New B_Battleship for Upcoming ETO Expansion Update 1.2 in March

Talon said:
King George V.other ships in the class Prince of Wales,Duke of York,Anson and Howe.


Talon
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So, the visible differences between King George V and Prince of Wales would be what? I have no idea what I'm looking for...
 
There really isn't much difference in the ships except AA guns.Being Prince of Wales was sunk December 1942 she didn't have all the upgrades in AA mounts.


Talon
 
Talon said:
There really isn't much difference in the ships except AA guns.Being Prince of Wales was sunk December 1942 she didn't have all the upgrades in AA mounts.


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She was sunk December 10 1941, only victim of her class
 
I wanted to be sure and point out that most of the new ships we are enjoying in ETO were built by Greg Law (Sea Condor) and he has graciously given us to permission to repaint them. Without a doubt his ships have had a significant impact on both MAW and ETO.

Greg has contributed heavily to the sucess of ETO with aircraft, ships and scenery. We could not ask for a better and more generous partner.:ernae:

Now if we could only get him to come out of semi retirement and build a few more that would really be outstanding.

Steve
 
Revised G-Battleship and ETO Effects XML, Day Test

OK, guys,

Here's yet more tweaks for the G-Battleship that will appear in the upcoming CFS3 ETO Expansion Update 1.20, tentatively scheduled for March release.

The ship model is by Seacondor, the paint job is by Talon, and the effects are from O-1 Driver.

Notice that the last pic is meant to showcase a new, large explosion that occurs after the ship is destroyed, but before it sinks from sight.

Enjoy.
 
Revised G-Battleship and ETO Effects XML, Night Test

Hi again, guys,

Here's more of the same tweaks for the G-Battleship that will appear in the upcoming CFS3 ETO Expansion Update 1.20, tentatively scheduled for March release, only this time it's a night.

The ship model is by Seacondor, the paint job is by Talon, and the effects are from O-1 Driver.

Notice that the last pic is meant to showcase a new, large explosion that occurs after the ship is destroyed, but before it sinks from sight.

Great job, guys.
 
Just a little thing. Bearing in mind all the punishment the Bismark took from the RN ( and even the Graf Spee), I am a little doubtful that 1 a/c would have such a total effect as to sinking a battleship.
 
mongoose said:
Just a little thing. Bearing in mind all the punishment the Bismark took from the RN ( and even the Graf Spee), I am a little doubtful that 1 a/c would have such a total effect as to sinking a battleship.
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Hey James,

Our objective was to improve the damage effects and get rid of the dirt spray and dirt clods in the existing CFS 3 ship explosions. We also improved the fires, smoke and added a delayed fatal explosion as the ship sinks along with a large blast of steam.

We did not alter the original damage points done by the model builder. The damage points in CFS 3 have been under discussion for some time with regard to aircraft, tanks and ships but that will be a project for another time.

Eventually we will overhaul all of the damage points in ETO but we will do them all at the same time using a common scale and denominator.

By the way, Firestorm flying a single aircraft once sank a carrier trying to land on it.:faint:That is the most damage we ever saw done by a single aircraft to a large ship.

Steve
 
Well some of the ships can take alot of hits at times and other times they can't.It has alot to do where you hit them.Even in real life it was the same.The Arizona and Pensylvania were sister ships yet Az sank with just 1 hit while Penn,was hit and lived to fight another day.It's just that the hit on Az was by a 800kg bomb ( modified 16 inch armor piercing shell ) in the magazine.


Talon
 
Talon said:
I meant December 1941.Repulse was sunk along with her that day.


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This thread got me reading up on that. I used to have Airfix models of Hood & Suffolk (along with assorted aircraft), so knew a little about Hood in particular, and some of the others involved in the Bismarck chase. Was surpised I vaguely recognised Hood even, after all these years...

PoW the first capital ship to be sunk by air power alone, apparently.
 
wow those all look great guys,keep the pics coming in because its gonna be a while before i see them in combat,simply awesome work
 
So glad to see some British battle wagons becoming available, especially the Hood. Excellent stuff Greg!
 
O-1Driver said:
Hey James,

Our objective was to improve the damage effects and get rid of the dirt spray and dirt clods in the existing CFS 3 ship explosions. We also improved the fires, smoke and added a delayed fatal explosion as the ship sinks along with a large blast of steam.

We did not alter the original damage points done by the model builder. The damage points in CFS 3 have been under discussion for some time with regard to aircraft, tanks and ships but that will be a project for another time.

Eventually we will overhaul all of the damage points in ETO but we will do them all at the same time using a common scale and denominator.

By the way, Firestorm flying a single aircraft once sank a carrier trying to land on it.:faint:That is the most damage we ever saw done by a single aircraft to a large ship.

Steve
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Well I didn't really want to get in a great debate on this; only to point out something. Few WWII capital ships would have or did sink with just a bomb or 2 or torpedo or 2 unless a magazine or some equally vulnerable part was hit by chance (and we all know the famous ones). They were in fact very hard to sink unless damaged by a multitude of hits from whatever weapon was being used.

Steve. I am glad to hear that damage points will be a future target of work. Needs to be done for historical accuracy, even if big results are more fun to see!!! Of course an oil tanker or ammo ship would be spectacular to see with these, regardless of damage points.

WRT to effects, they are, of course, excellent as to be expected.:applause:
 
BeauBrummie said:
So glad to see some British battle wagons becoming available, especially the Hood. Excellent stuff Greg!
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The British Battle ships are not mine. These are from someone else.
Steve let me have a look at King George to see if a modeler could use it. I'm afraid to say it has a huge poly count. at least 250,000 polys. It could be used as the basis for a CFS3 style model but it would be a lot of work.
Scharnhorst is 20,000 polys. This will give you an idea.
 
Hi Guys,

Hi Greg,

yep the b_battleship is one of yours (from the GC site), its one of your ships that you let us metamorphose into the IJN Hiei (or is that IJN Hie) for the PTO addon and now its returned to the ETO as a B_battleship.

I'll give you clue the texturename for it finish's in olk.dds :)

Its a pitty re the other ship model, theres some really nice messhes out there for CGI type work etc but like you say teh poly counts are often 10 times that of what CFS3 would use. I've seen some great aircraft meshes but they also fall into the to hard to modify, easier to start from scratch catergory.

regards Rob.
 
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