HMS Victory

[Milton Shupe]

Sometimes you have to go full Nelson, Admiral Nelson that is.

Several years ago I downloaded this freebie 3ds model from the net. It was way too poly heavy for FS9 but I hung onto it thinking maybe one day we can get it in FSX.

Unfortunately, the 84 textures it used are .jpegs and are random sizes (not FS friendly).
So, I invested two days resizing textures to FS standards and getting them working with the model in a format that is workable.

Well, just got over that major hump at least with these old basic textures.

I have the model resized to actual specs (length wise) and it is starting to look decent in the sim.

I have it working with HMS Bounty "flight model" and wind controls.

Of course, there are no animations and wind direction and speed dependent visibility for sails and flags.

I really do not know if this can be taken that far but certainly static models are possible.

Here are two FS9 screen shots that showed all I could get exported to FS9 without textures. Looked impressive then.
Two shots are from gmax.

The remaining textured shots are from FSX.

[Sundog]

Ship's Ahoy! It looks good. Someone could have fun TacPacking all of those cannons.

[Brytskiva]

Looks very nice !!

[Paul K]

Very nice indeed. I know it's WIP, but is it not a little high out of the water ?


Below is a painting by Geoff Hunt, with HMS Victory leading, to illustrate:

[Seahawk72s]

Thank you for bringing her to life. (I've had my fingers crossed since you first mentioned the model)
With the very nice detail and color the screen shots give a hint of, this is very exciting stuff.
With all the fun I've had with Bounty she is something to look forward to.

[rcbarend]

Hi Milton,

Looks impressive .....

By the way (if you succeed in making the sails/other animations controllable in the visual model):
I'm surely willing to help making the control code for it in a gauge.
Same goes if there is something specific you need adapted in the wind-"flightmodel".

Cheers, Rob

[Milton Shupe]

Very nice indeed. I know it's WIP, but is it not a little high out of the water ?


Below is a painting by Geoff Hunt, with HMS Victory leading, to illustrate:

Paul, Here is a question for both you and Stoney: having set this picture and my Desktop background for two days, I finally came to notice that the port side studsails are deployed, but not the starboard side. I assume that these ships of the line are preparing battle on the starboard side? Very interesting that only one side with that square yardage would be deployed.

[xpelekis]

If Bounty was just excellent, this is going to be epic... AIs yes & why not some MP naval battling ?...