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3DDaniels Class - Experimental Drive
Don't Shoot
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Hi,
This time I'd be going on a whole different direction.
This ship is a 25th century vessel designed to test a new sublight speed warp drive.
The idea is not to make a faster going ship but an extraordinary meanuvarble craft utilizing small warp naccles that create a warp bubble around the ship without going into faster than light speeds and only bending space around the vessel to increase impulse engines output for sudden and brief jumps.
As for the modeling part, no I'm not reverting into a newbie, I just want you to get a look at the model lines before I get into serious modeling which will make changes in the design frustrating.
Anyway, since I'm not fixed on this praticular form I will apreciate any ideas for changes and improvements before I start getting on with the model and details.
This time I'd be going on a whole different direction.
This ship is a 25th century vessel designed to test a new sublight speed warp drive.
The idea is not to make a faster going ship but an extraordinary meanuvarble craft utilizing small warp naccles that create a warp bubble around the ship without going into faster than light speeds and only bending space around the vessel to increase impulse engines output for sudden and brief jumps.
As for the modeling part, no I'm not reverting into a newbie, I just want you to get a look at the model lines before I get into serious modeling which will make changes in the design frustrating.
Anyway, since I'm not fixed on this praticular form I will apreciate any ideas for changes and improvements before I start getting on with the model and details.
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ItAâs an interesting start. Question: do you have something jinned to the wings, or they will stay just the way it is (except, of course, the details youAâAâl be adding there)? I believe that you need to join something that remember a nacelle, but smaller.
The central body is to much dark, and I canAât see it clearlly.
PS: News about the Immense class remake?
Anyway, "the wings" are actually a sensor pod, like the one ontop of the Nebula Class, only more advanced.
As for the Immense Class, I don't see myself returning to that for now, but maybe in the future and the reason is simple - when I started it I did it mainly because I was not happy with the textured windows but when I tried modeling all of them I came to realize that my computer can't handle the job so I need to wait until computers are strong enough for that kind of details
I believe it wonAât take so long
Anyway, I'm still at early stages with this and don't want start detailing until I'm sure about the overall form.
Interesting concept and I'm looking forward to seeing this develop.
though i love the concept of a warp drive for sublight speeds, becasue with warp drive, you take out the realtivistic effects out of the equation, becasue you are "technically" at rest, space is moving around you. so this would work great for ships that need to be at impulse speeds for long periods of time, through nebula, areas where warp speed is impossible etc. so they can step on the gas pedal to 90% c without the time problems going that fast. Good work!
Hope it looks better
Other than that, great job!
Anyway, here's an update to your question. and the center will have a particle fountain that isn't yet modeled. oh, and yes, the grill is modeled, not textured - I tend to do things the hard way
The hard way always looks better
yep! soemtimes only the hard way leads to the success.
btw. awesome artwork, don't shoot!
Laziness pays off
1. Make the grille, with for example...the script I made cause I was lazy
http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/hexlattice
2. Add some segments with say, the connect tool.
3. Slice off a bit on 2 sides of the grille, so the ends match up.
4. Use the bend modifier
The method I used is really quite simple:
1) I made up one hexagon
2) made instaces copies of it and spread them all around the original with edges of each touching the other
3) select and instance all of them and paste them around the original group and so on and so on until I got the entire section covered
4) edited the original hexagon to make it a bit smaller so there forms a space between them
5) booleaned all the shapes into the section of the hull I wanted to have the grid
anyway, as for the particle fountain:
Many ppl confuse the deflector dish for beign some sort of a giant sensor platform which is understandable since the original Enterprise's dish looked like a giant satelite dish. However the role of the dish is much more importent, in fact, it's the most importent peice of the ship because no ship would be able to fly through space at high speeds without it. The idea of the dish is to disperse an energy coating around the ship (called the deflector shields) and by that to shield it againt incoming objects, and no, weapon fire is not the main thing the shields protect the ship from. Incoming high velocity space debry and tiny particles are much more dangerous to the ship. That is why it's the most energy consuming system the ship has. So, now that we understand what is the deflector the next question is what is the particle fountain?
Basicly since the deflector is so powerfull it can be used as a weapon. For example if you want to fire a massive energy beam onto an "unsuspecting" borg cube to destroy your assimilated captain. The problem is that the deflector is designed to disperse the energy and particles and not to focus it.
The particle fountain is that focusing instrument.