Something I threw together

[Nighthawk]

I started to build the MSD, according to Memory Alpha, it has 19 decks.
anyone knows if the pod counts as deck?

[cpthooker]

Looks good as a Akira bridge

[Nighthawk]

consoles per side: 2 or 3?
console layout: Galaxy (keypad and screen, 80/90?. w/hidden seat), Sovereign (1 KP, 2 SCR, w/hidden seat), Excalibur (1 KP, 2 extra-high SCR, w/seat) or TOS-Conie (single wide desk with KP sections. kinda TNG tactical console) style?
LCARS scheme: FC/Nem maybe. any other options?

[Sean]

Great progress Nighthawk, it certainly works well as the Akira Bridge.

i agree... its comming on quite nicely, tho id like to see the chairs reworked. captains chair is great tho the rest look a little blocky and we can use more polys on bridges now. not just limited to 7000ish

Good to see you around again as well, Sean.

cheers  mate good to be back, took some time off to have a son, so im back just not as much time as before... anyway enough of that, lets get back on topic ay  8)

[Nighthawk]

first approach at my first MSD ever

[JimmyB76]

very nice on the MSD so far!!!

consoles per side: 2 or 3?
console layout: Galaxy (keypad and screen, 80/90?. w/hidden seat), Sovereign (1 KP, 2 SCR, w/hidden seat), Excalibur (1 KP, 2 extra-high SCR, w/seat) or TOS-Conie (single wide desk with KP sections. kinda TNG tactical console) style?
LCARS scheme: FC/Nem maybe. any other options?

i think maybe 3 consoles would look good...  unless room is kinda tight, then 2 would look just fine...
as far as layout, i think a Sovereign style would look awesome...  it would kinda link together a Galaxy-feel and a Sovereign-feel...
LCARS, i would go with the FC/Nem style...

so what happens after you put this baby together?  are ya gonna try and take it further with scripting and animations and such to get into BC?

[Nighthawk]

I'll try the variants for the consoles, then I'll make a poll to choose one

so what happens after you put this baby together?  are ya gonna try and take it further with scripting and animations and such to get into BC?

heh, no, I think I'll let 3rd Era do the detailing.
I think I can make the animations myself, for the stock crew at least.

question for 3rd Era scripters: I was wondering.... if the Galaxy bridge offsets the camera when you look at Miguel and Brex (because of the console blocking your view), could it be possible  to make that offset more evident and move the camera behind tactical so we can see Felix and the screen at the same time?
the console itself would block the empty captain chair, so nobody will see it empty.

I mean, like in this pic

[JimmyB76]

if im not mistaken, as far as camera zooming to the character, it is in a fixed position to where the captain is sitting...  i dont know if it is possible to make it jump to a different position, and then zoom...

[BES]

The bridge oddly reminds me of a bowling alley, but great job so far:-)

[Nighthawk]

i dont know if it is possible to make it jump to a different position, and then zoom...

it is. the stock Galaxy bridge does it.
turn around trying to mantain your rotation plain and you'll see that it starts moving up.

in the Intrepid, for example, when you zoom on felix, it jumps back to look forward, then zooms on the viewscreen

meh, now that I think it. we can do whatever we want with the camera. see LJ's Immersion.
better example than that? lol


EDIT: different versions of the consoles.
....and I'll go take my earned weekend rest lol.....

[bsilver2988]

think you attached the same pic 3 times by accident..lol

looks great tho.  not sure i'd have that kind of lcars on those consoles..but it's cool

[JimmyB76]

think you attached the same pic 3 times by accident..lol

no he didnt lol look at the back consoles harder...

and i would say the Nem consoles are best...

[startrekw_george]

are you going to put moving control panels, like in the new intrepid bridge?

[JimmyB76]

it wouldnt matter anyway, since this is just a model...  unless 3rd era picks it up or something, i dont think this will make it's way into BC... 

[Bones]

So far this bridge look very promissing, but it would be cool if You could change pillars to more bowed =  (like in movies) like those in sovereign bridge

[Rat Boy]

I'm definitely liking where this one is going.  Put me down for NEM-style consoles.

[Nighthawk]

are you going to put moving control panels, like in the new intrepid bridge?

I don't know.
I can add support for them, but there's hardly a place to put them.

I think the model is roughly done. some tweaks here and there and it will be ok.
I'll start to build up the ceiling and finish the MSD in these days.

[startrekw_george]

cool!, look forward to seeing it .

[Rat Boy]

I don't know.
I can add support for them, but there's hardly a place to put them.

I think the model is roughly done. some tweaks here and there and it will be ok.
I'll start to build up the ceiling and finish the MSD in these days.

If I might make one polite suggestion: you might want to widen the consoles on the aft parts of the bridge and extend them further down the sides of the bridge so you don't have these large blank walls on the forward side of the bridge.  Also, if Brex is supposed to be manning one of them, it'd be easier for the captain to have a direct line of sight to him rather than try to find him through the tactical console.  Just a thought.

[JimmyB76]

ya, that is a good point...