Modeling Challenge Thread

[Merlin1701]

A little update on my destroyer...



Unsure as of yet for a name for the class, was going to call her the hermes. I came to this choice as Hermes was a protector of travellers, ensuring a safe and easy journey. I plan for my destroyer to escort my carrier, so while the ship is quite large none of the internal space is used to carry fighter craft; after all its with a fighter carrier.

The ship has lots of engines and fire power making it quick and powerful.

[Finger13]

Been able to do some work on the destroyer today..... and i've not touched the actual ship at all :LOL:

I've been working on completing the small ship that would be part of the Destroyers arsenal.

Spoiler:

First off.... no idea where the stripes came from, just switched from brothers computer to mine and it's appeared, and won't go away

It's going to have three large cannons, one either side of the bridge and another in the nose. The two cannons either side of the bridge wil be smaller versions of the main cannons on the Destroyer.

Two decks, with the bridge on a separate third deck, with a cargo area in the lower deck. Two pilots and a weapons officer make up the crew and it can carry up to 100 people if needs be.

lol, I like the stripes. It looks like a big bumble bee. Space faring races could use a sense of humour.

bull****. a fighter only needs small maneuvering thrusters to do the same. only they decided to follow atmospheric combat.

True that, like in BSG how the Vipers can turn on a dime. Even in atmospheric conditions it isn't that much of a stretch, and they show it in Adama's flashback of the First Cylon war where he completely owns those two Raiders in the Ice Planet's atmosphere.

A little update on my destroyer...



Unsure as of yet for a name for the class, was going to call her the hermes. I came to this choice as Hermes was a protector of travellers, ensuring a safe and easy journey. I plan for my destroyer to escort my carrier, so while the ship is quite large none of the internal space is used to carry fighter craft; after all its with a fighter carrier.

The ship has lots of engines and fire power making it quick and powerful.

I am liking those cannons.

I think the back could use a little more detailing, but the top view looks very aggressive and nice.

[knowles2]

Challenge 4 Results

Well here what the challenge was :

Challenge 4

Quote:
The Stargate activates and a camera doom in on the event horizon, a SG team comes through it, the gate shuts down and the camera rotates 180 degrees and you see a single unnatural structure or object or anything you want.
This structure can be anything you want it to be, an arch way, to monolith to a pyramid, a diamond, a temple, a floating alien whale but it must be alien and original.

It must not be:

- Recognizable from any aliens we have encountered before. Originality
people.
- city, base, village , or ship.


What it must be:

- It must be a single object/structure, no cities, no bases, no towns.
- Alien origin
- It purpose must not be immediately obvious to the viewer.

Optional extras:

Creating environment (hill, trees, sky, moon, anything but it must be part of landscape/setting for the structure.) This can be done in either 2d or 3d.

The judges decided to break the marking into specific components of the challenge, awarding each amount out of ten. Everyone that did a single structure got 10 those who did not got a 0.


Nyrde

http://forum.gateworld.net/showpost....&postcount=978

Spoiler:

Judge 1 = 14

Model - 1
Texture -2
Originality - 0
Environment -1
Single structure-10


Judge 2 = 17

Model - 4
Texture -2
Originality - 0
Environment -1
Single structure-10

Judge 3 = 19

Model - 4
Texture -4
Originality - 0
Environment -1
Single structure-10


Judge 4 = 15


Model - 2
Texture -2
Originality - 0
Environment -1
Single structure-10

Grand Total = 65

boberth2o

Spoiler:

http://forum.gateworld.net/showpost....&postcount=974

Judge 1 = 21

Model - 5
Texture -3
Originality - 3
Environment -0
Single structure-10


Judge 2 = 18

Model - 4
Texture -2
Originality - 1
Environment -1
Single structure-10

Judge 3 = 15

Model - 4
Texture -0
Originality - 0
Environment -1
Single structure-10


Judge 4 = 21


Model - 6
Texture - 1
Originality - 3
Environment -1
Single structure-10

Ground Total = 75


lord groovy

Spoiler:

Judge 1 = 22.5

Model - 5
Texture -9
Originality - 8.5
Environment -0
Single structure-0


Judge 2 = 21

Model - 4
Texture -7
Originality - 10
Environment -0
Single structure-0

Judge 3 = 20

Model - 4
Texture -7
Originality - 9
Environment -0
Single structure-0


Judge 4 = 16


Model - 4
Texture -5
Originality - 7
Environment -0
Single structure-0

Ground Total = 79.5

well done lord groovy

[Dr Lee]

lol, I like the stripes. It looks like a big bumble bee. Space faring races could use a sense of humour.

I've got somehting somewhere on here on that train of thought....


I've also have this...

Spoiler:

Still got a lot of work to do on the textures.... but that can wait a bit.

[FN-P90]

[snip]a fighter only needs small maneuvering thrusters to do the same. only they decided to follow atmospheric combat.

No they didnt have of all the shows invlove space combat. Watch the show. All of them then come back to me.

[Merlin1701]

I am liking those cannons.

I think the back could use a little more detailing, but the top view looks very aggressive and nice.

I have added another cannon to the rear top, on the BSG front watched up to 'six degrees of separation'.

[Experiment 442]

w00t! internet is working! yay! anywho:

Merlin: i've noticed that your last two ships have those six barrels under each side of the 'wings'. I have to ask what they are. you're ship is looking really good right now, i can't wait to see the finished product.

Dr. Lee: Looks like a star destroyer in some funky way. (probably just me though.)

tjoflojt: the little attack ship is looking alright, but, if it were to be hit by, lets say, an APBW would it stand a chance?

[thekillman]

No they didnt have of all the shows invlove space combat. Watch the show. All of them then come back to me.

stargate does the same BS. a ship in space has full freedom. a 304 flying in direction X can turn around (flying backwards so to speak) and fire at the enemy behind, then turn around and fly normal again. a fighter can do the same. its why a broadside in stargate is useless: you can just turn your ship. a 302 can brake really fast in space. it should be able to turn around and fire at the one behind. a deathglider should be able to maneuver while flying backwards.


you dont need massive turns, its BS, its stupid and it doesnt work that way. your fancy show represents the truth. only in RL we dont turn around massive ships cause it takes a massive amount of fuel to do so.

[Merlin1701]

Merlin: i've noticed that your last two ships have those six barrels under each side of the 'wings'. I have to ask what they are. you're ship is looking really good right now, i can't wait to see the finished product.

I want my ships to have design aspects that follow a family principle; hence my ships have common aspects. The Bellerophon class fighter carrier had large offensive rail guns that I plan to "upgrade" to the new energy cannons. These cannons are what you can see on my Hermes class destroyer.

I didnt want to put Asgard beam weapons on the destroyer as they are rather powerful and as have put in my previous entry specs and history I dont want to put them on smaller ships as they could be taken over easier than a battleship, my aswer was to look at previous episodes. The Asgard and Goa'uld ships had/ have energy cannons.

So my destroyer has defensive rail guns, medium offensive rail guns, large offensive rail guns, energy cannons and missiles. It has teeth!

[FN-P90]

stargate does the same BS. a ship in space has full freedom. a 304 flying in direction X can turn around (flying backwards so to speak) and fire at the enemy behind, then turn around and fly normal again. a fighter can do the same. its why a broadside in stargate is useless: you can just turn your ship. a 302 can brake really fast in space. it should be able to turn around and fire at the one behind. a deathglider should be able to maneuver while flying backwards.


you dont need massive turns, its BS, its stupid and it doesnt work that way. your fancy show represents the truth. only in RL we dont turn around massive ships cause it takes a massive amount of fuel to do so.

Thats what they have to do. In Gundam a ship cant change its course easily because they will run down their propelant. In fact you actuly see the manuvering thrusters constantly threw the show being used.

[Merlin1701]

how is everyone's destroyers going?

finger - finished bsg season 1.

[Dr Lee]

how is everyone's destroyers going?

Slowly...... Very Sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooowly....

[Finger13]

how is everyone's destroyers going?

finger - finished bsg season 1.

You aren't wasting any time haha. The awesomeness of Cain and the Resurrection Ship are fast approaching.

[tjoflojt]

[snip]
tjoflojt: the little attack ship is looking alright, but, if it were to be hit by, lets say, an APBW would it stand a chance?

once the shields fail, it's screwed. but as far as i know, we're the only race with APBWs that's alive ^^

[locutes]

im extremely busy, also, I'm stuck...