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Starship

4th Sep 2006, 01:34

Since I have a lot of wip's going together and all of them will take some time to finish, I believe that's a good option to reunite all of them in just one thread. As lennier does...:)
Other thing that makes me to take this decision, is the fact that I have just a small free time to play with 3d. By this way, I'll have just one thread to update, and you won't see so many outdated threads from me. ;)
Let me stop to write for now. Here it goes ALL OF MY WIP'S.... :D

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Starship

4th Sep 2006, 01:37

First one:
USS ENTERPRISE-B. A mesh conversion from the one made by Dr-Timelord in Blender...

Mesh Finished and pics removed

Starship

4th Sep 2006, 01:44

Second one:
USS BRATTAIN. A mesh conversion from the one made by Ian Bremner in Lightwave...

Starship

4th Sep 2006, 01:46

Third one:
USS PREDATOR. My own design. ;)

Starship

4th Sep 2006, 01:53

One more:
USS DRUSUS. Another design from my own, inspired by an old one made by Searn. :)

Starship

4th Sep 2006, 01:57

A Romulan ship:
The Cormorant. A design from my own.

Starship

4th Sep 2006, 02:14

A texture work to do:
USS PREMONITION. Mesh made by Joscha Heusohn. Excuse me the long waiting...

Starship

4th Sep 2006, 02:18

Something original:
VERCELLI. A Transport ship from my own.

Starship

4th Sep 2006, 02:24

From Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (do you remember?):
The SEARCHER. Still a lot to go.

Starship

4th Sep 2006, 02:37

And the last one:
Mamooth Class Runabout.. A conversion from the original made by Borgman in SketchUp. Great mesh !

I still have other wip's, but can't show them at the actual stage...:p

admiral horton

4th Sep 2006, 04:12

i have to say some are good and need a little work some are not good and need a lot of work

Starship

24th Sep 2006, 23:43

Ok, I'm back.
Since my conversion had some saucer errors, I decided to do a new saucer.

Mesh finished and pics removed

Starship

9th Oct 2006, 03:19

Finally I got some free time...
Dr-Timelord, as I promised, some changes were made. A new saucer and details around the bridge. ;)
Playing with textures a bit too. :)

Mesh finished and pics removed

Starship

9th Nov 2006, 23:36

Ok, I got another conversion to play...:p

Ozylot's Neadah. The conversion turnned fine, no errors at all ! I expect to got some free time this weekend and play with Timerlord's Ent-B again. ;)
In the meantime, two shoots of Ozylot's Neadah. :)

Ozylot

9th Nov 2006, 23:57

Cool!! looks like it imported very well. Good to see some of the other wips too!

Doble

15th Nov 2006, 08:35

Woah you have been busy, I really like the Premonition :D

scaramanga

15th Nov 2006, 13:27

Woah you have been busy, I really like the Premonition :D

Isn't that a ship from Armada?

Starship

26th Nov 2006, 18:33

Isn't that a ship from Armada?

Yes, she is. But the mesh that I got isn't a low poly... :)

before the crash, SFM has a Buck Rogers' mesh area. There, I had hosted two of my conversions: The starfighter (original by Crimsonline) and the Draconian Marauder (original by H. Gibbens). I could upload the conversions again, in a new BR's section. :D Thinking about it, I present you the BR's banner.
Hey Aceman, would you make the BR's download area available again ? :idea:

The BR section is there. Pic removed

Dr-Timelord

7th Dec 2006, 15:57

some pretty cool work getting done with the 'B' there

Darth Malice

7th Dec 2006, 16:13

Whoa you got a lot on your plate there Starship. Nice work on the searcher. CL`s starfighter was some fine work too. Are you gonna texture it? If I remember correctly he wasn`t comfortable with texture in Blender and decided to leave it as a base material.

I like the Premonition on the first page very much. Cant wait to see some work on that... Nice work to everyone else too. There are some fine meshes there...:thumb:

Dr-Timelord

8th Dec 2006, 11:17

Did u make some chances to the secondary Hull? i can't really tell in these screenshots

Starship

8th Dec 2006, 15:46

Hi friends! Thanks for the kind words.

I´ve been busy at work...:( and I have a little girl, 03 years old, claiming for my attention too. So, still, working slowlly with 3DS Max.:p

Darth Malice - The starfighter received the original insignia and color stripes over the catamarans. Over the body´s mesh, just max colors. I belive that is pretty cool, you´ll see. ;)

Dr. Timelord - I made some changes over the secondary hull. I got two lightwave versions too, which I used as a reference. Hopefully you´ll show you some progress next weekend.

Darth Malice

8th Dec 2006, 16:01

Cool, looking forward to it...:thumb:

Stargate-Fan

8th Dec 2006, 16:28

nice :)

Starship

17th Dec 2006, 19:12

I got some free time, and worked on Borgman's Mamooth Class Runabout. Still a lot of faces to be flipped manually... :runs:

Starship

17th Dec 2006, 21:24

Updates on the Timelord's Enterprise-B too. A lot of smoothing errors over the secondary hull. :shiner: Suggestions to correct them ?

Mesh finished and pics removed

BorgMan

17th Dec 2006, 21:59

YAY! ^_^ I was alreadywondering if you paid some attention to it. Let me know if you need a better model, I'm prepared to do the flipping myself so that I can change the interior a bit too :)

Ainur

17th Dec 2006, 22:21

Wow, that's a lot of WIP. Pick one! lol.

They looks mostly good to me. Some of them are farther along than others obviously but still good. I love the shape of that Romulan one.

Starship

17th Dec 2006, 22:58

YAY! ^_^ I was alreadywondering if you paid some attention to it. Let me know if you need a better model, I'm prepared to do the flipping myself so that I can change the interior a bit too :)

The model is excellent! As you can see, just the insets are missing. Therefore, I'll need some time to manually correct them. I was toying about to texture the interior when finished with the exterior. This will be a hard mission, no doubt. :) What are you planning to change in the interior ?

BorgMan

18th Dec 2006, 09:44

Well the original idea was that the little raised platform was non-symetrical. Give me a few days :)

Dr-Timelord

18th Dec 2006, 17:28

I'm probably shooting myself in the foot, but i don't remember making the Ent-B THAT detailed, it looks incredable, you've really managed to bring out the detail in the model

http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/attachments/3d-wips/21923d1166390674-all-my-wips-entb-7.jpg

I can see those nose problems again lol, but i had to rebuilt it about two or three times until i beat them out. I'm pretty sure the prog you're using wil have better smoothing and curving options than blender, might whan to try out different way,

If not, you have my permission to cut and shape, to try and fit it better.

http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/attachments/3d-wips/21922d1166390637-all-my-wips-entb-6.jpg

Looks like you're missing a few faces, which explains the holes lol just fill em in as best you see fit.

I have trust in you lol

http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/attachments/3d-wips/21924d1166390690-all-my-wips-entb-8.jpg

where's the shuttle bay gone? lol

Starship

20th Dec 2006, 19:37

I'm probably shooting myself in the foot, but i don't remember making the Ent-B THAT detailed, it looks incredable, you've really managed to bring out the detail in the model.
Nothing was added by me until now. I redid the saucer, just it. Don´t shoot yourself in the foot. ;)

I can see those nose problems again lol, but i had to rebuilt it about two or three times until i beat them out. I'm pretty sure the prog you're using wil have better smoothing and curving options than blender, might whan to try out different way, If not, you have my permission to cut and shape, to try and fit it better.
I´m trying, but, still didn´t got success... :shiner:

Looks like you're missing a few faces, which explains the holes lol just fill em in as best you see fit.
Just some wrong moving of pollys. I´ll correct that ;)

I have trust in you lol
Thank you Master !!!!:D :D

where's the shuttle bay gone? lol
A weird "cap holes" error... I´ll correct that too. ;)

Starship

24th Dec 2006, 02:20

I got another mesh to convert....:shiner: :runs:
Lt. Carter's Sculpin. Thanks friend !
This will be hard to fix... A lot of pollys to be flipped manually....

Lt.Carter

29th Dec 2006, 21:41

Thanks for the PM Starship. Sorry i use a program that works with double sided poly's, it doesn't seem to be a useful aspect. It may be just me but it seems to look better in max. And thank you again for taking on this project.

Dr-Timelord

6th Jan 2007, 16:08

so what's new with this? :D

Darth Malice

6th Jan 2007, 22:12

Wow!, what more can I say. Keep it up man...:thumb:

Starship

8th Jan 2007, 14:30

so what's new with this? :D

The max conversion wasn´t so good. :) I´m still trying to correct the smooth errors over the socondary hull... :(
Hopefully, I´ll have a better lucky this week. If so, will show you some progress. ;)

Dr-Timelord

8th Jan 2007, 17:12

exodus2310

11th Jan 2007, 14:35

You talking to me...?

Starship

11th Jan 2007, 16:05

You talking to me...?

:confused: :confused: :confused:

Dr-Timelord

12th Jan 2007, 11:14

since i've got my laptop, i've been able to go over and re-touch and add bits here n there on Ent_B

But you've given me the urge to get stuck back into it, and also how close/not close does that mesh look in ST: Legacy?

General Statement.

Towards the end, some things on the Ent-B were rushed, so i'll be able to go back in and re do them. ( like the shuttlebay)

Most of it is Texture work. I'm not sayin i'm unhappy with what i put out there. Cos Starship is making an awesome conversion of this mesh.

P.s can someone link me to that website which is loaded with Excelsior Refit pics.. i know there is one, but i forgot the address

exodus2310

12th Jan 2007, 22:05

Sorry, Starship. Timelord does CG images for a project of mine called Legacy so I thought he might be talking to me.

Dr-Timelord

18th Jan 2007, 11:27

So Starship.

how are all your reftis going?

Starship

18th Jan 2007, 23:27

So Starship.

how are all your reftis going?

Buzy with real life... I´m involved in to many Projects with my TI Department... I need a break from something, or I´ll go crazy...:shiner: :( :help:

Starship

27th Jan 2007, 23:54

Finally I got some free time. :D

Looks like I'm out of those errors over the ship's nose and deflector. ;)

Mesh finished and pics removed

Dr-Timelord

29th Jan 2007, 04:15

Looking good , Starship :D

Starship

8th Mar 2007, 06:44

I'm back to my conversions again. Vacation is a blessing... :D

Enterprise-B conversion was updated.
I added new neck and impulse engines, also worked on the smoothing errors over the secondary hull.

Mesh finished and pics removed

Starship

20th Mar 2007, 03:24

Update time for the Enterprise-B;) There are still a lot to do...

The updates:
- new neck
- neck connection with the saucer. I found a good way to do the identation.
- the small red rectangles over the saucer
- naceles' front (the blue bussards)
- impulse engines
- the "old" impulse engine (blue one)
- deflector
- temp texture over the impulse engines
- some missing pollys manually replaced.

Hope that you like. ;)

Mesh finished and pics removed

Dr-Timelord

20th Mar 2007, 16:01

Starship

21st Mar 2007, 00:11

This is looking awesome :D
Those impulse engines on the saucer section is looking awesome, you've added grid lines :)
This looking awesome, great work
you gotta send me a copy of this once you're done

Thanks for the kind words. Surelly I'll send you a copy. :thumb:
If you don't mind, I can upload it to SFM when finished. ;)

Dr-Timelord

21st Mar 2007, 22:18

Sounds like an idea.

are you going to re-texturise and lighting rigs too?

Starship

22nd Mar 2007, 00:21

Sounds like an idea.
are you going to re-texturise and lighting rigs too?

It's my intention.;)

Dr-Timelord

22nd Mar 2007, 03:17

sweet, its too bad that when if i bring the mesh back into blender, that i can't save the lighting rigs etc too.

Unless after you're done, you can give me positions of the lights etc :D

there is one small...detail...you might be able to do in your prog that i could not.

You'll notice that the ship name and registry is missing from the rear of the nacelles, think you might be able to help out with that?

You're well on your way to making this look ten times better that it looks right now, after the lighting rig etc that you'll do, how can i claim credit that i designed it, when you're doing such a great job on it

Dr-Timelord

27th Mar 2007, 14:14

bump :D

Starship

27th Mar 2007, 19:57

sweet, its too bad that when if i bring the mesh back into blender, that i can't save the lighting rigs etc too.
Unless after you're done, you can give me positions of the lights etc :D

I can do a render and mark the places in red. No problem. ;)

there is one small...detail...you might be able to do in your prog that i could not. You'll notice that the ship name and registry is mie and registry is missing from the rear of the nacelles, think you might be able to help out with that?

I´ll add that too.

You're well on y1]
You're well on your way to making this look ten times better that it looks right now, after the lighting rig etc that you'll do, how can i claim credit that i designed it, when you're doing such a great job on it

Thanks for the kind words, but don´t shoot yourself on the floor! The mesh IS your creation. I´m just putting some details here and there and changing what was corrupted by conversion process.;)
About news, I don´t have nothing so good to show. I worked on smoothing errors over the secondary hull, welded some verts, changed a bit the blue bussards, added some missing pollys, details and did some texture tests.
It´s my intention too, add new windows, but I need to test if shapemerge or booleans won´t ruin the mesh...
The bad new is that my vacation has ended...:(
Wait for updates between friday and sunday. ;)

Starship

29th Mar 2007, 12:13

Yeah... BAD NEWS.... I got a failure in my PC. Maybe the motherboard. :(
So, until I figure what needs to be replaced and got my PC running again, won´t be updates.:(

Hopefully, I´ll be back soon. :)

Dr-Timelord

4th Apr 2007, 00:25

ah well. hope it all goes well, just don't frighten me with stuff like

i've lost the mesh :S

Starship

15th Apr 2007, 23:10

ah well. hope it all goes well, just don't frighten me with stuff like
i've lost the mesh :S

The mesh is save, don't worry. The trouble was a damaged video card.;)
Update time. Not much to show, just small things. ;)
- Green rings
- better smooth over the secondary hull
- impulse engines
- modelled thrusters
I'll be out for one week, so, new updates will come just in the next weekend.
Hope that you like. :)

Mesh finished and pics removed

cooloneinca 2224

16th Apr 2007, 00:07

a wee bit dark
but it still is cool

Dr-Timelord

17th Apr 2007, 11:50

Looking good starship, i'm liking the new impulse engines and thrusters, good work on the 2ndary hull :)

Starship

22nd Apr 2007, 19:29

No news about modelling yet. I'm adding windows to the saucer, using Madkoi's tips.
After to play a bit with textures, I'm very satisfied with the result. I believe that I'm very close to the canon paterns on the saucer. Let's see if I can do the same with the sec hull. ;)

Mesh finished and pics removed

Dr-Timelord

24th Apr 2007, 14:25

there's a phaser bank sitting between the E and terprise :D lol

i lothe adding windows onto hulls, good luck with that :P

hey did u change/edit the bridge module? or are my eyes playing tricks on me

Dr-Timelord

27th Apr 2007, 10:44

:D bump i say

Starship

22nd May 2007, 03:13

Almost one month without news is a long time....
So, let's go ! Now we have improved naceles. Needs to be smoothed a bit yet, and to correct some scale troubles at the backside, but I think it's not that bad. ;) Forget the textures over them, cause they are just temporary.

The saucer finally got some windows too. :)

The best, and maybe the fun things are:
- the learning exercise in correcting geometry errors originated by the conversion process
- adding details that wasn't there before, without to ruin the mesh. :D:D

Mesh finished and pics removed

traq

22nd May 2007, 03:18

awesome work

Dr-Timelord

22nd May 2007, 13:23

Looking good, was worried that this project was getting pushed to the back of the lot

Dr-Timelord

24th May 2007, 16:01

Ship's come a long way, since its humble beginings almost a year ago now.

If i include the work you're doing on the mesh as well, this technically could be the longest project i've ever had :lol:

Dr-Timelord

31st May 2007, 14:10

There are times when i'm clawing at the screen to get my hands on this mesh lol, I just wanna get rendering some awesome scenes with it lmao

tsk, no patience lol

Starship

31st May 2007, 21:31

There are times when i'm clawing at the screen to get my hands on this mesh lol, I just wanna get rendering some awesome scenes with it lmao
tsk, no patience lol

Patience you must have, to the force be with you young padawan.:lol:

Ooops...:o wrong show...:D

This wip is taking time... Longer than any other that I did before.:p
I understand that you´re anxious. The trouble is just my limited amount of free time. My wife and a little girl with 03 years old needs my attemption too. ;) I believe I´m doing a good modelling job, but I´m to far away of a decent texture job and light rig...
In the meantime, I did some changes over the naceles and figured that I need to do a change: saucer´s windows isn´t in the correct shape...:(
Updates are coming this weekend. ;)

Dr-Timelord

1st Jun 2007, 16:21

Yahee

Starship

1st Jul 2007, 05:01

Finally an update. :D

- Pylons and dome are new ones, modeled by me.
- Aditional insignias are now placed too. ;)

It's time to move to the secondary hull and start to add all those windows... The nightmare will begin...:shiner::shiner:

Mesh finished and pics removed

NightShadow

1st Jul 2007, 07:21

Still got a long way to go, especially with the textures and mapping. Your lighting rig, also, doesn't to the ship any favors- it's very flat, bright and, in some ways, a bit misleading. I'd suggest making your WIP lighting rigs a bit more dynamic so that, when you look at it from different angles, you'll be able to get a better feel for what is and isn't missing.

But, all in all, it's looking pretty good. I'm especially interested in that Mammoth Class Runabout- that looks pretty damned nice!

Starship

1st Jul 2007, 13:46

Still got a long way to go, especially with the textures and mapping. Your lighting rig, also, doesn't to the ship any favors...

Thanks friend ! Yes, still a lot to go. The textures are just temp, and the lightning rig is the max default. ;) Textures will be the last of my nightmares. :lol: I don't plan to improve them at this time.
Anyway, I'll try to add a better lightning setup.:)

Dr-Timelord

5th Jul 2007, 02:05

I like the new pylons, they look pretty cool

Dannage

5th Jul 2007, 19:59

Oooh, I never thought I'd see a wip out of you Starship, yet here's a beautiful one... :D

Dr-Timelord

6th Jul 2007, 04:30

Yup, looking gd

Starship

10th Jul 2007, 02:43

Oooh, I never thought I'd see a wip out of you Starship, yet here's a beautiful one... :D

Thanks ! I'm trying to do my best. :D
Not much to show... Still didn't touched the secondary hull. Minor updates:

- Insignias
- Windows
- Phaser balls
- Some bridge rework too

Mesh finished and pics removed

Dr-Timelord

11th Jul 2007, 18:39

http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/attachments/3d-wips/35966d1184031801-all-my-wips-entb-28.jpg

Thank you, thank you thank you,

I tried for soooo long to get the text and Reg Number on the back on the Nacelles and i could never get it to work...

But over all, wow talk about a Refit Lol i like the new work you've been doing. I should take care not to miss out so much detail on ... i mean IF i ever do another mesh

Starship

30th Jul 2007, 03:01

Updates for today:

- Bridge
- Details around her
- Small windows

Ignore the textures, cause they're just temp. ;)
Hope that you like. ;)

Mesh finished and pics removed

evil_genius_180

30th Jul 2007, 04:33

Starship

31st Jul 2007, 00:08

I'm trying to figure out how I missed this thread before. Must've been asleep at the PC again. ;)

Looks great, Starship. I like the Excelsior Refit almost as much as I like the original and Dr-Timelord's is a beauty. Though I don't think I ever saw it that closely before. It looks great up close. You probably already answered this, but into what format are you converting the mesh?

Thanks!
I'm converting it to 3DS Max 7. Yes, Timelord's mesh is great, therefore I'm adding a lot of details that were missing. At this time, only the secondary hull is still the one built by Dr. Timelord, all other pieces were replaced by new ones made by me. ;).

XFozzboute

31st Jul 2007, 00:57

Some very cool stuff happening here. Nice work.

Dr-Timelord

31st Jul 2007, 04:20

Alas just like the enterprise Movie refit, not much of the orginal remains lol

Do u have plans to change the secondary hull as well? or does it suit you for now?

still looking good though

Dr-Timelord

7th Aug 2007, 20:32

I was curious and went and had a look and rendering some pics from my own mesh which hasnt been touched in quite a while.

Damn it looks naff! lol

http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/8131/showreel0010001cf2.th.jpg (http://img158.imageshack.us/my.php?image=showreel0010001cf2.jpg)
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/6199/showreel0020001aa0.th.jpg (http://img181.imageshack.us/my.php?image=showreel0020001aa0.jpg)

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/2564/showreel0030001as6.th.jpg (http://img148.imageshack.us/my.php?image=showreel0030001as6.jpg)
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/5699/showreel0050001uw6.th.jpg (http://img120.imageshack.us/my.php?image=showreel0050001uw6.jpg)

http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/4687/pic0010001ym1.th.jpg (http://img116.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pic0010001ym1.jpg)

Shadowman99

7th Aug 2007, 20:49

Very nice. That's a great mesh you've got there. I'm glad to see you working on some composition shots.

Crits: Some specularity in your shaders would be welcome. Your materials are flat right now. Also you might turn up one or two of your key lights so we have a sense of where the "sun" is at.

Dr-Timelord

7th Aug 2007, 21:59

I just wanted to put up some pics to see how the lighting rig on my own works.

Starship's still looks better, i image if i had a homePc instead of laptop i'd still be working on it. But Blender doesnt work as smooth on this laptop as i wish it would :(

Starship

7th Aug 2007, 22:09

Do u have plans to change the secondary hull as well? or does it suit you for now?
still looking good though

Hummm... I´m not secure about it. :D I´m in a nightmare to do the wave for a new sec hull. :( By otherside, I´m trying to put windows over the original and over a new one sec hull, just to compare the results. :D As you see, I´m still doing tests to see where I go with the secondary hull. ;)
Hopefully, until the next weekend, I´ll decide what to do. :p

Your last renderings looks fine. :thumb:

evil_genius_180

8th Aug 2007, 05:11

The model looks great, Dr-Timelord. It truly amazes me what some of you guys can do in Blender. I agree that some specular mapping would help, along with some weathering. I love the self lighting rig. :thumb:

Dr-Timelord

8th Aug 2007, 05:15

The self lit lighting rig was very Ent Refit influenced.

evil_genius_180

8th Aug 2007, 05:22

Yup. Douglas Trumbull came up with that system for TMP based off the tail-fin floodlights used on airplanes. It answered the question; what lights the ship in deep space. Answer; itself. :flippy:

Dr-Timelord

8th Aug 2007, 16:18

Starship i was meaning to ask, Since you were sucsessful in adding regestry and names to the back of the nacceles, could i possibly trouble you to send a copy of them along to me, so i add them to my own ship?

pretty plz? :D

smallworld

8th Aug 2007, 16:50

Wow, what a lot of wonderful ships. Great work all round.

Starship

8th Aug 2007, 17:10

Some very cool stuff happening here. Nice work.

Wow, what a lot of wonderful ships. Great work all round.

Thanks ! Coming from artists like you, I got these compliments as a honor. :)

Timerlord: I´m at work now. When in home, I´ll see what can I do. :D ;)

2cvbloke

8th Aug 2007, 22:12

I never did like the film version of the Enterprise-B, with those "extra features" they added (these were just to make the model look different to the original NCC-2000 Excelsior, and the deflector wings were so they didn't have to make holes in the old model for the Nexus damage), but anyway, looking over the work you've been doing on the conversion, it looks pretty great!!! :D

Admittedly, I did try myself to try and convert the B into max, but when I saw the muddled mesh, I thought I'd best leave it be... :lol:

brevinator

8th Aug 2007, 23:02

Good job on all!!! do you have any more shots of the Premonition, it's looks like a beauty.

Brevinator

Dr-Timelord

12th Aug 2007, 23:16

Thanks ! Coming from artists like you, I got these compliments as a honor. :)

Timerlord: I´m at work now. When in home, I´ll see what can I do. :D ;)

so...any change of those registry meshes? :D

Dr-Timelord

13th Aug 2007, 03:45

Thats mans, those 3ds fit on perfectly, after a little tweeking.

I gotta say cheers too man ,you've given me some ideas on going bk to work on this mesh (even though its been realised for over a year) and finishing up some parts and cleaning it up a bit :)

I think i'll even finish up the shuttlebay area on the bottom on the secondary hull, but since its almost a complete unknown, can i compare notes with you with you get to that section?

btw, are you creating your own textures? or using pre made ones?

Starship

27th Aug 2007, 00:46

Update time!
I can do a decent modelling job, but, my texture skills are far away to be good... :shiner::runs:
Looks like I'll need somebody to help me in improving them (volunteers?) when the mesh is finished... And it will take sometime yet.:D

Mesh finished and pics removed

Dr-Timelord

27th Aug 2007, 01:00

looks good, the aztec pattern stands out well

evil_genius_180

27th Aug 2007, 01:58

Looks like chocolate chip ice cream. ;) You might want to tone it down a bit. Just a thought. The model looks good. :thumb:

LC Amaral

30th Aug 2007, 21:11

Starship

31st Aug 2007, 19:27

Model looks very good and the Ent-B is one of my favorite classes.

If you want, i can provide you the textures from my BC model as a reference.
They are quite dated by now, but may help a bit.. who knows.

Welcome on board! :)
Yes, I would like to see the textures. Can you send them to the mail listed in my profile ? In advance. thanks!!

Starship

24th Sep 2007, 00:53

I was trying to cut the windows in the sec hull but... dude, I got a lot of errors. After to fight with them for sometime, without success, I saw that I was in troubles... :shiner: :shiner:
So I tryed to make a new one, but I discovered that wasn't so easy to make the wave in the right shape... :shiner:

After to many times redoing the dammed thing, finally found a way to do it by the right way. :D :D The hull itself is a half sphere with a boolean, and the wave was made with spilines. A dammed painfull (but good) way to learn how to use it. So, I present you my sec hull and wave...

Now, let's see when I'll got free time to continue...:p

Mesh finished and pics removed

Dr-Timelord

24th Sep 2007, 03:02

U just need to cut a hole in the front for your deflector dish now

Starship

15th Oct 2007, 03:05

After some time adjusting the deflector tunel and the shuttlebay, here what I got.
Now, I'll need to think about the grids over the sec hull. Later, the windows and all that small details.:D
Hope that you like.;)

Mesh finished and pics removed

Dr-Timelord

15th Oct 2007, 05:45

looks good, nice and smooth

evil_genius_180

15th Oct 2007, 06:24

I agree. Great work. :)

Starship

27th Oct 2007, 15:52

Nothing so special... Just to let you know this is still alive. :D
A small update: details inside the deflector tunnell.

Let's see if I'll have some free time later. My mom is in hospital right now due to a surgery, and I'm worry...:(

Mesh finished and pics removed

XFozzboute

2nd Dec 2007, 23:54

Looks great so far. Don't have the courage to build this ship myself. :D

Starship

3rd Dec 2007, 00:55

Looks great so far. Don't have the courage to build this ship myself. :D

You have all the necessary skills. If you try, I'm secure that your version will be much better than mine.;)
The sec hull and the gridlines are a pain to do, as later, the windows will be too...:shiner::shiner:

Melak

3rd Dec 2007, 00:57

My hero :D
I always wanted to built this ship, but never got much further than the saucer...keep working on it!

Starship

23rd Dec 2007, 23:29

No, the Ent-B wasn't abandonned, therefore, I'm in a nightmare with the secondary hull. Time for a break. ;)

So, I decided to work on a conversion... The Excalibur, made in Blender by PTKS. :D Here is the original thread: http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/3d-wips/36435-excalibur-class-17.html

She's a beauty, and the conversion had only small faces to be flipped. Since PTKS didn't released her with textures, I had to make my own. The texture isn't finished yet, but I believe that I can share some renderings.:)

DerekDRP

23rd Dec 2007, 23:58

I like the ship it's a great adition to the fleet, However I don't like the hull plating that much "aztecting" it's kind of dense and not spread out that much...

just my 2 cents.

PTKS

24th Dec 2007, 16:46

PokemonFleet

3rd Jan 2008, 01:19

Question for PTKS: is the Excalibur Class a testbed for new Technologies including the ones brought back from Voyager?

XRaiderV1.7

3rd Jan 2008, 08:17

how the hell did I miss this thread?

I clearly must have been asleep at the game cube again.......

Starship

3rd Jan 2008, 11:51

Question for PTKS: is the Excalibur Class a testbed for new Technologies including the ones brought back from Voyager?

Not in my thread too...:mad: Please, keep posts like these out.
Thanks!

PTKS

3rd Jan 2008, 15:50

Small update.

Basic textures for the pods. ;)

Texture on the escape pods looks good so far. I like that starfleet delta on it. My version of the pod texture was much simpler.

Not in my thread too...:mad: Please, keep posts like these out.
Thanks!

I agree. This is a thread about the work on a certain model and not on some technobabble. Plus I couldn't even answer that question because I never thought much about such things.

nhall

4th Jan 2008, 03:34

Textures on the pods are top notch, man! Keep up the great work!

But also...

Question for PTKS: is the Excalibur Class a testbed for new Technologies including the ones brought back from Voyager?

*Ahem* (In my best Dr. Gregory House manner)

I.
Hate.
You. :devil:

Cheers all,
Nick

XRaiderV1.7

4th Jan 2008, 06:08

lmfao, that was perfect, classic.
I watch house too, he's a riot.

back on topic, technobabble questions about CG modelling, yes, fine, those of us who do 3d modelling expect them, technobabble questions about fictional technology, please save those for the proper thread.

now that I have gotten that out of my system, back to my usual quiet lurking and gawking at all the ship pics......

Starship

4th Jan 2008, 16:04

How the hell did I miss this thread?
I clearly must have been asleep at the game cube again.......

Textures on the pods are top notch, man! Keep up the great work!
Nick

Thank you both for the kind words!

*Ahem* (In my best Dr. Gregory House manner)
I.
Hate.
You. :devil:

:lol::lol:
Dra Cameron would says: Dr. House... I think that PF is in terminal stage.... :lol::lol:

Seriouslly: I´m working on a new set of textures for the main hull. I believe that I´ll have something to show you next weekend.;)

XRaiderV1.7

5th Jan 2008, 02:52

lol, yeah, she would.

Starship

6th Jan 2008, 03:32

XRaiderV1.7

6th Jan 2008, 09:11

nice, hope you put up some higher res pics soon.

PTKS

6th Jan 2008, 17:31

As I promised, new map for the main hull. I believe this one fits better, therefore, isn't perfect. ;)
Now, I can see some (hard to fix) mesh errors over the catamarans and over the belly's side of the ship...

That new, more subtle, texture looks much better. The only cirt so far is the name and registry on the dorsal side. It looks a bit streched. I know that my version wasn't better with that name there but I thought I just mention it.

BTW: I could give you the windows texture I used on my EXCALIBUR. Just write a PM if you're interested.

Starship

6th Jan 2008, 22:26

Yeah... The registries are still a bit streched. I try to make it better.
In the meantime, new textures for the main hull. I believe these are final. ;)

XRaiderV1.7

7th Jan 2008, 00:21

nice.

Starship

19th Jan 2008, 20:49

Small update. With the help of the great plugin Glue (which is free), I maneged to put the registries in the right place, and without mesh errors. ;)

XRaiderV1.7

20th Jan 2008, 11:40

*stunned*

Ice-Dragon

20th Jan 2008, 19:21

looking good there Starship:thumb:

Starship

21st Jan 2008, 01:12

Almost finished!:D
I'll clean the textures and convert some objects to editable mesh. After that, she's ready to go. ;)
In the meantime, new renderings.

XRaiderV1.7

21st Jan 2008, 06:07

you realize, of course, that orthographic views of this ship would be a must, once you've finished with her, right?

damn fine work sir!

Starship

21st Jan 2008, 13:23

you realize, of course, that orthographic views of this ship would be a must, once you've finished with her, right?

damn fine work sir!

Thanks for the kind words.:)

Orthographic views will be available, don´t worry.;) If my memory serves, somebody already done a MSD... I need to find it.

For those of you that asked me, later, I´ll come back to my Ent-B wip.:D

PTKS

21st Jan 2008, 14:20

Orthographic views will be available, don´t worry.;) I my memory serves, somebody already done a MSD... I need to find it.

There is a MSD available and also the ships patch (but with the original NX-Registry). Those were made by "commandersozo".

Here are the links to the MSD and the patch:
Patch:
MSD: http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/attachments/3d-wips/42798d1194799675-excalibur-class-msd-excalibur.png

And there already are some orthographic views of the ship. Here's the link: orthos_final.jpg (http://www.project-newhorizon.net/excaliburwip/orthos_final.jpg)

Starship

21st Jan 2008, 19:55

Hi Patrick! Did you approved the registries and insignias ?:D

Dannage

21st Jan 2008, 21:03

Starship

22nd Jan 2008, 01:04

Fine work there sir. I was going to say I thought I'd never see you with WIPs but then I have a comment on page 8 saying I thought I'd never see you do WIPs, so I've said that before... :)

Regards the registries and your plug in, for the Keltoi I found a nifty little tool in MAX called Conform. If you clone the faces you are trying to map the text onto and then create some text, you can play with the Conform tool and it bends it as you need it. I found it a godsend!

Oh, I have wip's from my own, not conversions only. ;) You can see a few in this thread and in two old ones. The problem is the time to finish them.:D:D

About the conform, I already tryed it. Isn't a 100% secure. Sometimes you'll got weird errors. Until now, it didn't occurred with the glue plugin. Don't worry about portabillity, you don't need to have the plugin instaled in your machine to use my mesh. ;)

XRaiderV1.7

22nd Jan 2008, 08:11

There is a MSD available and also the ships patch (but with the original NX-Registry). Those were made by "commandersozo".

Here are the links to the MSD and the patch:
Patch:
MSD: http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/attachments/3d-wips/42798d1194799675-excalibur-class-msd-excalibur.png

And there already are some orthographic views of the ship. Here's the link: orthos_final.jpg (http://www.project-newhorizon.net/excaliburwip/orthos_final.jpg)
was hoping for higher res ones, lol.

Starship

27th Jan 2008, 01:36

The Conversion is finished. Soon the Excalibur will be available for download in the meshes section. Hope it makes justice to the original mesh, built by PTKS. Thanks for sharing it !

Now, I'll be back to my Ent-B wip. :D

rms8_347

27th Jan 2008, 03:49

The Conversion is finished.

WOW,

The windows look so real and add such a sense of realism and scale! GREAT work!
Any chance of posting some renders for a desktop? (think'n 1920x1200 ;) )

XRaiderV1.7

27th Jan 2008, 09:35

WOW,

The windows look so real and add such a sense of realism and scale! GREAT work!
Any chance of posting some renders for a desktop? (think'n 1920x1200 ;) )

yes, renders that big are a must with this ship.

Starship

28th Jan 2008, 00:41

yes, renders that big are a must with this ship.

I'll see what can I do.:) I'm trying a render with the Excalibur and the Interceptor in the same scene. Let's see how it evolves;)
In time: PTKS, who was kind enough to allow me the use of his mesh, provided the windows textures too.;)

XRaiderV1.7

28th Jan 2008, 09:01

very cool, and thanks.

wait.............interceptor and excalibur?!

ok, now Im watching this thread like a hawk, interceptor and excalibur in the same scene, thats something thats gonna be cool to see.

Starship

6th Feb 2008, 03:15

As I promised, I'm back to my Ent-B wip. This time I'll finish her. ;)
New renderings. Forget the textures and lights, cause they're just temp.

To do list:

- Sec hull windows
- Sec hull weapons
- Small bits over the impulse engines
- Small details underside the saucer
- Final textures
- Release :D

The ship is looking good enough?:)

Starship

6th Feb 2008, 03:28

One more...

Starship

6th Feb 2008, 03:39

Last one for today. Morpheus is calling me... Time to sleep. :D

Dr-Timelord

6th Feb 2008, 05:57

Very nice, very nice indeed

ST-One

6th Feb 2008, 07:33

Yes, she looks very good :thumb:

Starship

11th Feb 2008, 06:13

Update!!! The modelling is now finished.

Added:
- weapons
- smal details under saucer
- small details over sec hull
- windows (they were PAINFULL!!) I believe that my version has a little more windows than the "canon" Ent-B. :D
- registries

Now is time to play with textures.:)

Dr-Timelord

11th Feb 2008, 11:43

lets see some shuttlebays shots :D

medjai

11th Feb 2008, 12:37

Cassio. That's very good. Great work, and nice ship.:thumb:

Dannage

11th Feb 2008, 19:59

She's gorgeous old bean. I think she'd look too sexy for my dry dock. ;)

Starship

12th Feb 2008, 01:52

lets see some shuttlebays shots :D

Here it goes.
The shuttlebay has some things made by you, and others made by me. ;) I was toying with the Lakota "arms" too, but I don't think it's a good idea.

Starship

12th Feb 2008, 01:55

Oops... The last rendering makes me see an error where the bulge joins to the main hull...

Dannage

12th Feb 2008, 02:02

You sure thats not a bit of shadow?

Mr Dob

17th Feb 2008, 16:25

i've had so much trouble with my ent b secondary hull its getting beyond a joke!

Pearse

17th Feb 2008, 18:13

Yeah, that looks more like a shadow to me from a light coming from the right hand side. Either way, this looks great. The windows were worth the pain. The only thing I don't think looks so good is the texture on the saucer. The contrast between the light and dark details seems too strong. I'd say the panels should be closer to eachother in colour, so the detail is more subtle.

Dr-Timelord

18th Feb 2008, 02:46

that shuttlebay is pretty cool

Starship

21st Feb 2008, 03:10

Yeah, that looks more like a shadow to me from a light coming from the right hand side. Either way, this looks great.

It was an error in fact. ;)

...The only thing I don't think looks so good is the texture on the saucer. The contrast between the light and dark details seems too strong. I'd say the panels should be closer to eachother in colour, so the detail is more subtle.

You're right...
Here it goes the updated version:
- Added windows over the bulge
- Added deflector's textures and light
- Textures to the main sensor windows
- a few lights
- improved the saucer textures.

Starship

21st Feb 2008, 03:12

Forgot the renderings... :p

admiral horton

21st Feb 2008, 04:35

pretty good enterprise-b

Pearse

22nd Feb 2008, 00:20

Oh yes, that texture looks much nicer. :)

Starship

10th Mar 2008, 02:56

Just to let you know that I'm still working on her.:)

Dr-Timelord

10th Mar 2008, 04:34

Awesome! brilliant looking renderings.

Just need a few space shots now :p

XRaiderV1.7

10th Mar 2008, 04:36

outstanding, not much else I can say to make that any more clear.......

Dannage

10th Mar 2008, 20:02

Ooh, she is lovely. And once you are finished, I have a design which was basically a bit of an Enterprise B Kitbash, so I will be begging you to build me one! How much more have you got to do on her?

In terms of crits, the only think I can think of is that the textures on the 'lip' of the saucer stretch a little. That sort of thing bothers perfectionists. I'd be a perfectionist, but I'd consider myself lucky to get any panelling at all, so I couldn't give a monkeys about it. I'm just trying to contribute something other than my own drool. ;)

Starship

11th Mar 2008, 18:33

Ooh, she is lovely. And once you are finished, I have a design which was basically a bit of an Enterprise B Kitbash, so I will be begging you to build me one! How much more have you got to do on her?

Not much. :) The list includes:
- Nav lights
- some pieces still to be textured
- redo the shuttle house over the sec hull
- do the aligniment of the objects
- do a cleanning in material editor and collapse the objects
- Last: wait for a texture revision of my two good friends, which I can´t say the names yet. :D
Post some pics about the kitbash that you´re talking about. Maybe, I can do something for you. ;)

In terms of crits, the only think I can think of is that the textures on the 'lip' of the saucer stretch a little. That sort of thing bothers perfectionists. I'd be a perfectionist, but I'd consider myself lucky to get any panelling at all, so I couldn't give a monkeys about it. I'm just trying to contribute something other than my own drool. ;)

I´m a perfeccionist too, and I know what you´re talking about. ;) Is hard to control that feeling: "Still there is a missing thing there" or "that thing needs to be improved". It always will be present with us. :D
Cause this, I´m working on this mesh for almost 02 years now. Of course that it isn´t in full time (in fact, a lot of gaps), but I keep finding something wrong and I´m always trying to control this feeling. :lol:

Lonewriter

11th Mar 2008, 19:33

very nice.

Starship

13th Mar 2008, 00:53

Updated!
The shuttle house (or cargo bay) was redone.

XRaiderV1.7

13th Mar 2008, 07:27

hmm, interesting.

Starship

23rd Mar 2008, 06:06

It's a long way, but I'm near of the end with her.
Just some lights and glows to add, and she will be ready to go.:)

Starship

23rd Mar 2008, 06:11

A little more...

Starship

23rd Mar 2008, 06:39

Last ones for today...

XRaiderV1.7

23rd Mar 2008, 11:07

nice work, she's really come together, hasnt she?

somacruz145

23rd Mar 2008, 15:49

Yeah, awesome model :thumb: How much longer until she's finished ?

Starship

24th Mar 2008, 01:45

Yeah, awesome model :thumb: How much longer until she's finished ?

It's already finished :D
Here it goes the last renderings. She will be available for download soon. ;)

homerpalooza67

24th Mar 2008, 03:22

Sweet! *drools* mmmm....excelsior....:p

Dr-Timelord

24th Mar 2008, 06:00

She will be available for download soon. ;)

I get first dibs lmao :D

Starship

7th Apr 2008, 02:50

Since the Enterprise-B is already finished, is time to come back for another conversion. Here it goes the Reliant. The original was built by Ian Bremner in Lightwave. Conversion is mine, as the texture job and small details added. Still a long way to finish her. ;)