Those english ships by Yo Ho Ho are incredibly well done! A nice addition to the game.

About the contest, I think every modeler should formalize his/her participation by replying in the “Modeling Contest” section, indicating which ship he/she is going to build, in order to avoid two or more people picking the same ship.
I would also add some…[Read more]

In addition to what MK has thoroughly explained, I want to add a few things, from a technical point of view.

# Polygon count #
Since the purpose of this contest is to acquire new ships for the game, models can not have an unlimited polygon budget. They should be optimized for an efficient use in a real time rendering environment.
For this…[Read more]

I also like the idea of having a base, possibly upgradable and that has some purpose. For example, in addition to storing things, we could recruit new sailors based on the reputation we have, leave there a ship, build facilities (and hire people) to produce certain goods, and so on.
Maybe the base will be acquired after completing an apposite…[Read more]

That’s an awesome work MK, now the ship looks much more realistic and interesting compared to the boring original M&B textures!
And here is the taffrail flagpole, as you requested: DOWNLOAD (Mediafire)

I haven’t been active for a while, and I’m sorry for that, but sometimes I just feel the need of a little break. I’ll keep working on converting…[Read more]

Another one done: a ship of the line, the biggest in the package I got.
I copied the stats from the Zeven Provincien, so somebody should tweak them a bit to make this ship more unique.

As MK asked, I have also re-arranged the UVs of the stern and the quarter galleries, so now it’s possible to add decorations. There is a small text file with…[Read more]

The first new boarding scene is completed. Here a screenshot, not in game because I can’t get the free camera to work!

I have also used these two ship models to create two new decks for peaceful boardings of friendly ships.
I gave the file to Jeffrey to be included in the next update.

About the M&B frigate, yes I can assign the stern a…[Read more]

Testing the new boarding location. Everything seems to be working for now..

At first I created the locators so that every crew would start on its own ship, but then I realized this way they always end up jamming the two gangways between the ships, with all the action focused in that spot.
So now sailors are spawning in a mixed way on both…[Read more]

Testing the new boarding location. Everything seems to be working for now..

At first I created the locators so that every crew would start on its own ship, but then I realized this way they always end up jamming the two gangways between the ships, with all the action focusing in that spot.
So now sailors are spawning in a mixed way on both…[Read more]

Among those models, there are some that are named “assault” and “siege”, and are much more detailed than the others. I think they were meant to be used as boarding scenes, the same as sieges in vanilla M&B. Actually I’ve seen many screenshots/videos of Caribbean! where people were fighting on these models I’m talking about.

So I’ve decided I can…[Read more]

Another one done! A small schooner.

DOWNLOAD (Mediafire)

SCREENSHOTS

Do you have pictures of these ships?
I can’t find much on cromsters, can’t really figure out how they look… similar to galleons?
Also do you have something on English 5th/4th rate?

I may build something new if I feel inspired..
And creating a better model than the one in the announcements would be an interesting and probably tough challenge…[Read more]

About making AoP ships compatible with M&B, it’s possible.

However, it’s kind of an annoying process for two main reasons:

M&B engine supports normal maps and specular maps, while the Storm Engine doesn’t. This means we need to create them for every ship we want to convert.
For normal maps we can run the textures through the apposite NVIDIA…[Read more]

First ship done.

The UV mapping was already done by the modders who created those ships; I simply apply the textures. Of course it’s possible to have 3 different hulls, all that’s needed is to modify the existing textures.
This ship however doesn’t use a single texture file for the entire hull (you won’t see one side of the hull without breaks,…[Read more]

You’re too kind 😀

When making this model, I’ve been constantly concerned about the polygon/vertex count, so I’ve made many simplifications and even left out some details. Obviously a model created without restrictions on polygons/vertices (so not for a videogame) would look much better, but in the end I’m satisfied with what I created.

There…[Read more]

Ship completed and ready for download.
There are only two skins, light and dark; I was getting tired of modifying textures to create the 3rd skin, so instead of delaying the ship even more, I’ve decided to release it with two skins. I can always make the 3rd one later.

There are a few things to adjust:
– In RESOURCEINItextsrussiancommon.ini, the…[Read more]

The ship is complete now.
I’m modifying the textures to get some variation. One will be the dark version, the other one I don’t know yet but I have an idea.

Are the colors of the dark version right?

I know vBulletin and phpBB are among the most used, but I’m not sure about their security.
They should be pretty secure, but every once in a while a new zero-day gets discovered and many sites get hacked. I guess you can’t be 100% sure with any software you will choose..

Honesly I feel it was about time to change the forum software. This site is…[Read more]

I know vBulletin and phpBB are among the widest used, but I’m not sure about their security.
They should be pretty secure, but every once in a while a new zero-day gets discovered and many sites get hacked. I guess you can’t be 100% sure with any software you will choose..

Honesly I feel it was about time to change the forum software. This site…[Read more]

I like it, is there a meaning behind the symbols?

There a few things I’d change though: the font, the style of ‘ERAS’, and usually I’m not a fan of photorealistic logos, I like them to be someway stylized.