Artists, Shipset designers, and other creative types, please read.

[Mark Walton]

yeah magnets are something you just have to play around with until it looks right (or you get bored)

[Val]

Mark -

Thanks for sending me the poser model. It helped, but those magnets drive me NUTS! How do you append multiple files - Lion head and human body?

Geo -

Saw that you would like to see a second sample ship. Prefer to see a Battle Station, Carrier, Troop, Transport?

[ 14 January 2002: Message edited by: Val ]

[geoschmo]

Your pick. I like your battle cruiser a lot.

[Praetor]

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Originally posted by suicide_junkie:
They could easily be multi-armed centrifuges for an extremely high artifical G-Force. Virtual G's used in a tractor/repulsor beam, or maybe a WMG? Those kind of things you'd need to keep on the outside anyways.

The wings are so you can bank left, then turn right, catching the enemy by surprise

The tower could be for the sensitive equipment/supplies/etc that need to be kept isolated from the main hull for security or safety reasons.

[ 20 December 2001: Message edited by: suicide_junkie ]

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This is a little OT, but a good place to point this out. The beauty of sci-fi is that the elements of a ship can have
whatever function you want. If it doesn't make sense, you make something up. They do this in all kinds of sci-fi, but I think Star Trek is the worst culprit: the Enterprise will be surrounded by about six hundred borg ships with all its shields gone. Instead of throwing up his hands and saying "well, we're screwed" Picard will ask Geordi for advice, and Geordi will save the day by making up entirely new scientific facts, something along the lines of "Well, if we reroute a depolarized tachyon field through the subspace isometric plasma conduits, it might just completely paralyze the whole Borg hive mind." And then Picard says "make it so".

Now don't get me wrong; I eat that stuff up. But my point is that the writers of Star Trek don't know a real tachyon particle from a hole in the ground, and as long as it soundssophisticated and futuristic it might as well be real. When the whole universe is imaginary you can make up things as you please

[Val]

Ok, here's a Battlestation.

BattleStation.zip

[Mark Walton]

[quote]Originally posted by Val:
[QB]Mark -

How do you append multiple files - Lion head and human body?


[quote]

To add an extra model into poser, select it from the list then use the double-tick icon at the bottom of the list (instead of double clicking the model). Memory permitting, you now have two models loaded at once.

All I did then is made certain body parts transparant (in object menu / properties), and positioned the models.

[Val]

I'll play around with it later tonight. Thanks!