havoc92 Posted October 29, 2011 Author Share Posted October 29, 2011 This is simply beyond words project! Impressive man, impressive! Will track your work to see how this develops! Cheers! :thumbsup: Thank you. Always appreciate the kind words especially ;) Feel like that comment about George Patton sometimes, 'give him a headline and he goes another 100 miles'. Not a media prostitute; but, it helps the morale on days when I'm not feeling up to the task. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havoc92 Posted October 31, 2011 Author Share Posted October 31, 2011 http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_102911_1.jpghttp://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_102911_2.jpghttp://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_102911_3.jpghttp://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 extendedThe 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alonsomartinez Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Looks awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Druuler Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 I like how you appear to have smoothed out the edges of the light panels on the dome light. It looks a bit more "natural" this way. I also like the expansion of the superstructure to now include the upper/spacial sensor array dome. Looking at this has me wondering if you are including the Photon Torpedo launchers on deck 2 (or is it three)? Just curious, as the official deck plans have them mounted in the upper saucer section, even though they are always portrayed as launching from the lower saucer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havoc92 Posted November 3, 2011 Author Share Posted November 3, 2011 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 timedoing 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havoc92 Posted November 3, 2011 Author Share Posted November 3, 2011 I like how you appear to have smoothed out the edges of the light panels on the dome light. It looks a bit more "natural" this way. I also like the expansion of the superstructure to now include the upper/spacial sensor array dome. Looking at this has me wondering if you are including the Photon Torpedo launchers on deck 2 (or is it three)? Just curious, as the official deck plans have them mounted in the upper saucer section, even though they are always portrayed as launching from the lower saucer. 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havoc92 Posted November 5, 2011 Author Share Posted November 5, 2011 http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/havoc211/progress_110511_1.jpghttp://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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Druuler Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 Your end result with McCoy's room plaque is just great! It looks like a photo of the actual plaque! Your mentioning of the food conveyor running down the dorsal got me thinking a bit more about the placement of the Photon Torpedo launchers, so I pulled out one of my copies of the deck plans to look at it. I was wondering if the plans had placed the actual Torpedo storage area near to the launchers or put in any elevator system to get them to the launchers. The Federation, unlike the Klingon and Romulans, use actual torpedoes, with 400 of them being a full load. Sure enough, there is no way the torpedoes can get to the launchers going by the deck plans I have. My deck plans, by the way, are not official plans, but are the ones from FASA's Star Trek: The Roleplaying Game, and I am sure they are based upon the official version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havoc92 Posted November 6, 2011 Author Share Posted November 6, 2011 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 onas I have both and thought them to be interchangeable. They really aren't. But, there is no storage shown on the FJplans 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Druuler Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 No storage on either deck on the FASA plans either. Something I should rectify before getting my Star Trek campaign started again :whistling: The physical difference in size makes sense as well, given from what I know (again, from FASA) the Mark IV have a 60% greater yield than the ones used on the Constitution class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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