Hi everyone,
just wanted to tell that this project ist still alive an on going.
I suffered some setbacks because of the highly organic shape of the engineering section. I restarted this section 3 times and now I feel happy enough with the result.
Having the DVD out, I will detail it now.
Nightfever, if you look over the schematics I posted above, they may be helpful for modeling. I too am trying to model this ship, but you are doing better than I am. Would you mind posting wireframes of your secondary hull before and after smoothing? I am trying to figure out the polygon flow.
Go get the BluRay Special Edition! It has an excellent pan around the ship where you can see tons of detail. Not sure if I adapt my version, as there are really a lot of tiny details that IAâd love to add or correct.
@PixelMagic: Yeah thanks, Im keep with those orthos and those from TheLightWorks.
No offense to Tobias, but I would not use TheLightWorks model as reference. His is pretty close but not perfect in dimensions or detail compared to the ILM model. I'm not saying anything about his skill, because he modeled his based a side view and a view of the toy originally. It's amazing that he got as close as he did!
Those schematics are based off a side blueprint from Bad Robot, and are therefore closer to accurate. I'd say they are 90% correct. Use them for major proportions, and then reference the movie to check your work, and you'll have quite a good looking ship.
Perhaps I will post my WIP soon, but that secondary hull is really giving me a headache. You and Tobias have me beat in that regard. Thank you very much for the wireframes!
nightfever, looking at those wireframe-shots of your model I noticed that the area around the shuttle-bay isn't quite correct.
The lower edge of the fantail should be much sharper (not as rounded as you modelled it) and it should lead directly into the edge of the pylons...
But having said that, I know that my wireframes would never look as clean as yours do if I were bold enough to try and model that ship myself.
You are doing a very good job
ST-One, you are right about the transition of the shuttle bay tail and the pylon.
I wasn't sure if the print of cygnus-x1 was correct about that untill the DVD came out. I have to rework that over the weekend.
Thanks Tobias for the hint on the Bluray. Bought it yesterday, but didn't take a look into it yet.
...I wasn't sure if the print of cygnus-x1 was correct...
Nightfever, I can tell you that the Cygnus ones are pretty damn accurate. 100%? No. However, they are based off official blueprints from Bad Robot, and I'd say they are at least 90-95% accurate. Especially in proportions. They are about 100% dead on.
The bridge module is slightly inaccurate in size.
Here is a link to the official Bad Robot blueprint...
If you line up the Cygnus side view, you will see that his are based off the official one, because they line up perfectly in photohop.
nightfever, can you post wireframes of the fins at the back of your nacelles, before smoothing? I have tried 6 times to model them, and I just can't do it.
Modeling of the saucer and the nacelles have been done.
Engineering section nearly done, just the windows, the hatches (I think it's one each side) and some smaller details.
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just wanted to tell that this project ist still alive an on going.
I suffered some setbacks because of the highly organic shape of the engineering section. I restarted this section 3 times and now I feel happy enough with the result.
Having the DVD out, I will detail it now.
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@ST-One, thanky for the link. The screencaps make it easier.
Thanks Rekkert and MarkyD.
Now, wires...
No offense to Tobias, but I would not use TheLightWorks model as reference. His is pretty close but not perfect in dimensions or detail compared to the ILM model. I'm not saying anything about his skill, because he modeled his based a side view and a view of the toy originally. It's amazing that he got as close as he did!
Those schematics are based off a side blueprint from Bad Robot, and are therefore closer to accurate. I'd say they are 90% correct. Use them for major proportions, and then reference the movie to check your work, and you'll have quite a good looking ship.
Perhaps I will post my WIP soon, but that secondary hull is really giving me a headache. You and Tobias have me beat in that regard. Thank you very much for the wireframes!
The lower edge of the fantail should be much sharper (not as rounded as you modelled it) and it should lead directly into the edge of the pylons...
But having said that, I know that my wireframes would never look as clean as yours do if I were bold enough to try and model that ship myself.
You are doing a very good job
Oh, I didn't follow you 'I was always here'
But now that you mentioned the error anyway...
I wasn't sure if the print of cygnus-x1 was correct about that untill the DVD came out. I have to rework that over the weekend.
Thanks Tobias for the hint on the Bluray. Bought it yesterday, but didn't take a look into it yet.
Nightfever, I can tell you that the Cygnus ones are pretty damn accurate. 100%? No. However, they are based off official blueprints from Bad Robot, and I'd say they are at least 90-95% accurate. Especially in proportions. They are about 100% dead on.
The bridge module is slightly inaccurate in size.
Here is a link to the official Bad Robot blueprint...
If you line up the Cygnus side view, you will see that his are based off the official one, because they line up perfectly in photohop.
Yes, this looks much better.
For my part, I will rebuild them completely, because they came out too small and the mesh flow isn't quite good.
Did a lot of things, I think it's comming up nicely, see yourself:
Engineering section nearly done, just the windows, the hatches (I think it's one each side) and some smaller details.