The name for the Vito Mothership III comes from the in-lore name of the pizza chain, Vito's pizza. Why is it the third? Just because.

A core feature of the ship are the three stations that surround the player, which can be rotated to suit the needs of what task needs to be done. In front of the user are two stationary screens, one to display a view of the outside environment and the other to display tasks and fuel. To the left is an oven, which stores the medical supply kit between station switches.

From base design concept to the final model, most of what that player sees in the mothership was hand modeled and textured in Maya and Substance Painter. Design-wise, our focus was to emulate the bronze and silver plating you would find in a traditional pizzeria, combined with the piping and controls you may visualize when thinking of a futuristic ship.

Environment

To solve an issue of having a finite world. I built a globe comprised of building clusters, in which are only 6 modular structures. For extra effect, I added 3 concentric spheres with an alpha texture. By adding a slow, random rotation to these concentric spheres, I could simulate surface fog. In addition, the player's ship is placed within a textured sphere to simulate the sky and clouds in the horizon.

By making the environment a sphere, we can also simulate the player moving forward by rotating the globe toward the user's view. In an effort to reduce the amount of unnecessary objects being rendered at a time, I added a trigger area so buildings out of view remain inactive.