Modelling a boat hull in Blender

This was a request and it covers a lot of different ideas including workflow, when to subD, controls over sub D and is also a chance to learn something new about boat hull design :D
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[@9b8ll]

The edge split seems like a good technique. This is the first time I have seen this modifier used like this. I am gonna keep that in mind. Great vid as usual

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Yeah, it's a tool that's a bit of a hidden gem. It could also be done with ripping verts but I think that would take much longer in this instance as you need them to move in different directions. You can see vert ripping here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnyypWx_otWSkNk

[@impisus]

Great tut! I was struggling hard with ships earlier. This really helps and is a great process.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

😁👍🏻 Glad it's helpful and thanks for taking the time to comment, really appreciated

[@EmilySmirleGURPS]

The ridge down the middle is I think the keel, at least underneath. It helps keep the vessel oriented I think.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Thanks Emily. My bad, I thought the keel was the whole bottom. My lack of boat knowledge is showing it seems.

[@EmilySmirleGURPS]

@@ArtisansofVaul is a specialist field, is just an opportunity to pick up more trivia. I messed around in canoes as a kid so I have some dimly recalled lore bouncing around in my head, but honestly not much.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@@EmilySmirleGURPS Yeah. It's fun that the channel brings these things up for me to learn 😁

[@dannorris1406]

Great tutorial as always. There are a lot of great modelling tips packed into this. Things the took me a long time to learn. I wish your tutorials were around when I first started learning Blender, they would have saved me a lot of time!

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Thanks man. That's exactly the point of the chanel. I was in the same place, especially for 3D printing as no one seemed to be covering that 👍🏻

[@dannorris1406]

@@ArtisansofVaul You deserve every success mate. Keep up the good work.

[@chesterdays2299]

This is really nice! I always used splines and patching for hull modelling, which was highly precise but prone to localised shading problems, and not always straightforward to achieve the planks. This is a great approach. Thanks for the tutorial!

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Thanks so much. As you say I'm sure you get some really good results in terms of a smooth and accurate hull shape using that method. I just find the other details harder to them make work (as you've also identified). Glad I could be of help 👍🏻😁

[@studioalchemist2060]

Great stuff 👍🤩

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Thanks man.

[@remus-alexandrusimion3439]

Are you spying on me? I was just wrestling with something like this! Great tutorial!

[@ArtisansofVaul]

😅 Its not spying, its "observing" 😉 Glad its going to help with projects 😁

[@albanr8028]

Wonderful !

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Cheers 😁

[@Suzuki_Hiakura]

Interesting fact, to water tight the ship hull, they would coat a twisted line of cloth with tar or something like it and use a wedge to force it between planks. They would repeat the process 3 times which would create a rather good watertight seal.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

That I'd a good fact! Thanks 👌🏼

[@Starflight_Miniatures]

Oh very cool thanks!

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Cheers 😁

[@jinxx.8]

Well done! Thank you

[@ArtisansofVaul]

😁👍🏻

[@filamentio]

Awesome stuff! i have learned a lot ! I would love to see how you make Tires and Sandbags :D Also trees would be interesting !

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Tires would be cool. Sandbags is something I've looked into and I've get to find a good "trick" to make it easier, which is frustrating. I played around with some physics stuff but they always ended looking like fluffy cushions instead of sandbags 😅 I'll keep hunting though. For trees there are some good add ons but I haven't tested them for 3D printing. I'll have to have a look again.

[@filamentio]

@@ArtisansofVaul Yep, I know sandbags are an example of how hard it can be to model simple things :O. Tarps can also be hard !

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@@filamentio yeah, getting those folds right seems to be something you can only do with sculpting

[@Revenant483]

Great tutorial ΛₒV! The design is really good.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Thanks so much man. Definetly not a boat expert but it looks right to me as a layman.

[@Revenant483]

@@ArtisansofVaul Your very welcome! Exactly what I was thinking. Well done, it inspires me to try and build on that. I was thinking it would make a great scene prop.

[@wiktorb7646]

Great vid! cant wait to try experimenting with this later!

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Enjoy 😁😁😁

[@TheLofren]

15:46 blender can natively copy modifiers with CTRL+L (the link/transfer data menu), no need for an addon

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Very true. It was just an excuse to mention a native addon that's got a lot of useful copy features but you're totally right. 👍🏻

[@DaddyChronic]

great video

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Thanks so much man. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment 👌🏼👍🏻

[@mind_of_a_darkhorse]

Now, I think I am going to have make a Pirate Ship! ARRGGGH! Avast ye mateys! Where's the rum?!

[@ArtisansofVaul]

🤣 Glorious my captain! Man I need to watch Black Sails again some time!

[@mind_of_a_darkhorse]

@@ArtisansofVaul 🤣

[@norm_olsen]

At about the 3:05 mark, you cancelled out of the proportional editing/move tool to change the falloff type manually from the proportional editing menu. You could have alternatively left this tool and mode live and while holding down Shift, press O to toggle the next falloff (continuously pressing O will cycle through the different falloffs until you find the one that you want). This workflow is much faster!

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Thanks man! I didn't know that, great tip! 😁👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@norm_olsen]

@@ArtisansofVaulYou're welcome! :)

[@richardokeeffe8375]

Excellent work dude! Is there a reason the top one bulges at the plank joint? Is that just the rendering? 16:26

[@ArtisansofVaul]

That's just a rendering "issue" with the cavity because of the higher number of vertices at that point combined with the cavity being on. It wouldn't appear in something like a print or a render 👍🏻 Good spot and good question!

[@RoseKindred]

This is the closest video I can see to ask the question on but I have a weird one / personal. When adding detail such as wood grain (as you would on the outside of a boat for example) do you think it is better to do it through sculpting (which is what I currently do) or should I learn about displace/texture modifiers to "dig into" the wooden planks? I still am unsure if that would actually make detail for 3D printing, so never learned about it. I have only used textures in digital art with PS, which cannot be 3D printed, obviously.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Good question without one real answer. It depends on the result you want. Displacement textures are faster but can add even more geometry than sculpting to get a good texture and on edges they can have issues. If it was me I usually sculpt wood grain as I think it looks better and I actually find it quite relaxing. And it does print pretty well in my experience. I actually have a video on methods of making wood grain if you're interested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4W5gJ-ip9R8l6c

[@RoseKindred]

@@ArtisansofVaul Well thanks for the non-answer. GER! Just kidding, I'll check the video out. Start a project, look up a video for help, and then see I started it a completely different way and their help won't help me. Ha.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@RoseKindred 😅 Yeah, sorry for the "it depends" answer but it really does. Basically both are valid. Do let me know what you think though.

[@user-ez7ls2du9c]

Can you do one where you start with a circle of vertices and model it from its outline when looking exactly down on it, so the waterline outline or lower or higher depending where you wanna start.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

I mean it's possible. I just wouldn't start with a circle, it seems a bit inefficient.

[@user-ez7ls2du9c]

@@ArtisansofVaul Pull 2 perpendicular vertices out of the flat circle and you already have a good boat shape, or pull a few perpendicular vertices with prop. editing to get other front and end shaped boats, if you want the end squared like your you can select about 1 quarter of the circles vertices on the stern side and make them flat using S, X(or other axis), 0, Enter, to make the scale of those vertices 0 or flat.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@user-ez7ls2du9c It's not that I don't know how to do it, I just wouldn't work through it in that way. But it seems you're perfectly happy with how to do it this way already so you don't need me to show you 👍🏻

[@user-ez7ls2du9c]

@@ArtisansofVaul bro your lil boaty looks like a shoe box, its got no character or historical accuracy, get this lame away from me

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@@user-ez7ls2du9c 🤣 Wow... Good way to take no for an answer. What a child.

[@Mr.McWatson]

Doesn't Ctrl+L copy modifiers? Or does the add on do smth more?

[@guilhermeoliveira1673]

Amazing video as aways dude! Just a question: have you ever tought of making a Discord server? Maybe the community can hang out together while modeling and helping each other out!

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Thanks so much 😁 We actually have a Discord server! I started it last week. It's tied into the Patreon so if you're interested please consider heading on over and it really helps put the channel. 👍🏻

[@guilhermeoliveira1673]

@@ArtisansofVaul Sure! Ill surely take a look! Thanks!

[@MLajevec]

Hello, I can only do proportional editing on one side and not like in the video with two points/sides. Yesterday i could but today it doesn't work. I don't find a solution and I would be very thankful for an answer.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

That seems very strange that it worked before but not now... maybe an issue with a mirror or something like that?

[@MLajevec]

Hello, I am making a simple animation of boat. With the purpose that this animation can give me best shape of a lower part of a boat in water and that boat has good aerodinamic. So i can make it in real life. Do you have any recomendation about how do i get to this shape without using programming. I am on a schedule, so i would be very happy for answers. Thank you very much!

[@ArtisansofVaul]

If you want to create something actually aerodynamic you could use this but if you don't need to model the individual planks (just the general shape) then you're probably better off with lofting the shape between set points. I've got a video on that here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bWGVhaN4j9Wpi6M

[@MLajevec]

Hello, I decided to make a Thunder child boat model. Can you tell me, how to make a 24 degree deadrise at the transom transitions to a wave piercing bow? Thank you very much!

[@aizen._fx9189]

How to give colouring by using shading and other stuffs

[@ArtisansofVaul]

I've got a guide to it here if you're interested 😁 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZSxeY1_gbCfaas

[@charleywilson2146]

I cant figure out how to get the alt a align tool in Machinetools to work? It appears to be a completely different thing now...

[@ArtisansofVaul]

No it's still the same. Be aware there is an align tool and an align pie which do different things: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6GodJaPaNuZbck

[@charleywilson2146]

@@ArtisansofVaul yup that’s what I messed up. I didn’t have the align pie enabled lol 😭

[@RegentBaker9726]

what's the addons that lets you to do that at 5:35

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Do you mean the pie menu to change modes, of the one that gives the Q menu?

[@RegentBaker9726]

@@ArtisansofVaul the one that makes the vertices snap to center when extruding

[@Sir_Handyman]

the align tool is not working properly for me Alt+A de-selects everything

[@ArtisansofVaul]

Have you installed Machine Tools and turned in the align function?

[@ArtisansofVaul]

See the beginning of this short: kzbin.info8MJCd-abaQg?feature=share

[@Sir_Handyman]

@@ArtisansofVaul Yes i have

[@Sir_Handyman]

and thanks for the quick response c:

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@Sir_Handyman No problem. I'm here to help (or at least try to). Is there any chance you could find me on Instagram and send me a video of your Machine Tools settings and then show me trying the Alt+A align? I know it's a pain but I can't think of another way to check out what's happening.

[@Topper_Harley68]

How did you get that brown color with different shadings on your default cube?

[@ArtisansofVaul]

I've got a video on the settings for that here (it's pretty simple to set up): kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZSxeY1_gbCfaas

[@jimj2683]

I am amazed at how awkward and difficult 3d design is even in 2023. Almost nothing intuitive in Blender.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

I'd disagree (though of course you're welcome to your opinion). Being used to using it I find Blender pretty intuitive on how to go about things. Admittedly it's not as obvious as something like 3D builder for some tasks but that's not surprising as it is vastly more complex/powerful. In the end its a skill, you practice and it becomes more intuitive, at one point you had to think about each action as you drive a car, after a while it becomes very natural.

[@HawsDaBaws]

Man you should see blender in 2015 lol. It’s come an extremely long way.