I took a few months off from modding the game to learn how to make proper textures using the new Remastered shader system, and I will say, the time was worth it!
Now, I'll enlighten you on everything else that happened: In effect, a combination of Covid-19.exe, family things happening (hey, the old sailor's adage had it this way: If everything's going to plan, then nothing will go to plan), busing myself on learning the ropes of XSI (surprisingly, XSI proved extremely effective for what I was doing), Blender, for texture baking, among others. I also spent a fair bit of time learning how to do Remastered shaders properly, trying (and failing) at doing the -il maps for a fair bit of time. All in all, it took a fair bit of time for me to properly do the Remastered textures, but by far, in my opinion, it was worth it. And then the mod I was jury-rigging as a temporary codebase bugged out and messed around with the Remastered shaders, as well, so I ended up having to throw that one out and leave the project lead to deal with crafting up a new codebase.
Speaking of the project lead, Admiral Kuztenov (which is his Discord nametag, which is a helluva lot easier to type than Any-Condition-2313, which was his Reddit username), also got smacked with his own fair share of troubles. Vaccines, quarantine, power outages (and to make things worse, his laptop was infamous for overheating woes), literally. In his own words:
A computer that loves to overheat, helicopter parents, vaccines, and piles of schoolwork, yeah, not the best of situations for modding, I bet. And power outages love to happen as well.
Ayup.
The GameInfo was fun, though, mind you. I just had a massive headache trying to fit it into my now-hectic scedule which by this point has a random event like the Random Events in the base Sins game popping in and wrecking the whole thing over every five minutes and a half. But hey, it was fun.
Anyways, rant over. \/ (>_<)
Tokyo-class heavy cruiser (hull symbol: CA)
Murasame-class cruiser (hull symbol: CA)
Suzuya-class light cruiser (hull symbol: CL)
CNS Maya engages the Raganov-class titan TDV Ayako
CNS ChÅkai fighting off pirate raiders
Sooo...Next up: Light cruisers. With Remastered shaders this time.
PS: Here's da Discord (^_^) Discord.gg
