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pathfinder · #1 July 28th, 2002, 03:33 PM

Look pretty good models to me. Not a Trekkie, so couldn't comment on that but the models look good.

Suicide Junkie · #2 July 28th, 2002, 04:04 PM

I like them. You've kept to the simple cubes & spheres for the main ships, while still managing to make each one unique and identifiable.

I have two suggestions for you:

1) The light cruiser seems to have its texture tiled 2&1/2 times, and it looks odd. Considering the scale on your cruiser, compressing the texture to get three tilings would be good.

2) There is a lot of glare coming off of the one upper face of all of your bases. Can you shift the light source or the camera to reduce that a bit?

minipol · #3 July 28th, 2002, 04:49 PM

i like the look of the borg ships. nice!

Gryphin · #4 July 28th, 2002, 05:45 PM

Way cool, beautiful, um, additonal superlatives.
Can't wait to use them.

Ragnarok · #5 July 28th, 2002, 08:41 PM

Oh my god... Those ships are awesome. By far the best Borg shipset I've seen. Can't wait for you to release them.

Baron Munchausen · #6 July 28th, 2002, 11:02 PM

The frigate breaks the theme of the main 'warship' line by being a sphere. The others are quite nice, and the idea of splitting larger ships into many 'sub-cubes' is quite clever. The transports are extremely cool looking but I suggest using more spheres for larger transports instead of making the same spheres bigger & bigger. This might actually give the reverse of the impression that you want (i.e. the 'large' transport may look like it's smaller than the 'small' because you naturally assume that the same spheres are involved in each). The space stations look like good WPs to me.

[ July 28, 2002, 22:03: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

Atrocities · #7 July 29th, 2002, 01:14 AM

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Atrocities · #8 July 29th, 2002, 04:21 PM

Thank you guys for your suggestions. I have tried to use them all. Here is one result. I think it looks ok, but I would appreciate some comments.

Old Portrait

Old Mini

New Portrait

New Mini

Atrocities · #9 July 29th, 2002, 04:50 PM

I could not do anything about the reflective light. I did change the color of the light to a grayer scale. If you visit the link *HERE* and look at the base imgages, you'll see the differance. I will more than likely go even darker on the light sources color, and apply it to all finished ships.

Suicide Junkie · #10 July 29th, 2002, 05:17 PM

Uhm, with that LC, you've gone from 2&1/2 tiles across to 1&1/2 tiles across.

It still has the exact same problem, with the dark, open bit on the texture being cut off by the edge of the cube.
For example:

On the bottom right, that metal bit with the 45-degree angle is not connected to the rest of the ship.

IMO, three repetitions of the dark area along each edge (9 per face) would be best, in order to make the ship appear slightly smaller than the Cruiser (16 per face)

PS: Those bases are much easier on the eyes without so much glare