3Dmy own battlestar

[Deleted User]

Hello everybody!

Sorry for my very bad english!

I decide to reveal my battlestar for this new year!

So i started it 6 months ago, when i passed my exams, i stopped it during the summer holiday and restart it in the beginning of december. I use 3ds max 2008 and mental ray. the polycount is near 620 000 polys.

I haven't chosen the name of my battlestar yet

so stop talking and now..the pictures!

a small turret:


a cannon:


and now the battlestar!






and my favorite view!


that's all!

and again sorry for my very bad english!

if someone is interested, you can see some good wip on the french website www.3DVF.com, Le Magazine Online de la 3d Francophone

somacruz145

Whoah you mean your PC didn't blow up after modelling that !? That's the best BSG model I have seen since official BSG renders I seriously have no words to describe that. It's just ... perfect.

[Deleted User]

Thank you somacruz145!:)

Ice-Dragon

Now this is an outstanding Battlestar model:thumb:
Great work nilianth

[Deleted User]

thats really nice man! How accurate is it?

aylaa12

I agree with everyone with bad english and all this is a remarkable model a wonderful start and the detail outstanding hope we all get to see more of this new marvel jejejejejejejejejejejeje

Ronald Anne

excellent work.

Tzarro

Stunning job; love the amazingly intricate detail.

Davide_sd

Superb work! can't wait to see more. :thumb:

BolianAdmiral

That is too frakking awesome for words... it's so insanely detailed! The greebles!!!

Seriously cool work, man... can't wait to see more.

Starship

Excellent!!!

[Deleted User]

thank you all!

[Deleted User]

I found some old renders of the middle part, with high details:

somacruz145

Wow you're REALLY good at this ! It looks perfect no matter which way I look at it What kind of machine and software you're using ?

[Deleted User]

I use 3ds max 2009 x64
os: windows XP x64 edition
cpu:intel core 2 quad Q6600 oc 3.4ghz cooled by the gigabit 3d galaxy system
mainboard: msi p35 platinum powerup edition
6go ddr2 800mhz
gpu:amd hd 2900XT 1GO overclocked edition cooled with the zalman vf 1000 system
in the beautiful box A+ case twin engine tower!
next summer, i will change my computer to a dual xeon based system with dual nvidia quadro fx 3700 and 16go of ddr2 fbdimm:rolleyes:

somacruz145

I see If you want a nice Macbook (2Ghz dual-core, 1GB RAM ...) we can trade
But seriously, that's one heck of a machine I'm waiting to see what more can you squeeze out of it !

BolianAdmiral

Praise be to the Gods... this is gonna be the perfect Battlestar!

Finger13

Incredible details. I love how you did the nose, and the ribbing and turret is awesome.

Definitely following this one.

Davide_sd

great work on this battlestar.

Are you going to create some animations? With that level of details you can take very great close-ups!

[Deleted User]

Thank you all!

I think i will create some animations for my demoreel, after this battlestar, i will model the pegasus, and a cylon basestar, i am on 2 other models actually, the viper mark II and the cylon raider, i think i will made a big animation with all of my bsg models.

here my viper mark II, unfinished, it need to be all retextured:


here a start on my cylon raider:

Davide_sd

great meshes. I think all of us want to see more of the Viper. Is it detailed as the Battlestar?

[Deleted User]

the viper is less detailed than the battlestar because i made it last year with my old omputer, a pentium 4 solo, ati 9600 pro 128mb with only 512 mo ddr. I will make a new mesh, with more details and better shaders, textures.

davidnevue

Can I see a wireframe please?

[Deleted User]

hi!

Here are 2 wireframes:





and here a little update:

aylaa12

you're really making a great model here great work hope to see more soon

[Deleted User]

That is absolutely fantastic. It scares people new to CG such as myself who are trying to get into modeling lol.

I remember seeing another Battlestar with such detail here on SFM. It was like a multi-million poly beast.

What's your poly count so far?

It's looking spectacular though. Are those windows in the middle section? Do Battlestars have windows?

Pearse

They do, although we've only seen through the windows right at the very front in the observation room thingamy.

Wow, this is an amazing model so far. It really does look as detailed as the studio version. Fantastic job!

[Deleted User]

Thank you all!

Adalla: These battlestars ?
http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/3d-wips/2439-strikestar-sirius.html
http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/3d-wips/16891-battlestar-titan.html

They are better than mine!

small update:

Davide_sd

great work!
i have a question for you: in the center of the image we see 3 tubes; everyone create an 'S' curve...how did you do that curves? Are 2 cilindres with bend modifier?

[Deleted User]

FANTASTIC!!! Please keep up the great work

[Deleted User]

Thank you all!

For the tubes i use splines with render enable in viewport and renderer. I use a radial thinkness for my splines.