Quote Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill View Post
Hi GP. I like that image a lot. It reminds me of those Mississippi pusher barges.
Two observations.

1: I think the moon/planet distracts from the vessel.
2: Unless the vessel was 'end-on' you wouldn't see both port and starboard (red/green) lights
I will probably just re-render the side view without the moon - I was trying to create something more interesting than just star field, but you're right, the moon distracts. Regarding the lights, except for the catwalk to egress the ship sticking out the side on the fore part of the ship, most of the structure is inside the span of the cargo containers. So putting red/green lights is structurally difficult. So I put them (fore/aft) as wide as they could show on the structure itself.

I just rendered a top down view of the same ship to create it's deck plan. (It's slightly askew from perfect horizontal, but I'll tweak that)

GP

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