Awesome work, Tobias. I have always been curious how you UV map your saucers. Instead of doing the entire saucer as a whole texture map, I noticed when I was converting your Kelvin to Max, you tile yours around. I was wondering how you do this.
Thanks - the UV mapping is actually not that hard if your program allows for a sperical projection. Then you just project the mapping from a sphere that lies way below the saucer. That way you get a straight layout of the saucer, which you will then have to place properly of course.
Shadow - yes, I have the bridge in there as a texture map. This was the last adjustment I made just after doing the pics
Today I took the time and created some of the fleet ships of the "art of star trek" book. I assume they are largely based on the Kelvin design, so I heavily reused parts of that. Here are the Mayflower and the Armstrong...
I rendered some orthos of those ships - but remember, these are just my interpretations of the "art of" book, I havenAât checked them with the movie.
Stupid me had to rebuild the Newton as I had overwritten the file accidently with the Mayflower (ALWAYS check the filename when you import stuff in another scene and save it.... :mad:).
ultra high quality stuff! I'm not the biggest fan of Star Trek but I always liked it. This models are top 3D work!
*Hi Tobias, wie ich sehe bist Du aus Koln ... ich komme auch aus der Nahe ... ich arbeite in Koln. Vielleicht kann man sich ja mal zum Gedankenaustausch treffen?*
I rendered some orthos of those ships - but remember, these are just my interpretations of the "art of" book, I havenAât checked them with the movie.
Stupid me had to rebuild the Newton as I had overwritten the file accidently with the Mayflower (ALWAYS check the filename when you import stuff in another scene and save it.... :mad:).
Beautiful work! :thumb:
I find your interpretation of the Armstrong is an interesting one with the middle nacelle hanging down from the roll bar and not from a slip of main hull.
The Newton looks good too, while altered a bit.
I like how you did up the "torpedo launchers". The smaller tube pairs look great. They should incorporate that into the actual models for any future movies with those Starship designs.
I find your interpretation of the Armstrong is an interesting one with the middle nacelle hanging down from the roll bar and not from a slip of main hull.
ThatAâs what I think I see in the "art of" book. Since the saucer is cut out, there is nothing to fix the pylon to, just the rollbar. IAâm sure it poses all kinds of structural problems :devil:
ThatAâs what I think I see in the "art of" book. Since the saucer is cut out, there is nothing to fix the pylon to, just the rollbar. IAâm sure it poses all kinds of structural problems :devil:
I was thinking that too and all I could think was that it could have a connecting strut to the hub of the main hull for stability. Still, I like the appearance.
Three ref pics for your consideration. The first is of the fleet before they warp away, gives a real good look at the three-nacelled and two nacelled ship, the other two gives perspective on the two-nacelled and dual engineering hulled ship, one of which gives a good shot of how the secondary hulls connect, the other has a good shot of the warp nacelles. The two nacelled one apparently doesn't have a rollbar and angled nacelle pylons. However, I definitely say you should keep the current one you've made, at least as a variant.
I agree. Looking at the above on the 3 nacelle, it appears that the impulse engines jut out a bit from the cutout, and that is where the pylon is attached.
It looks to me like the middle "nacelle" is the secondary hull, attached to underneath the saucer, forward of the impulse engines, with a support pylon attached to the rollbar leaning aft of the impulse drive.
Thanks for the pics! As I said, my versions were modelled after the "art of" book, not the actual filmed models. They most likely did some other variations. I might make some more variations as well if I need them to populate the picture.
Tobias (and anyone else), if you're interested, check out a thread that a few of us have had running since before the film's release. Our thread has been one of the longest-running and most thorough effort to figure out and document the most accurate representations of the other ships from STXI - in fact we're pretty sure Bernd from Ex-Astris-Scientia is taking his info from our thread.
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Shadow - yes, I have the bridge in there as a texture map. This was the last adjustment I made just after doing the pics
I plan to use those ships for the background of the SotL picture of the Enterprise, so the detail level should be fine
Tobias
Stupid me had to rebuild the Newton as I had overwritten the file accidently with the Mayflower (ALWAYS check the filename when you import stuff in another scene and save it.... :mad:).
*Hi Tobias, wie ich sehe bist Du aus Koln ... ich komme auch aus der Nahe ... ich arbeite in Koln. Vielleicht kann man sich ja mal zum Gedankenaustausch treffen?*
Can't wait for more
Chris
Beautiful work! :thumb:
I find your interpretation of the Armstrong is an interesting one with the middle nacelle hanging down from the roll bar and not from a slip of main hull.
The Newton looks good too, while altered a bit.
I like how you did up the "torpedo launchers". The smaller tube pairs look great. They should incorporate that into the actual models for any future movies with those Starship designs.
Thanks for sharing!
ThatAâs what I think I see in the "art of" book. Since the saucer is cut out, there is nothing to fix the pylon to, just the rollbar. IAâm sure it poses all kinds of structural problems :devil:
I was thinking that too and all I could think was that it could have a connecting strut to the hub of the main hull for stability. Still, I like the appearance.
http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/2d-wips/62381-uss-unknown-bg-ship-jj-trek-26.html