more French, Spanish or Portuguese?
The "Polacca" is used as a promotion ship for all three nations and since we have two varieties now,
we might as well use them both instead of just that default one for all three nations.

Additionally, should the different schemes have different encounter chances per nation?
Or does that not really matter?

Up to you.

 

[Hylie Pistof]

Eh? No idea. I was just slapping different textures on it trying to come up with something less used up looking. If it needs to be assigned to a nation I suppose the white paint would be closest to Portuguese. Since it is not a naval vessel but a privately owned merchantman it could be painted anything or nothing depending on the owners whim.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

If it needs to be assigned to a nation I suppose the white paint would be closest to Portuguese.

I'll set her as Portuguese and Spanish promotion ship then.
That also means she's now the default starting ship for the pre-defined Portuguese Naval Officer.

Since it is not a naval vessel but a privately owned merchantman it could be painted anything or nothing depending on the owners whim.

All-right, I'll leave the national encounter chances alone.