French lugger "Le Coureur"

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lothar79
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Location: North of Poland

Re: French lugger "Le Coureur"

Post by lothar79 »

Thanks Owen :big_grin:
Rigging always requires a lot of thinking. Since the ropes are not physically stretched I worked out some techinique how to make them look right. I use a long rectangular prism as an auxiliary basis. I put the parts of rigging along one of its edges receiving this way good effect.

What is next? I still look for inspiration. To build "whatever" I need the plans of good quality. On the other hand, unfortunately I am slowly getting addicted to the sailing ships :big_grin: So maybe next project can be: Royal Tartane "La Diligente" (1738 - 1761).
http://www.ancre.fr/photo01ff.htm

What do you think of it? Any other suggestions? The only limitation is a power of my PC. Last model included over 4 millions vertices and I found it quite difficult to rotate the entire model in a viewport. So looking for the next model I have to take this it into account. Such way I am limited to the relatively small vessels.

Cheers - Zdzislaw
mcg
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Re: French lugger "Le Coureur"

Post by mcg »

Zdzislaw, beautiful work. Congratulations on it!
Michael
lothar79
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Joined: Mon Jan 31, 2011 4:29 am
Location: North of Poland

Re: French lugger "Le Coureur"

Post by lothar79 »

Thank you Michael :smallsmile: I feel happy that you like it.
What is worth to mention, all my models are constructed EXCLUSIVELY under FREE/OPEN SOURCE software. This is my way to prove that this is also very useful kind of tools. The only limitation lasts as usual between the chair and screen :heh:

Cheers - Zdzislaw
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