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3DU.S.S. Coronado, a Seven Year Mission

McCMcC373 Posts: 704Member
In January 2014, I posted Coronado's first exploratory WIP images. At the time, I said I aimed to be render-complete by August of that year. I...may have missed that target by a little. Completing this model has been a labor of love spanning over seven years. Not seven continuous years of working away at it. There were lots of long gaps where I didn't work on it at all. But, at last, I'm calling her done. Lots of background details available in the WIP thread (which I still need to make a final update post in!) for anybody curious.

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  • seanrseanr1097 Brooklyn, NYPosts: 594Member
    Excellent work! How about some renders showing more of the shaded areas (so we can see lit windows and the like)?
  • admiral hortonadmiral horton201 Posts: 145Member
    Ortho please
  • Vortex5972Vortex5972321 Posts: 1,202Member
    Awesome work. It's been great watching this all come together.
    McC
  • McCMcC373 Posts: 704Member
    edited March 2021 #5
    One @seanr requested on Discord (I'll see about doing some shaded area shots this evening!):

    coro_2021-03-17-1047.jpg

    The bay interiors are unfinished right now, because I don't have any particular plans for them, but it shouldn't be too hard to finish them properly if I get the urge to do so. The black "tarmac" areas on both the Specter and upper bays are meant to extend into them, for reference; that jarring shift from dark to light is just a byproduct of the unfinished interior textures.

    And @admiral horton's requested orthos:

    coro_2021-03-17-1109_ortho.jpg
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  • admiral hortonadmiral horton201 Posts: 145Member
    Beauty
    McC
  • McCMcC373 Posts: 704Member
    Spent a little more time massaging all of the emissive shaders, with an initial focus on the room interiors, then running and signage lights, and the finally on the deflector, warp nacelles, and bussard collectors to make them more physically correct and in-line with one another. The net result, though frustrating to get to, I think was well worth it.

    Special note: the balance of window visibility and other emissive surface brightness in full direct sunlight is not intended to match what we normally see on the TV shows and in the movies, but rather what you might actually see if looking at this ship. You rarely see illuminated rooms in buildings or on cruise ships in broad daylight, for example.

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