3D(Star Wars) Custom CG Mon Calamari Cruiser (3dsMAX)

Howard Day

[FONT=&amp]Hey, guys! I recently finished a 3d model of a custom Mon Calamari Cruiser - and I've made the source files available!

The original model was an effort between Ansel Hsaio and I to come up with a method of wrapping complex details around curved surfaces. Without that method working, this sort of model would take an immense amount of time to complete - instead, it only took approx 20 hrs of time to make... and now that I have the greebles and source, I could bang another one out in a quarter of that time.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/5o6Rw
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It's in 3dsMax 2012 format (Built in 2015) and has no textures. I've included the plugins I used (in 2015 format), and there are two versions - the finished ship, and the ship still in un-flattened stack construction version. This one has some boxes around the ship - if you select one of those, and set the Morpher modifier to 0%, it will unwrap the surface details flat, and you can see how I set everything up. It also contains all the greebles I made for this in easy to view and layout form. I'd love to see any art you guys make with this, but most of all, I hope you enjoy it. [/FONT]

[FONT=&amp]Construction Version! [/FONT]
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B75poHUDj4VkQ2lDT01hNFg3TVk/view?usp=sharing
[FONT=&amp]Finished Version![/FONT]
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B75poHUDj4VkU29rZ0ZjSUFZbG8/view?usp=sharing
[FONT=&amp]Enjoy![/FONT]

IRML

not a maxer, but the results look awesome anyway

Comco

Ok - the voxels are super slow to render on my quad core - is that normal? I know next to nothing about voxels. What purpose to they serve in this type of setup?

I only had 10 minutes to play with the finished version this evening and did have time to sort out the missing plugins (warp and advdirt, I believe). Looks super impressive but damn that render time is a killer.

Thanks for sharing, Howard!

publiusr

I always wanted to see a huge secondary hull for a Trek ship with that kind of looks--with a cluster of detailed dish antenna in the nose and multi-layered shuttlebays on a fantail that just kept stepping up and out--like an upside down ziggurat

evil_genius_180

Awesome stuff. I already saw Ansels' renders of the ship. You guys did great work on this.

[Deleted User]

Very cool mesh.