Research on Yacht Design Method Based on Game Engine

This paper presents a new yacht design methodology that applies the game engine to the yacht design phase to address the communication between the designer and the terminal customer (ship owner). Also, this paper evaluates and achieves the interaction and visualization through the integration between the game engine and the yacht’s early design stage, which can improve communication efficiency of the yacht design standards and related norms between the designer and ship owner. The thinking way of ship owner is incorporated into the game engine prototype development, which can inspire the designer to improve work efficiency in turn. This paper introduces a new design method and theory framework, the development of prototype and use case demonstration, discusses preliminary evaluation and user feedback and makes further improvement of the development prototype.