They are easy, but consum a lot of your time. The first thing to know is what are you going to do a ship set on?
Are you going to use exsisting picture, or make new ones?
To make new ones, you'll need to know 3dmax, Lightwave, Broyce, etc.
To make one based off of exsisting pictures is easy. Just gather the images you want to use, decide where you want them to go, IE Dreadnought, WeapPlatform etc.
You'll want all of your images BEFORE you start. Once you get going on it, it will take between 6 to 24 hours.
I started on the Starwolf Race Last night at 6 pm, and finished it about an hour ago. Total time working on it 8 hours. I have made 13 Ship sets, and they are a lot of fun to make, but tedious to do.
You'll need to know how to use PAINT, and you'll want to get ACDsee from
www.download.com
I use ACDsee to crop and resize the images. I use Paint to mask them, and touch them up.
Gather your info, and then post what it is you want to do. I will then be more than happy to post a walk through. However, I have posted these before, and you can search for that if you wish.
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"We've made too many compromises already, too many retreats! They invade our space and we fall back -- they assimilate entire worlds and we fall back! Not again! The line must be drawn here -- this far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!" -- Captain Picard STNG
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