Ok now everything works! And thanks for the promotion!

The ship is almost complete, I’m still experimenting with sails and trying to understand why they get smaller. The rigging is 90% done.
I was able to get the lateen sails to work properly, although within the limitations of the engine. Their default behavior is to rotate opposite to the other…[Read more]

I can’t see my post anymore! What happened?

I was editing my post, and when I hit ‘submit’ it simply disappeared!
I thought it was gone forever for some kind of bug, but apparently only moderators can see it?

Anyway, in ERAS I forgot to increase the number of max ships in ships.h, that’s why my ship wasn’t working. Everytime I applied one of Jeffrey’s updates I had to edit the files all…[Read more]

I’m having some trouble with locators when creating the rigging.
I can attach a rope to the bottom corners of a sail, but when I do so the sail gets smaller.

Mainsail without any rope attached

Mainsail with ropes on the corners

I could avoid attaching ropes to sails, but then the rigging would be less accurate. Even making the sail bigger…[Read more]

I’m having some trouble with locators when creating the rigging.
I can attach a rope to the bottom corners of a sail, but when I do so the sail gets smaller.

Mainsail without any rope attached

Mainsail with ropes on the corners

I could avoid attaching ropes to sails, but then the rigging would be less accurate. Even making the sail bigger…[Read more]

I’m having some trouble with locators when creating the rigging.
I can attach a rope to the bottom corners of a sail, but when I do so the sail gets smaller.

Mainsail without any rope attached

Mainsail with ropes on the corners

I could avoid attaching ropes to sails, but then the rigging would be less accurate. Even making the sail bigger…[Read more]

I’m having some trouble with locators when creating the rigging.
I can attach a rope to the bottom corners of a sail, but when I do so the sail gets smaller.

Mainsail without any rope attached

Mainsail with ropes on the corners

I could avoid attaching ropes to sails, but then the rigging would be less accurate. Even making the sail bigger…[Read more]

No, it still happens.
This time I was restarting first from Peter Blood’s mansion, but nobody was there, then again from the deck of the ship.
Am I the only one experiencing this when I try to go to my ship?

Eh eh sorry Jeffrey, but we want this mod to have good graphics, without artifacts or missing features like shadows, don’t we?

I tried the update.zip, and ships are now shaded correctly. Congratulations for fixing another glitch! I knew you would have eventually figured out this one too.
Unfortunately, there is a ‘however’ (two actually, please…[Read more]

Eh eh sorry Jeffrey, but we want this mod to have a good graphics, without artifacts or missing features like shadows, don’t we?

I tried the update.zip, and ships are now shaded correctly. Congratulations for fixing another glitch! I knew you would have eventually figured out this one too.
Unfortunately, there is a ‘however’ (two actually, please…[Read more]

I tried the update.zip and the flickering issue seems to be gone.
However, ships are still being shaded in the wrong way, as if they were upside down: polygons facing up are darkened, while polygons facing down are brightened, like the sunlight was coming from under the ship!
This happens in both the DX9 and DX8 versions. Check these…[Read more]

I tried the update.zip and the flickering issue seems to be gone.
However, ships are being shaded in the wrong way, as if they were upside down: polygons facing up are darkened, while polygons facing down are brightened, like the sunlight was coming from under the ship!
This happens in both the DX9 and DX8 versions. Check these…[Read more]

I tried the update.zip and the flickering issue seems to be gone.
However, ships are being shaded in the wrong way, as if they were upside down: polygons facing up are darkened, while polygons facing down are brightened, like the sunlight was coming from under the ship!
This happens in both the DX9 and DX8 versions. Check these…[Read more]

That’s because the engine is rendering both sides of each polygon.

To define the space on a ship inside which you can move when in first person view, the game uses a path file, that is basically a plane corresponding to the decks with holes for those parts you want collisions, like cannons or bulkheads.
This path file serves just as a guide, so…[Read more]

That’s because the engine is rendering both sides of each polygons.

To define the space on a ship inside which you can move when in first person view, the game uses a path file, that is basically a plane corresponding to the decks with holes for those parts you want collisions, like cannons or bulkheads.
This path file serves just as a guide, so…[Read more]

I’m now 99% convinced that the problem is both sides of each polygon being rendered.
This is the space inside the forecastle planking, as you can see the internal faces are being rendered, but they shouldn’t and I should be able to see through them.

One curious thing I noticed is that pressing ESC apparently fixes this, altough the shadows on…[Read more]

— mistake: double post —

I’m now 99% convinced that the problem is both sides of each polygon being rendered.
This is the space inside the forecastle planking, as you can see the internal faces are being rendered, but they shouldn’t and I should be able to see through them.

One curious thing I noticed is that pressing ESC apparently fixes this, altough the shadows on the…[Read more]

If you want to check yourself, take a look at both my cabins. On the table there are maps. They show the same problem, usually the back side wins and can’t see the details of the map, just blank paper.
Also, the bed in nc_cabin2 has those two “curtains” hanging from the pole that supports the bed, they are made of the same model cloned and…[Read more]

Thank you MK for this info. Unfortunately, as you said, there’s no way to get such a realistic sailing behavior in this game, so things have to be simplified.

For the lateen sails, the best option is probably to have their yards running from stern to bow with 0 degrees of rotation when exported to GM, like other models do. This way, their…[Read more]