Detailed model of a Westland Sea King HAR.3 as used by the Royal Air Force for search and rescue.

Geometry and Rigging

The model consists of 651,396 faces with 665,024 vertices. There are four separate meshes (main fuselage, exterior parts, interior parts, and lights and glass elements) on a single armature with 78 bones in total.

19 control bones allow animation of the undercarriage, camera pod, rotors, and the cockpit controls. There are also 3 pre-rigged controls that animate the windscreen wipers and the two doors opening and closing.

(See the linked YouTube video for more details)

Materials and Textures

Each of the four meshes has a separate material fully UV unwrapped with non-overlapping UVs for each material. Each PBR materials comes with colour, metallic, roughness, normal, and ambient occlusion texture maps; the lights and glass material also includes transparency and emission maps. The fuselage colour and normal maps are 8k, the other maps for the fuselage, exterior parts, and interior parts are 4k, all the lights and glass textures are 1k.

The materials were designed and created in Blender for use with Cycles but the should work in any renderer that supports the PBR metallic workflow.