40 Ton Aircraft Jack

Hello! This is an asset I made during my time as a Senior 3D Artist at Mass Virtual, for Virtual Hangar.

This particular asset is an Aircraft Jack, which is used just as an automobile jack is used, beneath numerous jacking points on the aircraft to lift the body off the ground and taking pressure off the wheels.

Since this asset was interacted with by the student, various parts have been modeled to be able to move. There are numerous parts that repeat throughout, so each repeating part shares one zone in the texture set to increase texel density. This includes the wheels, as well as the arms, one of which has unique text not shared by the other two. Rather than give those UV shells their own areas in the UV space, I modeled the text and floated it over the arm, saving a sizable part of the texture space.