The New Dominion Ship Set

Chronon · #1 January 22nd, 2003, 06:18 AM

Atrocities, that is one great looking ship set!

Being in the process of creating (or trying to create, anyway) a ship set of my own, I'm curious about the incredible detail of your ships. Do you use bitmap textures? Or do you create them in your modelling program (which I'm assuming is Doga)? Using the basic Moray material editor, I have not been able to create textures that look like metal plates as you have done for this set. I'd appreciate any advice that you might have. Thanks!

Atrocities · #2 January 22nd, 2003, 07:21 AM

Thanks. I use Doga L3. The texture editor allows for combinations of patterns including inported ones. I used two exsisting textures and adjusted their depth via the controls in the editor. I also used several other shapes, colored differntly, to give the ships a bit more detail. It was my first attemp at this effect. I am still tweaking the set, but otherwise it is looking better than I had hoped.

CNCRaymond · #3 January 22nd, 2003, 01:16 PM

Damn! These are some nice looking ship images you have going. They oddly enough actually look like dominion ships.

How did you make the Escort look like the real thing? And the Dreadnought, what a job.

The Carriers are really cool to. I like how you set them up. they actually look like carriers.

I like the way you set up the troops and weapon platforms two.

The drone looks mean as hell as well.

All in all, very nice work indeed. Are you going to remake all of the Star Trek sets?

dogscoff · #4 January 23rd, 2003, 02:03 AM

Very good stuff, I'll be using that one.

My only criticisms are that the frigate & destroyer look too similar, and that jump between destroyer and light cruiser is too great. That said, you have to stay within the limits of whatever ships have been seen in the ST shows, so I might be asking the impossible.

Oh, and I notice a distinct lack of neostandard images=-) (EDIT: Except the baseship. Just saw that. Sorry.) I'm sure you could dredge up an infantry pic at the very least...

Don't want to sound like I dislike it though, it's a very clean & well put together set.

[ January 22, 2003, 12:07: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

oleg · #5 January 22nd, 2003, 05:19 PM

I second that. Destroyer should be scaled up a little.

Urendi Maleldil · #6 January 22nd, 2003, 06:27 PM

You could use a ship for the destroyer that looks something like the Buck Rodgers fighter except purple. Is there any way you can render those images with antialiasing? They have a case of the jaggies.

dogscoff · #7 January 22nd, 2003, 06:31 PM

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I second that. Destroyer should be scaled up a little.

Better yet, re-classify the current destroyer as a corvette and create a whole new image below light cruiser :-)