Author Topic: Gene Roddenberry's "Andromeda Ascendant" Ship Pack (Read 22905 times)

KrrKs · « **Reply #60 on:** February 21, 2009, 09:27:05 AM »

Wouldn't that kill every BC install out there?

Dalek · « **Reply #61 on:** February 21, 2009, 09:30:16 AM »

It all really depends how many polies there are. And at the end of Season 4, the Worldship despite having twenty worlds all connected around a sun didn't seem much bigger than a planet. I may aim for Starbase size...

KrrKs · « **Reply #62 on:** February 21, 2009, 09:45:16 AM »

Yeah, but I mean, there are all this Planets = Spheres and the sun, which all need an appropiate Policount to look spherish (sp?) from "battledistance", not to mention the Conections between the worlds. I think that would be somethink like "30k +" polys. definitly too hard for my pc.

Dalek · « **Reply #63 on:** February 21, 2009, 09:58:17 AM »

Well, I am a complete noob so we'll just see what happens

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Edit: Well...hehehe, I'm still figuring things out.

KrrKs · « **Reply #64 on:** February 21, 2009, 10:17:58 AM »

If you really get it into BC, you could replace the Sun with a NanoFX Blinker - Sphere (like the Ori Warships Energycore in the last SG pack )

Edit: BTW. is that Milkshape? If so I'm even more impressed by the Andromeda!

Dalek · « **Reply #65 on:** February 21, 2009, 10:23:08 AM »

Yup thats Milkshape. And thats version 2 of the Worldship. And a version 3 is coming up

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Jb06 · « **Reply #66 on:** February 21, 2009, 11:21:24 AM »

As for size it doesnt really matter that much. The max scale which we've been able to get in bc is pretty bloody big. As some people know that we've got a transwarp hub full scale & the borg unicomplex * they're huge, biggest ship/station in bc so far! I dont know how big this world ship is because i never really followed Andromeda, but im sure you can go bigger than a federation starbase. ;)

~Jb06

Dalek · « **Reply #67 on:** February 21, 2009, 11:31:43 AM »

Try this for size.

Jb06 · « **Reply #68 on:** February 21, 2009, 12:59:26 PM »

Dead easy then. Just look at the borg cube to that.... If 1 cube fits in 1 of the 29 conduits it just shows the sheer size that the transwarp conduit is.

~Jb06

Dalek · « **Reply #69 on:** February 21, 2009, 01:07:17 PM »

I'm going to start shooting Milkshape. I can' teven assign a texture. Limey explained, but it no workies. :x Hopefully it'll work soon.

Edit: Heres version 4. And I managed to colour the sun.

Shadowknight1 · « **Reply #70 on:** February 21, 2009, 09:03:10 PM »

I haven't seen enough to know how accurate that is, but it looks neat.

Dalek · « **Reply #71 on:** February 22, 2009, 06:13:17 AM »

I don't have to shoot my Milkshape! It's amazing what you can find on the right mouse button

. Of course, now you can see the some of the size problem. The planets need to be way smaller.

El · « **Reply #72 on:** February 22, 2009, 06:42:06 AM »

IIRC the sun on the Worldship was quite small, could have been the camera angle I suppose.

Dalek · « **Reply #73 on:** February 22, 2009, 10:53:44 AM »

Well, apparently, it is meant to be the size of a small solar system. But the planets still need to be smaller.

Update: Heres the revised version and a picture of the actual MWS.

JB_Wonderboy · « **Reply #74 on:** February 22, 2009, 11:20:26 AM »

Nice work here. I really like that show.

El · « **Reply #75 on:** February 23, 2009, 07:58:13 AM »

I wonder if you can use a normal BC sun instead of a NanoFX blinker, would probably be more realistic.

Billz · « **Reply #76 on:** February 23, 2009, 09:29:11 AM »

Quote from: El on February 23, 2009, 07:58:13 AM

I wonder if you can use a normal BC sun instead of a NanoFX blinker, would probably be more realistic.

Probably would, but the poly count would go up a bit more.
Saving on polies should be your first prority if you want a model of this size to run with minimal lag. A ginat NanoFX2 blinker, textured to look like a sun, sounds more feasable to me.

Dalek · « **Reply #77 on:** February 23, 2009, 11:56:32 AM »

*pretends to understand what everyone has said* Blinker...can't those be hardpointed on?

Anyway, I've managed to get round to adding the pylons that linkthe planets together. It looks boxy I know but I'm still new to this game. I'll figure out how to curve them eventually.

limey BSc. · « **Reply #78 on:** February 23, 2009, 01:08:28 PM »

Quote from: Dalekanium2 on February 23, 2009, 11:56:32 AM

*pretends to understand what everyone has said* Blinker...can't those be hardpointed on?

Anyway, I've managed to get round to adding the pylons that linkthe planets together. It looks boxy I know but I'm still new to this game. I'll figure out how to curve them eventually.

The best way is to use better software :arms:

Looks great so far by the way

Dalek · « **Reply #79 on:** February 23, 2009, 02:41:57 PM »

Last update for the MWS.

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Author Topic: Gene Roddenberry's "Andromeda Ascendant" Ship Pack (Read 22905 times)