To Inez Dias: All Virtual Sailor models are freely available from the <a href="http://www.avsim.com/vs" target="_blank">official site</a>, <a href="http://www.`virtual-sailor`.net/vsn" target="_blank">Virtual Sailor Net</a> or my <a href="http://www.vsshipyard.tk" target="_blank">Virtual Sailor Shipyard</a>. The 3D files are in Microsoft DirectX format (.X), using BMP and JPG textures. The 3D files can be converted to 3DS using Deep Exploration. However, Virtual Sailor boats sometimes have a way higher polycount than is useful for PotC vessels and sometimes come with full interior. For a PotC conversion, they would need to be optimized.
Of course, you would need to ask for permission to the authors for adding them to PotC, but I doubt they would mind. I know almost all of them personally, so I could ask them.
Hope this answers your questions, but if you have any more I'd be happy to answer them. It is also possible to turn to the <a href="http://forums.simflight.com/viewforum.php?f=32" target="_blank">Virtual Sailor Support Forum</a> for questions concerning Virtual Sailor and the use of Virtual Sailor boats for other games.
Hope it'll be possible to add Virtual Sailor boats to PotC. There are a fair few really nice ones.
BTW: Maybe I'll build the "Amsterdam" for Virtual Sailor once. If I do, can you guys help me also adding her to PotC? For all I know, there is no `sort-of` similar ship yet, even though she would fit in nicely (If there IS a similar type ship: which one?). Here are two pictures of the `real-life` replica:
To Nathan Kell: I'll have a look at that debug mode, if I can get my game to work with Build 12. Only it is a bit problematic getting it to work. I first did a clean install of PotC, then installed Build 12 on top. Once finished downloading files, it said "Cannot open buildsettings.h" (or something to that effect) and stopped. Apparently, when installing the European version support, things go awry and there's nothing I can do about it. HELP!
As for the music: As soon as there is any coding needed, it'll get a bit too complicated for me to find out by myself. But I wasn't planning on replacing anything. Just add some additional tracks to the default ones.
(BTW: It might be nice to have the music be influenced by the nation of the ships you'll be fighting, so you can have `English-flavoured` music when fighting the English and `Spanish-type` music when fighting the Spanish. Can that be done? And if so: how?)
I'll make sure all new tracks have the same volume as the original ones. I have a useful program for that, so it shouldn't be too big a problem. Hope to be able to do something on this mod soon. Sounds like fun to me. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
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1) So it these things are supposed to be hardly encountered? Ok. That explains a lot. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
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2) I can indeed change the sails with the F2 menu. I just thought I read something about buying sails in the ReadMe and was wondering what that meant.
3) Where might I find the old sail textures?
(BTW: Both the old and the new textures are not the real Dutch emblem: Both of them are the Amsterdam emblem (with Amsterdam being the capital). Loving Amsterdam like no other town in this world, I don't mind at all. Actually prefer it over a <i>real</i> Dutch emblem. But I did like the old one with the two lions better...)
You're looking forward to more of my questions? Be careful what you ask for! I am known to come up with insane amount of questions and request in the Virtual Sailor Community! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
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(I'll try to keep things within the boundaries of being reasonable, but if I'll manage...? <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" /> )
Of course, you would need to ask for permission to the authors for adding them to PotC, but I doubt they would mind. I know almost all of them personally, so I could ask them.
Hope this answers your questions, but if you have any more I'd be happy to answer them. It is also possible to turn to the <a href="http://forums.simflight.com/viewforum.php?f=32" target="_blank">Virtual Sailor Support Forum</a> for questions concerning Virtual Sailor and the use of Virtual Sailor boats for other games.
Hope it'll be possible to add Virtual Sailor boats to PotC. There are a fair few really nice ones.
BTW: Maybe I'll build the "Amsterdam" for Virtual Sailor once. If I do, can you guys help me also adding her to PotC? For all I know, there is no `sort-of` similar ship yet, even though she would fit in nicely (If there IS a similar type ship: which one?). Here are two pictures of the `real-life` replica:


To Nathan Kell: I'll have a look at that debug mode, if I can get my game to work with Build 12. Only it is a bit problematic getting it to work. I first did a clean install of PotC, then installed Build 12 on top. Once finished downloading files, it said "Cannot open buildsettings.h" (or something to that effect) and stopped. Apparently, when installing the European version support, things go awry and there's nothing I can do about it. HELP!
As for the music: As soon as there is any coding needed, it'll get a bit too complicated for me to find out by myself. But I wasn't planning on replacing anything. Just add some additional tracks to the default ones.
(BTW: It might be nice to have the music be influenced by the nation of the ships you'll be fighting, so you can have `English-flavoured` music when fighting the English and `Spanish-type` music when fighting the Spanish. Can that be done? And if so: how?)
I'll make sure all new tracks have the same volume as the original ones. I have a useful program for that, so it shouldn't be too big a problem. Hope to be able to do something on this mod soon. Sounds like fun to me. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="

1) So it these things are supposed to be hardly encountered? Ok. That explains a lot. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="

2) I can indeed change the sails with the F2 menu. I just thought I read something about buying sails in the ReadMe and was wondering what that meant.
3) Where might I find the old sail textures?
(BTW: Both the old and the new textures are not the real Dutch emblem: Both of them are the Amsterdam emblem (with Amsterdam being the capital). Loving Amsterdam like no other town in this world, I don't mind at all. Actually prefer it over a <i>real</i> Dutch emblem. But I did like the old one with the two lions better...)
You're looking forward to more of my questions? Be careful what you ask for! I am known to come up with insane amount of questions and request in the Virtual Sailor Community! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="

(I'll try to keep things within the boundaries of being reasonable, but if I'll manage...? <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
