Interior Project
 

ok, Im gonna flex my 3dMAX skills and create a set of new sub interiors for the VIIC. Prahaps we wont find a way to use them, but prahaps SHIV or a indi-sub game can use them. So.....I would like:

A) All the photos/das boot screens/*interior bluebrints* I can get my hands on
B) In the more distant future I will need someone to do some texture work.
C) Suggestions and comments!

If anyone has interior pics of VIIC
Or Suggestions and comments, PLEASE post here
:arrgh!: Yarr

*Edit* 1940s photos are highly saught after
*edit 2* Dont post anything from u-baot.net - all redy searched it

Sounds very ambitious and a great idea for a mod-Good Luck

If you need any Das Boot pic's let me know.......i'll get some for ya.... :up: :|\

Cheers, I'll give you a shout when I need some

Just finished makeing some light fittings, Im really missing blueprints of the internal pressure hull, I dont wanna guess the scale.

I dunno if its useable in anyway, but i found a pretty decent picture of the aft section of a type9 control room .


http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/canada/uboats/

Just what Im looking for! Thanks

I have a few blueprints now, but badly need more

How about doing a IX boat too Letum? The U 505 Museum in Chicago has a website showing the whole interior in color. It would be great for those of us plying the seas in our IX boats. And we'd use the mod too. ;)

http://www.msichicago.org/exhibit/U505/index.html

You can always swap the boats interior to a type 7's as i recently rediscovered. Personnaly if he's dead serious about making what sounds like the most realistic interior modelling possible, id rather him concentrate his efforts to make one real good one.

Yup, quite, Im only working on the VIIC (late war) at the moment.
And for the moment I am only doing the 3 compartments allredy in SHIII (command radio and tower)

Anyone seen a cross section plan of a VIIC?

Technical details beyond performance specifications are damn hard to find.

I noticed something odd about these plans.........
http://www.sayagain.co.uk/b3tapix/im...nstypeVIIC.jpg
Its a VIIC/41 but the pressure walls are curved (or at least drawn curved)
I havent seen this in photos before.
Anyone know what the deal is here?

Concave would be a better description. From an engineering standpoint it makes sense. A concave surface would be stronger against lateral water pressure. Same princple as an arch for a bridges if im thinking correctly.

Tour photo's such as U505's wont show this if it exists because they've cut the hatches away for easier tour access. A good picture of U-995 might help if they havent done this as well.

Heres some pics of U995, a couple control room shots in there.

http://www.german-navy.de/kriegsmari...ic/photos.html

EDIT:
This picture in particular, it looks like its along the bulkhead seperating the forward part of the controlroom nearest the plansman from the radio/sonar room:
http://www.german-navy.de/kriegsmari...c/image17.html

I can't say for sure, because the enamel paint is REALLY thick but it gives the HINT of being concave .. acutally convex meaning bending outward. ( whcih would seem to match your blueprint) But that could be flash photophgrahy reflecting off the paint, if the lighting is naturall then then it could very well be slighly convex.

I'll save pollys and do it flat unless I fine Solid evidence that it isnt

Thanks Ducimus!

Honestly if it really is concave or convex (depending on what side of the wall your on), its probably so minor that its probably not worth the trouble of rendering. I have a hunch that it is curved, but its a very gradual and slight curve. Structurally it makes sense, and when i think about it, your not going to find it on U505 anyway, Type 9's didnt dive as deep as 7c/41's. Minor structural changes like this i think would make all the deference to these boats in the real world. But from a practical standpoint, i think its such a gradual slope of a cruve it might be real hard to render and not have it become exaggerated to view anyway. Just a guess, im no graphical artist.