38 Gun Frigate L`Aurore

axeonalias

More work on the Textures, The exterior is pretty much ready apart from the figurehead and the gunport textures, struggeling to get the same Yellow.
Dropped the Exterior AO by 20% as the ship did look abit Dark in game.

Still have to hang the Lanterns and Firebuckets, along with making the Furled sails.

irwanwr

i love the ship
feels like i'm going to jump into the screen
have you ever made a tutorial on making the hull somewhere, Marius?

axeonalias

Thanks irwanwr, I think I did ages ago but I cant remember, are you needing some help?

Added the Furled sails and Fixed some more textures, Found out that the Upper Deadeyes where "accidently" Deleted 2 weeks ago, Lucky I have a different version saved everyday so I could go and find them

boofredlay

Amazing work.

irwanwr

@unknownuser said:

Thanks irwanwr, I think I did ages ago but I cant remember, are you needing some help?

well, i might interested to learn and to make small sailing ships after seeing your gorgeous models say, something like a sloop or schooner. perhaps a royal sloop

PS: i saved the first image from the post above . that might be a good calming wallpaper to have on the desktop

axeonalias

Great, well find something you like and we can take it from there.
Launches are complete and fully functioning, Masts and rigging can be removed, Last pic shows how they can be removed from the ship as well.

irwanwr

where can you find the blueprint or sort of that for the ship, Marius?

axeonalias

Well Ive found most of mine online, and a few others Ive found and scanned original drawings ( more recent ships ) at museums and clubs. Hobby kits usually have good drawings as well.

A Sloop like this perhaps?

Flags and Figurehead added, the figurehead needs some work, but ill get that done soon, at least the exterior was finnished this year

tadema

Another beauty Marius your work always speaks for itself.
John

irwanwr

awesome
yes, i found that sloop image too with google last night. looks like one of those you could see in Sid Meier's Pirates game

axeonalias

Thanks Guys, irwanwr I know just the set of plans you need, ill look for them as soon as I get back next year.

Added Some furnishings to the Gun deck, did some renders and switched the pc off, Goodbye 2011 have a great one guys!

pbacot

Just awesome. Great presentations.

I had no idea those ships packed so much iron on one deck!

Thanks for the posts, Axe and Happy New Year!

Peter

irwanwr

thank you Marius. i love every works you've shown here (boats and ships, especially )

happy new year everyone

Armstrong

Simply stunning work! Out of curiosity, what game are you building her for that can handle that amount of detail? I have built 3 ships from this era myself, a 20 gun american schooner, a 22 gun french corvette, and a 40 gun french frigate, all built from plans of real ships. They are intended for this mod for the original pirates of the carribean game http://www.moddb.com/mods/new-horizons though unfortunately im struggling with learning texturing and whatnot, but ill see them sail yet. anyways, enough about that, if you are at all interested L'Aurore would make an excellent addition to the mod, though much of the rigging detail would need to be cut down to make the ship manageable(The lag would be terrible otherwise)

Oh and as far as plans for new ships go, I would recommend checking out the National Maritime Museum in London's ship plans collection. http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections.html#csearch;searchTerm=*;authority=true;collectionGroup=subject-90352;collection=subject-90352
It includes ships from nations other than England as well, and is really an inexhastable rescource, there must be thousands of plans to choose from

irwanwr

@armstrong said:

They are intended for this mod for the original pirates of the carribean game http://www.moddb.com/mods/new-horizons though...

interesting. what kind of game is that?

@unknownuser said:

Oh and as far as plans for new ships go, I would recommend checking out the National Maritime Museum in London's ship plans collection. http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections.html#csearch;searchTerm=*;authority=true;collectionGroup=subject-90352;collection=subject-90352
It includes ships from nations other than England as well

Armstrong

It is a PC game, a single-player RPG to be specific, released by Akella in 2003. somehow people have kept modding it since then, so a ton of improvements and new content have accumulated over time.

irwanwr

i see. thank you for the info.
thought that kind of game was only made by Disney in Pirate of Caribbean.
or, did i just say the same game here? Akella or Disney?
2.2 GB of download

Armstrong

Well Disney was Involved, but the game was meant to be the sequel to seadogs and was taken over by Diseny at the last minute and they addded in some POTC realted stuff so the title would attract buyers. It is still a solid game though, but is improved alot by the mod. 2.2 GB is a fair bit, but if its worth it in my opinion (of course you need to have the POTC game already) Anyways I dont want to take this thread off topic.

axeonalias

Thanks Guys, @ Armstrong , to build a ship you will need abit more than what is provided on that site, for this ship I have over 100 seperate Drawings. the Less drawings ,the more guesswork and yes my cousin has been trying to get me to import my mods into the Pirates of the Carribbean game for some time now, But Vehicle simulator Framework just looks so much better, even though it doesnt support Ropes or moving sails, its far more realistic.

The Rigging isnt really poly heavy, its the guns that are the killer, they are around 30k and right now im getting 40fps in open sea so im happy

Gundeck at Quarters complete and in game, Windows done along with Stern Windows that can be opened and Closed.