The road ahead after the latest Simupdate...
First up will be a small extension with native models some time in August... It will be a new download which can be used together or without the Global AI Ship Traffic main package, However apart from adding new ships it will also come with effects attached 😃
In order to move the more than 1300 models of Global AI Ship Traffic to native format it is as previously mentioned a time consuming process, and I can't mix native and non native models in one package, so I either I wait until all are upgraded and relaunch or I create a new native package and start expanding that one...
I have chosen the later, so what will happen is that little by little the extension which will be launched in August will be upgraded receiving sister ships of those included in the main package but converted to native format and with effects added. Once all models are converted the Global AI Ship Traffic will be relaunched in native format - and there will be somewhere well above 2000 different ships in the package...
To start up what will be launched in August will be:
* 5 models of Staten Islands ferries Alice Austen, John A. Noble, SSG Michael H.Ollis, Dorothy Day, and Sandy Ground
* A number of other small passenger ferries and tugs for New York
* 3 new Stena Line ferries for the Irish Sea between UK and Ireland
* 2 new Brittany Ferries models serving routes between France, Spain and the UK
* The newest DFDS ferry Cote d'Opale serving Dover-Calais
* 5-6 new LNG carriers
* A couple of new yachts
* A large number of container ships, bulk carriers and other ships carried over from Global AI Ship Traffic - these will be sister ships put on new routes.
* Finally I am discussing a number of new models with some of the long term partners of Global AI Ship Traffic