PHP2 in progress

Oil Tank ...... Containment Dikes or Berms

I think Rami is looking at the Fuel Oil Tanks with round containment dikes or earthern/or coral/concrete berms.

If a an oil tank ruptures (especially during a fire) the fuel oil would be contained within the dike or dam around the perimeter.

Oil would spill for acres ....and into the harbor, into other oil tanks, among the ships and sailors (uncontrolled) on fire like a river of hell if it were not contained ...........nasty business. The volume of the dam around the tank is equal or greater than the enclosed tank to hold the spilled contents.

See third or bottom black and white archive photo of ChrisGer for what I think Rami is seeing. I believe that is a ship fueling station....

Sadly, the ship in photo is bleeding fuel oil and fire on the water was a horrible result of the bombing.
 
those pics i posted give good detail of all the installations of the harbour, they are from the US Naval Archives, and some are from official IJN archives siezed after the war in Japan.

And yes those round white items around Ford are the permenant mooriing pylons that were installed for the capital ships to tie up to, they did it often in pairs, just as the little guys (cans and Light Cruisers and subs) often moored in nests when in harbour, sometimes linked to the mother ship or tender. Made for easeir ship control for the Harbormasters, resupply shore boat traffic, mail delivery, ....... but sadly also made for much better targets for the IJN. And at Tarento.
 
Ok we took care of some missing textures in our install... had a few missing. Also added some more buildings to Ford Island and some more trees sprinkled around.

Did some preliminary load testing... one of Talon's test missions with a ton of planes and the full GSL installed.


Still have to finish up the large crane near the drydocks and add 2 more buildings to Ford. The finish the LODs on the ship models... none of which were used in these shots. Going to redo the fuel tanks (nipples as Rami refers to)... they are a bit too large in scale.



Just keep in mind that this pic was taken at full detail settings... all the scenery... effects and 50 + planes in the area. Oh and I had about 7 other misc programs open and hosting a GoToMeeting session while chatting on Skype with 4 other people.
 
looking great, good to hear about those textures...

it will be really very good to have such an excellent Pearl Harbour, as the sim was launched with a focus on the Pacific and Pearl was central to things, it will really help give an immersion to it all.

are you going to put in the nests of DD's and some of the other ships that were anchored in the harbor? we can do that too, but i just wondered.
 
Crashaz will be using the ship layout files I made for my missions so not only BB Row will be in it.My layout files have the DD's,Cruisers and Merchant ships.


Talon
 
wowsers Talon a Admiral's dream :) thanks so much guys, and for your hard work on the missions Talon really appreciated. :):medals:
 
More tweaks.
Finalized the repair shop at the Navy Yard, added the Hawaiian Air Depot, all cranes now in the yard.

Need to alpha the crane texture and then readd the annoying fordwatertower to correct the library error. Simple recompile and then add to the library.
 
Aviation fuel tanks resized... 4 more buildings added to Ford Island and finalized the Seaplane Hangar @ end of Ford Island... lot of details and LODs in that one.

Nevada-Oklahoma completed.'
Arizona-Pennsylvania - LODs need to be finished.
Tennesee- California completed.
West Virginia - Maryland LODs need to be finished also dmg models.
Vestal, Neosho needs LODs
 
Argh! have a fever and shivers.. as soon as it breaks I will finalize the scenery piece.
 
First time I jumped on the computer... could not fight it anymore. :icon_lol:


Will work with Jeff tommorrow to finalize scenery without ships for release.
 
dont push too hard or we will put you back in Sick Bay :)

you are approved for limited duty topside.

Carry on :)
 
I need one volunteer... someone who has not worked with the team in the past and has no previous PHP2 installs. Also they would have to get online via Skype and GotoMeeting so I can see realtime any issues we may run into.

This is final install testing of PHP2 scenery minus the ships.
 
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