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Post by jwsmith26 on Nov 9, 2021 8:07:28 GMT -6
I am not good at drawing. I've forgotten how to get the carrier deck designed. I have the drawing instructions but I can only get the outline. How to I get it to turn white like a deck. The checkbox next to "Line" is a toggle to switch between a layer drawn as a line only, or as a solid fill polygon. |
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Post by kagami777 on Dec 15, 2021 19:18:15 GMT -6
Did you mean the Nagato Class? The Fuso class (like the Yamashiro) had six double turrets with two on the midship.
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Post by kagami777 on Dec 15, 2021 19:21:45 GMT -6
One thing I enjoy putting on my ships is those "shields" to protect the forward turret from seawater washing over the deck. I find it adds a bit of visual flair to ships for relatively little effort.   Is that what those are for? I thought they were heavy weather locations for people to use if they had to go on deck during heavy seas, something to hold on to or lash themselves to. |
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Post by rjgowans on Dec 16, 2021 5:48:50 GMT -6
The feature is called a breakwater and it is to prevent excess water swamping the foc'sle deck area and to help guide it back overboard.
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Post by tbr on Jan 5, 2022 7:27:08 GMT -6
The feature is called a breakwater and it is to prevent excess water swamping the foc'sle deck area and to help guide it back overboard. It also protects the gun mount behind it by diverting some of the water's force. Even today warships get their forecastel guns damaged or even destroyed by heavy weather, and, relatively speaking, today's "A" mounts have higher freeboards and are lees "wet" than those in the RTW2 timeframe (exceptions like the Wielingen class notwithstanding, which for that reason has one as well). |
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Post by oldpop2000 on Jan 11, 2023 10:08:49 GMT -6
I've forgotten how to draw the superstructure and get it white instead of dark. I am not good at this. Help please
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Post by cwemyss on Mar 24, 2023 9:08:26 GMT -6
OK... question for the experts. Is there an easy(ish) way to draw a circle??
Or, assuming you've drawn one circle you're happy with (say, a forward lattice mast) is there an way to copy/paste the Superstructure5 points to a new Superstructure6 that draws an aft lattice mast? The points in the text file aren't X-Y coordinates, they appear to be some kind of polar coordinates, with 1x10e7 angle values, from an origin that I haven't had enough caffeine to sort out.
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