Lol!
Thank you all SO much for everything, especially the history lesson on Mithra. I didn't know about any of that, I just thought it was a very pretty name.
Haha! All things considered, I think Mithra is perfect for this... so thanks.
Her specifications will be similar to DJ's Century Class, with a few upgrades, I'd imagine. This ship is primarily military-based, and as such, will be balanced to military needs. I think she'll be restricted to using nothing but quantum torpedo turrets, as photons are pretty outdated at this point. Her phaser arcs are going to be somewhat limited, similar to the Akira I suppose, with a rather.... impressive... coverage of Quantum torpedos. I'm still not certain, though, it depends on what I pull out of my hat as I'm building this. As she sits, she's a heavy assault cruiser, slightly larger than the Enterprise F, but just as maneuverable.
ANYWAYS! I'm currently reconstructing the entire deflector array and soon going to rebuild the entire engineering section... it's WAY too high-poly and uselessly ugly, so that's getting a re-work soon. If anybody has any ideas on what type of ship you see this being, I'm open to ideas... the only certainty for me right now is that she's going to be FAST, and maneuverable... yet balanced enough to maintain a level of realism.
Anyways, it may be a while before I come up with another update. The deflector array and engineering hull is going to take me a while with all the details I want to integrate. OH! And DJ, thanks for the tip but I'd already considered that... I've realized as of late that your Century Class is about 20k polies, correct? Well... this is only about 12k polies and I know I can reduce that dramatically by re-building the engineering section. So I think that gives me a TONN of room to play around and add in a bunch of details that you'd normally only see as textures in BC. But who knows? I might only do them as textures, we'll just have to wait and see how this goes...
By the way, this will really be my very first time building textures from scratch, too, which is a VERY intimidating task, I must admit... I generally know the basics on how to start, but at the same time I'm nervous and clueless... interesting, huh? Anyways, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Thank you all SO much for the support and compliments! It means a whole lot.
Wish me luck! ^_^
-Aeries.
Edit:
Mithra to-do list:-Touch-up escape pod shapes to match the sovy-style.
-Rebuild deflector dish and engineering section.
-Rebuild buzzard collectors.
-Add sensor pallet indentations along the edge of the saucer.
-Add sensor pallets to ventral saucer.
-Detail armor plating on dorsal saucer & engineering section.
-TEXTURE TIME!!!! O_O
