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Old 11-30-22, 05:03 PM   #1
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Old 12-01-22, 05:30 AM   #2
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1. What softwares are you using to create these beautiful models and textures ? They are amazing !

2. And how did you learn to use them so well ? Is it by self-directed learning, or did you go to a special school ?

3. I taught myself to model with Wings3D, but I have the feeling that it's far from being the best software (the process is very slow).

4. And the texturization step is still very hard for me. I have no idea how to create textures, and how to apply them to a complexe model...

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Old 12-01-22, 11:59 AM   #3
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...What softwares are you using to create these beautiful models and textures ?...
3Dcoat and photoshop. I study them on my own.

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You flatter me. My skills as an painter are far from ideal.
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Old 12-01-22, 04:09 PM   #4
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Well Alex, for what it is worth, you have my admiration.


Great stuff!
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Old 12-01-22, 07:51 PM   #5
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Wow; these are some of the best ships (if not the best) ever added to Silent Hunter 3. Proportions are good, with lots of small deck features that the original models missed.

I also like that you have the cargo booms positioned correctly for a ship at sea. My pet peeve with merchant ships is that many modelers - even the modelers for professional companies - get this detail wrong....it is a mistake I used to make with my models, until I read testimony from a surviving WWII convoy veteran.

Derricks/booms were usually lashed fully up or fully down when a cargo ship sailed - not poking out in all directions. Leaving them partway down (like many people model) would damage the deckhouse/fixtures in a storm.

Wonderful work, and I look forward to more!
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Old 12-02-22, 01:57 AM   #6
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3Dcoat

I didn't know until now. But the price for 3Dcoat is ok.
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Old 12-02-22, 02:48 AM   #7
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My favorite ships are Sunrise & Rickmers, and Goldenfeld

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Old 12-02-22, 04:00 AM   #8
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Well Alex, for what it is worth, you have my admiration.

Great stuff!

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...not poking out in all directions...
It pisses me off.

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I didn't know until now. But the price for 3Dcoat is ok.
I use 3dcoatTextura (To be precise)

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Good choice.
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Old 01-17-23, 09:15 PM   #9
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Tirpitz, Scharnhorst, USS Washington BB-56, USS Clemson, USS Northampton CA-26, USS TEXAS BB-35, and USS Enterprise CV-6
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Old 01-18-23, 05:08 PM   #10
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Tough choice, there are so many beautiful ships. But, one I'd really like to see in SH one day is Agryllshire/Shropshire - huge and old-fashioned, with forest of cranes on top of liner-like hull:

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