Bridge Commander Universe

**Armondikov** · **Posted**: 09-29-2006 12:40 AM

No excuses for not knowing what this is.
This baby is on fire, and it's going to fly very nicely when it's done.

I'll admit that I'm following a very well written tutorial that covers the whole construction of the thing and includes some very nice refference images. Mostly, I'm following it just so I can get the detail right and not miss anything.

**Armondikov** · **Posted**: 09-29-2006 02:15 AM

A little extra detail and the beginnings of an animation.

Kori Barnes · **Posted**: 09-29-2006 04:35 PM

Umm what is it? lol what ever it is that a good modeling job.

MLeo · **Posted**: 09-29-2006 04:38 PM

It's the engine from FireFly, if I'm not mistaken.

**Armondikov** · **Posted**: 09-29-2006 05:22 PM

Yep. Going swimmingly so far.

**Raven Night** · **Posted**: 09-29-2006 06:31 PM

Excellent work as usual. Excellent choice in a ship too hehe.

**RCgothic** · **Posted**: 09-30-2006 05:13 PM

that does look awesome. THough what's really going to get ya is that there are at least three different canon versions of this ship, heh.

**Armondikov** · **Posted**: 09-30-2006 06:29 PM

Movie and series. Not sure what you mean by three different ones. Either way, this is the higher detail Serenity version.

Most of the differences are pretty minor actually. The movie version has improved textures and is more grey in appearence compared to the yellow/brown version in the series. The other major difference is in the engines, the one in the series is a relatively plain cylinder, the movie one is greebled up to the max and is going to be pretty difficult to do.

[UFDF] EAGLE · Ensign Age: 18 Zodiac: Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 141

that to me looks like an engin of a pod racer (star wars episode 1)

Kori Barnes · **Posted**: 09-30-2006 11:15 PM

ooo FireFly ha loves the Movie only seen one ep of the series i'll need to rent the episodes if i can find apalce thqat does have them.

**Armondikov** · **Posted**: 10-02-2006 10:28 AM

These leg struts are a complete bitch. They seem to be completely different from one version to the next and the overall shape seems to have been made up on the spot, making it very, very difficult to replicate. I've got it good enough for my purposes but I'm sure I'd get kicked in the nuts if I were posting on SFM or some other site that is equally anal.

**Raven Night** · **Posted**: 10-02-2006 03:53 PM

I think its a beautiful job....I need to get the infinity game mesh finished lol.

**Armondikov** · **Posted**: 10-02-2006 04:17 PM

Oh yeah, that... I think I'll do that from scratch. I've said before but it's true, I'm about 10x better than I was when I did it the first time round.

**Armondikov** · **Posted**: 10-02-2006 07:27 PM

Finished the arse section. Though technically I still have the grav ring to go, I'm calling it a night for now.

**Raven Night** · **Posted**: 10-03-2006 08:08 AM

tiqhud · **Posted**: 10-03-2006 01:19 PM

nice very nice,

but what is the poly count, that is if you plan on using it for BC , but if not the poly count does not make a whole lot of differrence

**RCgothic** · **Posted**: 10-03-2006 03:34 PM

I'd expect the poly count to be at about 100k so far at least.

This is most definately not intended for BC. This thing is barely much larger than a shuttlecraft,if it was intended for BC it could probably be done in about 8k polys and look ok.

Armonds: 2 series versions, one with only one wide reactor leg and a differently shaped cargo hold.

The film version has landing claws as opposed to simple struts and the front ramp had been modified quite substantially.

**Armondikov** · **Posted**: 10-04-2006 06:50 PM

115k actually. In theory, BC on a decent computer could run this if I optimised the crap out of it and ran it without textures (these are far more problematic than polygons in-game). The qemLOSS2 tool is pretty good at slicing the poly count in half without losing detail.

**Armondikov** · **Posted**: 10-05-2006 03:59 PM

Finished the grav ring and the whole arse end. Now for the fun bit!!

**Armondikov** · **Posted**: 10-05-2006 04:00 PM

P.S. The glows are horrible, I'm still fiddling with them.

**Armondikov** · **Posted**: 10-23-2006 04:13 PM

Done the engines. Working on the wing bits.

**RCgothic** · **Posted**: 10-23-2006 04:19 PM

Nice. I'm assuming you did one engine and then mirrored it?

**Armondikov** · **Posted**: 10-24-2006 12:23 AM

Like I'm going to do that f**ker twice...

**RCgothic** · **Posted**: 10-24-2006 08:51 AM

Talk about my stupid questions... Rolling Eyes

It's looking good.

**Armondikov** · **Posted**: 10-24-2006 12:14 PM

I'm going to get as far with the mesh as the legs, which are the first parts of the texturing tutorial, then I'll switch to some 2D for a change. I'm busy and not feeling the 3D work at the moment. It comes in waves.

**Armondikov** · **Posted**: 11-06-2006 01:59 PM

Did a small amount. The wings are now finished, with a little more jiggling around with small pieces they should be able to be animated. The next step is the main hull so the next bit of progress should be far more visible.

**RCgothic** · **Posted**: 11-06-2006 04:27 PM

cool, looking very sweet. Array is another one of my favourite tools...

**Armondikov** · **Posted**: 11-06-2006 06:22 PM

I've started using the Array tool more than the clone tool now since it works out the angles automatically. Not as versitile as the full cloning options but since these are full circles, it does it a little quicker.

**Armondikov** · **Posted**: 11-06-2006 09:28 PM

Started one the mess hall dome. Not much to look at but it's pretty damn awkward to do. At least it's beginning to take shape.

It could just be me, but the windows may look a little small. There is more to go around there and those are exactly what the schematics said, so bear with me for the time being on that.

**Nebula** · **Posted**: 11-06-2006 11:03 PM

WOW that looks great Grin