Opinions on My First ShipSet

Val · #1 December 13th, 2001, 07:26 PM

Check out the following thread on making Shipsets:

Ship Sets:How do you do them?

I'm probably a pretty much average user, but have no previous rendering experience. DoGA was about the easiest program to use and it didn't take much time to get something to look how I imagined it. In my opinion it is a lot easier to use than Photoshop or PaintShop Pro. Plus, once you save a ship in a 'class' you can use that as the basis for the ships around it in the same class and just manipulate the pieces. Making the Racial pic was the most difficult thing and is something I'm still trying to make look more 'real'.

ZeroAdunn · #2 December 13th, 2001, 07:53 PM

Doga is a pretty easy program. Very nice and easy to use. I think pretty much anyone can jump right in and start using it without any background in 3D modeling.

A very nice ship set. It seems almost hard to believe this is your first shipset.

chewy027 · #3 December 13th, 2001, 09:48 PM

yeah doga is extremely easy to use. If you take a half an hour of time you can pretty much figure it out. Doga is specifically geared toward making stuff like ships so thats why it has become so popular recently.

As for the textures you really can't in doga other then what they have in the material editor. However, you can import textures from outside.

Atrocities · #4 December 14th, 2001, 01:53 AM

Very nice Val.

What Version of Doga are you using, L2 or L3?

[ 14 December 2001: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

Val · #5 December 14th, 2001, 04:26 PM

Thanks again

I started them in L2 and then brought them into L3 after hearing (er.. reading) how much easier it was to create the black background in L3. I wound up remaking the Troops and Weapon Platforms once I brought them into L3 as well.

dogscoff · #6 December 14th, 2001, 04:49 PM

It's a great set. I like the colours and the race portrait in particular.

I have to say your worldship looks more "ship" than "world." It does look very very cool though.

Val · #7 December 14th, 2001, 09:13 PM

Thanks!

Yeah, I wasn't sure about the "WorldShip" either, but in our Bab5 mod we are using the Worldship catagory as a WorldKiller sized ship (like a Vorlon Planet Killer or Shadow Death Cloud), so I decided to go for more of a 'ship' look. I might change it over to more of a giant starbase though.