Author Topic: Hobbs's WIP (Read 109530 times)

CyAn1d3 · « **Reply #200 on:** June 24, 2012, 10:05:17 PM »

Quote from: Adonis on June 24, 2012, 10:03:02 PM

One other thing: don't use patterns on the hull. The only patterning type I used for BC models where of two type: grids or a pattern I did for mechanical parts (before I started doing them by hand - a lot better and cleaner looking that way).

Instead, any paint program that has layers makes your life easy as hell with doing aztecs. If you really want to, add the overlay patterns to the specular map, not the diffuse, it will look a lot better and more believable that way ;) And don't make Federation ships specular maps grayscale, that fits late Romulans the best, and to an extent the Klingons, but use colors (from opaque shades to the ones that really stand out, depending on what you want to accomplish). Add to that what Wiley said about subtlety.

woa wait.. i thought that the specs in BC only worked in grayscale??

WileyCoyote · « **Reply #201 on:** June 24, 2012, 10:22:26 PM »

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woa wait.. i thought that the specs in BC only worked in grayscale??

Nope, they work in color as well, but add to the total MB size of the textures. I might use colored speculars whenever I get back to TMP ships.

CyAn1d3 · « **Reply #202 on:** June 24, 2012, 10:24:23 PM »

Quote from: WileyCoyote on June 24, 2012, 10:22:26 PM

Nope, they work in color as well, but add to the total MB size of the textures. I might use colored speculars whenever I get back to TMP ships.

WHY WAS I NEVER TOLD OF THIIIIIISSSS??????

dammit.. now ive got some tweaking to do to the connie....

thanks to both of you for this enlightenment

hobbs · « **Reply #203 on:** June 25, 2012, 05:18:03 AM »

@ CyAn1d3: its amazing what happens when people TELL you things isn't it lol... look at me, it took about a paragraph from ED7 for the light to go on in my head and then another line of a message to let me produce the current textures.

I am so grateful to ED7 for taking the time to help me out i cant even begin to put it into words
thank you seem inadequate.

but....

THANK YOU ED7 is all i have

King Class Scout · « **Reply #204 on:** June 25, 2012, 06:26:31 AM »

colored specs were used on the Vorcha replacement in KM, and were default in stock BC!. BnW just shows up better.

Jb06 · « **Reply #205 on:** June 25, 2012, 06:50:53 AM »

Quote from: hobbs on June 24, 2012, 06:20:22 PM

here is an update.

with advice from EDD77 i have produced the following:

note: only the saucer

This is looking miles better hobbs!, you just need the pattern to curve with the hull now like on a galaxy class for example, not straight like it is currently. ;)

Cookie

hobbs · « **Reply #206 on:** June 25, 2012, 07:22:11 AM »

thanks jb06... thats next bit he is going to tell me how to do lol

i'm enjoying myself as i'm actually seeing improvement... i just wish adding them damn aztecs didn't make it look so much better lol

hobbs · « **Reply #207 on:** August 30, 2012, 11:39:33 AM »

here is a voyager episode inspired ship... the Vaadwaur fighters were the basis and this is the newer version inspired by the time spent on voyager. it will have particle cannons (torpedo type as in the show) and new particle beam arrays and torpedoes inspired by starfleet tech.

at the moment it has only the cannons, and the torpedo launchers (on the forward edge of the saucer)

the ship is comparable to voyager in size but probably slightly smaller.

Vortex · « **Reply #208 on:** August 30, 2012, 11:41:42 AM »

Nice. Also looks like a qualifier for an Ent era ship.

hobbs · « **Reply #209 on:** August 30, 2012, 11:45:14 AM »

yes i thought that too... though its only because i kept the nacelle (?) design the same as on the vaadwaur fighters.

(i ? on the nacelles because i dont know if they are warp nacelles due to the use of the corridors they use)

edit: thanks for the nice

moed · « **Reply #210 on:** August 30, 2012, 07:51:12 PM »

Yeah, it does look Enterprise era.

Kind of like a Corvette Class or something along those lines.

Locke · « **Reply #211 on:** September 01, 2012, 02:49:10 AM »

Looks more like a perimeter patrol vessel, similar to the Akyazi class.

hobbs · « **Reply #212 on:** October 17, 2012, 11:43:00 PM »

forthcoming:
USS SCORPION
Scorpion Class
NX 92501

i just need it beta tested and then its ready to go.... (just realised i need to sort out the type XII phasers as they are wrong colour lol)

EDIT: just an update to the ventral hull textures

hobbs · « **Reply #213 on:** October 26, 2012, 11:58:24 PM »

ok so the USS Scorpion is released so i started on this (sorry tiqhud i know you suggested some other vessels and stations)

it is the EDC ship from my ships post:

http://bc-central.net/forums/index.php/topic,6322.msg196061.html#msg196061

with some changes obviously lol

hobbs · « **Reply #214 on:** November 06, 2012, 12:47:05 PM »

New WIP

im not sure what it is yet lol
I mean when i started it was going to be an X-Era ship then as it progressed and became a quad nacelle ship it became in my head a refit or new ship named USS VICTORY (lone survivor of wolf359)

i'm uploading a pic for comments about the ship and textures.

check out my others too

http://s1065.photobucket.com/albums/u383/ussgriffin/

Vortex · « **Reply #215 on:** November 06, 2012, 12:57:14 PM »

The overall design is pretty good. It's too block-y for my liking, and with regards to the textures, I think that you should do something closer to the Connie refit for the the aztec styling. The aztencs on the outside of the ship look fine, inside of the phaser strip, they look too small for a ship this size.

This clearly isn't a big ship, if that cylinder on the dome is the turbo lift as I suspect, then there are too many decks on that superstructure. Or maybe it's a really huge lift.

hobbs · « **Reply #216 on:** November 06, 2012, 01:00:49 PM »

hmm ill look at the scale again

the small aztecs are the base coat... textures arnt complete yet sorry should have said

JB2005 · « **Reply #217 on:** November 06, 2012, 01:12:29 PM »

Looks a bit like a cross between a Miranda and a Constellation?

I like it

hobbs · « **Reply #218 on:** November 06, 2012, 01:17:08 PM »

bout right.
thanks for the confidence boost

and i just looked at the scale of the bridge and the torpedo tube... lol its the same size as the tiny shuttle that i did for the Uss Survey (its about the right size for most ships shuttle bays and so while tiny it is about the right scale for a shuttle.

will sort it out

Vortex · « **Reply #219 on:** November 06, 2012, 04:35:00 PM »

Heh. Hadn't even noticed the launchers at the front. Well hidden. xD

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