ship of the stars

[bojangles]

oh yeah, fanks for all the comments by the way

[Elowan]

Originally Posted by bojangles

wassup Peeps,
seems like ages since i posted last (again!!!!) My excuse this time is that some some busted geometry had broken mental ray. I've had the painful task of checking and cleaning all the geo and importing it into another scene where the render works.

Anywhoo these are the first renders in the new set up. Because i have been debugging, i've spent silly amounts of time on these cannons (rapid-fire anti interceptor cannons) whilst ive been fixing things.

Bitch, bitch, bitch.

[bojangles]

yeah yeah, well i was going mad with a scene set up that had seemingly worked then didnt

I trawled the net and although this problem (internal exception, scene cleanup exception) seems to be common theres no accepted cure, aside from what ive done. At one point i printed out the mental ray output window but that got to 140 pages and i gave up.

I do remember someone asking me what render settings i used and when i have time i'll print them up, although i basically followed the FG/GI tutorial on Interstation, which is a good tut, gives u an idea about what does what. So my current set up is fake GI dome with a keylight but its all coming out lovely now. I did bump up the AA last night on a test and it only adds another 3 mins to the render (about 12 mins with photon emmision and the rest of it) .I havnt got a clue what that will mean when i get the rest of the geo imported but i was hitting 30+ mins a render on the old set up.

ah well, good things come to those that wait

[jason33w]

All I have to say it that is, by far, the best model I have seen on this site! How much time have you put into this? Screw all those Trekkie models! This blows them out of the water!

[bojangles]

Thank you. I dont know about the "best" model, but....well heheheheheh no comment

I started this with the engines in late July last year. I dont really get that much spare time but with crazy late nights and stolen weekends i reckon ive done a minimum of 10 hours a week, on average, since then. If you tot it up its gotta be roughly 1 to 1 1/2 months straight work. And i think im only half way there.

[bojangles]

a third of the way there


i've been counting


probably only a quarter if u count painting and lighting

oh it's gonna take ages

[Silverblade-T-E]

Reminds me of the GOOD model work of the 70s and 80s films....mmmm
Definately needs and deserves to be animated when finished!

[Annihilator]

this is a hell of a model you got there. looks like a real warship.

the shape and weapon arrangement reminds me a little bit of a Kushan attack frigate.

[JeffrySG]

Love all the great updates you've had here! Great designs!!

[SoberStoner1978]

Comin' in late, but gotta say I love those boom sticks. And the ship is lookin' pretty good too. Can't wait for more pics.