   Modern ship models? Any game that showcases them?
  HiIm looking for info and inspiration on modern ships for a game im working on. What im looking for is something like the museum-mode in the silent hunter games (you can list all ships in the game, select one like in a cyclopeadia and rotate the camera around it ).The problem with these game is that its only ww2... I want present day ships, both military and civilian. I looked into ship simulator 2008 but it only got a handful of ships (some simulator...) and none of them military. You guys have any good idea? I want to be able to see the ships from complete above to see how they would work in overhead map-mode (in my game).ThanksErik   
  Sorry never heard of any such 3d ship gallery. I guess your best bet would be to find 3D models of the ship you are interested in and then load them into something like blender to have them rotated to whatever angle you need.   ;  yeah maybe but then i need to find each individual model. Also, i normally need to buy the model unless its crap. In a game there is usually a healthy collection.So i guess im asking: does anyone know of a modern ship simulator? (exept "ship simulator" (lol) that hasn't got that many ships...)   ;  Wouldn't modeling current military ships and use them in games even be legal?   ;Quote:Original post by loufoqueWouldn't modeling current military ships and use them in games even be legal?Still plagiarism. Just because it's military doesn't mean its designs are in the public domain. Apart from that, modeling a detailed ship of reasonable displacement (say a german frigate of the Bremen class, with roughly 3680t of displacement) is not exactly a one day job. The displacement has a reason, but of course, it depends on for what you want to use the ship.[Edited by - phresnel on May 25, 2009 5:09:20 AM];  I meant illegal, not legal.That was my point: military ship designs may not be copied.   