StarTrek DS9

[JeffrySG]

Wings3d has a "align to selection" which puts the current view into alignment with the normal of the selected polys, which does pretty much the same thing. I would think that in silo you might be able to rotate using the numeric tab and then just rotate back when you're done... may not be totally accurate though.

GP... I don't envy you when it comes time to texturing this beast!!! doh!!

[gpdesigner]

Jeffry I totally am with you on that . . . Urmmmmmm, I mean yep.
I have an idea of how I want to do it, been planning it for sometime now. Not every surface is going to be mapped. The underlying hulls will be mapped, and the Panels will be mapped as well, small details will not. Procedurals will have to play a huge part I am good with those.
How I plan on putting this together is still to be seen, but I am on it.
I am going to step away from this for a week and do some renders maybe, I need a break . . . plus I am planning to build an FA/18 Super Hornet so I will be gathering refs on that . . . . 3D is cool . . .
gp

[Major Diarrhia]

Originally Posted by Gareth isbannned

The station is a major economic center. During the occupation it serviced everything from freighters from all corners of the universe to the Cardies warships. I understand that it was never meant ot dock anything larger than a Cadassian Galor but in the pilot the Enterprise took up a great deal of room when it was docked at a pylon and it would have restircted the size of ships that could have docked at the other 2 pylons. Being at the edge of the wormhole it would be getting even more traffic than before and, not having any idea of the size of ships that would be just passion through, it would be a good idea to have more than 3 docking ports that could handle very large ships without restricting other ports. It would also deliver passengers and good more quickly to the promenade and been an excuse to upgrade the station's defenses since it never did get much in the way of protection from Starfleet.

I'm not suggesting the mutilation of a station by tacking on pointless extras, this would have made a lot of sense, like the equipment pods on the Nebula-class (fast refitting and a high degree of flexibility).

Or they could have just built a completely new station to defend the wormhole, with far greater defenses and docking facilities, once it became obvious how big a threat the Dominion was. DS9 could then be put back into Bajor's orbit for planetary defense and trade.

There's no point in making DS9 different, it's great the way it is. And this mesh is looking great.

[homerpalooza67]

Agreed. A few minor changes, small tweaks, etc are acceptable. Rewriting Trek canon is not...if Starfleet had the resources, they would have built a "wormhole fort" that could double as a small economic base. As it was, DS9 had to suffice.So yes, in preparation for the Dominion threat, they completley overhauled the defensive grid and power relays, upgraded the shields, weapons and installed a heckuva lot of photon torpedoes. (i dont think obrien got any sleep for an entire season ). For really massive ships that didnt have room to dock, DS9's heavy-duty transporters would be sufficient, otherwise they could use shuttles or runabouts. no need to get all carried away here

[gpdesigner]

**update**

ok . . back at it . . . I finished this first section and started on the second.
in order to save on poly's I did decide to go with a bump map for extra details that will fill in the open spaces on the sensor shelf . . this will make it look a little more busy as far as overlapping details (tobian), I will have to see how the bump mapping affects the look . .
gp

[Lonewriter]

It's looking really good. I agree with homer about the small tweaks that should have been done to the station (not your mesh) I always thought they should have placed the docking ports facing outwards instead of facing inwards. (I hoope that makes sense)

[Starship]

Now it's perfect GP.

[deg3D]

I love this mesh dude, great job.

deg

[tobian]

Looking pretty good now, though if you can have more things overlap, to avoid it looking like you just placed some objects into an empty triangle to fill it.

That said you have inspired me to do more greebling, but it'll have to wait till next week now

[twinflamec]

gpdesigner: It is incredible work. I wish I knew how to do that