HR Wallingford LTD. - Ship Pilot Trainer

Working with site photographs, CAD data, library textures, and their own modeling expertise, the team at HR Wallingford used Creator to model a port and a variety of ships, as well as a proposed new bridge.

They used Vega Prime Marine both to display the out-of-the window views from the bridge that allows pilots to navigate ships in and out of the port and to integrate realistic waves in order to test the feasibility of a new breakwater. For the proposed bridge, HR Wallingford used Vega Prime to help pilots test the impact of the bridge on maneuvering ships in the area.

In addition, one of the challenges on this project was to realistically model night time scenarios. The team used Vega Prime and its ability to allow a number of light sources in a scene to improve realism to recreate the realistic night scene.

HR Wallingford’s environment can be used by ship pilots, captains, tug masters, harbour masters, and engineers to assess the viability of proposed port developments and to train in a safe realistic environment.