AnchorImprovements

Anchor Improvements

Features

• Anchors can now be picked up and set (or thrown) by hand
• Anchor winches now slow under tension like other winches
• Resizes the anchor and winch on the brig (this is purely visual, I thought they were too small)
• Adds text to winch showing how much rope is currently out.
• Fixes anchors rolling away downhill.
• Anchor winches to behave the same on all ships.
• Anchors can now set again after being pulled loose, instead of staying loose until lifted and dropped again.
• Anchor position and rope length are now saved across reloads

Options

• Simple physics
• Anchor will stay set unless overpowered until boat is within 45 degrees of it, instead of releasing as soon as you start winching.
• Anchor rope is now slightly stretchy to reduce the chance of jolts breaking the anchor loose.
• Normal Sailwind rope length (50 yards).

• Complex Physics
• Holding power is now based on scope (angle from anchor to ship), resulting in more holding power at low angles and less at steep angles.
• Extended rope to allow for realistic scope (150 yards).
• Rope stretches more at low angles and long distances to imitate real scope.
• Changed how anchor setting works. Anchor now sets more quickly when pulled than when stationary (it will still set with a slack line, just more slowly).