Project Time Machine

[tnpir4002]

So I'm working on a project that requires a cool-looking time device, but try as I might I can't come up with a design using the props I want to include in its makeup that looks cool enough. So I've decided to tap the talent here for help!

The general specs of what I'd like:
-a central core composed of two elements, a generator-like device below with some kind of clear tube on top
-six lightning tubes on the outside, spced at equidistant positions around the central core

And that's it! Sounds simple, right? But try as I might I can't come up with a design I'm happy with! I want this to look super-sophisticated (VOY-era)

EDIT: And as incentive, anyone who gives me a cool-looking design will be the lucky recipient of a copy of one of my virtual sets of your choice! If you wouldn't mind, the best formats for these are DXF or OBJ (3DS if necessary, if you use 3DSMax just send over the MAX file)

Below are a few thumbnails of the newest I've come up with, but the ones you can choose from:
TNG Observation Lounge
TNG Turbolift
ST7 Bridge
ST7 Corridors
ST7 Transporter Room
VOY Astrometrics Lab
VOY Bridge (Standard Lighting)
VOY Bridge (Condition Red)
VOY Bridge (Condition Blue)
VOY Briefing Room
VOY Crew Quarters (Unfurnished)
VOY Residential Corridors
VOY Holodeck
VOY Science Lab (comes with equipment prop pack)
VOY Transporter Room
VOY Turbolift

[captainkirk]

Designs are popping into my head already. I'd recommend a choice of 3d formats, I use Blender and you use Bryce which Blender can't import.

[tnpir4002]

Bryce can import just about everything (LWO's are the exception to that apparently, I've been trying to use the 1701-D mesh at Clyde Fleet Yards for weeks but it won't import to Bryce and no one seems willing or able to convert it for me), but the best bets are usually DXF, OBJ, PRJ, COB, DXF, and if necessary, 3DS. I also have a copy of 3DS Max 9 so if you use that to build your design, send me the MAX file instead and I can just export it.

Can't wait to see what you guys come up with!

[Ramiel]

It shoud be just a "furniture" model (like a warp core), or people could get in (like a transporter)?
Do you have an approx size for it? Is it a "prop" or a "set piece"?
Thanks

[tnpir4002]

nah this is a freestanding furniture prop about two meters tall (roughly the size of Voyager's computer core processor)

i'm excited to see what yall are cooking up!

[Ramiel]

What do you think about this?

[tnpir4002]

that's a SWEET design, and thus far the only one I've seen...keep em comin guys!!!

Can I get a copy of that???

[Ramiel]

Why not?
PM me your e mail and I will send you the .max file

[tnpir4002]

I've decided to amend this little mini-contest in one very small but also very important way--anyone who sends me a cool-looking design for this will be entitled to one virtual set of their choice! Ramiel's design is awesome but I'm eager to see what everyone else is cooking up--keep em comin!

[tnpir4002]

its been a few days and i haven't heard from anyone, i'm still really hyped to see what everyone's cooking up...do i dare ask for some work-in-progress shots???

and just to let everybody know there's a new interior on the market for folks to pick from--TNG's observation lounge as it appeared in the ENT finale; also, some may remember a while back i was working on a model of the Caretaker's Array, which I finally finished and perfected--I haven't shared it with anybody yet, but here's a look at the first version; if you want this one it's open for selection as well

and also, a few people have asked to see what my first attempt looks like, so here ya go