Realistic (E3) Sailing

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This mod aims at bringing (in limits) realistic sailing mechanics to the game. You can no longer accelerate and decelerate the boat manually, instead the boat will go and stop automatically depending on the position of the boat and the correct angle of the sail to the wind.

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HOW THE MOD WORKS

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- The mod is off by default. To enable it, open the mod menu.

- Use Q when on the boat to enter realistic sailing mode. (Remap key with default menu)

- Forward and back movement keys are changed to 'sheet sail in' (default on S) and 'sheet sail out' (default on W).

- The Boat-Health HUD module is changed to reflect the position of the wind relative to the boat. Make sure you have the Boat health HUD enabled!

- Adds the option to use the ingame wind to sail.

What do I mean by realistic sailing?

Basically this: The speed (and the possibility) of sailing is dependent on the direction of the wind, the position of the boat and the position of the sail on the boat.

In reality, square-rigged boats like the vanilla boat (yes, unlike the E3 preview) would sail like a raft, i.e. be hard to maneuver and would only make real progress when the wind is behind you.

Modern boats (and some ancient ones, like Egyptian Lateen-Riggs or Norman Longships) are more maneuverable, but only up to a certain degree. If you look at the picture below, there is a no-go area around the direction of where the wind comes from, in which you can’t directly sail. There is no way around that, to make headway into this direction, you have to zig-zag, sailing ‘close-hauled’ (B in the picture) on one side, and after some time, cross over to the other.

In in the mod: The sail automatically moves if you leave it loose, or turn the boat as it should be. Otherwise, you have to sheet i