Regal Class

[Locke]

Thanks, Mark.  Good to hear from an oldie in the biz!

Now she has glows! At least, a few.  Windows and such . . .

[FarShot]

I would look into putting some transparency into those big windows... looks like they could easily get sucked into space.

[Locke]

Well, I've seen translucent materials.  I just need to know how to make them . . .

[Captain_D]

It's alive,,,IT'S ALIVE!,,,, 

Looking good to me.

The blue window textures should have more detail though, like Voyager's windows, to go with the modeled rooms better.

[hobbs]

wow! thats so cool!   

cookie for your skill my friend!

[Locke]

The blue window textures should have more detail though, like Voyager's windows, to go with the modeled rooms better.

Working on that now!

EDIT: Lots of talk around here about STL Checks.  Why is this so important?  I ran a check on another mesh of mine a couple of minutes ago, and it came up with 436 errors, mostly open edges.  What's the deal?

[oldmangreg]

Very interesting ship. I like how the nacelles are sort of a echo of the Akira's.

[oldmangreg]

Well, I've seen translucent materials.  I just need to know how to make them . . .

Easist way in Max is to set the material to antitrophic and apply a Falloff map to both opacity and refraction (you could set some to specular level, diffuse level, etc, but I usually don't bother with those settings). Play with the colors too. Of course, this works better if you have actual rooms to see.

[flarespire]

Lots of talk around here about STL Checks.  Why is this so important?  I ran a check on another mesh of mine a couple of minutes ago, and it came up with 436 errors, mostly open edges.  What's the deal?

im having the same problem on the solaris class it is fixable, just hard to figure out how, but you'll fix it i know that! 

[Locke]

im having the same problem on the solaris class it is fixable, just hard to figure out how, but you'll fix it i know that! 

Actually, the mesh I was referring to is the final version of the Sentinel class I created a couple of months ago.  Converted just fine, and no one has said anything about it.  So why is it important to eliminate these "problems" if they aren't noticeable?

[flarespire]

i dunno, i think its that when BC creates vox files it can kinda screw them up on damaging(and the usual delete and correct are created doesnt apply to it)....but im not entirely sure, hopefully its nothing though...

[Locke]

There were no damage issues of any kind with the Sentinel.  I remember that it damaged quite well, in fact.

Anyway, back to the Regal!  New windows and glows for said windows.  How do they look?

[oldmangreg]

Can't really tell, but I guess all the "glowing" windows have rooms that you can see? Other than that looks cool.

[Locke]

Actually, the windows are all texture illusions.  When you get closer the illusion breaks and it looks weird, but for BC, this should do nicely.

[oldmangreg]

that's cool.

[Captain_D]

Much better.

[hobbs]

awesome work ! 

(hey locke, you ever thought about useing your pic at the bottom of your posts... the Psycadelic pic... as the deflector array (after removing the symbol in the middle))

[flarespire]

yeah hobbs, if he monotones it to say a blue or yellow(Ent-E reference) it would make a brillinat deflector, or if monotoned red it could be a bussard texture too....

[Locke]

Nope.  Can't say as I've ever thought about that before.  Although it might work . . . maybe on another ship . . .

"Anything you can do, I can do better!  I can do anything better than you!"

Seems that STO came up with the same idea (and indeed, the same name) as I did:

The Federation Diplomatic Corps

Oh, well.  Looks like a case of parallel evolution.  The release was in July, and that's when I started coming up with the FDC on my own.  Of course, I can't prove it, but whatever.  Hope no one gets in a tizzy over it.

Seems crappy, since I wanted the FDC to be my territory.  Guess I just got there a little too late.


EDIT: Credit to Nihilus for the prefix "FDC". ;)

[hobbs]

Hate when that happens

you know what i think lol

It was a cool idea (the STO version is less cool lol)

and your ship is awesome anyway!