Dannage

Going back in time, right to the beginning of manned space flight beyond the moon... The "Eden" class.... Or early bits of her. Two more pods, rotation mechanism and then external tanks to add yet.

Figured out I had "alpha channel" ticked and that was why the background kept going clear, at least in thumbnails. Nice to be back in the black!

MalScribble wrote: »

I'm really digging the idea behind this, but I'm not sure the name you've chosen would be appropriate, and only because of Unity?.

Also, if you want to get more people involved, I'm not sure the retro look is what you really want, not that your designs aren't interesting.

If you have any suggestions, I can sure come up with something at some point.

Unity as in the game engine or is there another thing? To be honest, even UNITI has been used, there is nothing new left which hasn't been done somewhere. I thought Unified Nuclei Incorporating Technology and Intelligence would have been fairly unique but meh...

As for the designs, this is a design supplied by a contributor, which I'm turning into below-average 3D, hoping someone might come and replace one day, but these are just a single design ethic. I did a post in the SFM Discord with low poly versions of capital ships from 21 of the 'member' races but the official modern UNITI fleet design is going to be modelled around my old Alternate Star Trek design the Parallax, once half built by the mighty Medjai, and then Deks considered completing the mission but we all let real life happen. The 'Global Republic' stuff I did about 12 years ago is incorporated but is like '300 years before UNITI, this is what humans were flying around in'... I also have some rough idea scribbles for some of the neighbouring races too (alien silhouette and space ships) so I've got plenty more to bring to the table.

Your blender game is strong.
Will be following, and looking at whatever you did five years ago to start getting tips.

Starship wrote: »

Totally right! :thumb: Dannage, how you doing old beam?

Please, go ahed JRXTIN!

Ah all is well here young Cassio, though the world is a much more... complicated.. place since we used to flood these pages with our works. I hope all is well with you and the family.

As for Jrxtin, I hope this beauty gets finished and ends up in the completed works section with some beauty shots.

Oh cripes, the IDC takes me back. Hard to believe I've been here long enough that someone born when I started can legally drink in several countries.

Here, I have attempted to size weapons, and then show some of the internal layouts.

Red is weapons (Turrets and launchers)
Green is Tractor emitters and shuttle Bays
Pink is fuel storage tanks
Yellow is cargo bays
Red-Wire is lift shafts

Yeah, normally when a fleet turns up and it swaps to an inside shot, you're like "get off the screen two legs, I want to see the sexy spaceships" but Riker was much better to look at than the ship with the 'multi mirror' 'holo projection' armour trash...

I don't hate on the shows as much as some, but definitely agree their spaceship design department isn't as ethos-aware as this community. Course, that's not brand new, I didn't like the Vengeance was it?... All angles where curves should be... erugh...

These re-designs are beautiful.

Sorry for the absence folks, some stuff took priority in real life again, I hate how it keeps doing that to me!

I wasn't entirely inactive during that time, though I keep opening Max, looking at the screen, sighing and then shutting it off! I need to get some energy going again! I have some time off work now, but going away without the big lump of a computer my old 3DS is on.

In the meantime, here is some old cargo ship, I am cobbling together... I do not know why the background keeps going white...

Now, I have started attempting to make the alien fit into the silhouette, but this is going to take some time, and I'll be likely looking for someone proficient in zbrush to sculpt all (40 or so!) races at some point. In the meantime, I take the ships, namely starting remembering how to use Max by working on the strike craft.

So I started with doing my own sketch, then set about building it.. and remembering that I used to like building boxes.. and curves kill me... unngh..

For Lennier and Freak....