Original Starship Design Thread

[Acidbuk]

thank you! and im just using a basic light rig nothing fancy

and lighting in post? how?

Oh, I can tweak some of the Lighting, and Add Lens flare in Paintshop. its not much but it really helps the overall effect when my lighting fails to illuminate properly.

Update FTW.
Distance Shot, In Silver
Dark Texture Gun Metal Brown
Hangers
Secondary Guns Remodeld
Secondary Battery Fire
Main Guns Fire.

Changes:
- Added Extra Paneling
- Changed CIC
- Remodeld Plasma Cannons
- Remodeled Rail Batteries...not that you can see at this distance
- Textures
- Navigation Lights
- Window Lights.

To Do List
- Tweak Paneling on the Ventral Side
- Add Missile Interceptor Battery (RIM-42 Type Launcher)
- Scenery!

[dboy-2007]

can your cannons turn 90 degrees to face directly out to the side ?

[Acidbuk]

can your cannons turn 90 degrees to face directly out to the side ?

Yes. They Be Turreted so they co do a full 360 rotation and they can elevate.though they can't point down but anything in that "blind spot" gets hit by the Interceptor Rail guns along the broad sides or from fire for the battery behiind it. Rear Arcs, are not that great. if you can get a ship up close on the ventral-rear side then you can take potshots asuming you can keep up; and get close enough of course..

[Merlin1701]

acidbuk - your cannons on the side are way to big in comparison with the ship!

[Acidbuk]

acidbuk - your cannons on the side are way to big in comparison with the ship!

they are meant to be, they are experimental thus bulky; the Sec Gen will be smaller

[Merlin1701]

I would test them out on something quick and then get them off. anyone looking at the design will just think that you have not scaled the ship correctly.

[Alx]

Niiiice You're a modeling machine

Indeed thanks bud!

I just have to finish the other side and make sure all the detail lines up properly

nice nice looking forward to viewing the final

It looks great, good job PH.

And Alx, you never cease to amaze, brilliant

Thanks ray! ill cotinue the trend as i still have tonnes to learn

Oh, I can tweak some of the Lighting, and Add Lens flare in Paintshop. its not much but it really helps the overall effect when my lighting fails to illuminate properly.

i see i try and sort all my stuff during render and i usually never do any post's.

Decided to make a low poly interior for the dome room.

[Acidbuk]

I would test them out on something quick and then get them off. anyone looking at the design will just think that you have not scaled the ship correctly.

Erm, thats a little unfair, I mean look at real technology for a moment, take Colosus the worlds first Code breaking computer it was huge and arrguably won us the war, then as we got better at building computers they got smaller and smaller and now you have Ipods with 10,000times more processing power than Colosus ever had in the palm of your hand.

Edit:
New Resized Cannons
Close up of cannons.

I still think my original ones fitted the more 'experimental' feel of the tech involved but the public have spoken so Eh.

[thekillman]

i like big guns, but it depends, how long are the cannons?

[Merlin1701]

killman do they look to big on that ship?

[lordofseas]

killman do they look to big on that ship?

Well, how big is the ship?

[boberth2o]

Here is the Battlestar Atlantia again. I roughed out the engines and added some armor plating to the ribs in the center of the ship to break it up. Those are soon to change because I dont quite like them. Comment?

[Alx]

Looking very good bob! nice smooth engines

SGU stargate


3-4h of work.

[thekillman]

how did you do the EH? is it a picture or an actual effect?

[Aragon101]

how did you do the EH? is it a picture or an actual effect?

I think Alx told me it was an actual effect, but MSN was cutting out on me at the time Looks quite awesome