Star Trek V Shuttle - A small side project

[jayru]

Just a small side project from me;



The mesh is pretty much finished (aside from a few tweaks) - but I'm having some issues with the textures... but I have a plan to sort that (when I have a few mins).


C&C very welcome.

[gmd3d]

Very nice work .. Texture is an area where I fumble at a lot .. but the modelling is solid

[jayru]

Originally Posted by Taranis

Very nice work .. Texture is an area where I fumble at a lot .. but the modelling is solid

Yeah... I normally just build the stuff in, but I also wanted to make it easy to change the name/reg details on the shuttle. Texturing mapping is something I need to learn about...

[evil_genius_180]

All you need to do is set up different modeled name and regs as separate objects. Then you can change the name and reg whenever you want. I used to do that all the time before I started mostly texturing mine (except my most recent model, I went old school with modeled name and reg.) Anywho, I find that just as easy as having different texture sets with different names and regs.

The shuttle looks great. I like this model a lot. In fact, it's probably my favorite Trek shuttle. I thought it was cool when they started using the modified version on TNG. And you definitely did an excellent job modeling it.

[jayru]

Yeah, I've a few ideas on what i could do re the textures. At the momement they are set up as pannels that are about 3mm away from the surface of the mesh - which is what the problem is. I need to set them up so they are on the actual mesh. Still, you live and learn...

I wanted to make them easy to edit as this is a mesh that could be released to one and all, and I want to gove people the option to but what ever name and number they want on it. But yeah, for personal use I may well set the reg/name bit up as a built in bit. Mind you, I need to learn how to texture... properly that is, lol