Subspcae relay Station..kind of

XFozzboute · February 10th, 2007, 11:11 PM

Just felt like doing something Trek again. I know of only one version of this mesh and it's not that great. I took a fast look at the episode that this appears in and not too much can be seen so this will be a combination of the style of that one available mesh. The episode and a few ideas of my own.
This is phase one of blocking in shapes. Rendered in Mental ray.

February 11th, 2007, 04:59 AM

Cool. It looks suitably futuristic and plausible for the purpose.

evil_genius_180 · February 11th, 2007, 03:27 PM

Looks cool, bro. Which relay station is this? TOS? TNG? DS9?

XFozzboute · February 11th, 2007, 07:01 PM

It's TNG.

evil_genius_180 · February 11th, 2007, 08:28 PM

I thought it was, even though you used the TOS writing on the pic. I didn't remember seeing one of these on TOS, but I thought maybe I just forgot. I do remember one on TNG, though.

XFozzboute · February 11th, 2007, 08:52 PM

As far as I'm concerned that font is Star Trek.

evil_genius_180 · February 12th, 2007, 11:01 AM

Yeah, that's cool. It's my favorite too, it just threw me for a loop on the era of your build. Of course, the movie font seems to be the popular one, since it was used in movies 1-6 and DS9 and Voyager, but I still like that original font better.

XFozzboute · February 15th, 2007, 09:53 PM

UPDATE...
Some work done on the top section. Unfortunately my monitor is having fits and the red keeps dropping out making it hard to do any work.

evil_genius_180 · February 16th, 2007, 09:07 AM

Hmmmm, sounds like it might be about time for a new monitor. Great work as always, X. I love the details. I noticed some segmentation around your bevels (chamfering, for you Max heads

) on the top of your main cylinder, are you planning on smoothing that or will you just not be showing that up close in your images?

February 18th, 2007, 08:01 AM

Better than the one I downloaded, keep up the good work!

February 21st, 2007, 01:04 PM

Dude, that thing is looking totally awesome. I have one of those somewhere, and it doens't look half as good as this. Can't wait to see it textured.

XFozzboute · February 22nd, 2007, 04:25 PM

Well unfortuneatly you will have to wait for a long time. Friday night just as I was about to do a back up my hardrive crapped out and I've lost everything.

evil_genius_180 · February 22nd, 2007, 09:03 PM

Damn, that sucks. I know. Didn't have anything backed up? Did you lose all your other cool meshes?

XFozzboute · February 24th, 2007, 10:44 AM

I have an old back up from a lmost two years ago. So it's not all lost. Just more of the recent Trek work like the Larson and Nelson. Alot of meshs that I downloaded are gone but I'm not sure which ones yet.

February 24th, 2007, 01:26 PM

Too bad. I'm sure there is software which will allow you to retrieve the files. A drive in a computer here died and everything was recovered.

evil_genius_180 · February 24th, 2007, 07:33 PM

That sucks, bro. You do such awesome work. There are ways to retrieve data from busted drives, you might want to look into it, if you haven't already.