Repairing the Boussolle

[Pieter Boelen]

What's wrong with those ships? Well, the stern on that last screenshot looks like it lost the smoothing groups...

 

[helldiver]

What's wrong with those ships? Well, the stern on that last screenshot looks like it lost the smoothing groups...

The geometry doesn't flow correctly. Note the hard chisel-like gauges near the stern. I explain it in my tutorial somewhat, how to avoid that. It has to do with modelling the ship using splines that follow the deck top-view layout of a ship plan instead of the strake guides.

Ship hull geometry should loosely follow the strakes of a real ship. Its glaring when you have wale stripes and you see it more clearly.

This shows it somewhat although it is a lot more pronouced when viewing a ship from behind with a lower waterline. Smoothing groups doesn't fix this really, it just makes it... "prettier" since a texture will still show you the incorrect geometry flow.

Correct Geometry flow (note the way the mesh flows)

On some ships it's not too visible, yet on others its very glaring.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I see what you mean; that does indeed look better.

 

[helldiver]

Fixes completed

Please see first post