Ship Generator
Container ships, tankers, cruise liners and warships
Ship Generator builds complete, detailed ships in one click, from a 30 m harbour tug to a 400 m Neo-Panamax box ship. Pick one of 24 ready-made ships from a picture gallery, press Surprise Me for a new design, or shape every part yourself and watch the ship rebuild live. Every ship is built at real size in meters, sits on the waterline at its design draft and uses physically based materials that also export to game engines.
One click, a new ship
Press Surprise Me in the Ship tab: a destroyer, a tall ship, a cruise ship or a tug rebuilds in the viewport, each at its real size.
24 ready-made ships
Container ships, tankers, gas carriers, cruise ships, ferries, tugs, warships, carriers, liners and tall ships. Every one can be changed.
Stack the boxes
Drag Tiers and the container stacks grow bay by bay, in random line colors with 20 and 40 ft boxes. Load sets how full the ship sails.
Lights for night scenes
Switch Lights on for lit cabins and decks, navigation lights and floodlights.
What it makes
- Container ships with stacked, colour-mixed containers, lashing bridges and split or aft accommodation
- Bulk carriers with hatch covers, coamings and deck cranes, gearless or geared
- Oil and chemical tankers with pipe decks, manifolds, catwalks and hose cranes
- LNG carriers with Moss spheres or membrane tanks and trunk deck
- Car carriers and RoRo ships with stern ramps
- Cruise ships with many decks, balcony rows, lifeboats on davits, funnels, pools and water slides, plus expedition cruise ships and RoPax ferries
- Harbour tugs, offshore supply vessels and research vessels with A-frames and cranes
- Destroyers, frigates and corvettes with gun turrets, VLS cells, radar masts and helipads, and an aircraft carrier with island, deck markings and parked jets
- Historic ocean liners, cargo steamers, tall ships and brigs with masts, rigging and sails
Hull and detail
- Lofted hulls with bulbous bow, flare, transom or cruiser stern, propellers, rudders, bow thrusters and bilge keels
- Superstructures with windows, bridge wings, railings, masts, antennas, anchors, bollards and mooring winches
- Boot-top stripe, draft marks, Plimsoll mark, ship name and hull numbers, all without z-fighting
- Containers and other repeated parts are instanced, so even the biggest ship rebuilds quickly
Convert to Mesh turns the result into plain meshes for export.
Requires Blender 4.2 or newer. Tested on Blender 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS.
Install in under a minute (Blender 4.2+)
- In Blender open Edit › Preferences › Get Extensions.
- Open the arrow menu at the top right and choose Install from Disk.
- Pick the downloaded zip. Do not unzip it.
Questions
Which Blender versions are supported?
Blender 4.2 and newer. It is tested on Blender 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS.
Are the ships to scale?
Yes. Everything is built in meters at the real size of each ship type, from a 30 m tug to a 400 m container ship, sitting at its design draft with the waterline at zero height.
Can I use the ships in a game engine?
Yes. Use Convert to Mesh to get plain meshes with UVs and PBR materials, set Detail to Low for fewer faces, then export as FBX or glTF.
Details
- Version
- 1.0.1
- Blender
- 4.2 or newer
- Tested on
- 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS
- Render engines
- Cycles, EEVEE
- Category
- Modeling
- Download
- 2.8 MB zip
- License
- GPL v3