Oh boy. This week flew by. It's already 9:30pm Friday night.
Wizard world was a lot of fun, however I realized late last week that we were going to miss Shatner because I bought tickets on the wrong day. The convention was small, and there were not a lot of panels. Mostly Arrow cast, meet and greets.
But my roommate and I had fun going in costume.
Monday I updated the bamboo poles, I varied the length and rotations of each segment on the pole. Then I varied where the pole would have been "cut" I tried to do a few different sizes anywhere between .5" radius all the way up to 1" radius. What I am considering doing is using blender's physics engine to drop the poles into the pot so that it looks idk more realistic as if someone dropped the sticks into the pot, just to give it that extra detail, we'll see if I do that.
At this point I am happy with the room, but may add more details to the room later on. For now, no bar table, but I might add one later as I plan on making one for the captains ready room.
I have a few more rooms to go until I have a complete set (ready room, Sr Officers Quarters, Jr Officer Quarters, Science lab, transporter room) however I've been getting more and more anxious to revisit my bridge. (I also intend to revisit engineering.)
The bridge set that I used in my Animation short, I built about 4 years back. It is starting to show its age. I've also come a long way with my modeling skills since I first built it. When I started doing my short, I gave it a graphical overall, but when it came to rendering, having as many textures as I did (including 5 textures per character) quickly ate up the 10gb vram on my 3080.
I am planning on going back and updating the set, piece by piece. This will not be a burn to the ground and start over, but I see something, I fix something sort of thing. I've already updated the side stations, the station dividers, wall padding (minus the MSD section) and ceiling (minus the round aluminum light fixtures)
The side stations I completely rebuilt using the dimensions
found here.
@Donny I wanted to ask if during your build of the Ent-E bridge if you found these measurements to be correct? Additionally I lined up the measurements of this engineering panel (
here and
here) compared to the one's I made, and it seemed to fit.
I've also updated the LCARS. My goal is to cut down the number of different animated screens per station, and then put filler generic graphics on other displays. I am also trying to find a good balance between what we saw on screen and what changes I have made (such as the Nemesis inspired wide screen displays.) Eventually I will be adding station titles, or possibly the barcode style ones as seen on Voyager. The aluminum detailing all uses one texture, I packed each variation into a different color channel.
On the ceiling I have updated the main lighting to the materials I learned about from
@Rekkert along with putting the grating texture on the side stations
The railings will likely stay the same, unless I find references to the original rail posts that were used on the TMP, then TFF, TUC, ENT-B, bridge. I swear there was a good picture posted from an auction image somewhere on the forums but for the life of me I cannot find them today.
Going to do my best to post before and after pictures as time goes on.
Before:
Now:
