Ship Renders

NullAshton · #1 February 17th, 2005, 10:08 AM

I played around with Lightwave some, and got this ship. I may make more ships like this one, and make it into a shipset. What do you think of it?

Atrocities · #2 February 17th, 2005, 10:37 AM

Very dark. What is it?

NullAshton · #3 February 17th, 2005, 10:45 AM

Its an escort... Its an ellipsoid, with two engines attached near the sides. It also has nice windows on the sides from crew quarters, and a nice bridge. As well as 2 weapon holes. Maybe I could make the windows illuminated...

Atrocities · #4 February 17th, 2005, 10:49 AM

Cool. If you can lighten it up a bit, should be a nice looking ship.

NullAshton · #5 February 17th, 2005, 10:56 AM

The reason why its so dark is probally because of the armor. I'm trying to get a nice cobalt color out of it, maybe if I bump up the diffuse...

NullAshton · #6 February 17th, 2005, 11:09 AM

Here we go. Some nice engine glow, windows glow now, and we got 3 distant lights shining on it, instead of only one, and spread out a little.

Strategia_In_Ultima · #7 February 17th, 2005, 11:25 AM

Maybe you should add some sort of orifice at the lower nose. It looks like a shark now, with the "gills", and I think that you should explore that aspect further.

Or you could focus more on the exhaust pipes, chrome them, make them bigger, twistier, etc. You could make DNs and BSs with massive arrays of immense twisting exhausts.

Anyway, lookin' good.

NullAshton · #8 February 17th, 2005, 11:27 AM

Those aren't exaust pipes, those are the engines... And it has two torpedo tubes at the front.

Strategia_In_Ultima · #9 February 17th, 2005, 11:50 AM

The engines, OK... but they look a little like massive truck exhaust pipes. And you don't really see the torpedo bays.

NullAshton · #10 February 17th, 2005, 11:53 AM

Thats because its at the front, and its turned away. I made the engines like that on purpose

Looks speedier that way.