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gusdorf

Absolutely fantastic!

Brandenberg

Yeah, great animation. No laughing here.

Lonewriter

IRML wrote: »

thanks for that, I would like to build the shuttlebays one day

I'd love to see that, I love your Enterprise E, I'm glad to have it. Nightfever, your Enterprise E is also great. I loved your video. You did a great job on it, how about a render with your DS9?

nightfever

Thanks to all.

Lonewriter wrote: »

I'd love to see that, I love your Enterprise E, I'm glad to have it. Nightfever, your Enterprise E is also great. I loved your video. You did a great job on it, how about a render with your DS9?

I am working on an animation with DS9 and figuring out how to do the wormhole.
And I am still finishing the yacht to make it detachable.
yacht.jpg

evil_genius_180

Nice work so far on the yacht. :thumb:

I was using mine in Star Trek Online last night.

mattc

Really nice piece of work there Nightfever.

nuke

I love the Sovereign Class, sleek and mean.

Lonewriter

nightfever wrote: »

Thanks to all.



I am working on an animation with DS9 and figuring out how to do the wormhole.
And I am still finishing the yacht to make it detachable.
yacht.jpg

You should ask IRML on how he did it on his. I used it in a render detaching from the saucer

spacefighter

nightfever wrote: »

Thanks to all.



I am working on an animation with DS9 and figuring out how to do the wormhole.
And I am still finishing the yacht to make it detachable.
yacht.jpg

pleasantly streamlined, might look better with nacelle pods folded out and down a little further. what difficulties are you having with making it detach? all i know of captains yachts is the one in star trek insurrection, that blends into the bottom of the saucer and more or less "drops" out. if your ship is purely exoatmospheric no need to really worry if it doesn't form a smooth continuation of the hull, but perhaps if you want a smooth fit try docking it so that top lump is the airlock, when docked it's edges can be surrounded by hull plates, these could rotate out of the way to allow it to exit in a downward direction.

nightfever

I will do it smooth fit and the access will be at the sloping panel between the impulse engines

evil_genius_180

That looks damn good. :thumb:

This is one of my favorite small craft from Star Trek.

jrhottel

Sweet! That's how I figured access. Good that someone else is looking this over. It maybe of no importance but found the yacht of unrealistic scale on the movie model.

IRML

cool, what refs are you using for that? I found it hard to find any

nightfever

Yeah, you're right, I did not found any screens of the upper side neither.
I am using these as reference:
http://techspecs.acalltoduty.com/images/sov/sov_yacht.jpg
http://techspecs.acalltoduty.com/images/sov/yacht1.jpg

nightfever

The yacht is done: 295.000 polygons, one 4k texture set (diffuse, bump, spec) and a couple of additional textures.
Next step will be the fitting docking bay.

Rekkert

That yacht looks beautiful!

Chris2005

Amazing.

trekki

Nice job, i wait for the showdown

evil_genius_180

Great work, Nightfever. It looks fantastic. :thumb:

spacefighter

cool little craft, nicely done on the renders. the glowing stripe part on the nacelles is well designed. the folding pylons are cool, is there a particular reason for them, it would strike me that as this docks under the saucer folding up the wings will only complicate matters during docking.

evil_genius_180

spacefighter wrote: »

cool little craft, nicely done on the renders. the glowing stripe part on the nacelles is well designed. the folding pylons are cool, is there a particular reason for them, it would strike me that as this docks under the saucer folding up the wings will only complicate matters during docking.

It had to do with how it locks into the ship.

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nightfever

My Enterprise E is out now. Check out the download section under www.alex3d.info to grab it.

I don't know why, but in the .obj file some objects are misplaced on one axis when I load it into Lightwave 11. So you might better go with the fbx or dae format.

evil_genius_180

Sometimes, mirroring can cause that to happen, but I've usually only seen it in Max files exported to .3DS. (not that I usually download models, but I used to)

Lonewriter

Nice job, what's the difference between fbx 1 and fbx 7.2?

nightfever

I converted all mirroring, instancing, rigs, keyframes and other C4D proprietary stuff before the exportation.
The parts a shifted along the longitude axis

fbx6.1 was just a test, it shouldn't appear on the website.

Chris2005

Well, the FBX import saves out to a 250 MB Max file...

The same thing happened with the JJ Prise, apparently the way C4D exports out or something, basically the textures were then imported with 2 or more duplicates causing the extreme file size when saved in Max... not sure if that's the same case here, but just posting about it.

Otherwise it imported perfectly, from what I can see...

*Update*
Had to flip the geometry for the escape pods...

Lonewriter

This is what the fbx scene rendered out in Lightwave. I'm not sure how to fix it.

mikala

Did you check what the surface settings are Lonewriter?
Sometimes they will come into LW with the Luminous settings up a ways.

Chris2005

Lonewriter wrote: »

This is what the fbx scene rendered out in Lightwave. I'm not sure how to fix it.

Someone put the wrong light bulbs in...

It's like none of the lights have any falloff or shadows...

mattc

Ported to LW in about 15 minutes. A few flipped polys to be done. Other than that, clean as.

And 62MB object file, for anyone who might care.