havoc92

The creative winds were undone a bit by my monitor failing once again. Was able to fix it last time. Had to wait around to replace it this time. But that is now done. Got a new 24" to replace the 22 I'd been working on and am installing it tonight; so, back at it again ;)

Been sloggin away on signs again.. http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_041212_2.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_041212_1.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_040612_1.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_040612_2.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_040612_3.jpg Finished more of the equipment for the HEL and completed modding the gangways aft. I'm currently working up another batch of signage - specifically, the turbolift signs. Not certain there is space for one on deck2 after the bridge deck flooring is placed in scene; but, these will be needed moving forward; so, no time like the present. There are other signs I intend to make as well for the labs.. basic warning signs primarily. "if you're going to do X, notify security" sort of thing. lol Still a lot to do where deck 2 is concerned; but, nearing completion finally. And getting my creative wind back.

There was just so much going on for a bit.. work has been part of it. Finally reached the point of "all work and no play ..." Jack was gettin a little restless lol.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_040312_1.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_040312_2.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_040312_3.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_040312_4.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_040312_5.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_040312_6.jpg More detailing has been added. Comms, Alert lighting, a new lab table layout for the Chem lab are in place. Time for some sleep ;)

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_033112_3.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_033112_4.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_033112_5.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_033112_6.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_040112_1.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_040112_2.jpg Well, looks like I'm back to work anyway. Gangways aft have been seated; but, need modifying and some examination with regard to safety issues. The gangway forward has been modified to extend it for actual deck height so that it now comes down closer to the floor. The High energy lab is still being worked on. One of my machine designs is in; but, two others are in progress after scrapping my initial designs. Moved quite a way in one day so fairly pleased. The work tables in the HEL have been trimmed to the hull and dressed a little. Been absent for a while. Got a second job among other things and been hosed for time or interest - mostly just from being tired; but, you'll have that. Trying to get goin again. ;)

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/Progress_112311_1.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_112311_2.jpg Been workin a little today on the beam energy test stand for the High Energy lab. Not sure this is the way it's gonna stay; but it's a start.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_112111_1.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_112111_2.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_112111_3.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_112111_4.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_112111_5.jpg Intended to post these last night; but, zonked at the computer. So here's the newest. Reworked the walls as intended. Added doors back into the mix. Did a few other fixups. removed the bridge deck lift and repositioned the lift car and doors. Still need to mod the lift walls to match the new corridor wall thickness. Back to building props for the moment.

Big update. Beings as this is my third day of vacation, I started early ;) http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_111711_1.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_111711_2.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_111711_3.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_111711_4.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_111711_5.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_111711_6.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_111711_7.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_111711_8.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_111711_9.jpg The cabinetry and counters are essentially trimmed up to the hull at this point for The Geology and Biology lab spaces. Figuring where there might be problems with the hull required me to go ahead and cut in the window placements in the outer skins; so, The skins were imported and trimmed up. More needs done there; but, the essential work needing done in order to proceed is out of the way. The birdseye shots show the work done this morning on the interior. The first person shots were me having fun. Still workin. Might be more updates yet today.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_111611_1.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_111611_2.jpg All the basics have been put into Spock's office. Furnishings are in. Now it just needs decor to finish it off.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_111511_1.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_111511_2.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_111511_3.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_111511_4.jpg These are the new lab tables created this morning and placed in the Geology and Biology lab spaces. They'll also wind up in the Chemistry lab before the day is out.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_111111_1.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_111111_2.jpg This isn't showing much at the moment; but, it's the beginning work on Deck 2 as it's currently laid out. Doing a lot of digging for reference images for furniture and equipment to populate the labs with and at the same time working up references for use in designing the life support systems.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_110911_4.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_110911_5.jpg One more group added - finished the Deck 3 Signage. Actually mixed some of these up last post; so, ..

Thank you again ;) And, yeah, everybody wants to walk through her at this point.. including me rofl. When I first started, I was only posting wireframes and renders of birdseye views more or less. As time went on people were so charged about the build they were asking to see flythroughs and finished rooms; so, I've tried to give some first person feel to a lot of the renders; but, really can't wait to at least be able to do a flythrough and cap to avi so people can get a more realistic feel for what's there ;) The unfortunate thing for now is that max crashes if I try to load a camera and set keys for a flythrough. It's pushed beyond it's limit just with what I've done so far. So, will probably have to export it over to Blender and do the video work in it. Wish I had a newer version of max and a couple of better machines lol.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_110911_2.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_110911_3.jpg ..And here are the finished textures. Really cranked the bump down. Guess it's about time to start hangin them up.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_110911_1.jpg This isn't texture, though I've captured the images now necessary to create this full batch and began working them in photoshop. Incredibly happy with the crispness of the new batch. Got rid of the blue omni as well. These are the signs necessary to Deck 2. There may be one or two more when I decide whether to post caution signs for the gangways or not.. we'll see.

Yep. There was a serious loss of both clarity and crispness in the fonts with TGA. I think I may have pumped the bump mapping up a tad much though as the grain in the image reads pretty coursely. May have to knock the slider down to about 80 or so. ;) Workin on assembling the last couple of primary signs for deck 2 right now. Kinda realized along the way that it might be a wise idea to make ye olde bathroom signs as well lol.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_110811_1.jpg Ok, so after pulling my hair out trying to figure out what was wrong much of the day.... Here is a sampler of signage. The sign on top is an assemblage of the tileset I worked up over the last several days. The two beneath it are low poly boxes with texture. First one is a dxt5 based dds with bump at 2048x2048. The second is a TGA file with bump at 1024 x 1024. Now, I did a TGA at 2048 and there is little difference between the high res texture and the low res - so little it isn't worth showing IMHO; but, I have it if anyone is interested in seeing it. The color differential is not in the format, it is simply rendered under a pale blue omni.. which I haven't decided if I like at the moment; but, .. Will probably redo the texture in white and go on; but, overall happy with the dxt5 texture.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_110711_1.jpg Ok, that is the finished tile set.. http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_110711_2.jpg ..and this is the first actual sign.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_110611_1.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_110611_2.jpg Here we go. This is a preview of the first finished tile I'll be using to build the signs with in order to create my textures. The font was derived from a cylinder of .063 radius (appr. 1/16th inch) then scaled on y to give a .032 depth (appr. 1/32). The outer black layer is .032 thick for a total intrusion of .064 into the sign base. The base thickness will be 1/8". And the tiles are designed to give 1/8" seperation between characters with a margin of .25" above and beneath. Average outer margins from the top and bottom edges of the characters is 3/4" with 1/2" inch average spacing between lines. So, it's pretty simple to reconstruct these. Character height is 1" on small standard signs. http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_110611_3.jpg ..And this was requested at the main thread on 3dBuzz; so, throwin it in for the heck of it.

Thank you. The test shot shows me that there's still some tweaking to do; but, overall, very pleased with the outcome. On the other matter, the FASA plans are similar to the FJ plans; but, there are differences. Fell into that trap early on as I have both and thought them to be interchangeable. They really aren't. But, there is no storage shown on the FJ plans on deck 2 or 4. That said, the standard photorp is smaller than the later torpedo if memory serves. You could store 2 of them in the space you'd store a mark IV. They just didn't do as much damage. So that may help.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_110511_1.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_110511_2.jpg This shows the finished alpha-numeric set and a basic test of how they will be used. Very happy with the outcome and even more happy to be done creating them. What a pain. lol.

Thanks. Yeah, I rounded the edges of the light panels themselves and the frame edges as well. So it really grabs light at render time. The Photorp bay is on deck 3. And, yeah, it's goin in though I have no idea how it's going to work in that confined space. I just look at it as a version of the ship between refits; but, know what you mean. FJ frustrates the daylights out of me at times. Still haven't figured out why there is a food conveyer running off the main galley and down the dorsal section. Doesn't make much sense, doesn't really go much anywhere beyond the dorsal; so, why it's there is beyond me; but, it's there.

Everyone at work has been passing around the same bug; so, been down for a few days; but, back on my feet. Spent the down time doing research (between napsJ and building a 3d alphabet for all the wall plaques, nameplates and the like. Spent the day today building the characters. After that, I'll build them into a reference board, do a good render and dump it to photoshop So I'll have some accurate head on characters to work with when I build the textures. There are going to be hundreds of these things; so, getting it right is going to be important. Finished the majority of the Alphas today. Still have 6 characters to build there and the numerals, arrows and punctuation bits to go.. so not much left. Here's an image of the characters so far. http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_110211_1.jpg Beyond this, the basic scene file is setup to begin work on Deck 2. These name plates will be in use immediately starting with this next deck; so, once this is out of the way, it's on to creating the labs.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_102911_1.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_102911_2.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_102911_3.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_102911_4.jpg Little more done yesterday that I didn't get posted. Redid the dome light and extended The Deck support structural members up into the rafters finally. Need to add in the sensor farm and tie it up; but otherwise think this is in pretty good overall shape.