Asset: Scanned Airplane Cockpit Pieces (Patreon)

Alright!! So first the disclaimer: these aren't exactly "high quality scans"; I grabbed them inside dark airplanes (though I'm fairly happy with my lighting solution), and since modules were always mounted to a wall, I was never able to get a full 360 view (although again, I'm fairly happy with my reconstruction efforts). Add to that the fact that it's surprisingly hard to capture clean scans of angular hard-surface objects, and you have a recipe for fairly blobby scans.

That out of the way, I think they're pretty cool!! A couple months ago I was starting work on a teaser for SHEP Films, and they wanted some spaceships interiors. I mentioned I'd love to start with a photoscanned base- and like an hour later Brice (a man of many talents but also their production coordinator) emails saying he got us permission to scan a bunch of airplanes. Brice is the best. You'll be hearing more about that project, soon (wrapping it up in a few days).

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(Also could mix well with the previous Cockpit Assets! And an Astronaut?)

I've also got other stuff from that shoot day (landing gear and engines), but it needs a bit more attention, first, and I gotta wrap up a few other projects. 

The above in particular didn't really have enough data for a good reconstruction, but I'm including it cause it might be useful to someone? ALSO I could upload the original video I extracted the data from, if anyone thinks they might be able to get a better result. 

And OH HO yes old bombsights! These things are wild (also the day I was cleaning the scans Veritasium came out with a video on them?? (which I now can't find?)). Could make great robot greebles. 

737 Controls (I went in and added little glass covers to all the gauges I could find- the reflections add a lot, IMO). 

More Controls!

Modules! A lot of the cables were the biggest victims of the sub-optimal scanning conditions. I replaced some of them, but nestled up into a wall they usually look alright :)

I scanned one of these through a glass display case in a dark room- kinda can't believe it turned out at all.

BUT YES! I hope some of you find these as useful as I have! It's a dense grounded aesthetic that's pretty hard to achieve from scratch (though I've seen people do it, and it's always bonkers impressive)- I'm excited to play around with them more! Gonna em up with the hologram shader- should be fun :D