Author Topic: ChiefBrex's WIPs List - Current Projects: Rigel Class & TOS Pack (03.05.17) (Read 55584 times)

ChiefBrex · « **Reply #240 on:** August 05, 2012, 12:11:30 AM »

-sighs- fine... I'll delete some windows tomorrow... Anything else while?

Centurus · « **Reply #241 on:** August 05, 2012, 02:09:33 AM »

I think, for the saucer's edge, perhaps bringing the windows away from the edge, just a bit. That's just my opinion though.

ChiefBrex · « **Reply #242 on:** August 05, 2012, 10:32:21 AM »

Ok, windows will be scrapped and done over...again. Anything else?

mckinneyc · « **Reply #243 on:** August 05, 2012, 11:13:07 AM »

Brex these are all just suggestions, do the windows how you want them to be!

ChiefBrex · « **Reply #244 on:** August 05, 2012, 11:27:40 AM »

Then no one will download the ship

Darkthunder · « **Reply #245 on:** August 05, 2012, 01:41:11 PM »

If I still had BC installed, I would. As is thou, all I can do is provide suggestions and encouragement

ChiefBrex · « **Reply #246 on:** August 05, 2012, 01:42:22 PM »

Windows redone, and Registry added. Windows still need beveling. And for some reason, I can't get the illumination maps to render in 3D Max.

[Edit: Pics at end of thread]

moed · « **Reply #247 on:** August 05, 2012, 02:23:34 PM »

Windows looking good.

Ship looking good.

All good.

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CyAn1d3 · « **Reply #248 on:** August 05, 2012, 03:57:24 PM »

Did you set up the alpha channels?

mckinneyc · « **Reply #249 on:** August 05, 2012, 03:58:22 PM »

I know probably on one ever notices but I love how you have the registry. Love its shape and where it is

ChiefBrex · « **Reply #250 on:** August 05, 2012, 04:20:03 PM »

Quote from: CyAn1d3 on August 05, 2012, 03:57:24 PM

Did you set up the alpha channels?

Yes. And I saved the tga file as a 32 bit file. I also applied the map in 3d max in the Self-Illumination section. I set it up as Image Alpha and RGB Output as Alpha as Grey. And yet, for some reason, when I render the image, the windows don't light up...

CyAn1d3 · « **Reply #251 on:** August 05, 2012, 04:43:30 PM »

Did you turn down the ambient light in your scene?

ChiefBrex · « **Reply #252 on:** August 05, 2012, 05:57:08 PM »

Quote from: CyAn1d3 on August 05, 2012, 04:43:30 PM

Did you turn down the ambient light in your scene?

Yep. tried everything. I reset the texture and removed the materials, then reapplied the textures, starting with the self-illumination map. That seemed to fix the problem. Whatever it was.

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mckinneyc · « **Reply #253 on:** August 05, 2012, 06:03:44 PM »

Killallewoks · « **Reply #254 on:** August 05, 2012, 06:03:58 PM »

Nice! How many maps does this ship have!

ChiefBrex · « **Reply #255 on:** August 05, 2012, 06:28:34 PM »

2 so far. Registry map and saucer map. I've also added the shield grid, for the most part, to the ventral side of the saucer. Just needs a little tweaking.

As far as I'm concerned, the saucer's pretty much done in terms of textures. there are some dead spaces I'd like to fill on the deck two module and around the bridge, but I'm not entirely sure what to put there. Any suggestions?

mckinneyc · « **Reply #256 on:** August 05, 2012, 06:33:59 PM »

Some bigger windows suggesting VIP areas etc

ChiefBrex · « **Reply #257 on:** August 05, 2012, 06:52:53 PM »

This ship is smaller than an Ambassador and a Galaxy Class. I doubt it'd have anything large as a "VIP area". I'm done with windows. I'll add any other detail suggestions in the dead areas around/on Deck 2.

Darkthunder · « **Reply #258 on:** August 05, 2012, 07:41:49 PM »

I understand you are "done with windows" for the saucer, but you might still consider adding a small amount of windows to the edge of the "deck two" area? Looks a bit barren there. I also assume, that when the textures become more finalized, there will be black windows as well, and not lit up "like a christmas tree" ?

EDIT: Suggestion (for clarity):

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Adonis · « **Reply #259 on:** August 05, 2012, 08:13:31 PM »

Quote from: ChiefBrex on August 05, 2012, 06:52:53 PM

This ship is smaller than an Ambassador and a Galaxy Class. I doubt it'd have anything large as a "VIP area". I'm done with windows. I'll add any other detail suggestions in the dead areas around/on Deck 2.

And what about the teleporter pads (two forward, two aft both dorsal and ventral on the saucer alone, two more on the nacelle pylons both dorsal and ventral - that's the usual setup), sensor strips (there's always one on top of deck 2 around the bridge and one on the bottom - that's the Galaxy class's setup; also, you could add some nice details to the section where the saucer "splits" instead of that grid pattern to make it look more like a sensor strip ;) ), maintenance hatches (you don't need much of these really, there are places where maintenance crews exit the ship to reach the outer hull easily), cargo bay doors (the Galaxy class has two on the ventral saucer and another two on the sec hull right below the deflector, however, since this is an older ship, you could make some harder lined square panels on the ventral of the saucer to denote them and stencil the edges with a red L shaped stripe to denote them), stenciling (the most prominent of those you know of are the half-circle red stripes at each end of a phaser strip, but that's only the beginning really), escape pod stencils (since you modeled them and mapped each separate, right?).

I know, I'm a menace

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