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Titanic: Honor and Glory

47 points by noyesno 5y ago

bingohbangoh 5y ago
So is this done? Can I download? Not clear looking at the homepage
- eXpl0it3r 5y ago
  The website setup is rather confusing indeed, there seem to be two demos: - DEMO 3: https://www.titanichg.com/downloads https://www.titanichg.com/downloads - DEMO 401: https://www.titanichg.com/demo-401 https://www.titanichg.com/demo-401
supperburg 5y ago
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.
dwighttk 5y ago
This could be really cool. Hope it does well and other historical artifacts could be recreated for exploration.
mattowen_uk 5y ago
I really hope this will support VR when it comes out.
egorfine 5y ago
Is it for windows only? Never mentioned on the page, and I don't want to download 10GB to figure this out in the end.
- nik5 5y ago
  yes
dapak 5y ago
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.
- DJBunnies 5y ago
  They have decent hosting, took me < 2 minutes to download. Also runs fine on Ubuntu with Steam / Proton, FWIW.
selimthegrim 5y ago
For a second I thought this was a sequel to the 90s Titanic game
Geezus-42 5y ago
I believe one of the model designers was guest host on this episode of Well There's Your Problem. https://youtu.be/tZZoeBKleWA https://youtu.be/tZZoeBKleWA
zokier 5y ago
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 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.
Animats 5y ago
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. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replica_Titanic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replica_Titanic

47 points by noyesno 5y ago

bingohbangoh 5y ago

So is this done? Can I download? Not clear looking at the homepage

eXpl0it3r 5y ago
The website setup is rather confusing indeed, there seem to be two demos: - DEMO 3: https://www.titanichg.com/downloads https://www.titanichg.com/downloads - DEMO 401: https://www.titanichg.com/demo-401 https://www.titanichg.com/demo-401

supperburg 5y ago

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.

dwighttk 5y ago

This could be really cool. Hope it does well and other historical artifacts could be recreated for exploration.

mattowen_uk 5y ago

I really hope this will support VR when it comes out.

egorfine 5y ago

Is it for windows only? Never mentioned on the page, and I don't want to download 10GB to figure this out in the end.

nik5 5y ago
yes

dapak 5y ago

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.

DJBunnies 5y ago
They have decent hosting, took me < 2 minutes to download. Also runs fine on Ubuntu with Steam / Proton, FWIW.

selimthegrim 5y ago

For a second I thought this was a sequel to the 90s Titanic game

Geezus-42 5y ago

I believe one of the model designers was guest host on this episode of Well There's Your Problem. https://youtu.be/tZZoeBKleWA https://youtu.be/tZZoeBKleWA

zokier 5y ago

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 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.

Animats 5y ago

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. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replica_Titanic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replica_Titanic