Author Topic: DJ Galaxy Class Now Available @ BCFiles (Read 96763 times)

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #400 on:** February 13, 2008, 10:20:44 AM »

:shock:
holy mother of god! the Venture!!

my fav!

you make it sooooooo pretty!!! *hugs*

Quote from: DJ Curtis on February 13, 2008, 04:00:05 AM

I can tell you that when I'm done, this will be the ship I will use basically all the time.

hell ya! same here!

DJ Curtis · « **Reply #401 on:** February 13, 2008, 10:45:24 AM »

Quote from: Mark on February 13, 2008, 08:54:15 AM

Its an awesome piece of work, but the only slight niggle I have with it is that the escape pods dont stand out as much as I am used to. Whether thats canon or not I dont know, im just going on what I see here.

I've done a very close inspection of some high res pictures people have taken of the 4ft model at Star Trek: The Tour, and the escape pods are virtually the same color as the hull, but just slightly yellowish. The color I've got is very accurate. What will really make them stand out will be the normal maps in excalibur. Perhaps for BC I could make them a bit more contrasted.

Rat Boy · « **Reply #402 on:** February 13, 2008, 11:13:37 AM »

Quote from: DJ Curtis on February 13, 2008, 04:00:05 AM

Well folks, here she is! My favorite ship in all of Star Trek... The USS Venture!

I just had a tremendous itch to make it happen today, it's just such a sweet ship. It's got a great name, cool add ons, and a good history. I can tell you that when I'm done, this will be the ship I will use basically all the time. I've honestly been just staring at it in 3ds max for the last 20 minutes in awe. The phaser mounts on the nacelles just make the ship look so much cooler. As you can see, I also changed all the registries to those of the Venture.

The nice thing is that I added the textures for the phaser mounts to some free space in one of the main galaxy class textures, meaning that when I make modifications to the regular galaxy textures, those changes will also happen to the venture. So basically, I can continue to detail the hull, while only having to work on one set of textures.

In addition to the development of the Venture, I've also played around with the hull colors a bit, though I think I've got them pretty darn close. Either way, I really like them right now. I also made the sunken lines in the deflector a bit less strong, they should appear more drowned out by the deflector light now. I also added piles of plating details to the secondary hull and lower saucer, though from a distance, they're not easy to see. (As it should be)

Anyhow, i hope you guys enjoy the pix!

Holy carp, now I got a ship for the covers of Chaos Theory. It's beautiful; you even got the phaser bumps right (they were backwards on the SNS). Allegedly, the Venture has its name below the registry on the ventral side of the saucer according to this site, but since we never saw that part of the ship on screen clearly, no one knows for sure.

Technerd89 · « **Reply #403 on:** February 13, 2008, 11:15:07 AM »

nice work DJ. the phaser mounts on the nacelles seem large to me, perhaps i just havent seen an accurate venture before

DJ Curtis · « **Reply #404 on:** February 13, 2008, 11:17:09 AM »

I bet it probably did have the name on the underside, since the newer galaxy class ships seemed to do that. IE, USS Challenger.

Perhaps I will. It's a nice distinction, anyhow.

As far as the size of the phaser mounts go, they're accurate, if you looks closely at any picture of the Venture, you'll see. It's just that the ship isn't usually seen right from the side, so they tend to be a bit visually compressed.

edit* here's a pic with the extra registry and slightly more contrasting lifeboats.

Mark · « **Reply #405 on:** February 13, 2008, 11:36:16 AM »

if you say its canon then thats all I need to hear... was just something I thought I'd ask.

BTW DJ, you never got back to me about that deflector dish idea I had, drop me a PM

rengers · « **Reply #406 on:** February 13, 2008, 11:52:53 AM »

The Venture is one of my favorite ships, and you have done an awsome job on her.
This is definatly a cookie worth

Shinzon · « **Reply #407 on:** February 13, 2008, 12:30:12 PM »

Giggity-Giggity-Goo!

Dayum, nice ship!

DJ Curtis · « **Reply #408 on:** February 13, 2008, 12:50:45 PM »

I've done up some bump maps.
here are the results.

As you might see, there are still a few smoothing errors for me to sort out, but all in all, it's not too bad.

The Venture under the light of a yellow sun.

Mark · « **Reply #409 on:** February 13, 2008, 01:03:16 PM »

when you add some speculars to that its going to look spectacular

NanoByte · « **Reply #410 on:** February 13, 2008, 01:09:59 PM »

Ok we really need to get this into NanoFX! Superb!

DJ Curtis · « **Reply #411 on:** February 13, 2008, 01:17:18 PM »

well, the textures are about 90% finished, there's still more detailing I want to do. I also want to get any smoothing errors sorted out before we pop this bad boy into nanofx.

El · « **Reply #412 on:** February 13, 2008, 01:19:44 PM »

I'm looking forward to getting one of my HP's wrapped around this ;)

CaptainGMAN · « **Reply #413 on:** February 13, 2008, 02:01:55 PM »

OMG Dj thats grate Can't wait to have some fun with this.
PS: Have one more Cookie DJ.

intrepid90 · « **Reply #414 on:** February 13, 2008, 02:11:18 PM »

too bad the last pics arent bc and i dont have hardware for excalibur

anyway looking great for bc as well

FekLeyr Targ · « **Reply #415 on:** February 13, 2008, 02:14:28 PM »

Quote from: intrepid90 on February 13, 2008, 02:11:18 PM

too bad the last pics arent bc and i dont have hardware for excalibur
anyway looking great for bc as well

How can you know it? The requierements are still unknown.
Your Galaxys look very cool and promising.

Rat Boy · « **Reply #416 on:** February 13, 2008, 02:40:58 PM »

You know, I was on the verge of taking a break from Chaos Theory because I was feeling a little burned out creatively, but seeing the Venture like I've never seen her before has given me a bit of renewed spirit. Great work, DJ.

rengers · « **Reply #417 on:** February 13, 2008, 02:48:56 PM »

:shock:

:shock:

holy s**t, I don't know what to say...

Aeries · « **Reply #418 on:** February 13, 2008, 03:27:18 PM »

s...s...SIR!?!? Permission to DROOL all over the thread!?!?!?!??!? :shock: :shock: :shock:

ChronowerX_GT · « **Reply #419 on:** February 13, 2008, 03:28:20 PM »

http://www.st-bilder.de/html/galaxy1.html

This might be of some help DJ to make it 100% Canon

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Author Topic: DJ Galaxy Class Now Available @ BCFiles (Read 96763 times)

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