Hopefully they're building up a collection of ships that they're not going to lose this time.
So now we have CGI models of multiple ships…
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This.
CGI models age…As long as they keep using them they will remain useful, being updated/converted gradually, but if they stop using them they will quickly rot away again.
By the way, I wonder how detailed those models are: so far we’ve only seen them from afar.
Also I wonder why they didn’t use that beautiful Galaxy class model they built last season. Or the Inquiry class (which I don’t think anyone resented as a class, the controversy was only that it was reused so much), in fact.
There are several Inquiry-class starships present in the armada. Around 4-5 can be seen in the moments before the Stargazer explodes.
There are a few in the fleet, and they appear to have gotten a detail upgrade. They at least have RCS thrusters now and possibly registries, in the same spots that the STO team put them, I wonder if they’re just the STO model lol
The STO designs at least are unmodified from the game, so they’re not as detailed as as scratch build for the show. So I doubt we’ll get any close ups of them.
The Akira and Sovereign models also might be from STO.
In the latest Ten Forward Weekly stream of STO, Thomas Marrone explains how he had increased the visual quality (say, polycount) of the relevant models. The PIC team then DID work on the models STO provided. Thomas shares an image of the USS Ross CG used in the show.
Link: Time index: 30:33
Link: Time index: 30:33
This shot of the Ross is either not from Episode 1 or is from an incomplete version of the episode. It's missing the green glow from the anomaly, it's also at the bottom of the frame, when in episode 1 the Ross was at the top of the frame.
He says the Ross here is right from the game, didn't touch anything.
It's not that they might have had a reserve-standby fleet of the same ships ready to go like a rapid reaction force. That actually is one of the most sensible things Starfleet has ever done.
But in fairness, it looked pretty Last Starfighter to me. It could have been done far better. But that moment is gone now.
In Carey’s novel, the Dreadnought could make near solid images of itself that could even take damage…
I was wondering why they didn't throw in a Galaxy class ship as well, though I'm kind of glad they didn't. I like them being rare and special.
That has been my feeling about them. They were maybe a limited run. Hard to say how many of the few made survived the Dominion War, obviously there was at least one loss. With the experiment of families on board abandoned, they still could have had good uses as haulers, evacuation ships, etc, but perhaps they had been best as test platforms for technologies that would be utilized in other ways after the Dominion War and Borg incursions.
Or maybe they're kept in a reserve fleet now converted to something like the three nacelle variant seen in that alternate timeline, and since they are battleships and no longer science vessles, Starfleet just doesn't show them off. I like that idea better, somehow.
This tweet thread lists all the ships and how many of each there were, but even I was surprised by how may Sovereign-class starships appear to be present:
https://twitter.com/gaghyogi49/status/1499781853393440783
And not a single Nova or Steamrunner.
Well, I made a highly detailed NX-01 Enterprise back in 2004 with 4K hull textures in 3DS Max... and the file is still fine.
It holds up even today easily enough and it hasn't become corrupted.
So, its a matter of creating geometry with minimal segmenting the first time around which will hold up, with high res textures in reliable storage.
Although, I suppose that at some point remodelling the thing would also be good because you can implement more advanced modelling techniques which can drop the poly count quite a bit and make the mesh look better.
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Can't help thinking that the gorgeous Galaxy-class CGI model from last season could have been used as the new Stargazer - I adore the Galaxy-class and would love to have seen updated interiors and Picard facing down the Borg again on that type of ship.
There were plenty of galaxy-class ships in the dominion war.
Not that I’m complaining in not seeing any in this fleet: I expect galaxyes to be out there exploring, not around the sol system (funnily, my autocorrect decided “exploding” was more appropriate...makes sense!).
Not that I’m complaining in not seeing any in this fleet: I expect galaxyes to be out there exploring, not around the sol system (funnily, my autocorrect decided “exploding” was more appropriate...makes sense!).
yes, but you still use the same software, not all studios do and often exporting and importing you lose textures, lighting and so kn, having to reapply them.
Because they’re evil.
I suspect that the use of the Ross, Sutherland, and Reliant classes from STO were chosen because of their similarity to the Galaxy, Nebula and Miranda classes respectively; they wanted something recognizable as Starfleet vessels but at the same time something new to appease the fans. Plus the fact that these were all just background ships, so they saved time and money using the STO ships rather than create brand new designs just for one minute of screen time. Any ships that will be prominently featured will most likely be Eaglemoss CGI models, not STO models.
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