I shortly came back to this game, mainly to finish the cabin model, and tried two of Jeffrey’s recompiled versions (ERAS2Test and ERAS2TestDX9). There is a problem with shadow maps, that are being ignored by the game: as you see in the following screenshots, there are no shadows and the textures underneath take a strange color, different from the…[Read more]

I shortly came back to this game, mainly to finish the cabin model, and tried two of Jeffrey’s recompiled versions (ERAS2Test and ERAS2TestDX9). There is a problem with shadow maps, that are being ignored by the game: as you see in the following screenshots, there are no shadows and the textures underneath take a strange color, different from the…[Read more]

Glad you could recover your data!

I’ve taken a break lately, it’s summer + I’ve been playing other games. Also, the very little participation of other people here doesn’t help..

Anyway, I’m still waiting for MK to send me the new ships to (try to) import into the game, but I haven’t received anything yet.

I’ve recently noticed that, when in a land location near the sea, like a city or a shore, the ships in the water don’t move at all: they are not influenced by the motion of the waves, as if they were attached to the seabed with pillars.

In the vanilla game this doesn’t happen. So I compared some files, and found out what is causing this. In ERAS…[Read more]

I have bad news. I could not export a correct version of that model to detach the flagpole.

I tried first with OBJ export, but the model is somehow corrupted (in Maya looks like this, 3DS Max doesn’t even open it):

Then I tried VRML export, and at first the model looked ok, then I realized it’s missing geometry: parts of the figurehead, several…[Read more]

I have bad news. I could not export a correct version of that model to detach the flagpole.

I tried first with OBJ export, but the model is somehow corrupted (in Maya looks like this, 3DS Max doesn’t even open it):

Then I tried VRML export, and at first the model looked ok, then I realized it’s missing geometry: parts of the figurehead, several…[Read more]

Mmmm is this a subtle form of spamming?

From what I could tell, that ship should be the Mordaunt38nb1. There are at least other two which are very similar, so I hope I picked the right one.

Besides the flagpole, I also had to separate the small boat on the deck from the rest of the model, because exporting everything in a single GM file made the model impossible to open in TOOL (though…[Read more]

Unfortunately I have no idea on what’s causing your Maya malfunctioning… usually in a situation like that I would perform a clean reinstall of Windows (this always solved the problems I had), but I understand it may be a tedious process.

As for the modeling help, since no one has shown up, I guess I can try something: I don’t feel confident yet…[Read more]

Unfortunately I have no idea on what’s causing your Maya malfunctioning… usually in a situation like that I would perform a clean reinstall of Windows (this always solved the problems I had), but I understand it may be a tedious process.

As for the modeling help, since no one has shown up, I guess I can try something: I don’t feel confident yet…[Read more]

When I did that texture optimization, my goal was to get the smallest files possible, and compression does really help in reducing the file size. Probably I went too far, because it seems now that around 1 MB is ok for less powerful machines too.

In the original game (and in SDTHEO too, from what I remember) the majority of the textures use…[Read more]

A small update to show I’m still working on it, and intend to finish it.

After reading some messages on another thread, about the lack of people contributing and how this might potentially lead to the closure of this site, I felt I wanted to show I’m still active, making this new cabin and giving my contribution.

Lately I’ve been focusing mainly…[Read more]

Ok VOC Escort done. Copy the fixed models in RESOURCEMODELSShipsVOCEscort1.
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That ship would also need a new sailorpoints file, but I can’t do it right now…

Mmmm I had already resized to 512×512 and compressed the items textures. Did you resize the remaining textures in INTERFACES?

Mmmm I had already resized to 512×512 and compressed the items textures. Did you resize the remaining texture in INTERFACES?

That ship should be the Felipe1. I looked at it, and the flagpole attached to the hull is what is causing that camera behavior, as MK said.

I think the only way to fix it is to modify the model and re-export it. There is a ‘camera’ locator, that can be edited using TOOL, but that is for the first person view on deck.

Anyway, I wanted to see if I…[Read more]

That ship should be the Felipe1. I looked at it, and the flagpole attached to the hull is what is causing that camera behavior, as MK said.

I think the only way to fix it is to modify the model and re-export it. There is a ‘camera’ locator, that can be edited using TOOL, but that is for the first person view on deck.

Anyway, I wanted to see if I…[Read more]

Nice one! If I finish the cabin I’m making, I’ll try this method instead of manually executing the console.

Thanks for the appreciation.

When I planned this cabin, I thought about those ships with no quarterdeck and forecastle/aftcastle, where the captain’s cabin is on the same level of the gun deck, divided by bulkheads. Because of this, in battle I wanted to use the model of the cabin with the bulkheads and furniture removed, as if the ship has…[Read more]

I tested the resize in the newest DX8 and DX9 versions.

In the DX9 game it worked, and no crash when boarding. In the DX8 game I couldn’t really test it, because when speeding time to quickly get to boarding the game kept crashing, usually when pressing R to reset the time speed to 1x.

I got this in the error.log:
RUNTIME ERROR - file:…[Read more]