Contellation Bridge - Chugging along! Fore MSD completed!

[Barihawk]

I've decided to put the Akira and Centaur on hold after falling in love with the Constellation Ship Pack.

It will be a pretty straightforward retexture, and I will attempt to use one of the Ambassador bridges (probably the Enterprise C, since the Ent-C set was a redress of the set used for the Stargazer.

Does anyone have any reference pictures of the Stargazer or Hathaway bridges? I'd prefer to do the Hathaway, but can do with either.

The bridge will be made in a TMP-TNG hybrid style, basically LCARS with TMP colors.

[Bones]

There are very few reference pics of stargazer or hathaway bridges, they comes mainly from "The Battle" and "Peak Performance" and these are very siiliar to displays showed in generation Ent-B and ST5,6 Ent-A and Excelsior. However there is a person who could help You, He is involved in Enterprise project and as far as I know he supports Stargazer model with displays textures so YOu could ask him for help, He's called Intercepter.

btw. I could help You with most of TMP displays creation.

[Barihawk]

Thanks! I'd appreciate the help.

I have decided to use the C Bridge as the base model.

Now, I would like to make it when you change to yellow alert it plays the "YellowAlert!" sound from Star Trek 2, and has a yellowish "Yellow Alert" sign instead of the red alert animation.

I was surprised when I loaded up the new version of the C-Bridge, as it's 15x better than the one I originally planned to use.

I'll start working on another famous MSD .

My main goal is not only to keep the great animations the bridge has already, but also retexture it to make it as high-resolution as my Oberth bridge. 

[Barihawk]

Another thing I am going to need is a tutorial or idea how to recreate the "glassy panelling" on the LCARS from the TNG Ambassador bridge. This is something I'd like to incorporate into all my retextures to make them look better as a whole.

[JimmyB76]

this is the episode of TNG with screenshots of the Stargazer: http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=9
and these are ones of the Hathaway: http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=46

[Barihawk]

Those really help Jimmy! Those are going to rock for mixing and matching the TMP and TNG era LCARS.

Some good shots:

[Bones]

Correct Me i I'm wrong but changeing animated textures is impossible, only non animated screens can be swaped  like when You go to red alert some displays turns to red status or yellow but that is not big problem since ambassador bridge has some displays non animated so I feel it will be great retexture 

[Barihawk]

As a note, there will not be a main MSD on the back panel, as there is no good reference photo for the think for me to make.

It's ok, as the Hathaway set did not even include a MSD on the back wall.

Instead, we just need to find a way to replace the little Ambassadors all over the place, and I will add a custom image to the MSD panel at the front of the bridge.

[startrekw_george]

nice!, this is a good idea!

[Darran]

As a note, there will not be a main MSD on the back panel, as there is no good reference photo for the think for me to make.

It's ok, as the Hathaway set did not even include a MSD on the back wall.

Instead, we just need to find a way to replace the little Ambassadors all over the place, and I will add a custom image to the MSD panel at the front of the bridge.

Ask and ye shall recieve

[Barihawk]

Make a top down and I will have your children .

[Shion]

As a note, there will not be a main MSD on the back panel, as there is no good reference photo for the think for me to make.

It's ok, as the Hathaway set did not even include a MSD on the back wall.

Actually, It appears it does have a MSD.

[bsilver2988]

dont forget, at this point in TNG, the MSD really hadn't come into play yet.  The first time we really saw a legit MSD was in Unnatural Selection, and not really frequently until the 3rd or forth seasons.  Even the Enterprise D didnt have a Bridge MSD.

[Barihawk]

dont forget, at this point in TNG, the MSD really hadn't come into play yet.  The first time we really saw a legit MSD was in Unnatural Selection, and not really frequently until the 3rd or forth seasons.  Even the Enterprise D didnt have a Bridge MSD.

Point received, but it doesn't change the fact that the CBridge has like 40 dozen pictures of the Ambassador Class .

UPDATE:

Rogue Vulcan of the Legacy modding community has graciously agreed to help me with a tactical display seen in the reference screenshots.

Here is version one, to be updated. I will also work at it to have it "animated" as well.

[FekLeyr Targ]

Point received, but it doesn't change the fact that the CBridge has like 40 dozen pictures of the Ambassador Class .

UPDATE:

Rogue Vulcan of the Legacy modding community has graciously agreed to help me with a tactical display seen in the reference screenshots.

Here is version one, to be updated. I will also work at it to have it "animated" as well.

Really good for a 1st version. (thumpsup)

[Barihawk]

Just posting to say that I have put this project on hold indefinitely due to Sean making an excellent original bridge for the Stargazer. That old beauty will fit the Constellation well and I full support it. Sean, if there is anything I can do to help, let me know.

I will probably start prelims on my Akira bridge now. This will be tough since it will only be a re-texture with instructions on how to set up a unique bridge. This is to fit with Mark's wishes that his Ambassador TNG bridge not be released outside of KM1.0. Therefore, the Akira bridge will only be for KM1.0 users . It will be much easier to set up, and not really many changes will be made to textures, just the MSD at the back of the bridge. The Ambassador TNG is exactly how I picture the Akira to look.

The Centaur bridge will probably be done the same way, since I intended to use the Excelsior bridge for that.

I'll post a WIP for the Akira in a few weeks.

[Blackrook32]

Hum, Very Interesting project. . .

[Captain Serek]

I love the Hathaway bridge. I look forward to it's completion.

[Barihawk]

Just posting to say that I have put this project on hold indefinitely due to Sean making an excellent original bridge for the Stargazer. That old beauty will fit the Constellation well and I full support it. Sean, if there is anything I can do to help, let me know.

I will probably start prelims on my Akira bridge now. This will be tough since it will only be a re-texture with instructions on how to set up a unique bridge. This is to fit with Mark's wishes that his Ambassador TNG bridge not be released outside of KM1.0. Therefore, the Akira bridge will only be for KM1.0 users . It will be much easier to set up, and not really many changes will be made to textures, just the MSD at the back of the bridge. The Ambassador TNG is exactly how I picture the Akira to look.

The Centaur bridge will probably be done the same way, since I intended to use the Excelsior bridge for that.

I'll post a WIP for the Akira in a few weeks.

*Cough**Cough*

[Sean]

help is and will be appriciated... however i would consider finishing the constellation retexture for now, as my release may take a while as i dont have as much time to mod as i used to... to texture a bridge the last time i was active took me about 2 weeks... now its taking alot more time due to RL