The Endless Pluto Station Thread

[tobian]

Well would you look at that, don't post on the forum for a few weeks and the whole place falls apart!

Well I thought I would re-introduce my station back on here.. I've added a few details here and there, so I thought I'd share, and this thread is probably endless as it's taking for ever.. for obvious reasons !



Hope you all like, and I've had to link this externally, as it doesn't seem to like my image size in here!

[Martocticvs]

Looks great as usual mate - and that panelling job is extremely effective.

[CGandy75]

Awesome image.. Great details! Plenty of interesting details to keep the eye busy

[Ozylot]

Thats huge! Whats it supposed to look like when its done?

[tobian]

Cheers guys !

Yes it's been so long that no one can remember what it looks like in the whole again!

http://comby.star-fleet.org/ my archive has the full 'test' series, so you can see the whole thing as it was waaaaaay back when I was still trying to figure out lightwave LOL

http://comby.star-fleet.org/test09.jpg Is, I think, the first image I showed Still with large chunks missing hehe I should compose a highlights page

[Ozylot]

Stunning!

[Nevets]

That is a jaw dropping image.

[BorgMan]

Woow. That's a really, REALLY effective panelling job! And that's a REALLY nice torpedo launcher! Is there a possibility that you might do a render with, say, a Nova for reference?

[tobian]

Take 2 models into the shower? Hmm it may well melt my computer that's only a little bit of the station and it's about 1.2 million polies.. fairly well optimised Hence I don't have all of it loaded for the test!

The scale of the image is as it appears, those are deck lines you can see, and each deck is approximatelly 3.3 meters high ( I work to an odd scale for historical reasons - the scale everything imported into lightwave from Illustrator!) Unlike most ships, stations/etc, you can pretty much see how big it is. and I have to say it is NOT that big ! Though the Nova would indeed be a good ship to put next to it... and not dwarf it hehe!

FYI.. the large 'gun' in the centre of the image is a Pulse phaser array.. when I re-rig it, it can swivel, to aim.. There isn't much space for actual photon torpedoes inside it hehe, but it is rigged directly to the warp core, so it does have a good kick to it! There are doors on the cargo bay as well, but I like leaving them open, to let a bit of air in... err out

[Freak]

that is a dam fine station you have there. I will be keeping an eye on this one.