N00b project - Motor Boat

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Hi, I’ve been using Blender and browsing elysiun for some time, but compared to the talent here I still consider myself a n00b. But this little project is good enough to be presented here, I hope. It’s a HP 562 motor boat, I got the blueprints for it over at suurland.com.
Hope you like it and give me some C&C.

Here it is:
http://www.pressurizer.de/hp562.jpg

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hey thats better than i could have done iand i have been using blender for 1 1/2 years. any way maybe you could make the water reflexive and transparent.and maybe also add alittle specular lights on the water.

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Ok, First off, I suck at this, so you dont have to take anything i say about anything you do for anything. :slight_smile: I couldnt make that if my life depended on it… Now that that is out of the way, Yes, i agree with Yor, Reflective water and even if you could, try and make the water a little transparent so it looks like water instead of a big thick blanket with a boat on it… :stuck_out_tongue: Just kidding… But anyways, also you could make the paint on the boat a little reflective and add some lights to it if there should be any one it? Dont know… But i have always seen those two lights in the front on the Bow the red and blue one or red and green.(I dont remember the color… i just know they are there…) Ok, enough info from the real noob, thanks for your time. :slight_smile: Good job by the way.

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Looks cool! Only the water could use some improvement

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Thanks for the replies!
The water is based on a tutorial by cog, but I didn’t add whitecaps and anyway, the tutorial was intended for animation. You’re right, it lacks something.
True about the lights, there should be some, but I didn’t know where to put them, I’m not exactly an expert on boats.

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your water is far to sharp and random. look at some picture of water…

http://www.aboututila.com/Photos/AdamLaverty/Cays-Water-02.JPG
Cays-Water-02.JPG1600×1200


http://ma.water.usgs.gov/floods/flood10172005/BridgeSt_1.jpg
notice in these pictures is they reflect their surroundings. I think you can only do water well with hdri
here’s one I did for a speed model: http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/6514/boat7wn.jpg
now the water needs some work, but I did that less than 5 min.
I used yafray, hdr, and a 1.5 ior with full ray

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Hmmm, your result is really nice.
Sadly, I have no idea how HDRI works, up until now I haven’t found a tutorial that really explains it. There are YafRay-Tutorials that mention it, but none seem to really describe how it works.
As I understand it, you need a special kind of image that is used for the reflections, a .hdr-file or something. Never seen one, though.