USS Raven bridge WIP - my first bridge also.

[Excal_Luke]

ok, so for a while ive wanted to create a bridge, its only till now ive decided to actually get 3ds max and get moddeling.
 
I can see why not many people do bridge modding - it was a daunting task for me just to get used to the whole aspect of 3d moddeling,

Ive never moddel'd anything before, what-so-ever, so as you will see, the mesh may not be quite right. Basically be nice with your feedback, its my first attempt.

As you will also see, my texturing leaves something to be desired.
Constructive critisism welcome.

EDIT : PICS REMOVED SEE BELOW

shocking, isnt it.

[Billz]

Not bad for starters.

Try to keep the poly count under 20,000 though. Apart from that, best of luck to you.

[Excal_Luke]

thanks,?
lol, as i stated above, im brand new to this, lol,what im saying is i dont know how to find out the poly count. :oops:

[Legacy]

thanks, 
lol, as i stated above, im brand new to this, lol,what im saying is i dont know how to find out the poly count. :oops:

Which max version?

[Excal_Luke]

max 9.

[Legacy]

Press the "7" key.
Then go to the viewport configuration (in customize menu i think) and set it to display triangles instead of polies.

[Excal_Luke]

super, thankyou, im currently at 12 000 pollies,
now i just need to learn how to texture  :?

[Legacy]

Search for mapping coordinates, UVW map and UVW unwrapp.

Before learn to draw textures, you need to learn how to use them.

[Excal_Luke]

Ok, after getting used to mapping ive created some displays/ LCARS and put them in the model.
Now with legacy just mentioning ''UVW map'' he basically told me where to go. - so thanks

Im extremley proud of the following pics, to say ive only been moddeling (and texturing) for a short while.
Enjoy.

EDIT : pics removed see below.

as you can see, its still not right, if anyone can give me any tips on mapping better, it'd be much appriciated.

[Teh 1337]

Pardon me for asking, but what ship is this bridge for. I am assumung that the bridge is for the USS Raven from Voyager?

[startrekw_george]

thing looks wicked!, cant what to try it out!!

[Adonis]

Dude, one small thing...nuke'em polies you don't need (like the sides of the pillars that won't be visible from the inside). The bridge looks cool for a first.

[cpthooker]

looks good so far

[startrekw_george]

my advice though is to have some more gray in there. more of a mettle look to some of it. and make sure that during red alert that the bridge gets really dark. that always looks cool .

[Excal_Luke]

Ok, so now ive just about gotten the hang of texturing, ive wipped together some displays, ,
Any advice/ critisism would be appriciated.

Pics removed
enjoy, and pardon my poorly-made displays

[Legacy]

AS for the displays, i recommend tunning the color down (desaturate then), or they risk looking a bit cartoonish.

[newman]

For a first model - great job. As for the displays, you might want to browse the net for lcars panels and use real ones as reference. You could also photoshop together the panels using parts of the existing ones.

[cpthooker]

look at the episode when you actually see the raven bridge and see what lcars they used and try to recreate the colour scheme as well

[killeen21]

Great work so far!
These might help a bit;

[cpthooker]

what are you using for the textures by the way?