Wow! Golly Gee wiz! *blushing* You guys sure know how to make a guy feel good, AND how to embarrass the sh*t out of him too.
Ok, I feel better about my stuff now. I never realized it was really that good. Good for me yeah, but not so much compared to you guys. It's just that what I can model and what I can imagine are two different things. I have a very vivid imagination, and my mind is always running at Warp 9.99, coupled with a lack of patience makes it very hard to get anything done. Which is why I am still using Bryce and not something better. I am however, building a model repetroi using the Export function in Bryce. I found that exporting entire ships created a lot of errors, so I am only doing small pieces at a time. The good thing is that, I can export to 3ds, dxf, lws, cob and obj formats. So if I can get everything exported for a ship, and learn any of the higher end programs, I can import all those models and then assemble them into a ship. It's yet another good reason to have some common elements in my designs, reduced work load.
So, if anyone wants any of my parts, just ask. I'll just say no and laugh at you.
LOL! JUST KIDDING!!! I'd be glad to have you use them, with credit if they're used of course. Don't mind me, I've been sipping Goldschlagger all day, it is my only day off after all. Earlier this week I stayed at work 35.5 hours straight. Got home yesturday and was out cold by 7:15pm, until about 8 this morning. Totally zonked out BIG TIME!
Anyways.....been working on something while on the metro train and during lunch/dinner breaks or whenever there was nothing to do and the boss wasn't there to think something up. I decided to make a somewhat smaller ship in the same vein as the Prometheus, but still different. I know I have the Copernicus class, but that was a science ship. I wanted something more like the Prommy, in that it would be a more general purpose ship and not so specialized. So here we go, I call it the Europa class. It's about 60% the size of the Prometheus. Same type of armaments, rail guns (~14) and missles (12 tubes). Standard shields and hyperdrive and sublight engines. But no hangar bays. Smaller crew, only about 70. I also envision this as a joint venture between the UK, Canada and Australia with support by the US SGC. It would have come online not long after the the Russians launched their own ships, the Tolstoy and Vostok classes I made earlier. As such, each participant would have their own production facility crewed by people from the joint adventure. But the first example would be built at Area 51 so that all the participating countries could get uniform training/experience and the construction would go extremely fast, (with that many people working on it). Of course, France, Germany and China were quite miffed at being left out of the project.
Enough writing for now. I'm sure you are tired of my long winded-ness.
So here she is, the Europa. Only about 50% done. By the way, what do you guys think of the texture? C&C?!?!?!