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The ship is looking great. :D

I've actually done multiple ships both ways, with textured text and modeled text and it's not really easier or better one way or the other. Either way, there's some work involved. As long as you don't have the text permanently attached to the hull, you can swap out modeled text fairly quickly. I had it worked out in TrueSpace to where I could whip up a new set of markings for a Connie in about five minutes. Meanwhile, with textures, as long as you have them saved in layers somewhere, you can swap out text on those and whip up a new batch fairly quickly also. I only modeled them on mine because I was doing HD quality textures anyway.

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It´s an excellent work my friend! :)

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Many thanx.

True. But... I by myself be faster by modelling names as by painting it with PS - don´t know why... ;)

Thank you.

@All:

I´ve added the yellow marks and the Logo of the Terran Empire:


And here are three Wallpapers with the USS-Version.
I´ll uplode the Pics in Original-FullHD-Size in the Gallery soon. Some Wallpapers with the ISS-Version will follow.

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Those wallpapers are fantastic and the ISS version is looking great. :)

Well, part of the problem in that is using Photoshop. Photoshop isn't really a drawing program. I use Inkscape to do that stuff, which is a free alternative to Adobe and Corel drawing programs, which would also be better than Photoshop.

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Many thanx for this compliment. :) :) :)

I´ll take a closer look at it next time.
Thank you for this hint.

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here is another Wallpaper with a little more action:


Original Size:

http://imageshack.us/a/img163/2374/jz1e.th.jpg

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Incredible work!!

Rob

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Agreed - she's a beauty. Can't wait to see those ISS-version wallpapers.

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I apparently missed that last image. Great stuff. :)

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wow I missed these too.. it must have been the Xmas season and I was out somewhere...

excellent work on all..

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The next Connie has leaving the drydock.
I played a little bit with the textures and I´ll texturing the ISS DEFIANT the next few days the same way. Hope she´s ready for some action this WE.



And a Wallpaper with the EXETER and the LEXINGTON.

http://abload.de/thumb/exe-01-final-1920ljuyi.jpg

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Nice work. Ah, the ill fated Exeter. Or, at least its crew as ill fated. Technically, the ship was still in working order, so they could tow it back to a starbase and put a new crew aboard, but that's kind of creepy. ;)

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Not for Starfleet-Captain Stalwart (and his/her Crew)... ;) :D

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BTT:
The ISS DEFIANT has it´s final textures and now she´s ready to "go for it"... http://img.userboard.org/uploads/sf/...irrorsmi56.gif



Last Weapons-Test. Everything looks good...

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excellent!!

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Sweet. The textures look great. How did you make the phaser beams?

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Beautiful work! Very vibrant lighting effects. Thanks for sharing!

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I´ve made two long open cylinders first (Length: 500m or yards).
For the inner Cylinder I used this parameters:

http://abload.de/img/zwischenablage01ags7x.jpg

Parameters for the Color-Texture-Channel:

http://abload.de/img/zwischenablage02m5sr1.jpg

Glow Intensity at 55% and Additive Tranparency at 100%:

http://abload.de/img/zwischenablage03his32.jpg

At last I used the Edge_Transparency-Shader:

http://abload.de/img/zwischenablage04f0sfk.jpg

For the outer Cylinder I used this parameters:

http://abload.de/img/zwischenablage119csiq.jpg

Parameters for the Color-Texture-Channel:

http://abload.de/img/zwischenablage12vls2a.jpg

And the Parameters for the Transparency-Channel:

http://abload.de/img/zwischenablage13cdsz3.jpg

Glow-Intensity, Color-Highlights, and Additiv-Transparency up to 100% - Ready!

http://abload.de/img/zwischenablage14t0svn.jpg

At last I´ve added a few Point-Lights (50% 70% 30% 10% Quad-Falloff - Lightrange 5m) at the beginning of the Beams (Distances: 1m, 1,5m, 2m, and 2,5m, from the Hull) and activate Glow with 50% and 8px for Rendering the pic.

You can also play with Lensflares for the Pointlights - but I´ve didn´t activated this effect for this Testrenderings...

Many thanx... :) (Also many thanx, Taranis)

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Hm... No action with the ISS DEFIANT, this WE... :(

But therefor I´ve converted the ANDROMEDA-CLASS from MAX into LW.
Next step: rounding a few edges and re-modelling the rear-parts of the Narcelles. :)

After that, I´ll continue the work on it. :) :)

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Thanks for the info on the phaser effect. I'll have to try that sometime. :)

The Phoenix looks like it converted pretty cleanly. What software did you use for the conversion?