Free 3d ship models

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A series of amazing ship models for free

Forget about Turbosquid, Renderosity or the DAZ 3d models. Take a look a this collection of amazing free 3d ship models by Jed Swindels at Share CG: the Black Pearl, Flying Dutchman, Red Lion, Prince William and more.

The only problem for Vue users: these models are in Bryce format.
You will need to convert them in order to use them.

Here is how:

Import the .obp file in Bryce
Load it in a scene
Select the model and click to "m" near it
Change all the textures to flat white
Bryce 6 crashes when exporting models in any format that includes texture maps. This is the only way I found to bypass this problem
Export in .obj format
Import in Vue and rework the textures one by one.

If you apply a bitmap texture in parametric mapping mode, you will notice that you still have the UV coordinates, so you can normally map sails and so on.