A little progress today, not much – I added just a few more windows and rounded off the front deflector…
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Further work on the John Eaves ship
Due to the recent praise I received from the man himself, I’ve resumed modeling work on John Eaves’ starship design. This is the design that will separate its inner saucer section whilst maintaining the shape. Here’s John’s sketch again (The “B”):
The main work today was adding the windows. Boy, adding windows is not my favorite pass time. In 3DS Max, I use the shapemerge tool mainly and then clean up the result using the Edit Poly modifier earlier. See this tutorial from SciFi-meshes.com. On the whole the technique works well, but it takes such a long time and is very repetitive. If anyone has any quicker ways of working on this sort of thing, let me know!
John sketched elongated horizontal window shapes on the ship, rather than the usual vertical windows you see on mid-24th century ships like the Enterprise-D. If you look on the future Enterprise J you could almost imagine there is a horizontal slant to the windows there as well. Almost. So you could argue that it was the start of a trend in the late 24th century which was continued on through to the Enterprise J era. Maybe. Sort of.
I am imaginatively calling the ship the “Eaves Class” for now – there were a few ideas about the name from posts on John’s blog but I don’t think it got resolved…I shall leave this one to the public!
More warp effect animations
Some more animations of the Hawking and Insignia class starships using the Star Trek warp effect I used earlier.
I have had a few requests to make a tutorial on this effect, so I’ll plan on putting something together.
In the meantime, here’s the Hawking class:
Another Insignia Class:
…and then one more of the Hawking again:
Insignia Class in .obj format
I have managed to export the Insignia Class to .obj format so that it can be used in Lightwave…but I’m not sure what to do with it next 🙂
The zip file is here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ussoauaiu14z6j9
Anyone willing to help out? If it works well I will post the lightwave conversion up on the downloads listing…