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@wibble: Angelos and I went back and forth several times to try and match that "painting" look and evoke those TNG set paintings. As for the bonsai, it can be a modified variety, or a hologram

Finally started updating the Enterprise-D bridges to match the materials and lighting of my latest work. These are NOT the brand new models I did for The Roddenberry Archive using the actual set blueprints, just my 6 year old models, so there's a lot I know is wrong with them. But at least now they have better lighting, more realistic materials, and are rendered using the latest Blender 4.0 stuff, like AgX and the updated Principled shaders. I hope to do at least a few more of these before the end of the year.

Glad you all liked the last few modifications!

I ended up lowering the replicator even more than how it is on other sets, the fact that it wasn't centered on the fabric panels was too much, I think it looks better this way, and it's still very much usable.

Other than that, the room's finished, here are the final renders:

@evil_genius_180: Thanks! Yeah, the Defiant was intended to be destroyed during FC, and Ira Steven Behr had to put a stop to that, but the Sovereign was never intended to appear outside of the movies, producers thought doing so could "confuse viewers". Same reason why the Intrepid never appeared in the movies or DS9 in the background, and writers had to go to great lengths to make producers happy about the USS Bellerophon in DS9, just so they could save money and reuse the Voyager sets.

Still, the amounts of internal politics during EVERY era of Trek was insane, wish I could share the stuff I read and hear speaking with the folks involved at work.

@BolianAdmiral: So do I, but of course I'd say that.

@Warp Propulsion Laboratory: Thanks very much!

@mdta: Heh, I already have it easy enough not having to do animations, so at least I want to do the static screens properly.

Started with some small LCARS and then tackled the glass panel today, as I wanted to confirm how readable it was or if I'd have to remove it.

I based the graphic on a similar one from the Defiant engineering. I decided I wanted the ship to be pointing forward from both sides, so only the information displayed at the sides flips. The glass itself is tinted to ease with readability, otherwise the writing from the other side makes it way too confusing.

For the bottom part of the graphic I'm just reusing the random numbers they used on the alternate Enterprise-D bridge from 'Parallels' where this glass partition was used.

Well, now you get to see what I've been working with at the Roddenberry Archive, alongside @Donny, @scragnog, and a lot of other people!

We've been filming documentaries, creating 3D models you can now walk on, and researching the hell out of Star Trek! You can read all about it and watch the mini-docs here: https://deadline.com/2023/04/star-trek-immersive-virtual-experience-unveiled-by-the-roddenberry-archive-1235333603/
I make a brief appearence on the TNG mini-doc, it was a pleasure and honor to travel to LA and finally meet Mike and Denise Okuda, Daren Dochterman, Jules, and the rest of the team in person!

And then you can hop on to https://roddenberry.x.io and walk around the various Enterprise bridges, from The Cage to Picard! You might need to wait a bit for the streams to load so you can take control of the camera, and it's currently bugged in Firefox unfortunately. Enjoy and share!

@Warp Propulsion Laboratory: You mean the vertical transporter controls? I considered it, but decided not to as the central panel already has vertical elements which kinda emulate that look, and none of the movie-era transporter consoles had those sorts of controls anyway, those were only really used in TOS and then the TNG era.

@evil_genius_180: Thanks! Yeah, that was bothering me hahaha

@Rory1707: Thanks mate!

@GateGirl: Thanks! Hey, this was my first interior, the only mark there is for publishing is being open to feedback.

Here are the finished renders for the transporter room! Been meaning to do a proper TUC era transporter for a long while, and I'm happy I finally did, it was a fun project!

@admiral horton: I love the Type 8 but it's a very complex shape while also keeping the base of the 6, so I won't be tackling it anytime soon.

I started and dropped this project several times, but now I'm 100% doing some more corridors sets. I'm starting with the Potemkin which will basically be a redress of the standard TNG corridor set as far as style, but the layout will be different. I'll likely incorporate the horizontal paneling from the ship that brought the Siskos to DS9 in 'Emissary', which was identified as an Excelsior class in the novelization (or some other novel, I don't remember).

Very early stuff, I started by just modifying my existing corridor segment from the Frontier battle bridge, still have to add several details to this area. The turbolift is pretty much identical to the TNG one, just with a handrail and with smaller "windows".

Did the same treatment to my old Farpoint, Parallels v1, and Parallels v2 bridges (follow the links for all the images), with tweaked lighting to each one to match those specific episodes, so Farpoint has a neutral light while the Parallels one has a slight blue tint. Again, these are older models, those Farpoint chairs in particular look terrible, I know. Can't wait to replace them with the sculpted ones I did for the Archive in the future

@paulbhartzog: Heh, been modifying the website over the weekend, you just commented before I had a chance to mention it

Took a rest from the Budapest engineering for a bit, though I'll be back at it soon. After looking at some data and thinking about where I wanted to take things, I modified my website quite a bit (again). First, I removed the full lists with all the ships listed alphabetically and chronologically. I thought they'd be more useful for people, but from analytics I can see they aren't very used, and they're a pain to maintain because of how ArtStation does things.

Instead of having individual pages for each ship, I now have them for each starship class. This way if I have, say, multiple Excelsior-class ships listed, they all share a single place on the menu, under which they'll each have their little text descriptions and interiors. Plus it allows me to incorporate a single class description at the top. Plus this is easier to identify for most people, "Akira Class" is simply more well known that "USS Thunderchild", and so on. I took this chance not only to write descriptions for each class of ship I'm featuring, but also to do another pass at each ship and each interior's accompanying text, so it was a lot of work writing it all hahah.

The drive for this change is that I intend to do several "quick redresses" relatively soon, for example taking the Potemkin interiors and redressing them for a TMP era Excelsior-class, that sort of thing.

Unrelated to the website, and going back to the USS Budapest, working on its engineering room made me reconsider some aspects of its bridge, so today I did some modifications to it. Most notably I just moved the dedication plaque to a new area and added alert status indicators flanking the egress doors. Plus I changed the circuitry access panels (seen at the right on these renders) with the new version I did for engineering, which is more accurate to how they looked on Voyager. You can see more renders (and read up on the ship) in the new Norway Class page.

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@darkthunder: Haha, I get it, no worries.

@Rory1707: Granted sir, granted!

@BolianAdmiral: The Steamrunner's on deck 1, the bridge module's visible from a side view at the very top of the ship. On the original ILM model, the official ortho views from the Fact Files, and even the Eaglemoss 3D reproduction, it's always the very top.

@paulbhartzog: Thanks! Yeah, I get what you mean regarding variations, that's what happens when doing 100+ interiors lol.


Well, @scragnog from the old Stage 9 team is at it again, enjoy his video showcase on the Thunderchild bridge! This is done in Unreal so logically the lighting and materials are different to the Blender renders.

Hadn't had time to work on this for a while... Today I've added some more decor and shuffled things around a bit. Added an astrolabe as @BlueNeumann suggested, and a tea cup from the USS Al-Batani as a reference of @Warp Propulsion Laboratory's idea, among other decorative pieces.

Even on props I bought (5 in total) I ended up modifying all the materials, so that the colors work well together and the room isn't so grey anymore; I think it ended up with a nice pallet. Other than maybe adding a pattern on the floor I think I'm done with this room; what are your thoughts? Am I missing something?