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cortomalteseit said:
Stunning!!!! Looking forward to see her at sea!!!!
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Thanks for the comments - unfortunately I'm again travelling without my simulator so it will take a while before she sees the waves. Meanwhile three different versions were completed including different armament - with/without Harpoon anti-ship missiles - and with or without the railing down and ready for heli operations. Lights are still not satisfactory, but it will come.

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Thanks for doing all this work. Hope there's a way to trigger the hangar bays to open on command, or barring that have two ships have the hangars open.
 
JosefK said:
Thanks for doing all this work. Hope there's a way to trigger the hangar bays to open on command, or barring that have two ships have the hangars open.
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You will certainly have more than one with open hangar - the three you see are just base models. Regards to further animations - so far just radars are animated - I will look into it. However, I need everything to be very robust and operational accross platforms and 32 bits and 64 bits as I don't have time to manage updates for the now more than 1000 models in the project everytime Lockheed Martin decides to update P3D. It has been a problem for some with the original packages installed that four of the oldest models made P3D crash´due to incompatible animations so that I want to avoid.
 
sorry, im having a horrible time trying to locate the updated files for the several ships that cause CTD in p3d v4<
 
Airtrooper said:
Henrik, how many LOD do your Type 45 Daring class Destroyers have?

Many thanks

Andy
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None of my models are done with LODs..... Performance is kept through discipline with vertices and draw calls. You might have seen the discussion with Klaus here: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php/108625-Ships-from-German-Navy-Bundesmaine Sketchup is a nightmare for vertices - GMAX puts it's own narrow limits, which can be cheated but I don't... These are AI models and I try to keep them fairly light removing all unnecessary vertices. Generally my models only have 1 day texture and 1 night texture... I have to admit I have gone to the extreme with the Type 45 and added a special texture for the flight deck... 4 draw calls and mdl size at 2 MB. Once out at sea that means no impact - of course if I add the whole navy in Portsmouth you might see some impact.
 
kl791 said:
I guess you are the only one who can guess what this will become :D

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It just happened I was at their office this afternoon and saw a poster on the wall with a picture of it!

Looking great! Will this be the tanker version?
 
Dimus said:
It just happened I was at their office this afternoon and saw a poster on the wall with a picture of it!

Looking great! Will this be the tanker version?
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I am starting with the tanker - then the combined version afterwards. Seems like at least some of the piping is common between the two versions.
 
Olympic Leopard is progressing. The helipad is up front on the starboard side - I hope to get a fairly realistic look of the deck equipment, so it should be Worth visiting her.

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Thanks for doing this Henrik!

This conversion has been one of the most important and interesting projects I was involved with lately. These are very rare ships. Some of the details not seen by many that are not into the shipping industry:

- These must be the only VLCC size tankers with a forecastle, because the original ships also had hatch covers and the forecastle is a means of protection for these openings forward.
- If you notice, there are no major cargo pipes running on the deck. All of the cargo delivery pipes leading to the manifolds amidships are recessed inside tunnels below deck.
- The hose handling cranes on the manifolds are different port and starboard. This is because the port crane is actually a bulk cargo crane for unloading ore cargo. The ship had 6 of these on the port side before the conversion to handle the ore from the holds. Five of them were removed during the conversion, leaving only the midship one on the port side. The one on the starboard side is a usual hose handling crane.

The other differences are inside the holds and not visible from outside.

Looking forward to seeing them in the sim.
 
Dimus said:
Thanks for doing this Henrik!

This conversion has been one of the most important and interesting projects I was involved with lately. These are very rare ships. Some of the details not seen by many that are not into the shipping industry:

- These must be the only VLCC size tankers with a forecastle, because the original ships also had hatch covers and the forecastle is a means of protection for these openings forward.
- If you notice, there are no major cargo pipes running on the deck. All of the cargo delivery pipes leading to the manifolds amidships are recessed inside tunnels below deck.
- The hose handling cranes on the manifolds are different port and starboard. This is because the port crane is actually a bulk cargo crane for unloading ore cargo. The ship had 6 of these on the port side before the conversion to handle the ore from the holds. Five of them were removed during the conversion, leaving only the midship one on the port side. The one on the starboard side is a usual hose handling crane.

The other differences are inside the holds and not visible from outside.

Looking forward to seeing them in the sim.
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Hi
Your second point actually at least partly explains something I was wondering about. Compared to conventional crude oïl tankers the number of pipes on the deck is very low, which of course makes it a bit easier to model. When the cargo delivery pipes are below deck I guess that many of the visible pipes are actually for ventilation or fire fighting purposes?
Henrik
 
You're quite correct Henrik. The pipes are safety and utility systems.

- Fire (water) and foam pipes
- Inert gas supply to "blanket" the top of the tanks
- What they call "Crude oil washing" pipes. Some oil is bled off the delivery lines to be "sprayed" under pressure on the tank walls as they are emptied and "wash" the sticky oil down. The same pipes can be fed with water when the tanks will need to be deeply washed for maintenance.
 
- Inert gas supply to "blanket" the top of the tanks
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Don't they keep the flammable liquid tanks, IE aircraft fuel and so on, constantly topped with inert gas? Or is it only during flight ops? I don't remember...

Just curious.
Pat☺
 
I was actually referring to the large crude oil tanker. Inert gas is always used in oil cargo tanks, and I'm sure it is used also in warships, especially in low flash point fuels.
 
Dimus said:
I was actually referring to the large crude oil tanker. Inert gas is always used in oil cargo tanks, and I'm sure it is used also in warships, especially in low flash point fuels.
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Some warships (I mean all the ones I've been on) use sea water for the main fuel tanks which prevents vapour build up and handily keeps the centre of gravity, and hence stability, more or less the same. There are a series of separators to make sure fuel and water then go to the right place!
I'm oddly not sure what they do for the AVCAT tanks though so you may be correct about that part.
 
PhantomTweak said:
Don't they keep the flammable liquid tanks, IE aircraft fuel and so on, constantly topped with inert gas? Or is it only during flight ops? I don't remember...
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Fuel tank inertion for larger aircraft is required by the FAA since 2016 or 2017 or so.
 
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