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Ugh, deck houses are so damn tedious! Especially with the shear of the ship, every face has to be angled so precisely to match. I am not looking forward to returning to Lusitania, she has a camber (her decks bulge up towards the middle) as well as the shear. Anyway, as far as Titanic's deck houses fo, all of them are in, now, though, which is good. I still need to add the dome covering for the forward Grand Staircase, and everything still needs to be detailed, but I'm not going to start drawing textures out, yet.

The windows on A-Deck are actually cut through the promenade due to the fact that they actually lead into an external area of the ship that is modelled. I'm still debating modelling rooms in so I can get some nice, accurate lighting throughout the ship, but for right now I just intend to draw the windows and portholes out in a texture.

Okay, so things about this render. The shaping is imperfect, but it isn't awful. Most of that comes down to differences between reference images, so there's not much I can do to fix that. Otherwise it's the shear, which has been doing my head in. Anyway, yes! Officer's quarters, First Class Lounge, Reading and Writing Room, the engineer's mess and access to the engine rooms, the raised roof over the First Class Smoking Room, the stores under the fourth funnel, and the Second Class entrance have all been added to the deck, making Titanic look far more like herself.

There are obviously still things that need to be added, but at this point it's mostly vents and intakes, some railings, and of course the forward Grand Staircase dome covering and the lifeboats and davits. As far as the boats go, they will be added, I'll probably work on a lifeboat in the background for a while, but I don't intend to add them until just before I start adding textures to the ship, so she'll be lifeboat-less for a while. They're a waste of deck space, anyway.

Anyway, the next update will probably be either a funnel or starting to add things like cargo cranes and hatches to the decks. Maybe both, if I decide to just integrate the funnels into the model right off the bat. Oh, and I'll add the dome covering. That was an oversight on my part for this render.

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Ugh, deck houses are so damn tedious! Especially with the shear of the ship, every face has to be angled so precisely to match. I am not looking forward to returning to Lusitania, she has a camber (her decks bulge up towards the middle) as well as the shear. Anyway, as far as Titanic's deck houses fo, all of them are in, now, though, which is good. I still need to add the dome covering for the forward Grand Staircase, and everything still needs to be detailed, but I'm not going to start drawing textures out, yet.

The windows on A-Deck are actually cut through the promenade due to the fact that they actually lead into an external area of the ship that is modelled. I'm still debating modelling rooms in so I can get some nice, accurate lighting throughout the ship, but for right now I just intend to draw the windows and portholes out in a texture.

Okay, so things about this render. The shaping is imperfect, but it isn't awful. Most of that comes down to differences between reference images, so there's not much I can do to fix that. Otherwise it's the shear, which has been doing my head in. Anyway, yes! Officer's quarters, First Class Lounge, Reading and Writing Room, the engineer's mess and access to the engine rooms, the raised roof over the First Class Smoking Room, the stores under the fourth funnel, and the Second Class entrance have all been added to the deck, making Titanic look far more like herself.

There are obviously still things that need to be added, but at this point it's mostly vents and intakes, some railings, and of course the forward Grand Staircase dome covering and the lifeboats and davits. As far as the boats go, they will be added, I'll probably work on a lifeboat in the background for a while, but I don't intend to add them until just before I start adding textures to the ship, so she'll be lifeboat-less for a while. They're a waste of deck space, anyway.

Anyway, the next update will probably be either a funnel or starting to add things like cargo cranes and hatches to the decks. Maybe both, if I decide to just integrate the funnels into the model right off the bat. Oh, and I'll add the dome covering. That was an oversight on my part for this render.