Original Starship Design Thread

[RJB]

A bit more done on the Phoenix .

Some of the new details are inspired by the ancient Aurora class.


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[boberth2o]

I am refiting my Lazarus to be a Refit Battleship here are the sketchup shots, im too lazy to render it in lightwave so sorry about the look.

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[Arcturus8]

I am refiting my Lazarus to be a Refit Battleship here are the sketchup shots, im too lazy to render it in lightwave so sorry about the look.

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Thats an extremely cool ship!!

[boberth2o]

Thats an extremely cool ship!!

Thanks, here is a little work done on the nose.

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[Arcturus8]

it does look better!
how do you do it?????

[boberth2o]

I found that time, compunded with an eye for hull plating and symmetry make good for modeling, especially speed modeling, I have also been doing this for some time now so that might ahve an effect on how I model. Everything gets better with time.

[Coco Pops]

I am refiting my Lazarus to be a Refit Battleship here are the sketchup shots, im too lazy to render it in lightwave so sorry about the look.

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That is extremely cool. Seriously cool in fact.



I have a sketchup question

I seem to be running into problems when I do a shape like a rectangular box and want a beveled edge arond the top or bottom. I used the "follow me" tool but it seems to much up the very last corner nearly all the time. I have done it without error before but more often then not the last corner mucks up.

Any tips.

[youngtusk87]

This is a ship from the sci-fi universe i'm creating for a game in progress. Its inspired mostly by Battlestar Galactica, Stargate, and Halo. Any questions regarding the tech or details I can explain.

SC-117 Colonial Support Frigate

The SC-117 'Leviathan' is designed as a support frigate, a destroyer of sorts, accompanying either Star fighters, Capital Ships, or both into combat. The SC-117s are equipped with a versatile arsenal including offensive nuclear weapons as well as defensive anti-star fighter missiles, making them excellent complimentary ships to any fleet. However, the SC-117 is not exclusively assigned the role of support. In its own right the SC-117 is a capable starship with both Fighter and Gunship squadrons. Its fast and small enough to avoid salvos from larger ships.

Details:

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The Lady Emerald
Type: SC-117 'Leviathan' Class Defensive Support Cruiser/Assualt Gunship Hybrid
Tech Base: Colonial
Length: 750m
Crew: Roughly 1,200
Capacity: 2,000
Power: 1 Colossus-Class Nutri-Tihlium Reactor, 2 Goliath-Class Nutri-Tihlium reactors(1 main, 1 backup)

Propulsion
4 Outboard Sub-Light Engine Pods
1 Main Hull Booster Sub-Light Engine Pods
30 Maneuvering Engines(10 clusters of 3 thrusters)
*(0.75 x 0.7091) FTL 'Jump' Drive
*(2.0 x 0.685) FTL 'Jump' Drive(Backup)

Hull
Titanium-Fortified Steel Plating Reinforced With Adamantium-Carbide Skeletal system

Weapons
-Offensive-
(12) Double-Barreled Anti ship Turrets firing 305mm Adamantium-Carbide Core Armor Piercing rounds
(20) Missile bays equipped with SM340 'Scorpion'-Class 340mm Adamantium-Carbide tipped ship-to-ship missiles
(2) Missile tubes equipped with Ranger-Class 150 Kiloton Nuclear Missiles

-Defensive-
(60) Double-Barreled Point-Defense Turrets firing High-Explosive Flak Rounds
(2) Retractable missile battery pods each containing (16) A.S.W. 'Talon'-Class 178mm Anti-Star fighter Missiles

Hangar
12 Launch Tubes
2 squadrons of 12 ASF-87 fighters
2 squadrons of 6 HGS-95 gun ships
14 GPDS-2 'Navis Mk. II' Drop ships
12 HBE-30 'Komodo' Exo-Skeleton Suits
10 M12 L.R.V. 'Warthog' Vehicles

Armory/Accessories
70 M-87A1 Modular Assault Rifles(7.62x51mm)
56 M12 Pump-Action Shotguns(12 Gauge)
76 TAP-5 Sub Machine Guns(9x19mm)
24 M-83 Magazine Fed Bolt Action Sniper Rifles(12.7x99mm)
40 P-249 Machine Guns(9.5x40mm)
120 Mk.99 Semi-Autmoatic Pistols(9x19mm)
40 DRS-40 Personal Rail Gun(40x46mm)
600 'Spyder' Protein-Polymer Body Armor Sets
450 Ares Protein-Polymer Helmets with build in Smartlink Targeting Systems, Image Link, Land Warrior, and Full AR(Augmented Reality) Capabilitys
700 Erika 'Elite' Commlinks
100 Transys 'TruSite' Glasses with Full AR Capabilitys
150 Pairs of AR Interaction Gloves

Standard Tech
DRADIS Scanners
Augmented-Reality(AR) Ready
Beta-Class Electronic Warfare Software and Equipment
Life Support System
Artificial Gravity Generators

Basic Sketchup models. Needs more details and general touch-up.

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[boberth2o]

That is extremely cool. Seriously cool in fact.



I have a sketchup question

I seem to be running into problems when I do a shape like a rectangular box and want a beveled edge arond the top or bottom. I used the "follow me" tool but it seems to much up the very last corner nearly all the time. I have done it without error before but more often then not the last corner mucks up.

Any tips.

Thanks Coco (Im going to call you Coco now, its shorter) I found that it is much easier to go and create another box on top of the one you want to bevel, an easy. First your should use the off set tool to make the outline of the next box on the face, then pull that face out and connect the corners

[Semmer]

It's the setting since i'm using full reflections, shadows, ray tracing transparencies and Radiosity at full.

PS also the textures I use on finished models also add a lot to time.

That half mirror surface must be one hell of a consumer too. But textures are real pain. (espesially to find good ones)


Those aurora details fit good in the Phoenix. I like.

[immhotep]

I put a texture pack in to the modelling pack, if you have that, then theres about 40 texture images, many of them are pretty good.

[boberth2o]

Update here, there more modeling done on the nose and front end of the ship.

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[Lt. Col. Mcoy]

Very nice. You should submit that to dboy's fleet as the new Battlecruiser.

[boberth2o]

Idk, i was going to save it for 4.0, I'd have to think about it, and I have no clue what to do in thats fleet since I haven't read any of it.

[thekillman]

oh very nice. it be great if we could use it!