Need a Naval Engineer

[+Wrench]

Most of you all, even the Old Hands (tm) have probably never seen the ship depicted below. It comes from "The Factory Place" circa 2003. Yeah, THAT old!! Amongst all the various buildings we're still using is this Monster of Seas (tm).

I actually got it working as a full use carrier, as you can see it's repainted, and yes those are standard game generated Hornets parked on the deck. Gives you an idea of the size. I call them (there's 5 named) the Goliath Class CVBN carriers. The birds take off and land pretty good, actually. I used bits and pieces from the 3W Nimitz class data ini, and rearranged locations to fit the enormous amount of available real estate. I know the forward cats could be shortened (moved forward), and that's an easy repaint and ini edit. That would also (possibly) add more parking spaces. There's 18 right now.

What I need to figure out is, for one, the damn ship number deck decal(s) and ship name on the stern aren't showing up in game. They do in the LOD viewer, but not in 'real life'.

The other is trying to get the air defense Sea Sparrows (also borrowed from the Nimitz) to be VLS(ish). Because, as every one can see, there's no box launchers in the corners. Same can be said for possibly added CWIS. "Fake Weapons" have been used in the past, so it should just be a matter of locating them.

So, I'm looking for volenteer(s) to give this a shot. Respond here, and/or PM me if interested. The LOD itself has many issues, but they are ignorable. T

Also, if anyone is interested, I expanded the names list for the CVN-68 (Nimitz), now including the full class. BTW, 3W gave us 99 hull number (USNCVnum) decals, and the new listing show up nicely. Will give them a lifespan well beyond 2055 (or so).

 

thanks!

[KJakker]

Wrench, I can give your data files a look.

[+Wrench]

Thanks!

Wait till you the actual SIZE!!! 

[+EricJ]

I mean you could carry two aircraft carriers worth of planes on that thang

 

[+Wrench]

Hmmm.... wonder what the armor value is for pykrete?? (nah, lets just leave it as steel)

That deck should be big enough for AF medium bombers, too. And Hercs! Even without arresting gear, and would need a different yoke for the cat shot. Or a rolling take off? JATO shot? depending on the overall weight, I suppose

(re: World War Z)

[+simonmiller416]

Based on my recent work on the S-400 system and my previous experience building DDGs, VLS may require further modeling(not about appearance, but about setting a virtual yaw axis).

Does this "behemoth" have an editable original max file? (Just asking for now)

[+Wrench]

Unfortunately, no. Like I said above it's from 2003. The model maker has long since left the community. If we had the MAX file, that would be great. To be able to fix the mapping, map the unmapped sections (the roof of the island and antenna farm), add box launchers and guns, etc.

Even if we can't get a (easily) working VLS, I'd settle for having them "pop out of the deck" at nearly any angle!