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fungun · July 6th, 2008, 03:52 PM

Am new to this forum as of yesturday.
Here are a couple of renders I made.
Space dock + Entreprise-A, Enterprise E are by Star Lion
Workbee is based off the plans in 'Mr Scott's Guide to the Enterprise' by 'H' Gibbens
The scene is rendered in Celestia ( http://shatters.net/celestia/ ) a 3D space simulator.
Thanks
Tim

gmd3d · July 7th, 2008, 12:47 AM

Welcome aboard .. I never knew that you can use ST ship in that program ,.. cool

fungun · July 7th, 2008, 08:14 AM

Oh yea. In fact if you go look at the "Motherload"- http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/index.html
There are a ton of addons for Star Trek, Star Wars, B-5, 2001, and a section of misc ships. If you want to make your own addons, Celestia will only take 3ds models though. They also have their own format called .cmod. I haven't quite figured that one out yet.

Tim

evil_genius_180 · July 7th, 2008, 10:10 AM

You might want to see if there is a way to increase your render quality (there should be.) Right now it looks like you're not using any anti aliasing, which is necessary for a high quality 3D render. And, if you can't increase the render quality with Celestia, you might want to switch to one of the free rendering programs that can be found on the net, ie: Yayfray, Kerkythea, or a free modeling and rendering program like Blender.

fungun · July 7th, 2008, 11:34 AM

I do agree with that. The screen caps from Celestia are not the greatest. Looking at it on-screen is a whole lot better

Plus my system is kinda old now. In fact my system can only handle 1K textures.
Thanks for the suggestions on the other programs. I will try some of those.
I'm learning all the time

Tim

gmd3d · July 7th, 2008, 02:21 PM

Blender is the rapidly growing prog.. or even Truespace 3.2 if its still available

evil_genius_180 · July 7th, 2008, 10:12 PM

trueSpace 3.2 is still available and it is a good choice for an older system. But it's also 1997 technology, so if your computer can handle it, I'd go with something like Blender or, if you have no interest in modeling, one of those free rendering programs.

Darrell Lawrence · July 7th, 2008, 10:13 PM

I wonder if Inspire is free out there...

July 14th, 2008, 03:33 AM

nice job!

gmd3d · August 2nd, 2008, 10:34 AM

Well anymore updates ??

fungun · August 3rd, 2008, 07:47 AM

Yes, been working on alot lately.
Here are a couple more shots from Celestia.
Tim

gmd3d · August 3rd, 2008, 09:15 AM

always liked the Starbase in Trek 3

evil_genius_180 · August 3rd, 2008, 09:50 AM

Those are looking a lot better than the images on the first page. It looks like you found a way to smooth your renders. That damage texture you did also looks cool. That's something I've tried before with no real success.

August 20th, 2008, 03:28 AM

Looking good.

You may want to take a look at trueSpace 7.6 at www.caligari.com as they recently made it available free with lots of tutorial videos and material to learn from.

UA