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USF Confederacy in 3D | Blender
Martes replied to 3DShipWright's topic in CAD and 3D Modelling/Drafting Plans with Software
Exactly like it's neighbour to the right. You missed the diagonal estain - if I remember the name correctly - under it though. The transom pieces do not go into the vertical pair, but rather connected to it and supported by vertical frames from below (at least in French contemporary methods, without cant frames aft). Otherwise it is even more complicated- 105 replies
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Indy is a popular ship, after all
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Most of the stern decorations are, in fact, renderings of 3d objects, including counter rails and window frames, and others are taken either from photos or plans and recolored. The only curves I draw by hand are the boundaries of the sternboard and the taffrail. Ironically, I replaced the glass texture with solid fill at some point, though, because it looked better at this resolution and was easier to reproduce on the hull texture, which is even more compressed - the sterns are usually 256 x 128 pixels for frigates or 256 x 256 for two-deckers, and the frigate hulls until very recently were only 512 x 256. I shifted to 1024 x 256 on the new 74 and razee series and since the game handles them well, will be updating at least the larger frigates gradually, but it all takes time.
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@The Art of Age of Sail, I was looking for materials about the Indefatigable around 2017 and your reconstruction was almost the first I encountered then, so I clearly remember it. I think the model in Naval Action/Ultimate Admiral computer games is also based on your project.
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The kit appears to be based on a reconstruction that had been around since at least in 2017, when I found it, probably done even earlier.
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Now that I have a razee-74 short, I did a razee-74 stretch: The 180 ft hull fitted with Symonds-style elliptical stern with classic quarter galleries and elegantly raked aft, based on the plans of the Warspite rebuild of 1840. The texture is not completely finalized and polished at places (you will probably notice that some details are still missing or not completely fitted), but the model already conveys the appearance of the ship.
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It took several additional iterations to get the head rails angles right and in the same style as other models, and finally the small ships are ready: The bomb vessel And the corvette At the same time, I changed the shading of the upper deck gunports on the two-decker razee: and shifted the first armed gun port on the frigate variant slightly forward: The last one was a difficult decision, since some ships had the port shifted from it's original position on the 74 and some hadn't. But it just looks better.
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USF Confederacy in 3D | Blender
Martes replied to 3DShipWright's topic in CAD and 3D Modelling/Drafting Plans with Software
There is this advantage in low-detail models and especially rigs. But something went wrong with the attachment. I see it in the gallery on the main page, and the correct link to image is this:- 105 replies
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USF Confederacy in 3D | Blender
Martes replied to 3DShipWright's topic in CAD and 3D Modelling/Drafting Plans with Software
I can suppose that many differences (the flat gratings?) are a trace of mercantile shipbuilding and handling practices. There was an interesting quote in a book about HMS Resolute, that one local newspaper wrote that when the ship was brought into American harbour it was percieved with much interest, because everything was not like in the States.- 105 replies
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USF Confederacy in 3D | Blender
Martes replied to 3DShipWright's topic in CAD and 3D Modelling/Drafting Plans with Software
Went to check the plan, and yes, you're right, they are there. Those crazy colonial shipbuilders!- 105 replies
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USF Confederacy in 3D | Blender
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The hatches should be (somewhat) curved upwards and edges chamfered a little: And I am very puzzled about those wells around the masts. They kind of shouldn't be there.- 105 replies
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@Jsk, I know of Virtual Sailor (and it's successor Vehicle Simulator), but in a sense I think all those projects are a dead end. A couple of years ago I did experiment a little with Unity - check these posts and several down: https://modelshipworld.com/topic/20250-age-of-sail-2-3d-ship-models-for-pc-wargame/?do=findComment&comment=745551 https://modelshipworld.com/topic/20250-age-of-sail-2-3d-ship-models-for-pc-wargame/?do=findComment&comment=746608 And it's much more convenient. Ceto, the ocean and floating system, is open source, GIS import is almost native, lots of things there are done already and quite easy to integrate, the scripting concepts are relatively simple, I lack only one thing - time. It's kind of either models or coding. As I said sometimes, what interests me besides the tactical layer, is a ship as a mechanical system, not a representation as a single object. And that means flexible multi-part rigging, cables, boats, anchors, etc. By the way, if you haven't already, take a look at the Painted Ocean: https://thapen.itch.io/painted-ocean
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Thanks! Oh, I can rant for hours how they ruined the Ultimate Admiral: Age of Sail (which was the closest in concept), and why it is bad, but it won't help. Drop the AAA, I really need one or two people familiar enough with Unity and with some time on their hands to make it into something working (sigh). It would still look good and feel real. Even simple anti-aliasing with 1080p resolution, as on the last screenshots, does wonders.
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My latest ship is, as in the case with variants of cutting the 74, not exact representation of a specific ship, but rather an implementation of a design concept, with the result being something between the Pyramus and the Hyperion. I have taken the hull of the Belle Poule and subjected it to the same 'anglicizing' procedure that turned the Magicienne into Hyperion, reducing the tumblehome and replacing the stern, but, contrary to the Pyramus, I did not change the layout of the forecastle, so both ships share practically the same profile, and only the breadth of the upperworks betraying the difference. Ironically, even the reduction of tumblehome was framed as "combine the topsides of La Nymphe with underwater lines of the La Belle Poule" when these projects were concieved. What I got is a compact 36-gun frigate, slightly wall-sided, relatively shallow and a bit cramped. They were said to be fast but leewardly, and had less stowage capacity for long voyages, but despite a lot of complaints about those ships, their post-war careers - both for Pyramus and Hyperion - were surprisingly active and spanned well into 1830s.
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USF Confederacy in 3D | Blender
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A stunning beauty!- 105 replies
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If I am not mistaken, the design of the decorations in France was independent of the design of the ship and it is possible that Beren never saw the ship's building plan when he made his sketches and was not aware of the exact angles of the wales. We can never know. On the other hand the builder, probably, had a relatively free hand at implementing the design when mounting the decorations on the hull, and could change sizes and angles of details to fit the ship at hand. We can compare (keeping in mind that the ship was substantially rebuilt before she was captured) the decorations design for Le Ferme and the English lines as taken off. The angles are very different.
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There are several examples of a similar style of stern on a contemporary models - but all of them belong to a somewhat later period (click for large version of each image). 1. Le Tonnant at Rochefort Museum 2. Le Magnanime at RMG: https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-66430 And three depictions of L'Invincible: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Invincible_74_guns_commanded_by_Sir_John_Bentley_Kt_in_the_years_1749-1752_RMG_PU8491.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To_the_Honble_Peter_Warren...This_plate_is_most_humbly_Dedicated...An_Exact_View_of_his_Majesty's_ship_Invincible,_of_74_Guns,_one_of_the_six_French_men_of_war_taken_the_3rd_May_1747_by_the_British_Fleet..._RMG_PZ5887.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Invincible_French_Ship_of_War_mounting_74_Guns,_Captured_from_France,_May_3d_1747,_by_Vice_Admiral_Anson_and_Rear_Admiral_Vernon_RMG_PW7937.tiff All of them seem to show a straight cut through the gallery, and what effect firing a gun would have on the surrounding structure can only be guessed.
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