Illustrious : original Battleship.

[Larsen]

Yeah Choo uhmm... you know stealing other peoples wip renders, is just about as low as one would get... I've seen this and so have alot of other people, ov at Erics site you know

Sweet work tho... you're defenatly going by this the right way... getting a lowpoly model to BEHAVE nicely can be tricky But you seem to have pulled that off nicely

I really don't think you need that much more detail on the nose mate... you have to animate this afterall.

[Choo1701]

curse you and your inevitable betrayl!!! you meddling kids have found me out!!

anyway:

Random update detail time. After seeing Jedilaw's SD thread i thought "how hard could it be to add details and greebles?". So...i er....well sort of did (oh, and spot the teapot ). Kind of basic, but it adds something to the area. Oh, and after realizing that the 3D text really hit the render time, i'm going to texture the ship's name (gotta animate this huge ship after all)

Oh, btw: larsen, and everyone actually, how the hell do you guys get the little corner logos/pictures in our renders?

anyway: cheers all

[Lord Erisu]

Its called Layers... Well, for me anyway, just whack it in photoshop, put a layer on top, then save... if there is another way, well, I'd like to hear it.

[Freak]

some nice deatils there Choo

[Choo1701]

ENGINES!!!

yep, seems the best ideas are the simplist. The shapes basically a bell engine inside a tube. And i thought the engines would be a right pain in the behind (oh, and the little block dead centre at the top is Steve, the 6ft scale guy.) These puppies are BIG. (And they cook a christmas turkey in under 0.00001 of a second! )

Oh, and thank Tovette for the ship's new motto: "This thing pisses bullets!" (cause of all the guns that will be dotted around her surface) Cheers Dude

oh, and odd request: does anyone know the length of the new Galactica in miles? i really want to do a comparision pic to show how long she really is. Any help would be great

As always, comments, questions and tips are welcome.

[Tovette]

Great update! Like your start to the greebles

The Galactica is between a 1/4 and 1/2 mile I believe but I could be totally off also..

[Freak]

Thosse engine are BIG!

[Choo1701]

Engines are DONE! HURRAH!! now for the rest of the ship....

Okay, lots of engines yes, but also the ship does have an FTL drive. Hoping to make it sort of Back to the Future style (without the flaming tire tracks...), with the ship activating the engines at full burn.

Going so fast for a second the slame into some scientific subspace mumbo jumbo, like a hammer, dissapearing in a flash and then reappearing at their destination in a similar flash, although a lot slower cause their energy was used up breaking subspace (yeah, i don't get science either. Just tend to make it up as i go along )

Oh, and just a poly count so far, and a few pictures compaing the Illustrious to the Big G. Looks like that mile and a half long claims gone out the window

Questions, comments and anything else is always helpful and much appreciated (money even more so! )

[Pyrocitor]

Nice

I like the design, i think the underside and the engines are very cool
I'm not to sure about the number of guns on it though, kinda makes it look like your compensating for something

[Freak]

The engines are really kick ass!