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Shipbuilding
Modeling a Ship in Alias|Wavefront's Maya
By Carsten Lind
Email: ******@.dk
One
crucial
thing to do
before
modeling is
to do research.
I searched the
web and found
images of
cruise ships. If
you don't do
the research,
you might miss
important
things that will
make the
model
believable.
After studying
the images of
the cruise
ships carefully,
I roughly
sketched the
basic shape of
the ship in
Maya using
curves. These
curves will then
serve as a
guideline when
Go
modeling the
Figure 1
ship. I also
applied all the
curves to their
own layer, so I
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own layer, so I
can turn them
all off at once
when
evaluating the
model. The hull
of the ship was
made by using
Maya's birail
function to
sweep curves
along two rail
curves to get
one side of the
hull. The hull
surface was
then mirrored
to get the
complete hull.
(Figure 1)
I then build the
front deck, by
lofting the top
curves from the
hull. The
passenger's
cabin decks
were then Classifieds
created by Employment
duplicating Job Seekers
curves from the For Sale
geometry of Services
the hull and
lofting them. Services
This ensured Research Center
continuity of
the surface.
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side of the hull) Figure 2
I projected the authors name.
shape of the
lower deck Market Directories
onto the hull pany and
surfaces and product listings,
trimmed away categorized for digital
the holes. content creator's use
(Figure 2)
A lofted
surface from
the trim curves
on the hull,
was created
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