Coastguard Cutter -

lenwilder

Outstanding work.  We need interiors with walls we can hide and such.

Artist needs to make an "interiors" expansion pack for it.

It would seem, this is standard practice for Daz3d, since all the other ships available in the shop are exterior only as well.

Many Spaceships seem to have exteriors and interiors. (very good)

What is is it?  I mean Kibaretto has a pretty good approach to this with the Vanguard, Shuttle, and smaller spacecraft.  He has interiors and exteriors.

https://www.daz3d.com/vanguard

https://www.daz3d.com/shuttlestar

Anyway,  Kibaretto content items are popular because we can do alot with them.

Notice in the following video - the Shuttlestar has been KIt bashed to provide seating for soldiers in the rear.

the interior is acceptable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMxFdpFYOJs

 

 

Taoz

That would be great yes. i13's Houseboat does have interior though, but I guess that's not exactly a "ship".

lenwilder

Taozen said:

That would be great yes. i13's Houseboat does have interior though, but I guess that's not exactly a "ship".

It isn't exaclty a ship, however in fairness.. I did not look for every occurence of ships in the shop.  I do own quite a few, with no interiors.

lenwilder

Sloshwerks has some sailors that will probably work. These are dress uniforms not working dungarees, which would be most common.

https://www.daz3d.com/naval-uniform-for-genesis-2-male-s

Here is a link to a jeans shirt and bottoms that should work well for represent working uniform. You would need a sailor hat of course.

 https://www.daz3d.com/jeans-outfit-for-genesis-3-male-s

Predatron has some officers content - you need to modify the rank on the sleeve of the admiral (remove some stripes)

The three small stripes should do the trick for a captain for the coastguard cutter.. 

https://www.daz3d.com/army-general-uniform-expansion

I don't have a current project that I can use the Coastguard cutter, but I will think about it for the future.

The exterior is really very good, and I could do alot of video produciton around and on the ship with interiors and such.

FSMCDesigns

The amount of work involved in creating an interior would likely be more than doing the exterior (it is for the aircraft I design for another community). Then there is the price point of having a model with this much work involved and the PAs return on investment.  I would feel the PA should offer both separately in the store so those that don't want an interior (or vice versa) don't have to pay extra for it. It's a $30 addon, I am not prepared to pay $60 for the ship and an interior, just saying. Then there is the accuracy, finding exterior refrences is always easier than finding internal, especially when it comes to control rooms and such. Then I would think the amount of users wanting an interior is much smaller than those wanting the exterior only, thus limiting the sales and return on investment on doing the interior.

That being said, I think it would be a great addon for a ship interior kit to build your own ships interior, kinda like the sci fi kits.

Coast Guard uniforms are basically military BDUs, just plain blue. You could just retexture the military uniform in the store for closeness

lenwilder

I agree with your point about $60 price.  A separate expansion pack for the interior would be excellent.  I would not expect the artist to spend full time on such an expansion. All the extra work done on such a well done first content pack will only make the packs more valuable to users longer.

However,  I refer back to Kibarreto content packs.  I don't know when they were released for sale in the shop, but they are still very popular.  I am a video producer, so I appreciate the ability to do alot within scenes.  Just have a ship with some sailors walking around on the deck is good for a few clips, but not for developing many scenes with the ship.