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Offline moed

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Re: Vortex' WIP's; Ent era Intrepid/Lost Era Un-named.
« Reply #80 on: June 26, 2013, 08:33:07 PM »
Good work Vortex, coming along nicely!

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Re: Vortex' WIP's; Ent era Intrepid/Lost Era Un-named.
« Reply #81 on: June 27, 2013, 12:25:35 PM »
Thankyou guys. And thankyou Wiley, I'd have never thought to try a sphere. I suppose it makes more sense than using a cube like "someone" did.

Here's the new secondary hull and a couple of comparisons to the old one (wireframe).







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Re: Vortex' WIP's; Ent era Intrepid/Lost Era Un-named.
« Reply #82 on: June 27, 2013, 02:14:36 PM »
A little bit of detailing on the dorsal.

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Re: Vortex' WIP's; Ent era Intrepid/Lost Era Un-named.
« Reply #83 on: June 27, 2013, 06:56:27 PM »
what does it look like with smooth shading on?
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Re: Vortex' WIP's; Ent era Intrepid/Lost Era Un-named.
« Reply #84 on: June 28, 2013, 12:42:10 AM »
Ugly, I haven't broken her down for smoothing yet.
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Re: Vortex' WIP's; Ent era Intrepid/Lost Era Un-named.
« Reply #85 on: June 28, 2013, 01:54:07 PM »
Redone the cowls and pylons. More to the original look now.









Here are a couple of quick shots with smoothing on. Apart from the separate objects that make up the ship, I haven't broken anything up for smoothing yet.



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Re: Vortex' WIP's; Ent era Intrepid/Lost Era Un-named.
« Reply #86 on: June 28, 2013, 03:58:51 PM »
I really dig this design.  It's got a really good sense of balance to it.  It looks like it could pinwheel on a dime if it needed to.
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Re: Vortex' WIP's; Ent era Intrepid/Lost Era Un-named.
« Reply #87 on: June 28, 2013, 07:04:02 PM »
Wonderful ship, very creative. I really like it.

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Re: Vortex' WIP's; Ent era Intrepid/Lost Era Un-named.
« Reply #88 on: June 29, 2013, 12:46:10 AM »
Agreed!

Really cool design... slicker, more modernized derivative of the Oberth.

Nice!
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Re: Vortex' WIP's; Ent era Intrepid/Lost Era Un-named.
« Reply #89 on: June 29, 2013, 01:05:01 AM »
Are we talking scout, science or patrol?
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Re: Vortex' WIP's; Ent era Intrepid/Lost Era Un-named.
« Reply #90 on: June 29, 2013, 04:40:24 AM »
Thankyou guys.  :D

I'm hopefully formatting my computer today so I made sure to back this up last night whilst I was thinking about it. Shall hopefully be back up and running and have speed on my computer again soon.

Once that's happened I'll block in the impulse engines and deflector. After that it's hopefully just a matter of refining everything and then breaking her down for smoothing. Still need to decide on final phaser placements and where to put the RCS thrusters.

Adam:
Quote from: Vortex on June 26, 2013, 12:36:03 PM
For this ship, I'm thinking of it being a pre-cursor to the Defiant. It'll have that sort of role and several of them shall be patrolling the Klingon/Romulan neutral zones. I've been thinking of naming it the Avenger class.

Eloi, she'll be maneuverable. She has 6 decks so is a fairly small ship.
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Re: Vortex' WIP's; Ent era Intrepid/Lost Era Un-named.
« Reply #91 on: June 29, 2013, 07:51:42 AM »
you know you said its a pree cursor to the defiant? it kind of does sit well as tha it even has similarities (to my eyes at least) to the defiant pathfinder. [maybe the nacelles]

great job
and try and keep some oberth-iness... love that little ship :D
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Re: Vortex' WIP's; Ent era Intrepid/Lost Era Un-named.
« Reply #92 on: June 29, 2013, 11:17:54 AM »
Hey Vortex, I noticed you mentioned breaking her down for smoothing. Do you know how to set up smoothing groups?
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Re: Vortex' WIP's; Ent era Intrepid/Lost Era Un-named.
« Reply #93 on: June 29, 2013, 12:39:47 PM »
Not in Blender, no. I didn't think it had it.
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Re: Vortex' WIP's; Ent era Intrepid/Lost Era Un-named.
« Reply #94 on: June 29, 2013, 03:19:08 PM »
Ah, I'm not sure about blender either.
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Re: Vortex' WIP's; Ent era Intrepid/Lost Era Un-named.
« Reply #95 on: June 29, 2013, 05:16:35 PM »
I've rechecked. Blender doesn't currently do smoothing groups. It is something I hope that they add in the future.

Hobbs: I like to think that this could have been an alternate design to the Defiant. Not that I don't like the canon one, but this is much more traditional Starfleet design but still rather different. I want this ship to have that kind of vibe, so glad you see that.
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Re: Vortex' WIP's; Ent era Intrepid/Lost Era Un-named.
« Reply #96 on: July 13, 2013, 10:36:08 AM »
Great design, I agree the balance looks spot on.
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Re: Vortex' WIP's; Ent era Intrepid/Lost Era Un-named.
« Reply #97 on: July 13, 2013, 01:02:42 PM »
Thankyou. I opened this file yesterday and have started tweaking and fine tuning the ship. Hopefully some updates worth showing in the next couple of days.
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Re: Vortex' WIP's; Ent era Intrepid/Lost Era Avenger Class
« Reply #98 on: July 18, 2013, 02:03:18 PM »
Re-opened this late last week.

Just a couple of minor updates. Rebuild the back section of the bridge module and tapered the ends of the nacelles.



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Re: Vortex' WIP's; Ent era Intrepid/Lost Era Un-named.
« Reply #99 on: July 18, 2013, 04:15:47 PM »
lol from certain angles it looks like a federation version of a romie warbird lol

or am i just crazy lol
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