Author Topic: Eclipse Class RELEASED (Read 39321 times)

DJ Curtis · « **Reply #440 on:** November 30, 2009, 08:53:47 PM »

Did some more work to the secondary hull. You can see that the hull paneling looks way better than before and is coming 100 times faster. Off to dodgeball!

Lionus · « **Reply #441 on:** December 01, 2009, 12:15:36 AM »

ha. this proves that you were just joking when you said that it would take until christmas to finish it. :arms:

DJ Curtis · « **Reply #442 on:** December 01, 2009, 01:47:23 AM »

Update before bed.

-did the nacelle grills
-hull lines on belly
-windows
-main deflector

...and yes, moving faster than anticipated. However, there's still a lot of texturing to go, plus mvam, HP's, icons, tactical display, conversion, specular maps, glows, etc. Plenty of work to go. It will be Christmas.

Lionus · « **Reply #443 on:** December 01, 2009, 02:02:55 AM »

no worries, I have strong faith in your superb abilities to get things done while overestimating the time that will be spent. ;)

CyAn1d3 · « **Reply #444 on:** December 01, 2009, 01:56:13 PM »

smexxy beast none the less:) cant wait dj!

hobbs · « **Reply #445 on:** December 01, 2009, 02:07:21 PM »

DJ: how on earth do you get such cool base texture? what do i use to create my own? i want to have ships that colour (blue/white)

awesome ship by the way

JamesTiberiusKirk · « **Reply #446 on:** December 01, 2009, 02:09:51 PM »

I dont think its necessary to tell you that its a great piece of work you did? ;)

moed · « **Reply #447 on:** December 01, 2009, 03:35:39 PM »

That ship just looks massive and yet graceful.

Nice.

DJ Curtis · « **Reply #448 on:** December 01, 2009, 05:11:37 PM »

I killed my back last night at dodgeball.

Had to stay home from work today because I can barely walk and can't stand up straight. Plus I left all my marking and planbook at work. So, guess how i've been spending my time?

-reworked mesh and remapped the swept back part of the dorsal saucer.
-further details to ventral drive section
-did a bunch of textures to the dorsal drive section and dorsal nacelle pylons.
-adjusted to the overall hull color to be a bit darker, and more gray/blue than white.
-textured some edges and other minutia.

by the way, if anyone has any ideas (represented graphically) for how I could do the nacelle grills, I'm glad to take them under consideration. I'm not happy with them as they are and don't feel like I have any good ideas.

Dalek · « **Reply #449 on:** December 01, 2009, 05:18:37 PM »

I'm not particularly fond of the place where the pylons connect to the engineering hull. Looks like a flat football pitch with a lot of wasted space taken up by a fricking huge phaser array. Wouldn't it be better to have 2, similar to the Galaxy to take on more than one target?

DJ Curtis · « **Reply #450 on:** December 01, 2009, 05:22:52 PM »

Three phaser beams will be fire-able from both the dorsal and ventral aft phaser arrays.

Dalek · « **Reply #451 on:** December 01, 2009, 05:27:10 PM »

The aft phaser array still looks like it's been deliberately made to fill up space...it looks too vulnerable and open and flat.

Raven Night · « **Reply #452 on:** December 01, 2009, 05:52:25 PM »

DJ, the hue is perfect now IMO. Just when I thought it couldnt get better....

...I hate you ;)

Extreme kudos for the discolored panels, looks much more realistic and weathered, less sanitary. Fantastic.

vgdude999 · « **Reply #453 on:** December 01, 2009, 06:02:59 PM »

Looks AWESOME. Can't wait to use that ship.

Shadowknight1 · « **Reply #454 on:** December 01, 2009, 07:42:08 PM »

Looking great DJ.

Have you tried the classic horizontal lines, or maybe a honeycomb grid?

Centurus · « **Reply #455 on:** December 01, 2009, 08:27:52 PM »

I had the same idea as Shadowknight had, a honeycomb grid pattern for the warp grilles. Also, try an electrified liquid plasma effect for the warp nacelle. Make it look as if liquid plasma is flowing and has visible electrical charges.

bankruptstudios · « **Reply #456 on:** December 01, 2009, 08:30:42 PM »

Awsome work. You could try a hony comb grid work for the nacelle grills, due to the over size of the ship it's not a far strech that its glass plating would need extra renforcment.

DJ Curtis · « **Reply #457 on:** December 02, 2009, 01:33:16 AM »

I'll experiment with the nacelle grills tomorrow.

Seems that sitting in my chair all day was productive for this ship.

On Adonis's suggestion I've built the interiors of the bussard collectors and will be applying transparent textures to the glass part. Almost all parts of the ship now have some degree of textures on them... but overall I'd say about 65% of the actual texturing work is finished. There is lots of detailing to come. I also decreased the intensity of the yellow and green panels, so now they'll show up more on the specular side of things while taking away the greenish tinge the hull had before.

Enjoy the pics.

Cuchulainn · « **Reply #458 on:** December 02, 2009, 01:57:15 AM »

WOW! Words just can't express how beautiful that ship is. It looks like a behemoth but elegantly graceful. Everything just seems to flow. Not a huge fan of the deflector dish, but LOVE the ship to pieces. I'm just starting to model my first ship, and wish I had a quarter of your talent.

Cuchulainn

Shadowknight1 · « **Reply #459 on:** December 02, 2009, 08:12:40 AM »

Whoa, nice bussard interiors, that's pretty cool DJ!

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Author Topic: Eclipse Class RELEASED (Read 39321 times)