"Ton" <ton### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Thanks for the comment, mr Eagle.
>
> I see three main challences:
> 1 The decoration on the bow and stern. A heightfield might do the trick, but the
> stern is round, and a heightfield isn't.
> 2 The figurehead on the bowsprit. I've never done anything human shaped.
> 3 The rigging and sails. Sails might be easy, omit them! Cutty Sark in Greenwich
> is sailless.
>   For the ropes there are some help include-files.
>   Chain11.inc (Rob Antonishen, 24 feb 1997) gives paraboles or catenaries for
> chains or ropes.
>   Rope.inc (Ryoichi Suzuki, 21 jan 2001) uses a spline to create a mesh (see
> attached image).
>   Rigging.inc (Chris Colefax, 28 april 1998, modified Tim McMurdo, 28 February
> 2005) to create rigging with tackle and blocks and rope and knots.
>
> On the modelshipworld.com website someone started a scratch build of Cutty Sark
> in 2013. Not finished yet!
> So good work takes time.
>
> Cheers
> Ton

This rope looks great, nice include if it's straight out of it!

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