I love titanic: honor and glory. The people who are working on it are really cool and their livestreams are great. They really are truly passionate about this project and it comes through in the incredible level of detail they’ve achieved. Their ultimate goal is to use the model as the basis for a video game as well.
If you want the ultimate model building experience they just came out with an enormous kit model of the titanic. It’s like 4 feet long or something. And the model company actually worked with these guys to ensure accuracy.
The website I feel needs a bit of polish. All this work for what sounds like a pretty cool game but a complete lack of detail on putting download information front and center. It's buried either under a menu or down at the bottom of the page. Even then it is split between "downloads" and "demo 401".
I really don't want to download that huge demo to figure out my system doesn't even support running it for example.
I did try the Demo 401, and while I do think it is neat concept it was pretty rough on the edges. The thing that bothered me maybe the most is how lot of the assets felt pretty low-poly, so that all rounded things had very distinct polygons on them. You can see some of that in this screenshot I took from the dining room: https://ibb.co/RhCqJvW especially the spoons and glasses look pretty bad, but also the plates and forks are not great.
Overall the game looks decent when doing general overviews of the rooms, like in the screenshots on the webpage, but suffer when looked close-up. And imho zooming in to look at the details would be large part of the attraction of this sort of project, so it is bit unfortunate that the visuals don't quite live up to that.
Speaking of the screenshots on the web page, the overall lighting quality looks quite a bit better what I was seeing in-game, which makes me think those are offline renders. I understand wanting to show off the project as nicely as possible, but I do feel my expectations were set up notch too high for what it actually delivered.
Oh, I thought that one of the projects to build a real-world replica Titanic had finally succeeded.[1] No such luck. It's just a 3D model. Nice 3D asset, though.
The effort to restore the S.S. United States is still stalled. Latest scheme is to make it into a stationary hotel, but that was three years ago and nothing happened. Sad. The problem is, even if the ship were fully restored, few would ride on it. It's a passenger liner built to warship standards. It was able to cross the Atlantic in 3 1/2 days. 20 watertight compartments and watertight to 40 feet above the water line. Redundant engine rooms. There's none of the recreational stuff, or open interior spaces, of cruise ships. It's for getting there in a hurry, not recreation.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 42.6 ms ] thread- DEMO 3: https://www.titanichg.com/downloads
- DEMO 401: https://www.titanichg.com/demo-401
If you want the ultimate model building experience they just came out with an enormous kit model of the titanic. It’s like 4 feet long or something. And the model company actually worked with these guys to ensure accuracy.
I really don't want to download that huge demo to figure out my system doesn't even support running it for example.
Also runs fine on Ubuntu with Steam / Proton, FWIW.
https://youtu.be/tZZoeBKleWA
Overall the game looks decent when doing general overviews of the rooms, like in the screenshots on the webpage, but suffer when looked close-up. And imho zooming in to look at the details would be large part of the attraction of this sort of project, so it is bit unfortunate that the visuals don't quite live up to that.
Speaking of the screenshots on the web page, the overall lighting quality looks quite a bit better what I was seeing in-game, which makes me think those are offline renders. I understand wanting to show off the project as nicely as possible, but I do feel my expectations were set up notch too high for what it actually delivered.
The effort to restore the S.S. United States is still stalled. Latest scheme is to make it into a stationary hotel, but that was three years ago and nothing happened. Sad. The problem is, even if the ship were fully restored, few would ride on it. It's a passenger liner built to warship standards. It was able to cross the Atlantic in 3 1/2 days. 20 watertight compartments and watertight to 40 feet above the water line. Redundant engine rooms. There's none of the recreational stuff, or open interior spaces, of cruise ships. It's for getting there in a hurry, not recreation.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replica_Titanic