For those of you who have spent time on or at the sea, and around ships thereon, I wonder if you think as I do... that the NTW ships are lovely - but a tad too pristine when you get up close? And maybe you're missing the billowing of white sails against that blue sky?
This mod makes French, British, Spanish and Russian ships look a bit more like the grubby, soggy, briney hulks that they were way back in the early 1800s, especially in times of war and after much time at sea with little time or resources for repairs. But those nice sails are white...
Note: Items common to other nations will change for those countries, too.
Feedback welcomed (crew in my pictures care of LME, cannot comment on others).
Changes which I believe provide a fundamentally different look to the ships and visuals include:
Fouled and weathered hulls with heavy paint
Gunport sills and frames
Scorch/staining around gun ports
Enhanced metals, including revised lantern and batten
New rigging, ropes and nets
New wood effects on decking, siderails and equipment
Revised coloring on bow wood trim
New flag (for the French only)
A few stubborn barnacles
White weathered sails
Revised horse and lion figureheads
New coppering on hulls
Completely new stern decor and windows
New anchor texture (rusted and used)
FRANCE
BRITAIN
RUSSIA
SPAIN
ALL
Stern and Captain's quarters (new windows, window columns, shading, balusters and ornamentation above windows), lanterns, and coppered rear hull and rudder
Decking and Siderail
Tarred (but weathered) Rigging
Other details - changed star and batten metals
Anchor
Coppered hull at front, recolored bow decoration and revised figurehead
Sails (set)
Sails (Furled)
Pictures by Users:
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
By Noif de Bodemloze
By Pukadog (cropped and tone revisited)
By Ransan309
By Vennonetes (marines not from this mod):
By Dramabelli
IMPORTANT: I am done with modding for the foreseable future, and hope you those who requested to try this mod have enjoyed it!
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Last edited by Pdguru; March 14, 2013 at 10:47 AM.
The texture of the ship looks real to me. Do you plan to change the texture/uniforms of the crew too?
A-haaaar, Pukadog, me laddy! Thanks. That's what I am trying for!
Regarding the crew, no, I don't think so... I'm not even sure where they are in the game files, . If I can find them I may take a look and see. Meantime, here's my favorite one-man crew, Cap'n Redbeard Rum...
Right now though, I just want the main ship textures to look more realistic, so will play around a bit with the ship decks and other bits and pieces. Thanks for joining in, Puka!
Last edited by Pdguru; January 10, 2013 at 03:20 PM.
This looks really impressive! Those retextures ships I have seen before, but your mod will add more small and big details that make much better. Why your mod is not released or is it still in WIP/Beta state?
Another question: Where is Austria and Russian (and maybe other some other factions) ship retextures?
Last edited by Noif de Bodemloze; January 20, 2013 at 12:35 PM.
Centaure - glad you like them. Work is completed here.
Pieppers - Thanks for sharing the shots. Nice pics!
Noif - Thanks for the feedback. The mod is available to folks who can be bothered to take the time to participate in TWC and drop me a PM and ask for it. I do this because I tire of people who take and give nothing back in return. I will release publically if there is enough interest.
Regarding the other nations' ships, I simply changed the hull textures I could find in the vanilla files. I see none for other nations, and don't have time to search them out.
Robin - Thank you!
Last edited by Pdguru; January 20, 2013 at 02:08 PM.