Bridge Commander Universe

Shadowknight1 · **Posted**: 12-05-2005 04:24 PM

I dunno what to do with the deflector, she looks nice from my end...

But then, I love unusual deflector dishes. Razz

Paegus_v2.0 · **Posted**: 12-05-2005 06:53 PM

Started the nacelle pylons.
Re-worked the lower engineering hull a bit.
Did the aft torpedo launcher & phaser array.
Finished the main engineering hull. i use the term 'finished' very loosely. the smoothies are such a pain.

and i'm not very pleased with the overall shape of the eng hull though. it looks a bit... saugagy? idk... hopefully it'll look nicer when the nacelle pylons and impulse blocks are roughly in place.

I like how look of the initial pylons... slightly BoP-ish....

Currently at 6088 triangles... but those 2 nacelles have as many as the rest of the hull...

lost_jedi · **Posted**: 12-05-2005 07:07 PM

WEOW!

She's a beaut!

**Nebula** · **Posted**: 12-05-2005 08:50 PM

indeed she is Grin

UPD Equinox · **Posted**: 12-05-2005 10:45 PM

Hmmm... She looks really chunky! Good work, I like that. She looks really stylish from the bottom and the top back view as well. Great work!!

Paegus_v2.0 · **Posted**: 12-06-2005 01:06 AM

an idea of her scaling next to whatever sov & intrepid came with the kobayashi maru mod...
puts her at about roughly 450~460m

though comparing the 2 other ships i fail to believe that the intrepid is actually 344m as all the tech docs claim... look at the bridges. the sov's is tiny compared to the intrepid's. or the intrepid's is huge compared to the sov.
and if the intrepid is actually 344m long then her shuttle bay is around 43m wide. ~141 feet. though i suppose they needed the room to store all those fodder-shuttles...

/lol @ tv producers throwing around random numbers without actually looking at a tape measure...

Shadowknight1 · **Posted**: 12-06-2005 05:30 AM

Nice update. Smile

kaden · **Posted**: 12-06-2005 05:40 AM

are you sure the length on the intrepid is right in the modeling program? it looks way to big, this is how it should be roughly sized

gdluque · **Posted**: 12-06-2005 10:02 AM

agreed

Cpt Hooker · **Posted**: 12-06-2005 10:15 AM

looks great Grin

Paegus_v2.0 · **Posted**: 12-06-2005 03:09 PM

thanks...

Shadowknight1 · **Posted**: 12-06-2005 04:52 PM

Lookin great!

UPD Equinox · **Posted**: 12-06-2005 10:33 PM

Depending on how many polys the model already is, I would consider putting a few more in the front section of the saucer. One of the problems with lower poly models is that the saucer always looks blocky. It is of course understandable, but since its the most 'seen' part of the ship i think it would be better if you added a few in the saucer. Just my 2 Cents.

Paegus_v2.0 · **Posted**: 12-12-2005 11:12 AM

sorry for the long delay guys i've been pretty busy elsewhere and will most likely remain so for the rest of the month... should be able to get back into it in January some time.

so happy holidays and all that fun stuff...

@Equinox
yeah but i'm going to try and strip as many polies as possible while ironing out the bumps... then i'll go through it again and fix any blocky sections that annoy me.

Paegus_v2.0 · **Posted**: 01-29-2006 02:57 AM

so finally got around to updating this baby...

-finished off the saucer section using the updated majestic profile.
-trying to decide which if nicer: having the impulse engines in pods above the nacelle pylons or sovereign style on the back of the saucer.
-pretty much finished with the nacelles i think. at first i thought they where crap but the shape seems to have grown on me. any thoughts?

the main problem is the smoothing. can waste hours nudging a vertex left a bit, up a notch then right a tad... only to be right back where i started...

anywho... currently at 6169 polies and let the piccies commence...

Shadowknight1 · **Posted**: 01-29-2006 04:05 AM

Well, where are the impulse engines on the schematic of the Majestic?

And it looks top notch, better than anything I could do.

blaXXer · **Posted**: 01-29-2006 10:08 AM

moight wanna check for mesh errors and reassign certain smoothing groups.
nonetheless: fine ship you got there^^

Paegus_v2.0 · **Posted**: 01-30-2006 12:07 AM

is there a way to "check for mesh errors" other than examining things in flat and smoothed modes? they're driving me batty.

i'm using Milkshape 3D btw...

Shadowknight1 · **Posted**: 02-14-2006 04:44 AM

Any progress?

gdluque · **Posted**: 02-14-2006 05:21 AM

yes please!

Paegus · **Posted**: 02-14-2006 05:18 PM

Not much I'm afraid.
Fixing the mesh/smoothing errors was persistently kicking my behind and I'm currently busy working all the bugs out of my not so spiffy new AMD64 box that seems to be more interested in choking on navel lint than more complicated things like running STBC let alone Milkshape...

@ Impulse Engines
On the original model I started working from they are on pods located above the nacelle pylons. Quite Voyager-esk:

However a more recent rework of the model by Galen and Kaden have made them more Sovish by being on the back of the saucer section would be a bit simpler I think and I quite like the way the new dorsal phaser strips are layed out:

pS. on the plus side it seems i can log in again under my original account.
/shrug.

Shadowknight1 · **Posted**: 02-15-2006 04:51 AM

Well, good luck getting things running smoothly!

Paegus · **Posted**: 05-30-2006 12:54 AM

well i'm not sure what else i can do with this. i've tried unwrapping it with the various tutorials but for whatever reason it doesn't seem to cooperate.

if anyone is interested in giving it a proper texture, as opposed to the milkshape-applied drawings i used to build the thing that have been slapped on it for the time being, please let me know and i can send it to you in pretty much whatever format you like.

ModderMan · **Posted**: 05-30-2006 02:30 AM

Good job mate Smile

Shadowknight1 · **Posted**: 05-31-2006 01:20 AM

Looks fine to me, at least for basic textures.

bren · Commodore Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Posts: 1285

Looks good like that, but what about the impulse engine pods you were talking about?

Paegus · **Posted**: 05-31-2006 03:05 PM

someone's picked it up for texture... hopefully they won't freak out my newbish modeling methods Embarassed

redmanmark · **Posted**: 06-02-2006 04:51 PM

thought i would pay you back the respect you gave me and say bloody amazing ship, i cant believe you did such a beautiful ship in milkshape, milkshape was making want to commit suciide so i gave up and decided to learn max, i've updated my thread with more pictures. let me know what you think.

i was thinking, maybe have some nacelles on my ship likes yours? what you think?

P.S. PM and i will see if i can help you out with max and some of the video tutorials i been using

Paegus · **Posted**: 06-02-2006 11:36 PM

well i only have gmax but it's virtually the same thing anyway. there's tonnes of tutorials online i could use but the main reason i haven't really learned how to use properly it is i just don't have the time. on the other hand i've been using ms3d for yonks for editing and kitbashing so i know my way around it pretty well and decided to have a go at making something from scratch.

as for the nacelles for your ship you can use them if you like but i don't think the overall architecture quite matches. i'd go with something almost bow shaped to mirror the back of the your saucer.

UPD Equinox · **Posted**: 06-20-2006 10:31 AM

Hmmmm.... Yummy Ship! Grin