Station 419 3d model

Hi all. Last week I downloaded a free 3d modeling/animation program called Blender, and have been working on a model of the station my game is set in. I'd appreciate some feedback from the TrekRPG.net users. The model is still rough, and is by no means final. This is about four hours worth of work.

This view is of the whole station.

This is a close-up of the saucer, showing Operations and the sensor arrays.

Comments? Questions? Snide remarks? :)

BTW, if you're interested in 3d modeling and don't know where to begin, let me recommend Blender. It's free. It's powerful. Did I mention it is free? I've followed two tutorials, read three others, and this is the level I'm at.

real sweet!

And very cool!:cool:

Prithee, where does one get this... "Blender"?

Hugh

The word "Blender" in the first line of Anomaly's message is a link.

Graety stuff!

Looks good for a begining :)

Soon you'll be whiping out ships and everything :)

Oh and Owen, nice banner :)

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Oh and Owen, nice banner :)

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Ditto! Really sweet banner! :)

Right on this program has an OS-X version!

Wooo hooo!

Must learn software...must learn software...

Bye bye sleep.. :D

They've got excellent resources there for help if you need it, Aslan. Follow the 'Learning Path' tutorials - and you should be an expert. ;)

Check out the new Operations close-up. I added windows. :)

DROOOL!!!! Can't wait to see the finished product!

nice station so far, one thing though are the windows supposed to bethat big?

The station is actually very small - it's just under 40 decks in height. It's an outpost that sits between the Federation/Klingon/Romulan border and is manned by only 210 people. Specs for it can be found at my web page below (under Theme section).

There are some 3d renders that one of our players did in the visuals section - you can see how much the Akira that is moored there dwarfs the station.

OH MAN!!

Who made that Akira model?! It ROCKS!

Sadly, I can't find the mesh he used. I wish I could - because it's better than the ones I can find. :(

Here is a textured version of Ops. I've been trying to get the texture map right - thus far it bleeds over the edge a slight bit.

I also can't figure out how to smooth the faces. I'm going to research that today and see what I can come up with.

Do you guys want to see progress pics like I've been posting? Or wait until I'm done? I don't want to annoy anyone. :)

Here is how Ops is shaping up, with the texture on it (and some self-illumination). It's shaping up nicely. I'm not happy with the texture's 'sides', but the top I'm very happy with.

That's starting to look real nice. Gonna do an aztec pattern on it or some other form of panelling/plating, or are you going for the TOS-ish smooth look?

I'm working on the saucer hull plates right now in Campaign Cartographer 2, believe it or not. Then I'll take it into photoshop, do a little blur on it, set the layer to 54% transparent on a grey background, and export it as a JPG. :)

That's basically how I did the hull plates on top of Operations, though I did it all in photoshop. Since the saucer requires curved sections of hull plate, I had to use something more flexible in terms of curvature, and CC2 was the best thing I had at my fingertips.

I made up a texture for the sensor domes, but I'm not pleased with it at all. The way it wraps the texture around it isn't fun.

If everything keeps going like it has this week, I could be finished with this in a week, perhaps two.

Keep bringing on the in-progress shots. I'm enjoying it come together.

Here is an image of the textured saucer. One word: Unhappy. I need to make that texture larger so the patterns are more crisp.

Here is a close-up of Ops with some minor modifications. I think that in my tinkering I've messed up the lighting on it and will have to play around with it a little more in that department.

Go here and talk to the guiys and dolls :)

http://www.3dgladiators.com/

There are some excellent modelers over there and they are very helpful to new bloods :)

Great work BTW :)

Thanks for the tip, Aslan. I'll go check them out.

I do have good news. The Saucer texture is much better. I changed the CC2 source file from 720 pixels to 1280, took out the slight blur post-source, and it has improved greatly. I've even got my starfield up and working (though the render times are doubled - you won't see many more 'in progress' shots with stars. :)

Here is a closer images of Ops with Stars, etc. I am not sure if I like the 'up-light' on the antenna arrays, I'm still deciding on that one.

This is getting better and better, keep it up.

i just might try this program out myself... :D :D

I have absolutely no 3-d skill, but from what i see at www.3dgladiators.com and www.scifi-meshes.com , your design is shaping up pretty well.

Oh, a side note: www.scifi-art.com recently came back up (albeit less than it had original)

-The Alpha