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Huh... I noticed that the detail was quite refined in that video. That's kind of where I got stumped -- it takes awhile just to build a lookout tower. Building something as big as that ship would take a really long-ass time. 
So how did he get a model into Minecraft as unified blocks? How iiiin-teresting.  |
Coding magic. If you read the description he said that he did imported from his "plans"
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Sadly, my hard drive blew and I lost six months of work. The only thing I had was my original framework and It was just too painful to start over. One of the things that was not lost was the deck plans and a nice computer-friendly vector format, converted from the Whitefire plans (Not the Okuda ones). The plans are pretty rough, but workable. One day I need to go through and clean them up.
The Minecraft world uses 1m^3 blocks, ans so, I simply converted my already scaled plans into a format that minecraft could take and imported each deck in batch, leaving 4 spaces in between for walls
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Looks more like he just took the google plans.
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I would say he used ModelGen. It can take .obj files and add them to minecraft maps. Here is the minecraft forum on it: minecraftforum[dot]net/viewtop*ic[dot]php?f=25&t=645
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True. But the video itself contradicts the description. For example he calls the labels imported from the model "scaffolding" and strongly implies he built it by hand. Which is obviously a lie.
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