Interceptor

Here are various items I have made in Blender. All of them are designed by Narsil (Stuart Baldwin) of Scifi-meshes.com.

[gmd3d]

:colwar: nice work ..

[evil_genius_180]

Nice work. A couple of consoles, some walls and a floor and you've got a room.

I'm working on the bridge but I find interiors very hard to make.

[evil_genius_180]

Yes, they are. I hate interior modeling, but keep at it. (I know, I need to follow my own advice.) Your work is great so far.

It took three tries to get the floor right. I've made the MSD screen but not much more. Here's an update on the helm. Everyone on SFM preferred it like this. I've also finished the warpcore.

[evil_genius_180]

Looks great. I really like that helm. Are you still working on the helm chair? Because it looks a bit rough around the edges.

The roughness is caused by the rendering. I can't figure out how to solve it, I've got OSA on but it still renders like that. Anyone here who uses Blender know how to fix it?

[evil_genius_180]

I was actually referring to the squarish sides on your cushions. They look rough on the person using them. And, sorry, I don't use Blender.

Love the helm design... more detail, more detail...

Thanks for your comments. I'll see what I can do about the chair. No one seemed to notice that I accidentally posted the warpcore image twice.

by the way... you posted the warp core image twice.

Just FYI

Does anyone know how to light an interior? I've got 3 sun lamps pointing down, forwards and backwards which lights up the bridge but doesn't do a very good job.

Everyone is going to have a different view on that.

Me. I tend to use 4 no shadow (or soft shadow) cool (blue) lights at the corners of the universe. Then some programs can turn materials into lighting. This works for odd shaped lights. But will kill your render time. Finally add a few spots and tube lights for detail.

Now thats the simple explination. In some cases you may use 3, 4, or even 5 light objects for one source. Many programs have the ability to select what objects are effected by a light. So you may use one light for the general effect on the room, one for the visual glow from the bulb. You might use some in reverse to establish dark corners you dont want people to see into.... ect

I added 4 lamps in the bridge but it was too dark, I'll see what others have to say and look for tutorials.

I really like the chair!

i like the Helm looks good and the chair is nice

I think I may start over again on the bridge, now that I've had experience on interiors. Here is the sickbay.

And here is the transporter room. I still need a texture to go on the wall by the pad. And I've included an image of two of my characters in the room.

Does anyone know how I can change the text on the hull of Mavek's mesh from "Interceptor" to "Dauntless"?

First ask him... Second, do you know if it is a texture or object (the text)

It's an object not a texture, I think I have asked him but I can't remember the response I got. How do you model text?

[evil_genius_180]

A; either remember the response or ask again.

B; if it was "yes" what program are you working in and is the mesh in that format or in another program's format? As near as I can tell, each programs handles text differently.

I asked him last night and I'm using Blender and the mesh was made in Lightwave, converted to 3ds MAX, exported to .3ds, imported in Blender.

[evil_genius_180]

In that case, may the force be with you. Redoing text with a mesh that's your program's native format is fairly simple (unless somebody did someting stupid like cut into the hull) but redoing text on an imported mesh is another animal entirely.

The text is modeled like this. And no, no one cut into the hull.

Do you have splines and nurbs in Blender???

Blender has NURBS but no Splines to my knowledge.

I've made some more objects, the phaser and a padd.