Author Topic: MarkyD: "one of the most heavily armed warships in the Quadrant," (Read 43940 times)

CyAn1d3 · « **Reply #100 on:** July 28, 2009, 12:01:57 PM »

Quote from: Adonis on July 28, 2009, 05:22:54 AM

Quote from: markyd on July 26, 2009, 08:41:49 AM
currently building the necelles.

They're a @#$%^ to do...trust me, start out with a capsule and a chamfer box. ;)

wish ida known that.. i tried building one for the hell of it, i got soo frustrated i started pulling hair

MarkyD · « **Reply #101 on:** July 28, 2009, 05:31:15 PM »

Quote from: Adonis on July 28, 2009, 05:22:54 AM

Quote from: markyd on July 26, 2009, 08:41:49 AM
currently building the necelles.

They're a @#$%^ to do...trust me, start out with a capsule and a chamfer box. ;)

Lol ur right they where a pain in the butt, their built now mind, I just need to unify, clean and sort the smoothing groups, got them done really low poly too without loosing detail etc.

Quote from: DJ Curtis on July 26, 2009, 06:17:36 PM

That's a good looking mesh.

Thanks mate, creating clean meshes can be a pain but when ur done, you know you have done a great job and it should work excellently.

DJ Curtis · « **Reply #102 on:** July 28, 2009, 07:31:21 PM »

exactly man.

Adonis · « **Reply #103 on:** July 28, 2009, 08:18:59 PM »

Quote from: CyAn1d3 on July 28, 2009, 12:01:57 PM

wish ida known that.. i tried building one for the hell of it, i got soo frustrated i started pulling hair

Quote from: markyd on July 28, 2009, 05:31:15 PM

Lol ur right they where a pain in the butt, their built now mind, I just need to unify, clean and sort the smoothing groups, got them done really low poly too without loosing detail etc.

WickedZombie warned me about that a loooong time ago. That's the part on my one that took most the time to model. The shape is (in a lack of a better word) confusingly complex. I actually had to rebuild parts of it because every time I'd look at the ref pix, I'd find some new structure I didn't saw there before...ugh...

baz1701 · « **Reply #104 on:** July 29, 2009, 04:15:06 AM »

The nacelles are a royal pain in the butt, just like the fantail.

Everyone has there own method of building them. I sure Mark's will complement the rest of this excellent ship.

MarkyD · « **Reply #105 on:** July 31, 2009, 10:25:16 AM »

As previously stated in this thread, the necelles are a real pain to get right, that coupled by the fact that I want to keep them low poly as possible, at the minute each necelle weighs in at 700 poly's so like 1400triangles, when they are finished im expecting 1200 on each. Need to add detail and smooth them out etc.

CyAn1d3 · « **Reply #106 on:** July 31, 2009, 10:26:16 AM »

holy mother of cake thats beautiful
you have my envy and ur 100th cookie

MarkyD · « **Reply #107 on:** July 31, 2009, 11:18:04 AM »

Thanks mate, oh and thanks to the *Unknown* cookie givers

So Like stated in this thread, with this ship you look at different angles and u notice summat is not right.. lol

(ADONIS)

So im gonna be fiddeling with the necelles until theay are 100% clean and right.. off tomorrow mind up to sunny Scotland on the ranges prior to leave and deployment 8)

baz1701 · « **Reply #108 on:** July 31, 2009, 11:40:29 AM »

Forgive the posting of pics on your thread but quickest way to point out what I see.

It appears there is alittle cylinder missing between the bussard and the hump

MarkyD · « **Reply #109 on:** July 31, 2009, 05:00:24 PM »

yeah like i said mate there not done, stll adding plenty to them

Dawg81 · « **Reply #110 on:** August 01, 2009, 09:55:23 AM »

great work on her marky

MarkyD · « **Reply #111 on:** August 01, 2009, 02:30:39 PM »

Thanks dude, more necelle work.. still very low poly which im happy with.

Still have some more detail to add, then I really need to clean them up a little more, have not sorted the smoothing groups yet. . its getting there, overall, have about 15% more work to do on the mesh, before i begin to map, and then on the side start sketching the concepts for the TNG CONNIE 8)

Shadowknight1 · « **Reply #112 on:** August 01, 2009, 02:52:28 PM »

Very nice lines on that Connie.

Darkthunder · « **Reply #113 on:** August 01, 2009, 03:56:07 PM »

Nacelles are still missing the blue "ball" just above the bussard area. You've made a great mesh thus far, but this is one detail I think you've missed out on adding

Dalek · « **Reply #114 on:** August 01, 2009, 04:05:01 PM »

Quote from: markyd on August 01, 2009, 02:30:39 PM

Still have some more detail to add, then I really need to clean them up a little more, have not sorted the smoothing groups yet. . its getting there, overall, have about 15% more work to do on the mesh,

Quote from: markyd on July 31, 2009, 05:00:24 PM

yeah like i said mate there not done, stll adding plenty to them

He knows.

Phaser · « **Reply #115 on:** August 01, 2009, 10:37:06 PM »

Man, and I thought the TOS Constitution engines were difficult to model!

*Listens as everyone around him laughs*

Shut up! I'm a n00b at modeling and you know it! :arms:

Anyway, this is looking great. I think you might want to increase the number of polys on the bridge module, though. It seems to be suffering a bit in that area.

Billz · « **Reply #116 on:** August 02, 2009, 04:04:00 AM »

I love that you are continuing with the TMP Connie. I can't wait to see your concept of a TNG Connie.

+cookie

Phoenix Bondi · « **Reply #117 on:** August 02, 2009, 03:38:01 PM »

always love ur work bro, u need to get on line more to msn so we can catch up!

Aeries · « **Reply #118 on:** August 03, 2009, 02:50:40 PM »

Quote from: markyd on August 01, 2009, 02:30:39 PM

Thanks dude, more necelle work.. still very low poly which im happy with.

Still have some more detail to add, then I really need to clean them up a little more, have not sorted the smoothing groups yet. . its getting there, overall, have about 15% more work to do on the mesh, before i begin to map

She's amazing, Markyd. Truly beautiful. :]

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concepts for the TNG CONNIE 8)

Holler if you want help or a second opinion. :]

Dawg81 · « **Reply #119 on:** August 04, 2009, 12:40:50 PM »

well i got an idea from my friend and fellow 9th fleet member farshot he was showing me sketches for a refit tng version of the JJprise was helpin him with the design but focusing on the nacelles some of ya may remember his thread hit me up marky on messenger if ya able to i want to show ya them

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Author Topic: MarkyD: "one of the most heavily armed warships in the Quadrant," (Read 43940 times)