The ship itself looks nice, but thin - somehow it needs something to give it scale so that it looks like a "capital" ship. Yeah, I'm struggling with this one. I'm not sure how to properly give it scale. If you have any tips, I welcome them with open arms. There are a couple of possible tricks to gi...

Whoaw - I absolutely love the exhaust plumes!
How did you do it? What software are you using?

The ship itself looks nice, but thin - somehow it needs something to give it scale so that it looks like a "capital" ship.

Thank you very much Tal. texturing sucks... but i might have to bite the bullet and dive into Mudbox.... maybe. the shape is potentially not finished (more greebling required) but im still workshopping the idea... might start over. Looks good - actually it goes almost too fast to really enjoy the d...

I think that what Nead (and several others) mean is the following - and it is stated in order to be helpful ("fatherly" - Josh could almost be my son), not to critisize: Josh has interrupted his studies, has therefore no diploma. He did it to make Limit Theory. Therefore, if he looks for a job, or i...

And another related question for you: What hapepns the day that Talvieno bleeds out from holding it all (the community) together with his lifeblood? Who is going to step up? Heck, who would want to? Perish the thought! But I agree that Talv make more to maintain the community/forum than the develop...

Thesleeve's shape made me think of a luxury liner for passengers. 9OwGa3ifrmk (it's full HD - don't watch embedded :mrgreen: ) So here it is, as a bonus in a movie form. This actually hides some imperfections in the model ;) This model, as opposed to the industrial ship, is done in Wings3D. While th...

BFett wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 02, 2018 1:02 am

Looky here!

for April 1st!

Eeeeexcellent, awesome work Talvieno, thanks :twisted: HS, it seems you are pasting objects (cannons) on another object (ship) in Wings 3D. how do you do that? I know only a bridging, but that requires lot’s of work as everything must be first positioned correctly and tesselation of appropriate siz...

hm... the changed one actually looks a bit wrong to me now, like the shot is firing off-bore now. dunno, the third one's trace just seems too long for the (alleged) firing direction... maybe you got some scale variable messed up in it? :? OK, this is another story. Indeed the strength of the lasers...

CSE, something confuses me in your latest image: The rightmost of the three firing turrets at the front has a weird perspective The muzzle flash suggests that the barrel is raised until about pointing at the viewer, but the trace goes way below the viewer. What is it supposed to do? :D Yes, it is a...

thesleeve wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 25, 2018 10:38 pm

Here you go!

Most modelling of large bits is done. ..

Looks great. Is it more of a passenger cruise ship? It looks a bit like this, with the rows of windows and the balconies.
Look forward to seeing the evolution!

Seldom did I learn so much during an edition of the Fan Contest. I almost started dreaming about lighting and camera settings, but I came to a new level of understanding (even if I am still having to dig to understand the different rendering options). Thanks to HS and thesleeve for the numerous tips...

...and one more friday without devlog.

Makes one wonder if Josh’s notion of soon(tm) is contagious....

No worries :twisted: I often use spheres with some kinda' cloud material to create nebulae for the background, or if I want to use an image a plane will work. That way I don't have to do any post processing at all. Why not try animating it? Some kinda' flyby or something, with some other ships pott...

More of a general spaceship question than one relating specifically to capitals, but it's harder to answer with bigger ships. What do you do with the stern of a spacecraft? I'm getting tired of just filling them with engines, and searching for references has proved fruitless ("spaceship stern" retu...