Original Starship Design Thread

[titan_hq]

If you can email me the model I could export it into a 3DS format and then email that back to you so you could use it in your new program.

No no no no no!
Do not use 3DS. It is an obsolete format. If you are gonna convert, use .Obj. It is universally accepted, and (in my experience at least) has much better chance of converting successfully.

[boberth2o]

No no no no no!
Do not use 3DS. It is an obsolete format. If you are gonna convert, use .Obj. It is universally accepted, and (in my experience at least) has much better chance of converting successfully.

well, in .OBJ I have found that faces do not fully export and you have a complete model with several faces missing, however when you export it a .3DS there is merely a foreground layer of polygons created and all you need to do it erase them. And that part happens to be extremely easy in lightwave.

[General_Finley]

paint is a bad way to go with ship designs, i perfere google sketchup 7, you can download it for free and its really easy to use. the ship is also slightly fanwank, and i mean fanwank not fanwork, where are the drones coming from, where's this ori beam coming from and where's the chair coming from? as i said, use google sketchup 7, its good for beginners. you can make stuff like the robot.

Spoiler:

thanks for the advice. and here is the info you wanted. the chire was taken from the Tria.

[knowles2]

well, in .OBJ I have found that faces do not fully export and you have a complete model with several faces missing, however when you export it a .3DS there is merely a foreground layer of polygon created and all you need to do it erase them. And that part happens to be extremely easy in lightwave.

Yeah using obj is tricky as each program use the file format in different and random and funky ways.

The one problem I had was that when exporting from Sketchup to Maya, in Maya it would import in some completely random location. Ann it only happen when I export from Sketchup.

Saying this I expect in the coming years as obj become more standard and it implementation and as the software companies begin to relies that cgi industry want standardise and transferable files.

[boberth2o]

Yeah its all tricky.

[ManiacMike]

Maya is tricky with exporting mirrored geometry too (which is how i like to work). It flips the faces and it makes the model look like poop.

[boberth2o]

yeah one thing about Sketchup is when you export large models like my space station, It's exporting one and a half million polygons but the models actually six hundred thousand. And boy does that take some time.

[knowles2]

well, in .OBJ I have found that faces do not fully export and you have a complete model with several faces missing, however when you export it a .3DS there is merely a foreground layer of polygons created and all you need to do it erase them. And that part happens to be extremely easy in lightwave.

yeah one thing about Sketchup is when you export large models like my space station, It's exporting one and a half million polygons but the models actually six hundred thousand. And boy does that take some time.

Yeah a other thing I notice is when I playing with export people models was that it double all the polygons and literally made two polygons stick on top of each other.

[FN-P90]

Cool robot, be nice to have a few them at the SGC for supporting the SG units in the field.

YOUR WELCOME! Im the one who posted that! And its not a robot. its a Mobile Suit. These are not used as support, the Infantry supports them., They are about 19 meters tall and have the manuverablility of the Human body and have thick armor plating. The rifle seen in the GM's hand is a 90mm rifle. Tanks, Armord Vehicles, even Fighters are far out shined by Mobile SUits.

[Finger13]

Ugh, learning is overrated. I finish one thing on this then figure out how to do it differently or better, and have to redo the entire section. Now I'm thinking of removing the trench at the front altogether and redoing the ribbing.

It will never end. I've only worked on it for a few hours this week and have barely made any additions lol, it's just editing something then deleting it and rebuilding it then deleting it again.

Spoiler:

EDIT: Ahhh crap just saw a mistake that I didn't catch before rendering, the missile bays are being partially hidden by the head of the ship. I extended it backwards without remembering that.

[locutes]

great looking ship! what program is it made with? an is that easy to use?


I used to have Blender, but I dont get it at all, and now i use Scetchup, which is good, but not as good looking.

[Experiment 442]

thanks for the advice. and here is the info you wanted. the chire was taken from the Tria.

Spoiler:

no, i mean where is it coming from? earth doesn't know how to make ori beam weapons, and neither drones. so using them in a ship is stupid. you can't use ZPM's either as we can't make them. keep trying though, it takes practice until you can do it properly. I just read a few ship design threads until i understood it all. But nearly all acient and ori tech is no go for nearly all ships. use asgard tech seeing as we got the core.

EDIT: and why take the chair from another ship when you can use that one?

[Experiment 442]

YOUR WELCOME! Im the one who posted that! And its not a robot. its a Mobile Suit. These are not used as support, the Infantry supports them., They are about 19 meters tall and have the manuverablility of the Human body and have thick armor plating. The rifle seen in the GM's hand is a 90mm rifle. Tanks, Armord Vehicles, even Fighters are far out shined by Mobile SUits.

so its a transformer then?

[Guest750]

Name:
Furling Flagship

Registry:
FFS-###

Type:
Planetary ship

Technology base:
Furling/Ancient

Operators:
N/A

Naval Classification:
N/A

Hull:
N/A

Decks:
N/A

Dimensions:
Radius- 6,371.0 km
Circumference- 40,041.47 km
Volume- 1.0832073x1012 km3

Crew:
N/A

~Maximum Personnel:
N/A

Craft:
N/A

Power plant:
1x Geothermal Siphon Plant
3x Multi-verse Subspace Energy Vacuums

Engines:
48x Furling Super Ion Thrusters (SIT)

Hyperdrive Engines:
3x Furling Expansion Drives
1x Furling Advanced Hyperdrives

Armament/Weapons:
52x Crystallization Pulse Emplacements
24x107 x Conversion Missile Emplacements
3x Furling Power Lances

Defences:
570x Shield emitters
57x Shield generators
200x Shield Amplifiers
1000x Cloak emitters
600x Cloak generators

Other Technology:
1. Rings
2. "Touchstone" Device
3. Transporters
4. Matter Converters
5. Research Labs
6. A load of other stuff
7. Stargate

Technical and Historical Notes:
Long ago the Furlings set out to explore the Universe. Not possessing the hyperdrive capabilities to do so they came up with an ingenious solution. Upon seven planets they set up multiple power facilities, followed by manuvering thrusters, followed by shields, followed by a cloak and finally hyperdrives. Using the "Touchstone" technology the kept the planets under their control and set out to explore the universe, taking their planets with them.

Basically the Furlings took seven planets and turned them into spaceships.

[FN-P90]

so its a transformer then?

No. Its piloted by a person its just that It can kick the mess out of Tanks, Armord vehicles and Fighters for the most part unless they get a lucky shot on the Mobile Suit. I mean that one alones has a main weapon that is a 90mm machine gun. Think about that. All those shells hiting a tank in rapid succession will demolish it.