Hi everyone,

 

Does anyone know of any freeware scenery packages that include static ships for major harbors? The two ship-filled harbors that most strike me as crying out for a plethora of anchored ships to make them look more real on approach are Singapore and Istanbul, but I'm sure there are others. I noticed that Henrik Nielsen did release a "proof of concept" initial package that had some ships in the Rio de Janeiro harbor, but I haven't found anything else. Is there anything else out there?

 

I'd do it myself but I'm lacking in both time and technical skills at present...

 

James

Hi,

I didn't see your post until now - you can easily convert any of the ships from my AI packages to static versions with librarymaker - it takes a few moments. This is better than I do a big heavy library with plenty of ships, where maybe only a few are needed in a scenery.  I might do a few Harbour sceneries sometime... Now I have around 300 ships to play with, so that should do to fill most harbours...

Henrik Nielsen

Does anyone know of any freeware scenery packages that include static ships for major harbors?

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Yes as mentioned you can get hold of a number of static ship packages in the library here and if there are mdl files included you can use a scenery placement tool to place them.

Actually, after I posted last month I did find your static ship packages, Henrik, and I put together some (very basic) static ship sceneries for Singapore and Istanbul. I didn't know how to turn your other models into static ones, unfortunately--maybe that can be my next project!

 

Thanks so much for your models and all your work--it really adds to immersion in a great way.

 

James

You are welcome