HMS Ontario

aliceyu

Brilliant Job!!!

Love it!

axeonalias

I Have about hmmm,over 1000 Drawings that are 10k pixels by 8k,some ships have up to 12 drawings but others can be simple,there's very little guess work involved and the beauty comes off the drawings really,Having some background knowledge does of course help in other areas were things are hidden.
HMS Leopard being a perfect example,The Stern Castle (Back Raised area) has a galley (a walkable opening) and is not flat at all,but looking at all the views on the prints there is no indication of this,I only picked it up on a Artist painting Of Leopard from that time period,so who knows what else ive misinterpreted.
Ive modeled many other ships that did not reach completion stage due to serious difficulty reading the drawings.

bubbalove

Awesome stuff... would it be possible to get some close ups so we can truly appreciate you work?

axeonalias

Google is a great source if you know what your looking for,some you get some you dont with regards to drawings.
Close ups as requested :

Note : these are all in game shots at about 50fps,this current engine does not support self cast shadows,but the new one soon to be release has shadows,does wonders for tall ships

Ross Macintosh

Wow! Great work Marius. You clearly enjoy building the models. I hope you also enjoy sailing them in your simulator! I can imagine that is fun. Is there any way you can make a little movie to show what it is like?

I've sent a link to this thread to a friend on the Google SketchUp team. I'm sure they'll enjoy seeing how you are using SketchUp.

Regards, Ross

axeonalias

http://www.dats.co.za/axe/Complete/Movie.wmv

Finnaly learned how to make these,took 7 hours to render the 500 +- frames at 15fps

This file is 4mb at very reduced quality,the original is 450mb Avi,looks good but yea...

EddyNL

Cool animation! Did you use VirtualDub?
Nice to see that not only building can be modeled in SketchUp.
I like your ships, great models!

Regards, Ward

axeonalias

@unknownuser said:

Did you use VirtualDub?

Indeed so,a Tutorial on KT animations shaved hours off "figure it out" time

Thx glad you like them,now to get them to move and have material sails...maybe some ppl walking around and doing stuff.

Gaieus

Hi Marius,

Great video (ehm... for a great render of course a great model is the first step so that should've gone first).

I can imagine the difference in quality due to this compression so just can pity that we cannot see.

As for open sails, I'd suggest Soap Skin and Bubble if you haven't know it yet. Some great effets can be achieved like in the images here.

axeonalias

Thx Gaieus,Ive always used SSB for making my sails,I make them as low poly as possible,the simulator has fps problems if they are to high when switching from port tack models to starboard.But what i need is to be able to add wind and a material to have a moving animation,similar to what can be easily done in Maya.

And of course real water would be nice and a moving ship,but I think I might need a FX department for that

Gaieus

Ah,yeah,as now I read the whole thread back again, you already mentioned SSB.

How big is your SU model (polygon wise as well as file size) now? I would always wonder to which point it is still easily navigable and manageable in SU.

Also, how do you actually start a model like this? I see that you have drawings but then you draw polylines from section to section or what? I guess the basis is the hull always.

axeonalias

The SU file is about 14mb and poly count 57,000 ,not hard to navigate in SU at all
heres the WIP thread http://hangsim.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=620

Here is Leopard,I did this thread from the very start to finish :
http://hangsim.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=451

Gaieus

Thanks, very interesting reading (images)!

Gaieus

That link seems to be broken (gives a 404 error to me), Mannie.

Mannie

Those are great ships. I was on a 14 day trip on "De eendracht" when i was 16. http://flickr.com/photos/renerotterdam/480433851/

Mannie

Oops, edited the link, now it works

Roger

IS it just me or are you fixated on vessels with long bowsprits? I am far from an expert but the vessels you have rendered seem to have some extreme sail plans.

axeonalias

Rodger I am not sure what you mean by "extreme" sail plan?many sails?Sail area? Sail to hull ratio?
Ither or I do love these ships and Hope to get Employment on one some day,but for now modeling them is great!

Ive started HMS Bellona 74 two days ago and thought you guys would like to see how it is done in a WIP thread,maybe Ill just hack this one

There are still many flaws and tweaking takes loads of time,and this being the biggest ship ive done to date,it should take even longer.

kwistenbiebel

Wow! Great modeling , Marius.
Congrats.
I really like the renders, even without the bump.
They haven't got that typical Kerkythea look.
Very nice!

Frederik

@kwistenbiebel said:

They haven't got that typical Kerkythea look.

Chris... I respect your talent a lot, but a comment like that is just ...
You of all can make any render look almost identical with your tonemapping, regardless of the application you've used, so I'm really not sure what you mean...

There's a saying...

@unknownuser said:

people who live in glass houses should not throw stones...

Please leave out such lame comments...