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evil_genius_180 wrote: »

You're doing some fantastic work on this. I love how the bridge fits so nicely into Prologic9's D model.

Thanks evil_genius_180. There is quite a bit of disconnect between the sets as we saw them on the show and the 6ft shooting model of the Enterprise-D that Prologic9 has faithfully recreated; makes for some interesting (or should I say irritating?) considerations and challenges when it comes time for me to introduce a new interior to the ship model. The bridge for example has the oval shaped dome in the ceiling; the ship model is circular! - How does one get the two to cooperate? The door to shuttlebay 2 (and 3 I guess): On the actual set, the shuttlebay door clearly stood one deck tall and yet on the ship model the door is more like two!

count23 wrote: »

Looks excellent. Only bit of advice is but a bit more of a noise on the roughness for the walls, it does seem a smidge washed out under the light levels you have.

fun fact, did you know the nacelle control room ended up being attached to Voyager's engineering set? the walk-through area between the doors and the warp core is the nacelle control room alcove

Thanks count23. Yeah, I see what you are saying about the walls; mine do look somewhat pristine!

...and no, I did not know that Voyager's engineering set was a redress of the nacelle control room set.





Well hows about that!

Adam Warnock wrote: »

Nice.
For the plasma effect, did you think about particles? Maybe that's overkill. Though I am curious about how the first attempt looked.

I'd show you the first attempt/s if they weren't so embarrassing!

What I actually did was *cough-cough* was take this collection of screen grabs from the episode:



...extract the drive plasma element from them and tried to manipulate, repair and gap fill the effect in Photoshop; the intention being to achieve something that would be useable as a straight ahead texture map. - But no.





...Just no!

But no, I never considered particles since I have zero experience using them; I'm not even sure... I'm running LightWave 9.6; does that even give me the option to employ particle effects?

Freak wrote: »

That Control Room looks Great!

I'm glad you dig it Freak. - Cheers!

I delight in your commitment to the detailing on this. - Nice one!

Thanks for the positive comments everyone; I can't tell you how much I really appreciate that.

trekki wrote: »

Very beautiful object. All very nice detail.
I like it very much. What program do you work?
Greetings
:thumb:

Hi trekki!
I'm running LightWave 3D 9.6.

Nadesico wrote: »

very nicely done, the dimensions look about right. About the only thing i'd suggest is to maybe put a filter on the image with a touch of grain and that'll bring up the realism a bit. Perhaps bevel a few edges too.

Love it though, most accurate TNG bridge recreation i've seen on this site so far.

I wanna say it inspires me to go back and finish mine, but nah, :P

Only thing i'd change, is the door labels are a bit too big and too red, they need to be more burgandy.

Hi Nadesico!
I have a render of Sean Robertson's TNG bridge which I archived a million years ago but I don't ever recall seeing anyone else attempting one; do you know who it was that took a crack at this? - I'd very much like to see it.

And if I may suggest, you REALLY should finish the TNG bridge set that you've started; what exactly is stopping you?

And thank you for your suggestions. I did go over a few references I have related to the labels and you're absolutely right; mine are a bit red. I was able to colour pic the appropriate red right from a graphic I had archived from Mike Okuda's own website so there's no argument there.


More renders anyone?

This is coming together great!

You have earned my envy; I long for the skillset you possess to make this happen (and Madkoi's too). - Pretty heroic stuff.
I've attempted a few drafts of the Galaxy class over the years but... just no!

I look forward to more updates.