Schooner "Lettie G. Howard" 1893

axeonalias

Aye you knows how these schooner captains can be!

Completed the dory this evening, still need to cover them in tarp and tie them down, add their sailing gear and fittings, they will be separate functioning vessels in game

Mike Amos

This thread is a proper education, thank you.

axeonalias

Always glad to serve!

Spent some time messing about with materials, managed to find a quick way to correct the wood grain in the UV mapping so that it follows the bend as naturally would

ntxdave

This whole thing is just unbelievable!

axeonalias

Thanks nxtdave, after adding details the best part is doing these renders and seeing how its growing.

Dory almost done, just a few more odds and ends, a bucket or two and maybe a fresh Halibut?

Bryan K

axeonalias

And the Dory is done, its a single 4k material, ive shown the wireframe and UV map, was trying to achieve a dirty old well used grand banks dory.

Gus R

Great work!

I have a couple of questions:

What UV tool do you use? WrapR?
Do you eyeball the modeling, use plans or a combination of the two?
In general, how do you integrate Blender and SU with your work at Artstation?

Thanks.

Mike Amos

I have to learn that, looks very effective.

axeonalias

@gus r said:

Great work!

I have a couple of questions:

What UV tool do you use? WrapR?

Do you eyeball the modeling, use plans or a combination of the two?

In general, how do you integrate Blender and SU with your work at Artstation?

Thanks.

Hi Gus R, I use Blender for UV mapping, and no eyeballing here! all to plan, and if I cant find plans I carefully study photos using perspective matching to get measurements ( like the mast for the Dory )
Export from SU into blender and bobs your uncle

Mike that stage is the pudding

axeonalias

Dory done and dusted. The mast, oars, sail and rudder are all separate models so that they can be removed depending on what task you are doing in game, some models that would be used together share the same material.

axeonalias

Dory implemented, was a good refresher, its been a long time since I have made content for vsng!

Now back to the mothership!

axeonalias

Work continues on Lettie G Howard, new items include the charlie noble, her starboard anchor, new furled sails & Temp Nav lights, im still deciding how many props (if any) I want along the decks since these are not possible to move in game. Next the eagle figurehead needs to be done!

As for the Dory`s ive been searching all over to see if they were covered with Tarp when not in use, I have not been able to find a single image with tarp, so for now, they stay open!

alvis

axeonalias

Sails are up! the fishermans sail will unfortunately not be able to work in game as it is fixed to 2 axis and deforms by nature, the sim does not support this and it would look very strange if it rotated on either of the 2 axis.