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English forum => Vessel Design Group general => Development corner => Active Projects => Topic started by: llamalord on February 20, 2008, 16:08:56

Title: PRIVATEER IV
Post by: llamalord on February 20, 2008, 16:08:56

Well I'm working on 4 boats right now. :o

And heres the one I'm the least far into at the moment...

It's a Whale Watch Boat that leaves out of a town near Boston MA
It's owned by the "7 SEAS WHALE  WATCH" company

I'll post model pictures in a while so let me know what ya think

 -The Lord of the Llamas

^{Pictures from www.7seas-whalewatch.com (http://www.7seas-whalewatch.com)}

Title: Re: PRIVATEER IV
Post by: Mad_Fred on February 20, 2008, 16:46:57

Heya Ruler of Llamas!  :)

Looks like an interesting project, it's a nice boat. I guess someone needs to model a whale too then.  ;D

Are you planning to release these for VS or something, btw?

Regards
Fred

Title: Re: PRIVATEER IV
Post by: llamalord on February 20, 2008, 17:00:06

Thanks and Yes Fred.

I test all my vessels in Virtual Sailor First before I do any thing :)

AND The first Pictures

Title: Re: PRIVATEER IV
Post by: Mad_Fred on February 20, 2008, 17:34:31

Great base you got there. Good job!

But err... I don't understand.. how can you test a vessel in VS before you do anything..
You at least have to create it first.. right??   :P  ;D

Do you make your hulls in sketchup, or do you use something like delftship?
I find that particular piece of software very handy. Not that I do much modeling or anything.. Too much other things to do unfortunatly, but I play around with it a bit now and again. And with GMAX a little bit.


Fred

Title: Re: PRIVATEER IV
Post by: llamalord on February 20, 2008, 19:24:29

You know what I mean... ::)
Before I do anything like putting it up for download for VS

This hull was done in sketchup
 
I do others in DEFTSHIP and GMAX but not much in GMAX because I can't find my REG key :P

Title: Re: PRIVATEER IV
Post by: Mad_Fred on February 20, 2008, 19:27:26

Very nice.

I find hulls in Sketchup rather difficult. But as I said, I am a novice with very little practise.

GMAX doesn't need a key does it? I just grabbed a free one from their site some weeks ago. Or do you have a professional version? (I'm not up to date about all those programs either, as you notice)   ;D


Fred

Title: Re: PRIVATEER IV
Post by: llamalord on February 20, 2008, 19:34:58

I have NO CLUE what I have I just know that I need a key and I don't have a key. :P

And here is how I do my hulls...    It's a lot of work :(

Title: Re: PRIVATEER IV
Post by: Mad_Fred on February 20, 2008, 19:48:00

Ah yeah, I had a go with something like that too. Indeed a lot of work. I didn't have the time to really get into it though.

I gave it up after a bit and used delftship indeed. (just some standard demo hull with an hour of personal editing)  :)

Title: Re: PRIVATEER IV
Post by: llamalord on February 20, 2008, 19:50:36

Thats nice...

Which one are you Fred, Fred, Fred, or Fred  ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: PRIVATEER IV
Post by: Mad_Fred on February 20, 2008, 19:51:43

I'm Fred. Not Fred... Or am I?


 ::)

Title: Re: PRIVATEER IV
Post by: llamalord on February 20, 2008, 19:56:19

Do you have a good way to import DELFTSHIP hulls in to GSU

I have to work through lots of programs

Title: Re: PRIVATEER IV
Post by: Mad_Fred on February 20, 2008, 20:08:05

No idea, I only used one or two Delftship hulls with the sketchup pro demo.  :)

As I said, I have only scratched the surface a bit and tried one or two things. Just so I know what it was like.  ;D

Regards,
Fred 1.0

Title: Re: PRIVATEER IV
Post by: lusitania on February 22, 2008, 20:56:34

the hull and the bow, I find, is the easiest part of every ship. But I cannot realy explain how to do it... Kuz I dunno how you guys do your keels on your KetchUp ships.

Title: Re: PRIVATEER IV
Post by: Mad_Fred on February 22, 2008, 21:15:57

The hull is the hardest part actually, but we're talking about real hulls here, not square pointy boxes with a flat bottom.  ;D

Title: Re: PRIVATEER IV
Post by: TerryRussell on February 22, 2008, 21:34:00

Quote from: lusitania on February 22, 2008, 20:56:34

the hull and the bow, I find, is the easiest part of every ship. But I cannot realy explain how to do it... Kuz I dunno how you guys do your keels on your KetchUp ships.

How many have you made then, Lucytania?

Is there somewhere you post your good ones? I'd love to see them.

I'm assuming that with only 15 posts by you, all made within the past few hours, that you have'nt actually posted any here. or did you do that under another name?

Title: Re: PRIVATEER IV
Post by: JHB on February 23, 2008, 09:02:09

Maybe the experienced Ketshup users can help you out. For me personally the hull is the most difficult part of the whole ship to design, especially bulbous bow with smooth lines. ;)

(The bow below is the result after one day of work starting with a cylinder in 3ds Max)

Title: Re: PRIVATEER IV
Post by: Mad_Fred on February 23, 2008, 11:51:30

Very nice JHB!   :)

Title: Re: PRIVATEER IV
Post by: J3nsen on February 23, 2008, 13:38:47

Here is my sketchup hull, on santa isadora, took me 2days!  >:( And it still not perfect!  :-\ Shold learn me 3D Studio!

(http://i32.tinypic.com/rwkynn.jpg)

Title: Re: PRIVATEER IV
Post by: llamalord on February 23, 2008, 20:28:04

Man, It looks great to me.  :-\

Title: Re: PRIVATEER IV
Post by: Jackobaker53 on February 27, 2008, 23:30:42

how do you people make boats out of triangles and squares :D its incredible and m hoping to see a few of these ships on the game, and making that is sketchup! i never knew it could make stuff like that hull :S. Great work J3ensen