Aeries' JJ-Verse Bonaventure

[Meteorafallen]

Hehe, thanks for the suggestions boys, girls, and those of undetermined gender. I'll take all those names into consideration.

Here's a render of the first 10 minutes of texture work. I'm a complete and total NOOB at this crud, so please forgive me for bad quality textures!

Bad quality textures... are you nucking futz! Those look pretty damn good lol

[MarkyD]

Model looks fantastic mate, not too sure about those outlines on the aztec of the texture, really looking forward to seeing where you go with it 

[Aeries]

haha thanks for all the praise guys. :] I've added another paneling layer, something out of a small hull panel png I put together some time ago and converted to a paint bucket pattern. It kinda works, but the paneling itself is far from completed. I have also added some hull lines with the pen tool and in addition, a starfleet emblem... I kinda like it.

[Toa_Kaita]

Wow! Thats awesome! Cookied!

[DMWalsh79]

Nice work man! 

[Aeries]

Thanks. :]

And a little more. Got a specular made (more or less), and added some little details along with the ship's name and registry. Also added light weathering to the hull paneling.

Pic:

[Darkthunder]

It's amazing what a good specular map will do to a model. Before seeing the specular, the texturing looked a bit "dead". Now you made it really come alive (and much closer to the look of the NX-01 style)

EDIT: Are you certain about the NX-400 registry? Being that it's close to the Kelvin, maybe NX-0400 ? Or are we going in a more "prime timeline" appearance here?

[Shadowknight1]

I like that!  A lot!

[moed]

Cookie dude... this looks real nice.

[X_TheUnknown_X]

Great work here, Aeries  . I love the shape and design of the ship. IMO, the JJ 'style' works much better for the Bonaventure than the original.
As an aside, I saw someone on Sci-fi Meshes doing something simmilar to this; but in all honesty, I like yours more  ;) .

[Aeries]

Thanks! :]
I know exactly the project on SFM you're talking about too! It's the same one that's actually inspired me to build this, although honestly, I really like the warp nacelles on his model a lot more than my own... nacelles aren't really my strongest point. which reminds me, I gotta rebuild these nacelles soon too... X__x

EDIT: Are you certain about the NX-400 registry? Being that it's close to the Kelvin, maybe NX-0400 ? Or are we going in a more "prime timeline" appearance here?

Yeah I'm gonna keep it. Kelvin aside, it's always been a "Trek thing" not to put zeros at the beginning of a ship's registry. Personally it makes sense to me to keep it a simple 400 instead of a 0400. Of course there's the NX-01 herself as an exception, but I think NX-01 physically LOOKS a lot better than NX-1. Hell, I'd go so far as to say that NX-1 looks rather silly.

I may do NCC-0400 though, for the JJEnterprise-style textures, though, for some variety if nothing else.

Edit: Added dorsal (?) cargo bay doors and service lifts. Also added a luminosity map and begun work on the deflector dish and housing.

[Vedic]

ahsum Texturing Aeries

[eclipse74569]

n00b at texturing???  LIAR!!! I can't tell

Seriously, I really can't tell!  This is excellent!

[Lionus]

That looks like it came from the Enterprise-series. TV-grade stuff..  :eek

[WileyCoyote]

I really like the textures as well as your trek emblem. I also like the location of the registry, but the typeface looks too TMP. Is that what you originally wanted?

The typefaces used for the JJ-Enterprise are Microgramma are the larger fonts and Fear Factor (found for free at Dafont.com) for the nacelles.
Here's some possible alternatives (if you are going to change them):

http://www.dafont.com/bombardier.font
http://www.dafont.com/usn-stencil.font

I think the second one is closer to what they used for the Kelvin. It's not quite TOS, but it is a variant. I'm just throwing out my opinion.