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nightfever361
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I started modelling the station ages ago. I reworked nearly evering due to lack of detail and now it's time to finish it.
The core structure and the habitat ring plus weapon sails are done. I still have to do the pylon junctions, some windows and a lot of greeblies :argh:
I intend to make the plates and grid lines with normal maps.
The core structure and the habitat ring plus weapon sails are done. I still have to do the pylon junctions, some windows and a lot of greeblies :argh:
I intend to make the plates and grid lines with normal maps.
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As for the greebles, I know what you mean :runs:
JMoney
-Side note, Is anyone else having issues with the gallery? Are they going to bother to fix that? It's been months since it worked properly for me.
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Check your docking ring level. It should be considerably below the habitat ring.
Halo Buff, I really missed that story about shutting down two reactors. Thanks for that hint.
I think it was 'gpdesigner' who modelled the station at the same LOD, but he never did the texturing.
Check the support sub forum for the gallery issue. It looks like a never ending story.
Saquist, I rechecked it and you were right. I had to lower the docking ring a lot, so the connector's downward gradient encreased form 4A° to 5,5A°. I had to tweak that part so that the connection still fits to the central hull.
This looks great. One question is how did you do the windows? I have a model and its going be a bit window intensive.
And then having Tobias's fleet dropping by for a visit, if I had my way.
The windows on the habitat are seperat objects aligned to the hull, the others are just booled in. Thank god this is so repeatable: you need to build only a third of the hole station and only 60A° segments with variably aligned windows.
Ah. That what I was thinking of doing sectioning off window areas then doing windows in them in separate meshes. Although I would cut away at the original model. It would save a lot of time. Doing textured windows would be a pain. I'm using Blender. The Boolean doesn't work well for the design I'm doing.
There you go!
GP is a lightwave user, and is still working on her. Last time I heared news from him, he was working on textures for her. Therefore, the mesh has a zigallion of pollys!!!!! The last wip renderings are still online: http://gpdesigner.deviantart.com/
Hey Nightfever, your DS9 looks excellent. For sure we can expect another beauty, as the Enterprise that you built.
Don't see many people tackle this.
Look forward to seeing more.
I actually follow him on there (I think pretty much everyone on SFM is also on dA, albeit mostly by completely different names, so you only recognise them by their art). I'd forgotten he was texturing it, though.
Clearly when they created the model they had no idea how they would use these Docks right from the very first episode.
And of course at that Size Defiant would be tiny in comparison.
I don't have in mind how old the station is. Maybe it was build in a time where the Cardies had no transporter beams. So the docking ports are just relicts. But I can not explain to myself why the Fed is using docking ports. Maybe for nostalgic reasons... or dumb story writers
Think of it this way, you have a ship with a crew of 1000, the power and thermal requirements of teleporting all of them, their equipment, supplies, consumabled would be prohibitive. Trek has never dealt with that well, but also consider the thermal dissipation required for that, you would have to throw all of the ships power and thermal dissipation behind that effort. Docking could provide an additional source of heat sinks in that case, using the stations heat dissipation system to assist the ship's.
Docking ports are proper in every space construction. They are entries and egresses that do not require power to operate. It is a basic function of life in space otherwise if merely having power were the only consideration then why have windows and other umbilicals when video and transporters will do? Everything in space most have a basic or fundamental redundancy that everything else is built around.
Power means transporter, turbo lifts, communication and visuals.
No power means hatches, stairs and batteries...
Simple contingency that everything today is designed by and just as well in the future.
I've always wondered why they don't have automatic 'man overboard' technology built in? Fed ships should be able to detect a crewman exposed to vacuum and beam him back before the worst effects of decompression set in. But in many cases it's just "Ensign Redshirt was just blown out into space, Captain." "D'aww, now I have to inform his parents. They weren't on the same deck, were they?"
Anyway, I love the work on DS9. I've worked on a modification of one available mesh myself, and it isn't easy by any stretch, but yours looks quite nice.
Will you be adding detail to the tranches?
I thikn I have to look for that technical manual then.
Some more greebles are done. I hope I'll finish the pylon tomorrow.