looking better, still not keen on the curves around your sphere(i think they should be the other way) but it looks better in all grey. make the habitat section bigger and have it hang down a bit, add that under spike shown on the drawing.
coming out very nicely, still the "problem" with the ribbing on the sphere though. make the upper module larger and add that hook on the underside shown on the drawing. very good for a totally alien design, perhaps because it does look kind of plausible as if the huge sphere is the fuel tank.
Tag: 0000 2010206-2277810
Type: war ship
Status: disabled, prepped for scrap
Location: Caigne Fleet Yards
(Orion 110.20-08542.00)
Culture: Progression of Thought
Est. Age: 217 thousand years
Size: 124m
Nickname: Bludgeon
the "Tag:0000 020347-0081112/Nickname:plaj topu" ship is your best design yet. i understand your "independent tank segments protected by an outer translucent hull" which is a good idea but maybe make the outer hull opaque then put some very small and narrow ribbing round it parallel to the orientation of the ring to which everything is attached. otherwise she is a real "beauty" for something so alien. i like her silvery texture as well. glad too see the hook, maybe be better if it were longer.
on to the new ship "bludgeon", the sketch is ,well, sketchy. i can imagine it looking really fantastic if done in a humanish style(or maybe with romulan like feathered plating). from the sketch i can imagine a shuttle type craft with a huge engine bolted on the back and some fins at the wing tips, i think i may like her but will need to wait until i see a rough 3d overall design. looking like that maybe scale her down slightly(or leave it the same size) and redesignate it as a human built shuttle.
By the way "Plaj Topu" is Turkish for "beach ball".
never realised, in your sci fi verse was it some turkish person that found it? you ought to model some of the human ships(assuming that humans have starships so they can travel ,explore and find these abandoned craft), perhaps those before they found these craft and then those afterwards where technology has been copied.
I figured that there would be a wide variety of humans exploring the galaxy and discovering interesting things. If I find an interesting non-English word that I can use for a ship or place, I keep it handy. There's Finnish, Portuguese, and others I don't remember stuck in the info tags for these ships and things . Google images for 'Bola de Berlim'. Yum.
My idea was that these ships and things would be discovered fairly regularly over millennia, with each new culture adding a layer (or in some cases, several layers) of technological scrap. Some of the stuff would be old technology, some advanced, and some just plain inexplicable.
coming on well but not that similar to how i perceived the drawing. try enlarging the forward "shuttle" part and making it more shuttle shaped, place the wings further back. take some inspiration from the x-20 dyna-soar with the booster/fuel module on the back. make a streamlined shuttle shape at the front and then attach the engine to the back.
I did something sort of similar (at least to my thinking) to what you describe, a few ships back, spacefighter. Well, maybe not really close, but not too far off.
I've fooled around with how things fit together, and tried a cruciform look. I need to decide what I like better and also think on weapons designs.
that's looking awfully alien now, either build a shuttle with just a wing on either side( or some complex biplane arrangement a bit like this here or here ) or just leave it with the four wings like a centauri cruiser here. that many wings at various angles does not look right.
the guns are nice but rather square in cross section, the detailing on the hull is nice. good to see you gave up on many wings at different angles, craft still looks wrong in some ways though.
Added what I'm going to call a shield emitter tower, and played around with colors a bit. I'm having funky AutoCAD troubles with colors. I'll have to figure out if it's a template problem, a profile problem or something else.
Tag: 0000 084124-1002231
Type: cruiser
Status: systems failure
Location: tidal lock between 16 Cygni A, 16 Cygni C
Orion 000.91+1003770.89
Culture: Makers of Thought
Est. Age: 1.15 million years
Size: 218m dia
Nickname: King Cruller
finished that nice shuttle like design(the bludgeon) already? come on do some human ships at some point. latest model looks interesting all the same, but quite strange. is the ring structure for artificial gravity from rotation?
The level of 'alienness', to a great extent, is a function of the difference between levels of technology. An F-117 would seem very, very alien to someone accustomed to a Wright Flyer. Then there's an iPhone compared to a candle stick phone. Yet they both spring from the same species in just a couple of generations.
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Looking good.
build 0416cccp.jpg
I started reworking the habitat and the utility hull.
build 0417x.jpg
I managed to purge the corrupt parts of the file, and get things back under control.
build 0418x.jpg build 0418x1.jpg build 0418x2.jpg
next:
Tag: 0000 2010206-2277810
Type: war ship
Status: disabled, prepped for scrap
Location: Caigne Fleet Yards
(Orion 110.20-08542.00)
Culture: Progression of Thought
Est. Age: 217 thousand years
Size: 124m
Nickname: Bludgeon
bludgeon1.jpg
on to the new ship "bludgeon", the sketch is ,well, sketchy. i can imagine it looking really fantastic if done in a humanish style(or maybe with romulan like feathered plating). from the sketch i can imagine a shuttle type craft with a huge engine bolted on the back and some fins at the wing tips, i think i may like her but will need to wait until i see a rough 3d overall design. looking like that maybe scale her down slightly(or leave it the same size) and redesignate it as a human built shuttle.
By the way "Plaj Topu" is Turkish for "beach ball".
My idea was that these ships and things would be discovered fairly regularly over millennia, with each new culture adding a layer (or in some cases, several layers) of technological scrap. Some of the stuff would be old technology, some advanced, and some just plain inexplicable.
build 0420a.jpg
build 0421a.jpg
I've fooled around with how things fit together, and tried a cruciform look. I need to decide what I like better and also think on weapons designs.
build 0422.jpg build 0422a.jpg
build 0423z.jpg build 0423.jpg
build 0425x.jpg
build 0427x.jpg
build 0428c.jpg build 0428c1.jpg
Type: cruiser
Status: systems failure
Location: tidal lock between 16 Cygni A, 16 Cygni C
Orion 000.91+1003770.89
Culture: Makers of Thought
Est. Age: 1.15 million years
Size: 218m dia
Nickname: King Cruller
ring ship.jpg
build 0429x.jpg build 0429x1.jpg
In any case - two of my ship designs that were intended to be of human origin:
http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/showthread.php?78751-Playing-with-AutoCAD&highlight=rojren
and
http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/showthread.php?78862-Aleksandr&highlight=foster