Shippy Ships

Independent branch of mod version 1.0.25.3

This version is stable and playable, but some features have not yet been backported:

• Ships and bollards cannot be leashed.
• The in game configuration screen is not yet available, so configuration options must be edited manually in the config file.

General

• Added Galleons
• Fixed jittering
• Improved animations
• Added some sounds
• bug fix
• base ram damage can now be adjusted in the config
• Patterns are now correctly applied to the caravels, galleons and cogs

Rendering and optimization

• Reworked texture system (technical change)
• Models rework
• The caravels are about 15% less resource hungry (rendering)
• Galleons are about 35% less resource hungry (rendering)
• Walkable deck can now be turned off, this will remove the subentities and it can improve performace even if the impact of these subs is limited (computation)

LOD System

• Introduced LOD to improve performace, This is very useful especially in areas crowded with ships
• The distance at which the lod triggers can be adjusted with the "Lod module" If for some reason you don't like the LOD system you can turn it off in the config
• More info on LOD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_detail_(computer_graphics)