That was an idea I had when I was working on a US vehicle set. I was planning three sets of sprites for some vehicles: realistic (for the cargo type), 2CC, and a livery refit that would give some variety. For example, a bus might have a realistic paint scheme, a 2cc version, and a school bus version for variety. A truck could have a refit to realistic, 2CC and a snowplow, etc.
If ships can have a livery refit, then you could have a set of submarine sprites for the oil tanker, a set of warship sprites for the cargo ship, a set of coastguard cutter sprites for the fast ferry, etc. They would still work exactly the same, but would break up those endless parades of identical ships.
blackjak231 wrote:Beautiful work!!! i love all of them all!
But (i know its gonna sound noobish..

), when are we going to be able to get a grf file with all of those boats?
and here i another boat you should try to make:
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2006/12 ... art-1.html
It will probably be very big!!!!!!
Also, somebody should try to do a submarine... the idea would be to just have a shadow drwan instead of a boat when its moving and when it stops, it comes out of the water....