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Originally Posted by Mister_M
Did you plan variant skins for the merchant ships ? Red decks were probably not a good idea for sailing into WWII convoys.  |
Yes, but not just for these. Merchant ships should ideally have two variants -
1) "peace" skin used for neutrals and nations that only recently joined the war and their ships are not repainted yet.
2) "war" skin for ships that were repainted into low visibility colours or produced during the war.
Now, my earlier coasters all have their "peace" skins so I will be making "war" skins for them but at the same time, why not go the other way around and prepare "peace" skins for stock ships that currently all wear late war camouflage even if it's September 1939 or they belong to neutral nations?
The tricky part is to configure the game so it assigns proper texture for time and nation the ship belongs to. While in theory this is easily configured by roster files, in practice it often does not work as intended (as is often the case with SH5). So there will be need for some pretty tedious testing...