Anyone done up Yacht Deckplans?

[Woas]

On a side note about designing ships, has anyone played the computer game Galactic Civilizations 2? It's a 4X type game and one of the features is a ship designer program that allows you to make your own custom ship models for whatever team you are playing as.
I had plans to use that as a 3d ship modeler. It doesn't give actual 2d floor-plan style images or anything, just stylized 3d views. But using the 3d view one could make some rough estimates what the inside looked like.

 

[Baron Sidur Haski]

I'm designing the Blue Smoke. It's tonnage is being fixed and the auxiliary wing configuration and color scheme is being picked out. I think it is a scheme very similar to a USN Carrier Aircraft Blue, like a Corsair from WW2, but it might have stealth black underside countershading. Not sure yet.

Also on the board is a Mercenary Cruiser. And a mean one. An integrated weapon system.

Following is another Yacht, the Lucky Starr.

 

[GypsyComet]

The best standard bug-eyed yacht deckplan I've seen is on a Japanese Traveller site. Its a tough deckplan to do well, since 20% of the ship revolves around specific subcraft. That doesn't sound like a lot until you put pencil to graph paper...

 

[DB]

The best standard bug-eyed yacht deckplan I've seen is on a Japanese Traveller site. Its a tough deckplan to do well, since 20% of the ship revolves around specific subcraft. That doesn't sound like a lot until you put pencil to graph paper...

Any chance of a link/details please?

 

[Gee4orce]

I've never seen any illustration of deck plan of a yacht that makes me think "wow, that's a sexy ship that an interstellar playboy would own". Most of them look like tugs or barges..

Maybe I should have a crack at Sketchupping one...

 

[kristof65]

I never really got the Safari ship... was it really for hunting animals? Why would anyone need a starship for that? Wouldn't hunters go to a planet on another kind of ship and then use a much smaller vehicle to get to the hunting ground? And then load up their cargo in another starship?

That said, I always did like the look of the thing...

I always figured that the Safari ship was the hunter's home. Just one he could happen to take from planet to planet in search of more game to hunt.

Kind of like how my parents live in their motor home 6+ months a year driving around the country looking for different places to fish.

 

[Patron Zero]

Just my opinion but the Safari ship might be considered a star-going version of our world's Escalade SUV, some are pleasure cruisers and others are employed as dedicated work vehicles !

 

[GypsyComet]

The best standard bug-eyed yacht deckplan I've seen is on a Japanese Traveller site. Its a tough deckplan to do well, since 20% of the ship revolves around specific subcraft. That doesn't sound like a lot until you put pencil to graph paper...

Any chance of a link/details please?

The file is linked from: http://www.luice.or.jp/~kemkem/TRAVELLER/setteis/settei.html

 

[PFVA63]

Hi,

Although this really isn't a Yacht, here (http://members.cox.net/psjn/Pocket Trader.pdf) is some info I once put together for a small cargo ship and here is an alternate lower deck that I put together for a "business transport" variant. Overall the ship is kind of small, but I envisioned that the "business transport" variant would be kind of along the lines of a futuristic Lear Jet or Business Jet.

Regards

PF

 

[d.b.gamedesign]

While the Venture Class isn't directly meant to be a Yacht, the garden patio, movie theater, hot tub, and VR simulator sure go along way toward making it attractive for such use.

It even has a fair amount of cargo space to carry a vehicle and a small portion of an average nobles word robe.

You can check it out by following the link in my signature.

 

[Gee4orce]

I made a Yacht 3D design concept, if you're interested