WIP of TheUnknown - The Akula (mk II)

[X_TheUnknown_X]

Could you post a top ortho with a galaxy class beside it for comparison?

Certainly. In this picture, however, I have not yet applied the revised window size, if needed.

[bankruptstudios]

Thats sweet, cookie time!!!!

[Bones]

it's perfect, amazing, cool, outstanding :eek cookie !

[Adonis]

Could you post a top ortho with a galaxy class beside it for comparison?

Certainly. In this picture, however, I have not yet applied the revised window size, if needed.

Then the bulk of your windows need to be a lot smaller and a lot more of them around. You would not be seeing much 2,3 or more deck high windows on anything, Starbases included. Don't forget that this thing is massive. The size of the Galaxy besides the Starbase just proves how big your windows actually are and don't forget that Galaxy class starships have 42 decks! This is the only gripe I have with your model, fix those, and she'll be really good looking.

[Aeries]

Love it, though the windows look to be the size of a Galaxy Class Starship's whole bridge, and then a little moreso. The rest is pretty cool tho, keep up the good work.

Edit: Woops, missed the "not applied new window size" part. My bad.

[eclipse74569]

Certainly looking great.  even without the revised windows .  Once you rescale them I think that it'll look even better

[Darkthunder]

Reducing the window size by 50-60%, and increasing the amount by double should help alot to prove it's scale.

[RifleMan80]

Looks great! Hasn't been a good 24th century starbase made in quite some time! I'm glad someone took up the job of making a new one. Insta-cookie!

[X_TheUnknown_X]

Once you rescale them I think that it'll look even better

Well, thy will be done. I've reduced the window size to about a half of the original, and added at least double what there used to be. The windows on the inside (not pictured) might need some rescaling too, but things look OK so far. The only thing now is, do I add windows to the inside of the dome (not the pillar in the inside centre  )? From a design point-of-view; would they even be necessary? (Just to stare into the docking area).

On an unrelated note, I recently dowloaded the the new Blender 2.5 Alpha release (the two picutres below are rendered from there). From the looks of things, Blender's moving up there with the big boys of 3D Modelling.

Here's some pictures, see what you think:

[Billz]

 :eek

Awesome.

About the inside windows, I wouldn't bother with having them on the inside of the 'mushroom'. It is probably a good idea to leave on the interior stalk though, purely for screenshots and whatnot.

[majormagna]

Don't forget to leave some larger 'windows' where the aux shuttlebays are, if this is possible. (Evidence below)

Also some parts of the inside of the 'shroom should have windows, also shown below.

[Kirk]

Don't forget to animate the landing strips!

[CptBenSisko]

How about two versions? one with the doubled up, half sized windows for the TNG era...and one with the original windows and sized for the TMP era...would go great with Wiley's TMP Constiution for the 'Stealing the Enterprise' scene from STIII

[X_TheUnknown_X]

More textures on the Dome's inside completed. The windows might look a bit big, but if I make them smaller I'm not sure the texture resolution will define them enough. If you want smaller windows, just say and I'll look into it.

From now, I'm building the Alpha channels into outer dock textures - so is anything needs to be done there now is the time to say.

Don't forget to animate the landing strips!

I was thinking about using some finely-timed blinkers to show the docking ports.

[Nebula]

hmm don't forget about the docking-arms/gangways!!

*hint "11001001"*

[Kirk]

I was thinking about using some finely-timed blinkers to show the docking ports.

You can't time blinkers, that's the thing. For the landing strip lights, you would only need to make the landing strip a separate part of the mesh and apply animated textures using cordanilus' new tutorial.

[GMunoz]

Wow, this is impressive.  I have always loved flying into the spacedock and can't wait to download this one.

[Billz]

Will there be high res textures for users with more powerful computers? The interior looks very low res to me.

[Captain_D]

The progress on this thing is great. The more you do the better it gets,

I would have another suggestion you might want to consider about the outside, at the door entrance.

 If you watch ST3 ,when Enterprise approaches spacedock, there are a set of blinkers at the bottom of the doors at the ring of the mushroom outside that cascade from the ring up to the bottom of the door. They blink in a cascade that point to the door outside. always thought they looked neat. They sort of say, "here's the door!" as you approach from a distance.

You are really doing some wonderful work here, Keep it up.

[X_TheUnknown_X]

Will there be high res textures for users with more powerful computers? The interior looks very low res to me.

The files were already fairly high-res for those model sections (512x512's), it's just that I used a quite low-res method for creating the windows. That has now been fixed, and the interior window size has been reduced by about 25%.

I think I can now say the texturing phase is complete, below is a render of the station (complete with some post-processing  ;) ). Unless there are any objections I will spend tomorrow exporting to nif format.