Titanic: Honor & Glory

Hi everyone, I know it's been forever since I've shared anything. To be quite frank, I've been dealing with a few things and It's been difficult to get to uploading anything on here. I'm not anything remotely close to a writer and typically having to write these posts feels like the hardest part of

So it's been an annoyingly long time since my last update, and I've been meaning to post another one for a good minute. More Organizing A little while back I finally finished all the scanning and processing of that photographic archive we recently acquired. Unfortunately I pulled a Kyle and snowball

Hello everyone! I've been working on getting the B51 private promenade polished up for P401. This is also a first look of what will likely be the lighting for the sunset mode in P401. None of the models have been replaced at this point, but all the organizational and optimization work has been compl

Hello everyone! Just wanted to show off a couple of images that show off some of the improvements made in the Swimming Baths for Project401. Some of these models have also been completed in alpha quality, and will eventually be used in that as well. Just wanted to shout out Ben Poole for their work

Hey everyone! Derek Here. I know it's technically August, but here we go :P First things first, I'd like to mention that we are currently working on another update video. It won't be done for a few weeks, but there will be lots to cool things to show off. With that in mind, this update will be a bit

Hi Everyone, Derek here. I know it's been a little while since I've done an actual update. With everything that was going on around the anniversary, and since I did not have much to share, I figured it was okay to skip April. This update is going to be short. I've been working on the V2.1 update for

Hi everyone, Derek here. Hope you've all been enjoying the Demo so far. It's been really great seeing all the feedback coming in, and seeing all the videos and screenshots being shared. It's been fantastic to see all of our hard work come to fruition. That being said, while the launch of the demo ha

Hi Everyone, Derek here. Today is a special day. I just finished tweaking some textures in the boiler rooms. With that being complete, the demo is now VISUALLY complete. All the light building is complete. All the post processing work is complete. All of the collision is complete. We have made excel

Hi Everyone, Derek here. Hope you've all had a great January so far. I just wanted to fill you all in on the progress on D401. Overall, things are still progressing fairly normally. I am probably a couple days behind the estimated timeline shared on Dec31, as I had to do a few more unexpected light

Quick look at the 1st class reception room, ready for V1.5. Recent update of this room repaced the 2D ceilings with high detail 3D ones. Additonally, the light fixtures have also been replaecd with high poly versions, and the materials have been reworked from scratch.

Hello everyone, Derek here! As a final announcement for 2022, I wanted to give you a quick update on the status of D401, as well as a roadmap for the next couple of months. I’m happy to announce that as of last night, I have completed the last of the lightmap UV Remapping and lightmap resolution opt

Hello everyone, Derek here. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays! I hope you're having a very joyous season. A lot has been happening here since my last update. Things have been exceptionally busy in my own personal life, so I haven't had much time to prepare an update post for all of you. However, this

Hi guys! I hope you're having a great November so far. My apologies for skipping last month's update. Things have been very busy on my end, and I could not find the time to put it together in time. I hope this month's mega-update will make up for it. Progress has been steady on my end. The focus has

A look at the aft Grand Staircase, now mostly ready for Demo401 V1.5. General update coming from me in a few days. Stay tuned!

Some views of the recently completed 1st Class Saloon, now ready for V1.5, plus a little sneak peek of the reception room in the background. The windows and lights have been completely overhauled for V1.5.

Some new images of the recently completed 1st class Smoking room bar. Connecting the Starboard Palm court with the Smoking room.

Hey everyone! Derek Here, Just wanted to post the latest Demo401 progress update map for all of you. This map shows the completion of the various stages in the process of bringing the levels up to 1.5 standards. Note that a majority of the time spent is in getting spaces to the orange stage. In this

Hello everyone, Derek here. I hope you’re all doing well. Another productive month has gone by here, albeit a lot of it has gone on behind the scenes. The forward crew section of the ship has gone through our Q/A process, which has resulted in quite a lot of bug fixes and light-rebuilds to sort out

Another day, another space for V1.5. Today it's the windlass gear room, which is on C deck, in the bow of the ship, underneath the forecastle.

Another new space ready for V1.5. This time, it's the Cargo Hold No1, and it's associated shaft and hatch, and a little peek at the firemen's staircase as well. This was part two of my mini snowball. This hatch was originally planned to be closed, but I made the necessary changes to allow it to be o

Today we're taking a look at the Crew's Galley on C deck, under the Forecastle. This is one of the brand new, never before seen spaces for V1.5. As a little mini snowball of my own, I have made some changes that allow light to travel into these spaces. Originally this was going to have to be faked,

Hello everyone, Derek here, As many of you would have seen in the latest video update put together by our incredible creative director, James Penca, he teased a look at the latest progress plan. This is a plan I put together to keep track of my own progress in Demo401 as I continue reworking spaces

The light builds for both the starboard and port private promenades (B51 and B52 respectively) is now complete.

After a bit of polish and lightbuilding, the First Class A la Carte Restaurant is now ready for V1.5 of Demo 401.

We're moving back into 1st class. Over the last two days, the Cafe Parisien got a polish and light rebuild, and is now ready for V1.5. Things are progressing along steadily. The aft exterior level (which includes the aft interior 3rd class spaces) underwent our testing process. The resulting fixes h

Work on V1.5 of Demo401 continues to progress. Today I'm showing off the updated second class Library.

Here's a quick peek at the updated and polished V1.5 version of the 2nd Class Smoking room. Now that the initial exterior build has passed the QA stage, I am now moving deeper into the ship. The next focus is the aft exterior space, which is mostly complete, except for a few spaces visible from the

A quick look at the first class pool that has gotten a lighting polish. Coming to you in Demo401 V1.5! Titanic Honor and Glory - Demo 401 , V1.5 - Pool Preview (YouTube)

You've seen the black and white comparison, you've seen a colour teaser. Here it is finally! C55 and C57, or as it is better known, the Straus Suite. As you might have noticed, the colours have changed again. After some intense debate amongst our research team, this is what we believe is the most ac

A quick little fun one today. A comparison shot between a real photo and a screenshot taken in version 1.5 of Demo401. (With a B&W Filter mode that will be coming in Project 401)

This week in Derek-land, we take a look at the newly polished first class Gym. This space is now (nearly) complete for V1.5 I still have no idea what half of these machines do.

A little sneak peek of the updated work done to the 2nd Class enclosed promenade, which will be coming in Demo 401 V1.5

A WIP look at the updated fireplace effects in the first class smoking room. Demo 401 - V1.5 - 1st Class Smoking Room - Fireplace (YouTube)

Showing off the updated 3rd Class Smoking Room for Demo 401, now with added atmospheric particles.

A quick little cinematic to show off some of the atmospheric effects utilized in Demo 401 V1.5. Demo 401 - V1.5 - 3rd Class Smoking Room Preview (YouTube)

As work on 401 progresses, here is a look at the updated visuals in the first class reading and writing room.

Another sneak peek at some of the lighting updates coming in V1.5 (Release date unannounced) This time, we're taking a look at the first class elevator gear room. We decided to keep the lights off in order to highlight the lighting coming from the prismatic skylights.

A little sneak peek at the improvements to the lighting that Derek has been working on getting ready for V1.5 Thanks to some improvements and optimizations to the models, plus a changed workflow that allows higher quality light baking, this is now the result!

While Kyle works on his remaining modeling tasks for the Demo 401 Crew Update, Derek is hard at work finding ways to improve 401 in many ways on the engine side of things. Better lighting, effects, lightmaps, shaders, texture and other optimizations, and more. One thing he's done is improve the shad