MDS Ship Ideas

[chrono]

Originally Posted by cavebear

chrono,

I didn't know that about using Self-Lumience Materials But I did try it out in my Iron Sun Carrier for the main engines (just a quick render, didn't save it) and it looked really good.

Oh you can still use it but you have to use it smartly. Try using a single plane behind the multiple light stripes instead of using the material on the light stripes. So instead of dozens of polygons your only using 2.

Try a simple sphere & plane test.

[Dannage]

Four ships-shmips... I've rendered fleet flybys and the whole render took less than eleven hours.

And with my inefficient modelling, I find I have about 400,000 faces where a proper modeller would have about 6, heh heh... In any case, hope something makes those render times come down, or we'll never see more detail outta ye!

[cavebear]

Well started to make a shuttle craft to get from place to place inside of a solar system. Ship to ship transfer etc. Not a small ship though. Got to come up with some smaller ones too.

I upgraded SketchUp to the newest free version and reinstalled all my plug ins and it works better now.

[cavebear]

Decided to work on the MDS Compassion Hospital Ship again. Started with the to of the ship. The two reverse arches were easy. It was the connecting structure that was a nightmare. I had to do everything by hand as it was composed of concave structures.

[cavebear]

And a couple more.

[cavebear]

Haven't posted in a while but I have been busy making greebles after getting some inspiration from Thor Danielson's nurnies packs. I can't use them in SketchUp but I could use the provided jpg's and try to make them for my self with lots of differences as SketchUp just can'd do what his program can.

But the only pic I am putting up tonight is a greatly enhanced antenna array that I am using on the Iron Sun. I finally figured out how to mirror an item too so I mad a left and a right one.

I plan on deleting the old ones (identical as I had yet to mirror them) on the Iron Sun and putting in the new ones.

Also did a lot more on the Hospital ship but have yet to render a pic of it. Been learning a ton of stuff that has made things go a lot smoother and easier. But still a lot more to learn.

[cavebear]

Been a while but I have been very busy trying a lot of stuff out. Learning more and more. But I had an idea at work and so started to work an a module system.

So far I have an agri mod, cryo mod, non-cryo mod, plug mod and am working on a passenger mod. Still have to design a command (bridge) mod, engineering/drive mod. Other ideas are for small craft hangar mod, defensive platform mod, Q-ship mod and a station mod that if I do it right will plug in 8 mods around it which then can be extended. Built fast and at a low cost and even YOUR system can afford to have its own modular space station. Great for inner system travel or long distance hyper travel.

[Ice-Dragon]

I like your new ship, very interesting.

[cavebear]

Thanks

[cavebear]

Did some more on the Module ship design. C&C wanted.