Original Starship Design Thread

[FN-P90]

Tank-sized ring platform? or as Crazy Tom says, Drop pods?

Those would be great for a ship with the purpose of Massive scale invasions

[Lt. Col. Mcoy]

It's obviously a Missile Destroyer. Jam pack those pods with high yield warheads and it could probably take out a Hive.

[boberth2o]

A little planet experiment

[boberth2o]

Some better renders than ever before

[Extrenix]

what render program are u using bob ?

[Lt. Col. Mcoy]

I think he's using Blender.

[titan_hq]

what render program are u using bob ?

I think he's using Blender.

I thought he uses Lightwave.

[RJB]

I thought he uses Lightwave.

Yeah he uses lightwave.

[Extrenix]

so is there any way to export sketchup to lightwave ??? Ive been looking for a way but no success so far.

[titan_hq]

so is there any way to export sketchup to lightwave ??? Ive been looking for a way but no success so far.

Export as 3ds or obj and open it using blender then export it from there as lwo.

Thats the simplest way i can think of.

[boberth2o]

Export as 3ds or obj and open it using blender then export it from there as lwo.

Thats the simplest way i can think of.

Or you can export the model as a 3DS and then simply open it in lightwave, thats what I do. And Yes I use lightwave, but im not that good at modeling in it yet so I use sketchup.

[Semmer]

Wasn't .obj format quite universal?


Anyway. I've been thinking, and thinking about the dropship, bomber, cargoship thingie and I've ended up doing a dropship/cargoship.

Spoiler:

Here's how they are loaded, roughly.
http://koti.mbnet.fi/semmer/Roipetta/bomber10.jpg

Each box represents a tank: http://koti.mbnet.fi/semmer/Roipetta/bomber9.jpg

I thought that 4 AGJ's (for now) are meant to be launched before landing. They will clear the ground and air in tandem with dropship Anti-Ground Railguns. Then upon touchdown the front ramp is opened and first 19 tanks are driven out. rest 17 will follow when lower deck is clear. 36 tanks total.

What do you guys think?

[boberth2o]

Wasn't .obj format quite universal?


Anyway. I've been thinking, and thinking about the dropship, bomber, cargoship thingie and I've ended up doing a dropship/cargoship.

Spoiler:

Here's how they are loaded, roughly.
http://koti.mbnet.fi/semmer/Roipetta/bomber10.jpg

Each box represents a tank: http://koti.mbnet.fi/semmer/Roipetta/bomber9.jpg

I thought that 4 AGJ's (for now) are meant to be launched before landing. They will clear the ground and air in tandem with dropship Anti-Ground Railguns. Then upon touchdown the front ramp is opened and first 19 tanks are driven out. rest 17 will follow when lower deck is clear. 36 tanks total.

What do you guys think?

Nice Ship, its coming along well.

Ummm OJB can have problems with faces not being reconized, I had this problem in lightwave, some of the face would just simply not appear on the model. I think that the best format to export to is 3DS, and it keeps the textures of the model with it no matter what program you use to render it. OJB just exports the model and doesn't export the textures to match.

[boberth2o]

For you Extrenix:

[Extrenix]

Nice Bob.
Ill go ahead with my latest project






Original model by Me
F/A-322 by Zake
Puddle jumper by Haze
Cargo Ship by Boberth2o