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Jayru's WIP Dump Thread
Didn't like the hanger bay, so came up with a different take:
Comments welcome, more tomorrow!
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Excalibor's little corner
Well, I worked on some details: Hangars FliOps rooms (all three exterior and interiors) are windowed now, got the StarFleet patch on the hull, that's always nice... ^_^
Also got some cooling radiators and emergency plasma vents on the nacelle pylons, redid a good number of viewport cutters because they were ill aligned, worked on escape pods installations and berthing, tried to do backstept's trick for paneling, and failed miserably because solidify wreaks havoc on my model, I don't know why.
I'll have to try the brute force way and then apply solidify to the viewports so they have some thickness. Oh well...
Also reworked the Bussards and statcollectors, ¿do you like them like this, bigger on the inside, and more glass-like, or prefer the older model? I can't decide yet... Well, tomorrow'll be a new day. LLAP! \\//_
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May The Prophets Forgive Me
As if I need another project that won't get enough attention...
I've read that the wormhole was made by Rhythm & Hues. They might have used Wavefront Dynamation or their own software.
But I've never found an in-depth article on its creation, or even screen grabs.
Since I like to choose projects no one else is doing, I started analyzing the sequence frame by frame and thinking how the wormhole might have been created - which led me to see if I could approximate it without using particle simulations.
Pretty sure it was done with multiple simulations & some textured vortex geometry all composited together. The growth and shrinking as it appears and disappears looks to just be scaling it up and down.
Plenty more to do, but this IS the Work in Progress section. Gotta fix the terrible camera move and work on animating it bursting to life. I also want to do what the show never did and go THROUGH the opening and into the tunnel in one unbroken shot.
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Jayru's WIP Dump Thread
Started work on the inside of the main hanger. Forgot just how massive it is...
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Jayru's WIP Dump Thread
More work done on the shuttle/fighter - added landing "feet" and pannel outlines. Locking this down and moving on to the inside of the hanger bay on the big ship:
This is strictly a short-range craft that can transport up to 6 people.
comments welcome, more later :-)
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Star Trek Interiors
Been playing around with my existing corridor set from the USS Yeager, and had an idea to turn it into a corridor for the USS Cerberus.
Here's how they're looking so far, the biggest changes are the new vertical lights at the bottom of each corridor segment, the removal of the light columns between each segment, and the wider corridors themselves, to make them more fitting for a larger vessel.
I also intend to completely replace the turbolift, with one matching that on Prometheus from 'Message in a Bottle', just in more appropriate colors for this ship.
Still a lot to do, though I don't know how much time I'll be able to dedicate to this one for the time being. I'm posting it mostly to force myself to keep at it rather than abandoning it like 50 other projects already lol
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Excalibor's little corner
Well, viewports are basically done. I might add a few more in some places, like in the hangars and also inside viewports, but that's it. Also, escape pods! With a crew of 148 (including Marines) there's more than enough all over the ship. Still, you never know when you are going to have visitors... :-)
I have also worked on the deflector rim, but it's not easily appreciated in the pictures, I'll show it later... Let's go for the remaining viewports and then with the panels (ugh). By the way, UV mapping is doing something weird, instead of just viewing the UV mapping of the selection, everything is show at the same time, it makes it harder to work... I might have to do some deep studying before I manage the UV I want... Oh, well, this is fun, after all... :-) \\//_ -
Excalibor's little corner
Well, weird day. I have to redo the saucer, as I made some solidify errors that were messing too much with texturing. The new saucer, however, it's not UV-mapping much better, to be honest. Well, I'll get there, as I still have to solve the paneling dilemma.
Here's a better shot at the bridge (now with its own head, accessed via the dorr right by the starboard turbolift... :-) :
And the start of the viewport distribution. I'm a bit of the submarine philosophy, so they are just where they have to, no more. The rim has quarters and a nice lounge in the foremost part of the saucer, with nice, bigger windows. Anything steeper than 10-15º becomes a ceiling or floor viewport (no velux here, lol :-)
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The Star Wars Project
It‘s out now. Have fun and thanx for all the kind support over the years. All model contributors mentioned in the end credits.
Scavenger Hunt - A Star Wars Fan Tale
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Jayru's WIP Dump Thread
And the shuttle/fighter is done... EVEN built an interior for it as well :-)
Scale renders:
Maybe it's a bit lazy of me, but I built the shuttle as a flat-bottomed ship so it can land on that rather than create a landing leg system for it. I may come back to that, not sure how that's sitting with me.
Anyway, enjoy, comments welcome - more on a enemy ship later!
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