[Willy]

Taking what I can from the really interesting thread about skinning cockpits here; (The link is inoperative) I've been having a go at skinning Ships.

I thought a good place to start would be by skinning one of the US Navy CVE "jeep carriers" as a Royal Navy one. From the historical point of view this is good and bad, as although the Royal Navy used CVE's the ones we have are of a different class, ie. "Casablanca" as opposed to "Long Island" or "Bogue". Alot more about that here http://www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/ESCORT/

Initial results are not great as can be seen in this wip screenshot where I've tried to skin the USS Kitkin Bay as HMS Emperor. All I've done so far is to change the deck ID from 84 to E and of course substituted a Royal Navy ensign in place of the Stars n Bars.

Many textures appear to be missing and holes have appeared in the deck and hull...alpha chanel, damage textures?;



Any help or ideas would be great :wink: Especially anything that might help to duplicate a ship so that we can have additional ships as opposed to simply re-skinning any of the few we already have.

[Vpmedia]

yes, alpha channels

theres no way to get that channel if we're unable to open the tga files

that splash screen replacing idea is cool but only works with files without alpha channel

[lowfighter]

I like this thread, maybe we can have sometime new looking ships, I'd be just happy to have the cargo ships with several skins, too bad there's so little peacetime ships, would love to have more sail ships.....Maybe it's easier to do the thing with trucks and armor (like having some desert skins for example)?

[eastport]

how about the Tirpitz painted as the Bismarck and the U-2VS as a Swordfish....with torpedoes of course.

[elephant]

I like the idea or reskinned ships very much!
I wouldn't like to see a U2 carrying torpedoes though... :x

[VT-51_Razor]

Is there any way at all to do something about all the smoke coming out of the stacks of the Jeep carriers? It would be nice to tone that down quite a bit.

It would also be great to be able to change the numbers of the Essex class carriers. There were about 10 - 12 of them built before the end of the war. Same goes for the Jeep carriers.

Great work Willy! Keep it up.

[duffys tavern]

Maybe someone could erase the deck numbers from the carriers. That way they'd be generic.

[duffys tavern]

Maybe painting the "Liquid & Dry Cargo" ships so the oilers look "navy" and not so much like Exxon-Mobile. Thanx in advance.

[VT-51_Razor]

A big "BUMP" for Willy. Any progress here? The ability to have more than just two Essex class CVs, or just three Casablanca class Jeeps is sad indeed. Surely, there must be another ship or two in the Illustrious class as well?

[Brophmeister]

Something else I would like to see is moving ships on multiplayer dogfight maps.

[spud]

[duffys tavern]

Great idea Spud, but can it be done? RN flag on CVE? Essex Class carrier without deck number, that way it could be any of the Essex carriers.

[spud]

I posted that ages ago on ubi, I was thinking more the reskinning and just eliminating the flags for here.

[Willy]

A big "BUMP" for Willy. Any progress here? The ability to have more than just two Essex class CVs, or just three Casablanca class Jeeps is sad indeed. Surely, there must be another ship or two in the Illustrious class as well?

The progress is slow...as until a way of "adding" new ships by duplication is found, any mods that can be made are limited to say the least.

The other problem is having a decent tool to handle the .tga files that aren't really .tga files at all. That would save allot of work.

[RAF_Leigh]

i was looking at the ships tga last night cos one of my friends want to do a carrier of german lol worng way around