New Horizons port to Maelstrom engine

Port of the amazing New Horizons (NH) mod for Pirates of the Caribbean (PotC) to the awesome Maelstrom engine.

This repository contains only the text files that make up the NH mod port to Maelstrom for the rest of the files, please download the main mod https://chezjfrey.itch.io/new-horizons

New Horizons

The amazing New Horizons mod has been developed as a labor of love for more than a decade. It adds many beautiful ship models to PotC, quests, storylines, and more. It doesn't require you to own the original game and can be downloaded here: New Horizons at ModDB.

For questions, help, walkthroughs, etc. Please go to the Pirates Ahoy forum or join the Pirates Ahoy Discord Server

Maelstrom Engine

Unfortunately the old PotC engine has not aged well and requires effort to run in modern machines and OS. The maelstrom engine is a significantly improved engine that enables a host of improvements. It can run mods from the different Akela games, including this port.

The Maelstrom engine can be purchased here: Itch.io Maelstrom engine store page

You can see more information about how to run ported Maelstrom mods in this Maelstrom Engine installation guide - YouTube

For questions and help regarding the Maelstrom engine, please join the Bucaneers' Reef Discord Server

Modding tools to work with this repository

We recommend Visual Studio Code (VSCode) to develop using this repository. It will make it much easier to edit code, see changes, compare files, and interact with the git repository:

If you install Visual Studio Code, and the required extensions mentioned below, you will be set. It is an amazing free and open-source tool that has a very vibrant community and thousands of amazing extensions. In order to use the full functionality you need a github account.

1. Download and install Git for Windows: https://gitforwindows.org/

2. Download and install Visual Studio Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/

3. Once VSCode is installed, install the following extensions (clicking on the install button will open the extension in VSCode):

   1. Visual Intellicode for debugging
   2. C/C++ Extension Pack
   3. C/C++ Intellisense
   4. C.C++ Themes
   5. GitLense. Git versioning elevated.

4. If you want to add some pretty cool quality of life extensions, we recommend these:

   1. Braket pair colorizer. You never knew you needed it so badly.
   2. Better Comments. Like bracket pair colorizer, but for comments.
   3. Vscode Icons. To make everything beautiful.
   4. Better align. Make everything align perfectly.