Any work being done on an Alliance cruiser 3D model?

POSTED BY: Lindley
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LINDLEY

Thursday, August 25, 2005 2:43 AM

I need to come up with a 3D model of an Alliance cruiser. Detail isn't essential; it just needs to look good from a distance.

Has anyone undertaken the task of modeling one, do you know? Or am I going to have to start from scratch and hope for the best?

CITIZEN

Monday, September 12, 2005 12:14 PM

Sorry for the late reply, just saw your post.

When I've finished my model of Serenity (few months most likely), I was planning on make a 3DS Max model of the cruiser. I've just started collecting refrence images.

Nothing yet started though, and It'll be a while till I start, let alone finish...

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"Make me one with everything."

DUG

Monday, September 12, 2005 1:19 PM

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Originally posted by Lindley:
Detail isn't essential; it just needs to look good from a distance.

OK, if detail isn't essential and it will be at a distance, could you get by with mapping a 2d image to a plane? For big ships that are "parked in orbit" in a distant shot that can be an effective timesaver.

Of course, if you're close enough to be changing perspective that doesn't work so well.

LINDLEY

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:33 PM

^That may actually be an option. Not an ideal one, and not a final solution.....but perhaps interim.

It depends on what angles are available on the ship.

DUG

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 5:33 PM

Therein may lie the rub...if I remember correctly we only see the cruisers clearly from a handful of angles. Hopefully there is enough there to get you something happy. If I can pry my wife off of Sims tonight I may take a look at what it would take to do a "background quality mockup".

LINDLEY

Thursday, September 22, 2005 10:36 PM

The ideal angle would be 45° off vertical----more or less SimCity2000-ish. But I don't think anything quite like that is available.

TREYBOR

Saturday, January 16, 2010 1:33 AM

I built a low res one last year....

Treybor: (tray-bOr)n - That dude who ceated the Serenity Modeling Tutorial http://www.foundation3d.com/index.php?categoryid=38&p13_sectionid=375