Next Annan with readme enclosed.
Same harbour as before but the vessels are now very early paddle-steamers.02annan12012020.zip (4.8 MB)
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Another pause, to be continued when a cargo vessel is available. Half way there (smile). Every cargo vessel is different which should make it easier. Propeller and rudder will be the tricky part. So it will now be the age of steam-ships with basic content. B
If basic scenarios are wanted you will need to mention. B
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With the paddle steamer it was relatively easy to get the paddles to turn while being driven. With the cargo vessel I can’t keep the propellor in place after link parent to child, etc. control and P. Alt and P to remove etc. I will test it in one of my routes and when/if suitable I will resume route making. I removed the animated vessel for download, to keep within the forum of completed.B
As the drivable method was just my own method with all the routes made previously it appears not to work with cargo ships.
However the rotating popellor sems to work fine as regards the timeline on preset courses so that is the method I will use.
Also of course there is little no interest so preest courses will suit me anyway. Drivable however works fine with the paddle- steamer, schhoner, sailing-flat on all the other routes made, which are all available for download
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Silloth dock era - age of steam single vessel and empty docks. key 1 start the vessel moving - will take a while to reach the docks. Roaming camera home/end arrow keys
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ba03silloth_cargo15012020.zip (3.7 MB)
Waiting for one cargo vessel to arrive.
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post removed and if more routes are created eventually, I will upload them, B
I have had to remove this download as it was not working correctly. I don’t think it is feasible making the steamships, drivable is diffcult, animated propellor and real window work OK but not when zipped etc and so on. So I am continuing with the sailing ships which can be made solid, drivable, etc, and varying sizes. I won’t be making further downloadable steamship. Routes with be sailing vessels.
Thanks
Barry
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Too many problems. so a delay until I find some solutions on the internet
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As I have about 40 to 45 sail routes aready made. I think I will work through them to see what I can add or change then upload them one by one maybe. There will will be a few versions of a some routes.
At least I have explored the cargo steam ships idea, but it would really need a variety of cargo vessels and timeline preset routes which does not work out well for a few reasons.
So definitely back to the age of sail. of up to about about two centuries ago or a bit less before the paddle steamers come onto the scene. drivable, static floating and preset routes. Also will try and add more static content at least an inn and warehouse to start with to add to the houses.
if i get a tile streaming system done, pair it with origin shifting, one could make routes in an open world of ridiculous scale.
and we can call it “sea citizen” 
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Daedalus Hi. Sounds great if you can explore the world? I seem to remember years ago they had ships running on the internet world maps? I am running out of years though 4 score this year (smile).
Could you give a link to your thread if allowed on this forum?
Thanks
Barry
Solway Firth. Added inn and made a preset route from Port Carlisle, Probably takes about 40 minutes (if it gets to Rockcliffe) Takes a couple of minutes to start. Also drivable sailing flat tfgh.
Readme in the zip file for background history of the Port.
ba01solway.zip (5.0 MB)
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its currently an idea im working on, its still in the draft stages, but the initial tests look promising!
Thanks Daedalus keep us informed and any new links.
Barry
all this work is as impressive as huge and would deserve a more realistic render of all those harbours.
@barrymaritime i wish you can ally with someone able to ‘stuff’ your scenes 
reprocuding what those harbours look like today ^^
thanks for this impressive and tough work of rebuilding all those harbours !
Happy blending !
Thanks a surprise visit and free grog for all.
Basically just amusing myself these days. I closed my web site but Blender artists allows routes up to 5 meg and I know how to keep under this limit. People can adapt these routes however they like if they wish to,
I noticed your eagle with its beady eyeS surveying the scene fron the rooftop(smile)
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Tidying up the routes. Morecambe bay, large area and 2 mile canal. [MB) Drivable schooner ijkl. Version 1 basic 07morecambe23012020.zip (4.8 MB) route. Reloaded altered word pad to a text readme
The next is version 1 of the Dee to river Clwyd.
Large size route and at present plain merged colour texture. With bump map and noise to give it a bit of realism.
One sailing flat tfgh. Basic version 1 route.15a01deeclwyd.zip (3.0 MB)