Blend files

[TannerOlason]

Hi. Thought I'd reach out and see if anyone has dug into the blend files for the cargo ship or the tanker ship lately. I'm working on a custom extension to this mod that makes new tiers of each of those ships, and I was hoping to just visually change the accent colors of each, but it's proving difficult and tedious to do in gimp.

I'm having trouble finding which exact blend file was the final cut. It would also help if I could tell where the textures were meant to be mapped. Everything appears to be disconnected with just basic colors present. Only one file is reported when I go to File -> External Data -> Report Missing Files: floor_bright_uni.jpg. My best guess was the zipped /cargo_ships-master/blender/cargo_ship/new.zip as the render animation appears set up.

Figured I'd ask if there were some shortcuts or something I was doing wrong before I started trying to hook things back up

[robot256]

Thank you for contacting us! I'm really excited someone is looking at the blend files. I don't think anyone has looked at them in a long time, and I'm not a blender user so unfortunately can't provide any guidance. The models were created by YuokiTani years ago, and they are no longer active in the modding scene. I have no idea where that missing file might be, but it sounds generic enough that it might be a default background, or could be replaced by a different background texture.

If you manage to get the Blender project working again, it would be truly incredible if you can figure out how to produce modern train sprites from them. It will look so much better in HD with 256 rotations, separated shadow spritesheets, and/or a color mask layer.