You can now find an updated version of the Type 21 mod, along with a whole host of other custom RN ships in the RN mod pack: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3491248180 Do not run both mods at once as this will cause conflicts!

There is some clipping with the top of the helicopter hangar door, but a cool model!

Oooo

@Vatlandsguten - You should like the latest update :)

Will we possibly get numbers on the ships at some point?

Looks great!

Thanks to everyone for your feedback. I've made some (mostly visual tweaks) to the mod. Hope you enjoy watching those Exocet hatches fly open as much as I do! :D

Some additional submodels to cover the LIMBO mortar pit and to build up the hanger so the SH-2 doesn't clip through the deck when it spawns would also be welcome changes.

Can the speed be reduced to make the ship more accurate?

I love this. Hoping for more great mods in the future.

Thankyou so much @mrchiaow! I have honestly tried everything, I know its something simple I am missing but I just for the life of me cannot find it. I will join up and hopefully have time this weekend to figure it out

Hello @L337Rage. Happy to try and help, it's all about editing the .ini files tp pull in the relevant mesh from another ship. I posted a link to the BuOrd modding discord server below, which has a very friendly community who helped me get this one working!

First thanks for the mod mate you did an awesome job but I was wondering if you had the time to give me some pointers on changing weapons on ships? You will be credited :)

@Wildriver2011 - maybe, though the "squinting" required would be much greater than this kitbash! I need to find something that will be a decent proxy for the SeaWolf launcher too.

Are you going make Type 22 that be great In commission 3 May 1979 was 14

@OT-Yuzuru Awesome! Just saw your posts up on the discord too :)

@mrchiaow Thanks a bunch for pointing me at the right direction back there, just got my mod up and running!
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3372745683

If I want to build a new ship but use the same ship model, what should I do?

@Frankly Frankly - That target was bouncing, or the Type 21? The 20mms do pack a punch! I haven't altered anything in the 20mm ammunition file, so it should be the same behaviour as for other boats equipped with them. Any update Triassic make to the vanilla files should be reflected in this mod automatically (I tried to write the modded files to have a few changes as possible)

The 20mm rounds seem to have janky physics when targeting ships. I had it fire at a ship and when it was scoring hits, the ship was bouncing back and forth like it was being punched about in the waves. Not tiny bounces, like near enough capsizing

@OT-Yuzuru[TW] No special software was used - the entire model was created by editing existing .ini files to import different models. The only "new" thing was to re-purpose ASROC launcher boxes into the Exocet missile launchers (sadly the ones on the Tiger fast attack craft are hard modelled onto the boat and can't be added to other ships).

It's not very hard to do, once you've worked out the logic behind the file structure. There is a very helpful discord server which helped me along with this: https://discord.com/channels/681523353651249174/827210176397836300/1307354902992781322

@WilliamTooke78 - thanks for the heads up, I'll take a look. It may be to do with how the Oerlikon's are coded in the base game though. I could certainly get them to engage boat targets during my testing.

@Brother Munro - I'll PM you.

@Nick Nape'em - Certainly - the only issue is choosing which ship model to use as the base. The type 42 is quite a distinctive profile and I feel this "type 21" has already taken some liberties!

@rokvam - agreed. That's a feature of the base model hanger being too small unfortunately. Given the Iranian frigate didn't have a flight deck, presumably the "hanger" wasn't designed to store aircraft?

I couldn't get the 20mm guns to fire even with helicopters at close rage it just says aliening with target for ageist.

Well now, here is a like minded individual! Would you be interested in a collaboration at all?

May I ask what software/tool you used and steps you did to do modification on ships to create a new asset?
I would like to try to do some mods but I'm not really familiar with model modding.

is a type 42 a possibility?

Very based

I like it, but it is dissapointing the helo glitches (graphically) when you move it from hangar to flight deck. Let's hope the Falklands DLC i have heard mentioned, will give us the Westland Wasp or the Lynx.

sorted , thanks

@tw53 are you under 6 nm from the target? If so, you're within minimum range.

also doesnt do your orders, missiles the mm38 but will engage with 4,5 inch gun happily

@tw53 Which missiles, the MM38 or Seacat? Seacat requires an aerial target to fire

nice, but wouldnt fire missiles