3DST Shuttle

SnowCrash

Feels like forever since I posted. Here's my current WIP. About 80% complete now as I need to finish off the underside and may add a little details to the nacelle mounts. Interior needs a little further work but I am not going to push it too much further.

Endeavour

That's a neat-looking design you've got going there. I look forward to seeing more. :thumb:

Jayru

Very nice. I'll echo the above statement: looking forward to seeing more.

SnowCrash

Actually managed to post out of date renders. Here's a couple of fresh ones. The hex grid needs to be redone and have a different texture (dunno how that happened). Top is pretty much finished here.

B.J.

I really like the overall lines on that shuttle! It looks to me like a partial blend between the styles of Probert's Type 7 and the more angular Type 6 shuttles.

NightShadow

Very sleek design here, SC. I'm not too crazy about the greebly-like bits on the outer hull, though- they look a little too pronounced IMHO. That said, I'm sure that by the time you're done with this thing those will blend in perfectly with everything else and won't be so noticeable. Question: are you doing this in MAX or another software?

Aeries

I adore this shuttle! It reminds me of something that Dj Cutris' 25th century ships would launch. :]

BERmaestro

this is cool, i love this shuttle, the interior is perfect... good job developing that shuttle

MadKoiFish

O_o it is alive! lol haven't seen you around in ages. Sweet shuttle. Are these for that medical ship you were working on the last time you posted?

Elokim-Supreme

superb work!

TrekMD

That looks very nice! Good job!

shipfisher

RAF-MX breathed new life into the TOS shuttlecraft - You've done the same for the TNG era with this beauty. It looks like a type 6 morphed with a type 7 shuttlecraft and looks better than both. Nice. :thumb:

SnowCrash

@NightShadow Modelled in Max and rendered with VRay. The 'greebles' are a seperate layer so I can change them if necessary. Main problem is the material they use which I will play around with.

@MadKoiFish The old medical ship is still in the works. I started this with that ship in mind but, as the point of the shuttle was to learn how to use edge loops properly, I think I'll end up radically redesigning that ship. I have some test hulls I'll post later by way of an example.

@EveryoneElse Thanks for the kind words. Hopefully I'll post some more wokr of the next couple of days (probably weeks )

Elokim-Supreme

SnowCrash - can you please show the Vray parameters which you used and the material settings of the hull?
thanks

SnowCrash

@Elokim-Supreme VRay setup is standard linear workflow with indirect illumination low preset. 2 Vray lights from above (3600 & 6500 temperatures at 5.0 multiplier). Also using a light from below while working on the underside of the mesh. Material is nothing special as you can see.

Hellsgate

Interesting, though the hulls look so "plastic" I thought they were real life modeler collector's items on e-bay.

Freak

Very Nice and good to see you back.

SnowCrash

Completely off topic but here's a few images of the test hulls I have been playing with. Really nothing more than getting a feel for shape and polyflow. Serious attempts will come later

rduda

Shuttle ROCKS!!!!

SnowCrash

A bit of progress over lunch. Feeds for the phasers done. Power conduit to nacelles complete. Aux fusion gens in place. Just needs a few more details and it will be complete I think. Someone mentioned an ejectable core on this. Decided it's just too small to make that workable with this configuration. As it is I'd need to make up some pretty impressive flow diagrams to validate the placement of "stuff" (great I am now justifying fiction hardware.....) Also noted the core needs a rebuild.

Phoenix9000

Great work here Am really digging the design.......blends Voyager's Types 8 & 9 quite nicely, without looking too 'outlandish' like the E-E's shuttle from Insurrection

SnowCrash

Reworked the geometry of the grills and adjust textures for both grills and bussard. Geometry still needs a little work to resolve the unwanted highlights. Bussard may need to be slightly more transparent - i'm not sure yet.

Freak

That's a great looking nascell.

japetus

Nice work! Really like the greebling on this. I've always liked the personal manned shuttle craft in star trek. I'm excited to see how his goes! Beautiful renders as well! Off topic, but you gonna get VRay 2.0 when it comes out? VRay RT will be included! woohoo!

SnowCrash

@japetus VRay 2.0 does look impressive. Chaosgroups work on RT GPU rendering will be an interesting step forward!

Bottom is pretty much finished now. Materials still need work but mesh is mostly done. Last part is the rear which I am currently struggling with - to the extent I may restart the mesh completely to iron out the problems.

Starship

Looks very good !

publiusr

One of the very best shuttle designs ever.

SnowCrash

Didn't realize I hadn't posted a "finished" shot. I have stopped work on this now and it will be a fully rebuild if i ever restart it. Certainly good enough to populate shuttle bays as it currently stands tho...

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Flanker

Looking wonderful and will be indeed a well detailed shuttle for scenery

Freak

Very Nice

meugen06

Nice indeed.