Original Starship Design Thread

[Merlin1701]

...a future car?

I have started a new project a history around a UK base and a few ships including a few different cargo ship classes.

[Experiment 442]

Think of something with wings and missiles.

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[Pharaoh Hamenthotep]

Something I started modelling yesterday...

[Crazy Tom]

People with dirt-cheap inertia-less drive systems.

That's actually my theory for how we're going to defeat the Reapers. Aim the Mass Effect Relays at them and WHAM! If it can cross a galaxy that fast, just imagine the IMPACT that would leave on a Reaper!

Won't work, Relays don't actually speed anything up to that speed, they just create a dark energy corridor between themselves, effectively raising the speed of light within it. My personal favorite is X-Ray lasers. They go through any kinetic barrier. You still have to deal with armor, but at least it's doing something instead of splashing across the Reaper's kinetic barriers.

[Alx]

Something I started modelling yesterday...

Nicly done! i see you got the rigging down do you know weight mapping?

[Pharaoh Hamenthotep]

Nicly done! i see you got the rigging down do you know weight mapping?

I haven't tried that yet... it's on my to do list

[Alx]

I haven't tried that yet... it's on my to do list

mine aswell and im hunting for a tute that goes into the subject thuroughly.. havt been able to locate one yet tho.. so i made my character mesh a diffrent shape so its easier to rig instead and hopefully i wont get as much warping and bending of the mesh i got before..

[Pharaoh Hamenthotep]

mine aswell and im hunting for a tute that goes into the subject thuroughly.. havt been able to locate one yet tho.. so i made my character mesh a diffrent shape so its easier to rig instead and hopefully i wont get as much warping and bending of the mesh i got before..

My robot doesn't warp or bend at all But each part of his body is a different object so the warping issue doesn't really apply

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My robot doesn't warp or bend at all But each part of his body is a different object so the warping issue doesn't really apply

robots are easy that way but youl get to a point were weight mapping is neccesary eventually

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[blackluster]

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I finally managed to do a render showing some of the new details. Setting up the light sources is a lot harder than I thought. Anyway, from the stuff I've been meaning to add, the ship now has:

Dorsal launch doors
AA missile launch doors
Lower AA plasma cannons
Redesigned conning tower (though I might give it another go, the shape isn't quite to my liking)
Forward and rear viewing decks
Pod dock hatch and docking fixtures
Ion drive manifold airlock
Structural supports
Reactor access lock

Checking the scaling on the parts I was happy with, the size of this ship actually comes out to about 275 m. As such the designation should maybe go up to cruiser, even though it is still somewhat specialized in terms of its role in a fleet. I should be able to do some better pics when I figure out this renderer...

[Alx]

another character in progress.

Raiden from MGS4

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[jackclone1]

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Dude that is awesome, you have so gotta do that to the Commander PJ's cruiser, he'll go crackers if you do.

[Saquist]

I love the music.

That must be the best looking turtle style ship design I've ever seen.

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I finally managed to do a render showing some of the new details. Setting up the light sources is a lot harder than I thought. Anyway, from the stuff I've been meaning to add, the ship now has:

Dorsal launch doors
AA missile launch doors
Lower AA plasma cannons
Redesigned conning tower (though I might give it another go, the shape isn't quite to my liking)
Forward and rear viewing decks
Pod dock hatch and docking fixtures
Ion drive manifold airlock
Structural supports
Reactor access lock

Checking the scaling on the parts I was happy with, the size of this ship actually comes out to about 275 m. As such the designation should maybe go up to cruiser, even though it is still somewhat specialized in terms of its role in a fleet. I should be able to do some better pics when I figure out this renderer...

That's starting to look more than just intresting.

[Experiment 442]

Well, I had a redesign, the other one was built around walkways, this one is built around the ship components.

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