i've been working on a small prototype of a model of a fusion reactor, thought it might make a nice core to the engine room... not that there is an engine room yet;)
same I thought that to, best image ive seen in weeks is the hot you have got of the ship with the gear and ramp down make sure when its all done you do a full size shot of the same thing!
Awesome!
Btw is there a particular reason your doing the interior? Do you plan to animate, just wondering cos I dont think ive seen you do one before?
Steve, youAâre out of concour... totally!! Perfect work, one more time. :thumb:
As I already said you before, IAâm waiting for you to publish a book, like the old ones about TTA (S. Caldwell). IAâll be between the first ones to buy one of these books, for sure!
thanks guys, the design is essentially a shell for a 12 sided "polywell" type fusion reactor, the spikes around the outside are basically the "fuel injectors" to put it simply... i think this would be the main power reactor (there would probably be 2 or 3 of these in-line) which is used to power the 'open' reactors that form the core of the interplanetary drives.
I'm also going to make this as a closed mesh to make physical copies from - separating along the seam line you can see in the pic to reveal the actual reactor core inside. make a nice display item for my desk, and if anyones interested, they'll be available to anyone who wants a physical copy.:)
Btw is there a particular reason your doing the interior? Do you plan to animate, just wondering cos I dont think ive seen you do one before?
i've made animations, i maybe once a year or so i'll make about 20-30 seconds worth. Have a look in the 3d gallery, you might find a couple. assuming they weren't culled in the recent server move.:)
here's another little companion vessel for it, just a quickie again like the hyperdrone. might build it into the ship like a "captains yacht" type deal from trek.
Its an excellent looking craft. If I had a crit it would be that this ship is more real world looking than the big craft. But then again- the small ships purpose could very well dictate that overall look. So its no big thing. Can you do a side-on render in the future?
embedded is good but doesnt that leave it somewhat exposed, as the outer hull of this little craft is exposed to whatever stresses and strains the bigger ship is exposed to can it take the same punishment? Maybe some sort of ablative armor that folds over it when its docked? But im sure itll look F**cking cool when your done so feel free to ignore me lol
i'm sure they'd both be built to deal with the same stresses... its possble even that the smaller craft is tougher than similar sized pieces of hull around it.
here's a basic tricycle landing gear rough out. mains retract outward, front retracts back.
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so in case of gravity faillure its easier to grab while floating arround.
maybe even you could add that moving thing they have in the gundam ships corridors, to move oneself while in weightless...
Although I must say that when I saw the new thumbnail, I thought it was a (space) naval mine.
Awesome!
Btw is there a particular reason your doing the interior? Do you plan to animate, just wondering cos I dont think ive seen you do one before?
coool
I like it. Looks believable!
As I already said you before, IAâm waiting for you to publish a book, like the old ones about TTA (S. Caldwell). IAâll be between the first ones to buy one of these books, for sure!
I'm also going to make this as a closed mesh to make physical copies from - separating along the seam line you can see in the pic to reveal the actual reactor core inside. make a nice display item for my desk, and if anyones interested, they'll be available to anyone who wants a physical copy.:)
i've made animations, i maybe once a year or so i'll make about 20-30 seconds worth. Have a look in the 3d gallery, you might find a couple. assuming they weren't culled in the recent server move.:)
Core inside reactor, reactor inside engineroom, engineroom at end of hallway, hallway inside etc. :eek:
That is cool
Its an excellent looking craft. If I had a crit it would be that this ship is more real world looking than the big craft. But then again- the small ships purpose could very well dictate that overall look. So its no big thing. Can you do a side-on render in the future?
here's a basic tricycle landing gear rough out. mains retract outward, front retracts back.