-= MadKoiFish's Trek Crap :p =-

[MadKoiFish]

This thread is my sepository of all Trek crap. If it is mine and it is trek it will be here.

Ok I am considering merging all my projects into one thread. Untill I decide all my small projects will go here. To start off I will post some really early work on a Dock I am working on to go with my Onimaru ship. I do not know how much I will follow the dock seen in Nemesis or not since others have made this in Max and a really accurate one in LW. ( I havent found the latter mesh but have had little luck in converting LW since my copy is so OLD it rarely opens files) Anyhoo its the early stages on this one. Tackling this in a slightly diffrent approch due to the shapes of the thing.

Hardest thing is not modeling a mpeg artifact into this. . and some inner details since most of the underside inner areas are not visable in the film. So Im having to refrence a few of the LW model images I have and winging it.

To note all the arms and things I will be modeling flat at first to allow me to map them easily. I might change the way I do this later if it fails by mapping the dieses as curved obj instead of letting it warp. Either way its a mess around thing.

edit: btw this doesnt mean I have quit on the other prj just a bit of a detour . . . . .

note below is icon image IE its junk small please move on ---->

new crap at the end----->

[Eoraptor]

well, I for one am always happy to find support vessels and stations... too many people make just ships and leave it to those of us with lesser modeling skills to scrounge up backgrounds to fill the scenes with not to bite the hand that feeds me ya know. am just sayin there's more in space than ship and hubble Space telescope backgrounds

[seanr]

Originally Posted by Eoraptor

well, I for one am always happy to find support vessels and stations... too many people make just ships and leave it to those of us with lesser modeling skills to scrounge up backgrounds to fill the scenes with not to bite the hand that feeds me ya know. am just sayin there's more in space than ship and hubble Space telescope backgrounds

Your goal, then, should be to develop your skills to the point where you are able to make those kinds of things yourself. Start with something simple like a work bee or a cargo pod and work your way up.

Looking good, MKF

[Aresius]

MKF, you seem to like to have 3 meshes on the run, do ya?

it's good one, looking forward for more...

[Melak]

This is gonna be interesting! Will you detail it as much as the Onimaru?
I'll be watching this anyway, very exciting, just like all your other work

[scifieric]

How is it that you make even a brace look interesting?

[Lonewriter]

looks like you have another thread for me to keep track of. Eoraptor is right, to many people only make ships. I would like to see Vanguard Station made. It's too complicated for me to try it for now. I'm making a plaque.

[MadKoiFish]

Small update. This part has taken so much time mostly because all 3 of the 3d fandocks have this diffrent and the dvdcaps I made look completely diffrent as well. lol
The area with the white arrow in some scenes looks like this others its more rounded off. IE chamfer that ahrd edge a few times. I decided on the latter (not in my samples here) The green arrow shows where I farked up by not paying attention to the dvd caps. There is a inset area flowing across here. So Ill either take liberties here or remodel that area with some greif since everything there is chamfered already :O
Anyhoo small update.
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Idea detail wise is to allow thois to be used with the Onimaru in close up so Itll have quite a bit of detail. I will prolly texture some of it vs modeling though. But time will tell. I plan on making 2 of these one for the Ambassador era and this one. Which I have yet to decide if I will copy the film one as close as possible or take liberties. Pressure so far is for the latter. Plan is to release this mesh as well. So Im shooting for a sub 200k mesh.

EDIT old OP images moved to allow a OP image in the forum.
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[Aresius]

nice one... I'd say leave these areas like they are now... A bit of your changings make it start to be unique...

[MadKoiFish]

I have decided to take a few liberties. I will be making some things more like the original concept with ti being a modular system. The one from the film had this big ass scoop thing that docked directly into the Soverign's upper docking bay. Something that ISNT consistant with any other FED design. SO I will make ajustments there and in a few other places.

The update more of a real update. I started working on the habatat sections of the dock. Note on the original each fo these sections has a outer docking hatch and the windows serve no purpose other than rooms for the staff of the dock.
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As one can see Im detailing parts as I go adding in things like the window boxes early on. NOTE as well the maps are from the Balmung, the entirly wrong era and way off scale. These windows are a much diffrent scale than the maps used, its just to give something to look at. As well the window boxes are just adding 3 polies so no worries about adding extra weight to the mesh.