Tides of War - Screenshots

[Captain Murphy]

Some in-game screenshots showing end results and a few dev shots too.

Spoiler: In Game Screenshots

Fire caused by hot shot and left unchecked

First test with furling cloth sails

Yards turning to get the best wind

Currently manual setting, will be FSM/AI controlled before long.

Fully functional Sail furling

Night time patrolling

Finally, a feature I ripped straight from PotC and Akella:

Deforming water around the cannon splashes!

 

[☭Michael_Myers☭]

question,will you put some people in the ship in the future ?

 

[Captain Murphy]

question,will you put some people in the ship in the future ?

Eventually, yes. We have some simple models to try out in the near future but they are still pretty low priority at this point.

 

[Captain Murphy]

Spoiler: More screenshots for October

Updated bow splashes

New lighting effects and updated sail shaders

On-Deck cameras available

Allowed more camera angles to get some better screenshots and better all around visibility

Independently damageable sails

New Multiplayer chat

 

[Captain Murphy]

Spoiler: New Camera Positions

Helm camera position

English ship watching a French and Privateer sink

 

[Thagarr]

That sun flare effect is really quite cool mate, and that water is really looking fantastic! I absolutely love the customizable sails too!

 

[Captain Murphy]

Spoiler: Weather conditions, fire, camera effects, and more

Expanding the rough weather conditions

Fires should be spreading from boat to boat soon

Camera angles and on deck views are now expanded and reworked to be much more stable

Just a French ship after sinking a pirate

At boarding distances. The damage and noise at this distance is pretty intense.

Collision damage will be added in the next update

Added in some new camera effects and bloom

 

[Captain Murphy]

Spoiler: In game screenshots, updated textures, new telescope view

New PBR Substances

2 Ships collided and were stuck when the bowsprit of one got fouled in the mizzen mast of the other. A close quarters brawl ensued with one ship sunk and the other heavily damaged.

4 ships duking it out

New Telescope view for on-deck

Doh. Run aground... the hard way.

 

[Armada]

@Captain Murphy, you might want to start putting some of these images in spoilers. There's a lot of strain on this page when trying to load so many images at once.

 

[Thagarr]

Uploading them to the forum and using thumbnails would work too mate. Thumbnails from imagur would work as well, but would require more clicks.

Really looking fantastic, btw, nice work!

 

[Captain Murphy]

 

[Armada]

There's nothing quite like a good slow-mo clip.

 

[Captain Murphy]

Another dose of screens this month. We are refining some code and refactoring quite a bit of it so that it performs better with more ships. Right now the goal is 16 ships at 60fps on my old 660gtx at full graphics, so that way it can be turned down a bit and work on some older machines.

Spoiler: Screenshots

 

[Captain Murphy]

A day battle that lasted on into the night.

Spoiler: Screenshots

 

[Captain Murphy]

Spanish ship engaged in a long range gun battle with Pirate, Dutch, and English.

Spoiler: Screenshots

 

[Captain Murphy]

Updated weather, added cannon shot types, updated effects, larger ship, MORE GUNS!!!!

Spoiler: Screenshots

 

[Grey Roger]

A minor note on the French flag:

The screenshots show the modern French ensign with blue, white and red in unequal proportions - in reality they are proportioned 30:33:37. The idea is to counter the effect of the trailing edge appearing shortened as the flag flutters in the wind. But these proportions were only adopted in 1853. In Napoleonic times the flag would have had the colours in equal proportions.

See:
French ensigns - Wikipedia
Flags of the World - France

 

[Captain Murphy]

A minor note on the French flag:

The screenshots show the modern French ensign with blue, white and red in unequal proportions - in reality they are proportioned 30:33:37. The idea is to counter the effect of the trailing edge appearing shortened as the flag flutters in the wind. But these proportions were only adopted in 1853. In Napoleonic times the flag would have had the colours in equal proportions.

See:
French ensigns - Wikipedia
Flags of the World - France

Thanks for the info!


We now have a system of damage decals that we are testing in v0.3.x that is currently up on Itch.io if you want to play it!

Spoiler: Damage Decals & New Particles

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Looks very action-packed there, @Captain Murphy!

Why is that ship in the last screenshot still floating? She looks like a sieve!

And the particle effect for the impact in the centre of the second to last image for some reason looks to me like it is an impact on ground instead of splashing water.
But that might just be me....

 

[Captain Murphy]

@Pieter Boelen It is a sieve, but it is an 'above the water line' one at that point and downflooding hasn't taken hold yet. You also might notice that the debris particles are rocks and wood as well. I am building all new particles and going to use a new pooler to manage them all, but for now I am sharing a lot of them to test how well the pooler works.
You are correct on the particle. It is the same 'dust' particle that is used for ground hits, we just haven't gotten around to tinting the base texture to match water yet.