Sealords-Shiptexture-Minimod to use in the GC and with most other Mods

[littleleo]

Hi all ... it's a very good minimod and i live it but ... i have a problem with british brick and french heavy vessel (1st and second rate). The brit are red and black and the french heavy vessel are Yellow and black, is it normal ?

Thanks to reply

[Bladerunner]

Yes it is...

It's due to the limitation of the minimod to exitsting models. ETW have only one model for ships like 2nd rate, 4th rate, brig, sloop,...
To have this mode compatible to all availible mods, i could not change the model-entires in the db, as this most likely would be overwriten by stat changes of i.e. DM or the minimod would overwrite the stats of DM. If i go with new entries, to go around the problem of overwriting, i need to make new units, but those won't be affected by a possible stats-mod.
AUM i.e. go around this problem by having multiple Version for Vanilla, DM and IS...

I decided to make the mod compatible with all mods and without the need of regular service. For the rated with just one model, i choosed the british texture, which is also used by most other nations. For the small ships i mixed up a little bit between french, spanish and british texture, Which is not unrealistic, as there was no strict rule for colors of the hull in the 18th and early 19th century.

If you want a more strict colouring of the ships and also more models and more textures, you can use the big SL-mod for SP and MP Battles. For this i actually work on a campaign version, but will still need a little time till ready. But the Full-mod will most likely not be fully compatible with other mods. I will try to make it possible to use SL-mod for sea and other stat-modes for land, but not promises yet.

[littleleo]

thanks i understanding the problem ... i try the SL mod but it in conflict with TROM (land unit) ... that why i try this mini mod. I hope see a mod who just concern ship (add more units, model and realistic colour) ...
thanks for all

[Bladerunner]

The SL-Mod is just for ships, but there are db-files, like i.e. units and the localisation.loc, that cause problems here. Another problem is the Patch-format i used for the big SL-Mod to allow MP. i think about using mod-format for a GC-version, as this causes less trouble, but this would mean two different versions (just the mod, as the model.pack will stay the same and can't conflict with any mod or the vanilla). I will test, what is best format to use and how i can optimize compatibility with other mods.

[Swiss Halberdier]

French marines i've already made:

Your French Marines are looking great!

[Bladerunner]

Thanks swiss...actually i'm working on continental Marines (just no correct hat without a converter) and will then do the brits and the spanish.
It's hard to get information for marines of most nations, but i will try to make all i can get my hands on (so if anyone have pictures...). Only the Royal Marines are well found on the i-net, but there you have the problem to find the right version of their uniform. I will also try to make some naval officers,though the situation for research isn't much better.

[Jopel]

As a Dutch guy I normally can be found in E:TW at sea warfaring and battling for supremacy and therefore LOVE all the effort and work you put in the water-based units...
Every day I sneak by to see if you got some news haha. Know that your work is really appreciated all around the world

+REP

[eatme]

Stumbled across this..And I can say that tis Looking good ! =)

[Rsty Bloodnok]

Good for you my Friend. Very nice indeed!

[Bladerunner]

Thanks friends really appreciate your feedback.

For checking regulary, i would comsider to look into the SL-multiplayer mod. This is the thread i check in most often, as here you will see most changes. The Limitations of the Minimod make it unlikely, that i will intreduce Marines there. As said in a post above, this mod is made to be maximum compatible with nearly no need of service and patching.

The big mod is actually under reconstruction, because CA changed the version check and allow mod.packs for MP. So it will take a little to rewrite the mod-tables, make it compatible with GC, have all marines (up to now british, us, continental and french ready, spanish in progress) and most of all rework the models, with adding the new stern decoration for the british and change french, russian and spanish ships back to their vanilla models with the new textures.
Will keep you informed on his own thread about changes, give Screenshots and tell about plans when patch 1.4 is out.

[Jopel]

Great mate, appreciate it! Will keep an eye on the SL-MP mod topic (wow... what a mouth full )

[Moggy Cattermole]

looks brilliant but unfortunately, rapid share insists i create a premium account when I try to get the pack (following the free link, not the premium user one).

[Bladerunner]

Shouldn't happen...

If following the Free Link, you might have to wait a minute before DL-Starts, but you don't have to by a premium-account (otherwise i wouldn't have post it there...).

[Moggy Cattermole]

Hmm, well i tried again -- no problems this time. Many thanks, cannot wait!

[Sneaking Viper]

Great work!!
Just a little heads up, the danes and swedes used the french design white/black on their warships, not the english standard.
Guess becasue it made it easier when they boarded each others ships

[Bladerunner]

Black and with is to my Knowlage just true for Sweden. I read about Blue/Red for Danmark, but it's pretty hard to get good information on Hull-Colours as official regulation were only intreduced post Napoleonic times. Ut to that time it was often to the taste of the Captain and for modding just what might be used most.

The Minimod have most nations with black and yellow ships, as the british model is also the standard model for all nations. there are only extra models for some ships of france, spain and russia.
As the minimod is supposed to run with CG and nearly all availible mods, it don't carry a single db-table. It just replaces the existing modelfiles and add textures. So there is no way to reassignships to other nations without intreducing db-table and limiting the compatibility.

The next Version of the big Sealords-Mod will give more opportunities here, but it's still in development...

[Sneaking Viper]

No the danes also used it, as seen on the pictures below

Ship of the line "Danneborg"


The frigate NAJADEN and the brig SARPEN


Well i guess they do look yellow/blackish but according to the danish naval archives their colour scheme was white/black.

[Bladerunner]

Thanks for the info

I will take it into account for the big mod...

As said, i can not change this on the minimod, as it would ruin the compatibility...

[KozCDVI]

The link doesn't work....
Might just be a momentary thing, but I can't download it.

[Bladerunner]

Just checked...all seems to be ok with the DL..