The Titanic Mod brings people at one of the most detailed and accurate free 3D recreations of the Titanic ever made. It puts the player in a whole new storyline for the game Mafia.
Bow WIP
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Slowly but surely the empty bow gets filled with a mishmash of frames, bulkheads and objects. Current area in the making: Motor cargo.
Why is this called bow? I always wonder about the names on ships. The thing I wonder about the most is the "poopdeck". It seems like this is the deck on the back of a ship. I wonder if it is called like that, because people poop there. Seriously, I do :)
Looks very good man, but with GI these pitch black areas would light up, too. It would be awesome if you could get it to work with the engine, but if it is too much a hassle, do it with the next project.
I thought the same about the poop, but we're wrong :(
In naval architecture, a poop deck is a deck that forms the roof of a cabin built in the rear, or "aft", part of the superstructure of a ship.
The name originates from the French word for stern, "la poupe", from Latin "puppis". Thus the poop deck is technically a stern deck, which in sailing ships was usually elevated as the roof of the stern or "after" cabin, also known as the "poop cabin". In sailing ships, with the helmsman at the stern, an elevated position was ideal for both navigation and observation of the crew and sails.
Exactly. Contrary to popular belief, the term Poopdeck indeed originates from the French language and has nothing to do with being the designated area for dogs to dispose their... poop..
Coincidentally, on Titanic this area was used for taking the dogs out, but the area didn't earn it's title for that.
Naval architecture uses more odd terms. "Floors" for frames, "Fairleads" "Forecastle" "Bulwark" "Davit" "starboard" etc. I guess that's just how they named them.
Well, every profession has its own vocabulary or even just special ways to use common terms. It seems like a lot of terminology in ship-making derives from French vocabulary. I guess they established the terms first. It still puzzle me that "Mayday" for example comes from the French M'aidez, which apparently was misunderstood by English sailors or translated into "Mayday".