Big Plans for lots of new ships and looks.

A big part of pirate ships is that each team will be designated a country. ATM these countries are Britain, France, Spain and Holland.

Here is the first of many prototypes. The big key here is the sail will change based on the country you are with. Also this is going to be VERY SMALL files not just reskinning 4 models but actually using geomerging to accomplish this look. Look for not only sail changes but actual boat changes as time goes by.

Input is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Why geomerge when you can use attachments?

Well considering I just learned how to do what Im doing yesterday I may have missused the wrong term. What I did was remove the sails and an using the Sphere to attach them back. My goal is to have different colored sails and or other parts on each ship without having to redo the entire skin and thus save massive amounts of space.

If you are aware of any better ways to do this please let me know!

Thanks.

New Pics!

That's the best way to do it, although you may want to use an aura, as sphere plays a death animation when it attacks.

Need any wholly custom ships?

K ill check out auras. Im gonna assume i can add and remove these anytime I want via trigger....

One thing I did find is that if the unit dies it loses any effects it had on it hehe...

As far as custom ships yea im working on cnping my own but the BIG issue is im trying to use MINIMUM size so yes i want neat new ships but i dont want big file sizes.

Also I was wondering how u can attach hero glow and get team colors without having 12 models? WHen I attach i get only red.

ALSO was wondering if i could make any boat follow a death animation that i created as a seperate model. Here was what i was thinking.. I make a death animation that takes a unit and rolls it over like boats do and has some cool blow up shit.. The key is the unit that it rolls is very very small and not really anything but one plane. THEN on death i attach a unit to this model and i play the animation. Think it will work? My goal is to have no death animations to save space....

Plus a pic of the new skin and other stuff on the Orc Frigate!

the ships look awsome like that rod keep up the good work cant wait for the map to be out

They're looking really nice, Rod. I might actually have a reason to try out the map, now, if for nothing else than the really nice looking ships.

Someone remind me of the name; the old ship game on Playstation.

since each player has their own spawns i am thinking something like this might be nice....

Trying to make a completely new ship!

Playing around with oinks tools and some reskins on existing boats.

I know its not perfect yet but its fun to do.