its a warship, what do you expect? First class rooms?
Well, until the cut-away shot it really was kind of hard to tell how much room was there. You hear about the weapons and what not but until you see it... But it still has more room then all the ships I sail with. My usual rack is in a tiny room with 15 people stacked 3 high and all located directly above the ships props and forward of the steering gear compartment. So not just cramped but very noisy too. Oh yeah, if the seals on the aft diesel tanks start to leak you can have a couple of inches of fuel on the deck and have to sleep in it.
Yeah its cramped, but its more comfortable than an akula. the habitable interior is composed of linked pressure vessels within the outer hull, the biggest section at the front contains living quarters and the command deck. it has 3 primary decks and requires a fairly small crew, perhaps 20 souls.
Yeah its cramped, but its more comfortable than an akula. the habitable interior is composed of linked pressure vessels within the outer hull, the biggest section at the front contains living quarters and the command deck. it has 3 primary decks and requires a fairly small crew, perhaps 20 souls.
thanks for all the nice comments:)
Whoa! Sweet!:p Did you do that for your Akula too? There is another 3d artist who does complete deck design for his own ships but they are for ships in the 100's of meters range and are not quite as nice as this. Yours is more believable though :thumb:
In the alliance we refer to it as being set free to explore the higher dimensions.
At least in government 'documentation' anyway...
Yeah i'm not sure what situations would really require an escape pod... it either being better to stay with the ship until rescue or the quick death would be preferable. i had them in the akula however, i want to maybe find space for perhaps three of those shuttles, but thats not enough to evacuate the whole crew.
Cavebear, yeah i have layouts for all my ships, even though i don't detail the interiors they often inform me as to what should be shown on the outside.
Indeed, this inadvertently answers my question about the escape pods. By adding time travel to the list of systems, it becomes possible to prevent any incident that would require escape pods. Most ingenious :devil:
In other news, I love the fact that this ship uses more energy based weapons than projectile. Energy is so much more colorful.
Okay...in the future everything will be owned by the corporations right?? Steve...I think the Ionia needs a Taco Bell livery...Because even the military of the future needs to sell ad space!!
Looks cool, I was thinking, like the Jaguar cars, you could stick the model of your alien on the nose and chrome it....or not
The profile and general heavy and agressive yet quite smooth and refined structure are great, plus you have hidden armaments, big plus there.
I looked back a couple of pages and saw your close-ups of the hull plating there appeared to be uneveness and mesh errors is there other detail yet to be shown or are they just teething errors?
It is suposed to be that way...in simulation of real world metal stress as seen on todays naval vessels. The big "ding" down the starbord side is possibly an impact with something rather smallish. But I do not know what Coolhand has in mind for that particular area.
It is suposed to be that way...in simulation of real world metal stress as seen on todays naval vessels. The big "ding" down the starbord side is possibly an impact with something rather smallish. But I do not know what Coolhand has in mind for that particular area.
well i'll probably fix that up a little, its a bit too much in places so the effect works best when its as subtle as possible... mucho experimenting was going on with the fuselage panelling.
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Well, until the cut-away shot it really was kind of hard to tell how much room was there. You hear about the weapons and what not but until you see it... But it still has more room then all the ships I sail with. My usual rack is in a tiny room with 15 people stacked 3 high and all located directly above the ships props and forward of the steering gear compartment. So not just cramped but very noisy too. Oh yeah, if the seals on the aft diesel tanks start to leak you can have a couple of inches of fuel on the deck and have to sleep in it.
Hope Steve has better equipment
Yeah its cramped, but its more comfortable than an akula. the habitable interior is composed of linked pressure vessels within the outer hull, the biggest section at the front contains living quarters and the command deck. it has 3 primary decks and requires a fairly small crew, perhaps 20 souls.
thanks for all the nice comments:)
I really like how this looks.
Whoa! Sweet!:p Did you do that for your Akula too? There is another 3d artist who does complete deck design for his own ships but they are for ships in the 100's of meters range and are not quite as nice as this. Yours is more believable though :thumb:
Any escape pods? or is that what the shuttle is for?
At least in government 'documentation' anyway...
Yeah i'm not sure what situations would really require an escape pod... it either being better to stay with the ship until rescue or the quick death would be preferable. i had them in the akula however, i want to maybe find space for perhaps three of those shuttles, but thats not enough to evacuate the whole crew.
Cavebear, yeah i have layouts for all my ships, even though i don't detail the interiors they often inform me as to what should be shown on the outside.
Here's a spec sheet of the ship so far...
Indeed, this inadvertently answers my question about the escape pods. By adding time travel to the list of systems, it becomes possible to prevent any incident that would require escape pods. Most ingenious :devil:
In other news, I love the fact that this ship uses more energy based weapons than projectile. Energy is so much more colorful.
Thanks all,
Here's a vertical stabiliser.. well, it's not totally vertical. The lower surfaces split to provide both aerobraking and control.
once i sober up.
The profile and general heavy and agressive yet quite smooth and refined structure are great, plus you have hidden armaments, big plus there.
I looked back a couple of pages and saw your close-ups of the hull plating there appeared to be uneveness and mesh errors is there other detail yet to be shown or are they just teething errors?
well i'll probably fix that up a little, its a bit too much in places so the effect works best when its as subtle as possible... mucho experimenting was going on with the fuselage panelling.
You use Mental Ray right? How did you create the plumes? Are they volumetric lights?