Hopper Dredger "Crane"

designerstuart

excellent to see a true fanatic every step of his crazy path - thanks for sharing this is wonderful stuff. do you apply basic colour to elements (like buttons, console etc) in sketchup, before detailing it with the render software?

axeonalias

Everything is done in Sketchup,only the renders and baking are done in max:

designerstuart

wow! then in a funny way your work is even more amazing! all those special textures must take ages to apply.

bupaje

Wow, amazing.

Maybe in the future we will have live tracking of ships via GPS so we can watch your ship models moving on Google Earth.

axeonalias

Thanks, Sketchup is by far the fastest at applying textures than any other modeling program i have ever seen,although this did take a while as there are 201 materials on the bridge alone
More details added on the bridge and a new helm modeled. Almost done here I guess,will still need to polish some areas and add some of the chairs, oh and all the fittings that sit on the ceiling.

Just noticed my reflection in one of the textures...Noob!

axeonalias

Chairs in and fine textures seperated,although you cannot see it all the textures that will need to retain resolution in bake have been seperated so that when it comes to baking it will have its own texture and you will (hopefully) still be able to read everything written on the instruments.

Heres a photo of the real interior vs the current model ( I didnt quite get the angle on this render but ill get it when everything has been added :

john.warburton

@bupaje said:

Wow, amazing.

Maybe in the future we will have live tracking of ships via GPS so we can watch your ship models moving on Google Earth.

Not Google Earth, but....

http://www.shipais.com/currentmap.php?map=uk

designerstuart

amazing - thanks for taking time to explain

axeonalias

Well here is a shot of the final lighting setup, the rudder indicator is missing here but it is modeled,had to create a special texture for it, was quite a challange,ill get a post up for it soon

axeonalias

And heres the Final product in game : (Still need to add the instruments)

axeonalias

Getting there...Still need to render the new texture for the Wheel and get the throttles in,oh and of course the doors. But after adding the working bits and our renowned skipper,I thought Id show and tell.

jason_maranto

Looks great!

axeonalias

Thanks Jason, And heres another Angle with the new helm and doors :

bupaje

This is awesome work. You may have answered this before but I'm new - so what game is this in?

axeonalias

Thanks Bupaje, heres the link :
http://www.hangsim.com/vsf/

axeonalias

Work on the Model has finally begun,I decided on a scale of 1:40 which brings her overall length to 1.33m. The Hull Blueprints which where made in Sketchup from the Original Drawings, where printed onto a A0 page and Stuck onto a 1.8m x 1.0m .6mm Sheet of Plywood using woodglue,and then painfully cut out using a jigsaw cutter :