Near Canon NCC-1701 STTMP Retexture of Khaliban FCA (My First BC Mod)

[WillDecker]

Well this is my first post here in the Bridge Commander Forums, and hello. I have been working on retextures for Khaliban's Enterprise class/Constitution Refit for a while for SFC II and OP and now I have been playing BC and now I am testing my skills with modding for this game. Here is my latest attempt at making the NCC-1701 Refit as accurate as I can get her from looking at all the references there are to the model at that stage. And here is my attempt at making this model look like the Original Enterprise did when she was first seen in Drydock by Admiral Kirk before coming on board. These are just pictures I rendered while working on the SFC version. Enjoy

[WillDecker]

Here is one extra picture of what I have done

[lint]

looking good! 

[cpthooker]

yes very good

[Dawg81]

welcome to BC will shes lookin great

[eclipse74569]

Dayuuuum...wow...*drools* I likes...Can't wait to see more

[AndrewJ]

Looking awesome.

[Shion]

I take it you added the color hue's on the hull to the texture itself.  You could probably get a more accurate look by making the hull solid white, and adding the hue's to the specular maps.(an idea which I have been meaning to try myself at some point.)  Since the colors only really came out from light reflecting on the hull at certain angles, which caused the pearlecent sheen seen in TMP.

However, I should add that your aztecking is nearly perfect.  Not so sure on the secondary colors, but then again there's no definite reference pics.  Though most of them look like they should.

[eclipse74569]

Looking at this again, I think you might wanna consider changing the Main Registry on the Top saucer, the spotlight looks too narrow, it should be widened a bit and triangular.  Just some constructive criticism

[DJ Curtis]

looks very good.  i think I see some slight smoothing issues near the fronts of the nacelles.

[Chronocidal Guy]

That's always been my one issue with this model, there are smoothing errors all over the place.  The detail is nearly perfect, it just needs the smoothing groups tweaked to remove the oddly shaded parts.

If anyone has access to the original model, it'd be a pretty fast process to clean that up.

[Darkthunder]

That's always been my one issue with this model, there are smoothing errors all over the place.  The detail is nearly perfect, it just needs the smoothing groups tweaked to remove the oddly shaded parts.

If anyone has access to the original model, it'd be a pretty fast process to clean that up.

Would it not work to load the model into NifSkope, export to a 3DS Max compatible format and then fix the smoothing groups that way?

[Mark]

that gets an applaud from me , you should be able to import the model to max through nifskope and edit those smoothing groups.

[Darkthunder]

I know, it's rare that I say something smart... I have my moments

[DJ Curtis]

haha

[intrepid90]

wow, that looks cool.
welcome to BC Modding!!

[Glenn]

Not bad at all, the alpha channels on the underside of the saucer look a little too bright. But other than that, it's a good start!! 

[WillDecker]

Well it has been some time since I posted on what was going on with this model, but I have been testing it in game to see what it looks like. I still have to modify the Enterprise Model for BC to still make her look like the Original Enterprise Refit. But the Screen Shots I have taken do look pretty promising

[Phaser]

Very nice.  Looking forward to seeing more.  And welcome to the forums.

[JerichoKru]

quite good