Original Starship Design Thread

[Experiment 442]

thanks

[thekillman]

ok this is what i am doing right now:



anyone found a way to turn sketchup to blender?

[Experiment 442]

*shrugs*

[thekillman]

this time in spoilers


rebuilt the wheels, finalized some stuff and here it is:

[Alx]

Well here She is again per your request although this time im expecting criticism and im promise i wont go all troll on ya this time!

Spoiler:

Made with sketchup 7 rendered with full SU podium 1.5

Dimensions are
3000m length
2000+m width
500+m height

And i know its a big ship! its meant to be a future Tauri ship Capable of transporting and supporting a number of 304 sized vessels far far from the milky way sort of a base of operations in an extragalactic incursion (be it Military or scientific purpose) but how far in the future is yet to be decided, i tried to incorporate an asgard feeling to the tauri design as in my view the next logical steps for the tau'ri are a drift towards more asgard inspired tech as they are far closer to understanding their legacy then the ancient database in atlantis witch was far beyond even the asgard.

Note: bare in mind i am under "moderation" so pics will have to be approved by a mod before they are visible!

[Dr Lee]

not a big fan of the Massive 304 carriers..... but i like that design.....

[thekillman]

ok comments and constructive criticism:

1: its indeed a little big....
2: is that your first? cause then you're damn good.
3: check your model and Podium:

- i see some blue in your model, but in the Render its black. this is a problem often coming with podium: now select those faces, use "reverse face", then color the face. now, it will light up.

-(applies to Experiment aswell BTW), your textures appear super-small. i havent figured out why it does that, but the general solution is simple: select all faces with a certain texture (right mousebutton on the texture in the "paint" option, then do "select all" (wont work when you have Components or Groups, just "open" the group and repeat the procedure), then retexture. should solve the problem. scaling will also affect the texture.



kudos for the good ship.

[Experiment 442]

It feels a bit treky to me. 30km is a bit too large and wouldn't really be that practical. Then there's the 304 hangar... 304s have their own hyperdrives, they really don't need hangars. I like the idea of a base, but you'd be destroying london with that behemoth.

You're modeling skills are average, it could use a lot of detail in some places. It would look nice with a good ol' complicated texture for it to make up for the lack of detail. If it is your first go, here's a pat on the back:

*pats on back*

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Now then, for a teaser of rendered Aria:

Spoiler:

Do you understand why its taking so long now? Any feedback is nice, be it you think it looks S*** or you think it looks like F***ing S***.

EDIT: turrets are being done in a different file because of the lag.

[Alx]

ok comments and constructive criticism:

1: its indeed a little big....
2: is that your first? cause then you're damn good.
3: check your model and Podium:

- i see some blue in your model, but in the Render its black. this is a problem often coming with podium: now select those faces, use "reverse face", then color the face. now, it will light up.

kudos for the good ship.

1. agreed its big yes but thats its purpose i wanted to go super big so i could play around with interiors! and i have
2 its my 4th design ever using a 3d software I used to be a graffiti artist specialising in 3d so i have some experience of 3d in general
3. indeed i had problems with the coloring the blue tint that comes with diffrent podium settings was a bit of a pain before i got it to work half ok anyway still learning

Also if you want to se interiors of the 405 (not rendered) i'll post some bridge, hallways, hangardoorcontroll room pics.. etc anyone intrested?

[thekillman]

ok now imagine that being rendered on my computer,

* fires come out of every place and the whole thing goes boom!*


i wouldnt say average. i personally dont super-detail stuff due to the time and lag. and the fact that rendering takes a trillion times longer.

[Experiment 442]

ha ha

well above average was better, but i couldn't think of a word.

You've got talent, just refine it to the laws of common sense. just kidding, we throw common sense out the window and laugh at it as it flails in the middle of the road. :evil:

[Alx]

It feels a bit treky to me. 30km is a bit too large and wouldn't really be that practical. Then there's the 304 hangar... 304s have their own hyperdrives, they really don't need hangars. I like the idea of a base, but you'd be destroying london with that behemoth.

You're modeling skills are average, it could use a lot of detail in some places. It would look nice with a good ol' complicated texture for it to make up for the lack of detail. If it is your first go, here's a pat on the back:

*pats on back*

---------------------

Now then, for a teaser of rendered Aria:


Do you understand why its taking so long now? Any feedback is nice, be it you think it looks S*** or you think it looks like F***ing S***.

EDIT: turrets are being done in a different file because of the lag.

good looking render i hope i'll get close to doing that soon (still learning)

[thekillman]

ahh too much moving stuff!

final model

Spoiler:

[Experiment 442]

good looking render i hope i'll get close to doing that soon (still learning)

You can either do it like killman did and learn from messing around, which i'm bad at because i think i'll break something, or watch the toutorials. They are as boring as watching paint dry though.

Wow, that was fast modeling killman, has a nice retro look about it

[Alx]

You can either do it like killman did and learn from messing around, which i'm bad at because i think i'll break something, or watch the toutorials. They are as boring as watching paint dry though.

Indeed the vids are boring as...
still i've watched some of em but i prefer the "trial and error" aproach i learn alot faster by doing instead of watching how things are done! besides this is the only way to develop personal style in most areas of design/art