A little test of an external view I am working on, giving you some good video views a la "Das Boot", see video. It replaces the normal tower view, but gives you a nice outside view of the boat. At the moment I have found no 3d model crewmen to place on the blender model, so most likely there will be no crew in the final version. But for those who are used to the lonely original bridge view, this may not pose much of a problem
Rough first trial model, from low res blender export frames:
EDIT:
New version. Original blender 3d model is exported to 64 individual frames in 1600 x 1200 resolution. Then, using Gimp I found an intricate way of processing these down to very clean looking and sharp 320 x 200 frames. This way I avoided all ugly artifacts, unwanted black contours and transperancy pixels. Very time-consuming stuff, but worth it! It will look like this in AOD, only a tad darker:
