Cardassian Galor WIP: Recovered!

[serverandenforcer]

Saquist, if you mean the cannon Dominion ships, then yes, but far down the road.  Those designs are intimidating to make.  There are other species that haven't had as much treatment as they should have received.  For instance the Ferengi Maurader, Bajoran transport ships (which were actually late TMP era and early TLE Cardassian ships), and a high mesh detail Romulan Warbird.  That is currently on my list right now  to build.  Judging at the speed in which I build things, I wouldn't hold your breath for too long.  More than likely though, Baz or Wiley will get to those ships before I do... and then at which point it would be senseless for me to work on.  Another thing I've always wanted to try is to make 1:1 scale planets with atmospheric layers.  Maybe get some meshed out terrain as well.  BC will probably crash of course though - but it would be fun to try.

[serverandenforcer]

The thing which will eat you alive with this (goes for the studio version too) is the panel patterns. They are brushed color shades, which are hard to replicate, plus the dirt which I personally did in 3D painting mode in Photoshop on my one.

Dude, seriously.  They are a pain in the butt.  Not just because they are small and intricate, but just trying to match up the color, the size, and position.  I couldn't replicate your pattern on the head because the proportions of some of the objects on mine are different from yours.  I had to try my best at replicating the pattern from the CGI model from drexfiles and I was able to get to closely match it up with mine.  I did borrow some element from yours though just to add some extra detail so it wouldn't look so plain.  I'm thinking that once I'm done with the overal textur pattern I will add in a subtle aztec pattern over it to break up the large monotonous colored areas a bit.  However, despite this being a bit daunting, I am having some fun with it.  Plus I'm figuring out some new tricks of mine own on how to get some of the detailing done.  The only thing that's bugging me is how to implement the engine glows while at the same time keeping the dark grey look when the engines are offline.  I'm thinking I might have to come up with another texture file specifically for engine glows.

[MarkyD]

Nice start on the textures 

[serverandenforcer]

Quick question...  Is there a way to increase the resolution beyond 2048x2048 in the UVW Edit window?

[serverandenforcer]

Just a quick update before I head back out to my GF's place.  Right now I'm working on the dorsal side of the head.  Just started work on the bridge section.





BTW... this is actually my first "official" attempt at texturing.  I thought this was going to be hard, but it's actually quite a bit of fun.  I did do some texture work in the past, but that was just fooling around trying to see how it all worked.

[moed]

Nice job on this.  I like the attention to detail.

Cookie.

[Saquist]

Saquist, if you mean the cannon Dominion ships, then yes, but far down the road.  Those designs are intimidating to make.  There are other species that haven't had as much treatment as they should have received.  For instance the Ferengi Maurader, Bajoran transport ships (which were actually late TMP era and early TLE Cardassian ships), and a high mesh detail Romulan Warbird.  That is currently on my list right now  to build.  Judging at the speed in which I build things, I wouldn't hold your breath for too long.  More than likely though, Baz or Wiley will get to those ships before I do... and then at which point it would be senseless for me to work on.  Another thing I've always wanted to try is to make 1:1 scale planets with atmospheric layers.  Maybe get some meshed out terrain as well.  BC will probably crash of course though - but it would be fun to try.

I've been working on some plans that may help.

[serverandenforcer]

I've been working on some plans that may help.

Interested to know...


I'm pretty much done with the top side of the head, minus the windows (which will be added at the end).  Kind of satisfied with the work so far

[serverandenforcer]

Finished the front and sides of the head.  Now just need to work on the back and the bottom.

[Saquist]

The brushing work looks nice.

[Adonis]

Dude, seriously.  They are a pain in the butt.  Not just because they are small and intricate, but just trying to match up the color, the size, and position.  I couldn't replicate your pattern on the head because the proportions of some of the objects on mine are different from yours.  I had to try my best at replicating the pattern from the CGI model from drexfiles and I was able to get to closely match it up with mine.  I did borrow some element from yours though just to add some extra detail so it wouldn't look so plain.  I'm thinking that once I'm done with the overal textur pattern I will add in a subtle aztec pattern over it to break up the large monotonous colored areas a bit.  However, despite this being a bit daunting, I am having some fun with it.  Plus I'm figuring out some new tricks of mine own on how to get some of the detailing done.  The only thing that's bugging me is how to implement the engine glows while at the same time keeping the dark grey look when the engines are offline.  I'm thinking I might have to come up with another texture file specifically for engine glows.

They are basically one single pattern layed out all over the thing in different sizes and rotations. Oh, and check your pm's ;)

[serverandenforcer]

Finished the bottom of the head.  That was a pain in the butt.  Everything on the reference was brush strokes and blended in with everyting .  It was hard to tell when a pattern / color started and stopped.  In fact, I don't think there was a pattern.  It was just one big mess.  Fricken Cardies.  They have to make everything difficult.

[Adonis]

Finished the bottom of the head.  That was a pain in the butt.  Everything on the reference was brush strokes and blended in with everyting .  It was hard to tell when a pattern / color started and stopped.  In fact, I don't think there was a pattern.  It was just one big mess.  Fricken Cardies.  They have to make everything difficult.

Actually, it's the same basic pattern as the top, tho slightly modified in the center.

[serverandenforcer]

I pretty much did that except I also made a based texture underneath it to add some difference to it so that it won't look like a copy of the top.

[serverandenforcer]

Sorry about locking this thread folks.  Must've accidentally hit it when I wanted to go to the top of the page when viewing  bc-central last night on my Android.  Perhaps that button should be placed somewhere else in consideration of touch screen technology with smart phones now.

[Vortex]

LOL!! I was wondering what had happened. xD

Nice work on the ship, though.

[serverandenforcer]

Got the back of the head completed.  Still more to go...

[mckinneyc]

Your attention to detail and effort into this are astounding

[serverandenforcer]

Did it again with the lock.  Sorry guys.  Just message me the next time it happens.  I won't lock a thread unless I give a reason why.

[Shadowknight1]

Such a darn fine looking Cardie ship.