THE TMP 1701: or, What HAVE I GOTTEN MYSELF INTO!!

[Roliba]

Thanks for the images fish. Ironically, I've posted the same link in another one of my threads. As soon as I remembered that, I found the same dern pictures.

So back to work...

First I selected the faces I going to be working with, extruded them inward a touch, and seperated them.



Then I cut some evenly spaced edges into the newly created object (after counting the number of grooves I wanted)



Then I cleaned out all of the old edges. Doing this left me with some weird geometry issues (or I just noticed them ) at the rear of the cutout on the naccelle, so I took this as a good time to clean them all up.



Then I select alternating linear poly groups...



..Inset them...



...and pulled them back about 6 inches.



From there, I selected the object placed an dark material on it execpt for some of the sunk in polys which got a blue glowy material. Then I rendered...

[Oovebei]

Looks like I am going to have to improve my movie nacelles (Drat, Damn, Blast, Cry)

Damn good tut tho

[Roliba]

Originally Posted by Oovebei

Looks like I am going to have to improve my movie nacelles (Drat, Damn, Blast, Cry)

Damn good tut tho

Thanks Man! I'm glad you like it.

I'm going to render a pinky glowy one later (as per TMP), after work.

[Roliba]

Moving on to the otherside's grooves...

First I used Quick slice to cut a whole SH**T load of horizontal edges in the second blank indent



Then converted the selected edges into a bunch of parralell splines that just happened to follow the contour of the indent using "Create Shape From Selection". Once I had my now multi-line shape, I deleted the indent as no longer needed.



Then I made the splines renderable with a 7" inch thickness. (Note: I spaced the sliced lines 6" apart when I cut them. With them now 7" thick "sauages" they will overlap.)



From there it was just a matter of splashing on some color. (I also made a glowing bit to simulate the little bright light that exist on the model.)

[Roliba]

As I mentioned earlier, I wanted to render it out with the purplely-pink glow from the Motion Picture. I'm not actaly sure when and even if the inboard thing went blue, but I've seen a lot of images with it blue. So anyway, here's a comparison of the two.

Opinions?

[Roliba]

Next, I'm going to build the paylon mount.

It starts its life as a spline circle pulled into the correct shape.



Then I convert the spline/circle into a poly and extrude into length.



Max has a wonderful little tool for poly editing: Hinge Polygon From Edge.

I selected the end cap poly and applied the mod, Hnging the poly 90 degrees and with 12 segments (not the 6 shown in the picture).



Did the same to the other side and pulled the caps into their final shape with FFD boxes, for a final touch.



Well gang, that about covers it. From here on in you can add as much extra detail as you want (and there are quite a few little bits scattered about) and whatever texture you need. However, as far as this tutorial is concerned, I believe I've covered all the major points.

If any thinks I might have missed anything, please speak up and I'll deal with it.

Thank-you for your attention and your support.

This is not the end though. Keep the occasional watch here, because I will be doing the rest of the ship... soon... starting with the fantail and Hanger deck (These are not the droids I'm looking for...).

Untill then I leave with one more image of the finished (mostly) naccelle.

[scifieric]

Congratulations Roliba! That's a great tutorial!

[ns_exile]

Originally Posted by Roliba

Well gang, that about covers it. From here on in you can add as much extra detail as you want (and there are quite a few little bits scattered about) and whatever texture you need. However, as far as this tutorial is concerned, I believe I've covered all the major points.

If any thinks I might have missed anything, please speak up and I'll deal with it.

Damn, very nice, Roliba. If I get the time today, I'll update the PDF file, send you the changes, and we can figure out if it needs tweaking or sprucing up.

[Starship]

I´m posting just to say THANKS !!! I´m learning a lot from this thread.
Keep doing the great work !

[Jedilaw]

Truly outstanding work, mate.