Doing a Daedalus Class Variant :)
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Plus he's all about the multi-bounce radiosity, so this gets my support.
Yeah I love the multi bounce photon mapping
its the only way to really get the model to look like a real physical object. helps sell the image a lot 
Awesome job and great details. You've done wonders to an originally boring and ugly ship.
Really dig this design. Nice styling to help make it look interesting and doable.
Oh don't worry, they will be blue, though I'm sure most will scream about it hahahaha
either way, I was hoping to have an animation to show off this afternoon, but for some reason the lens flare i was using as a sun keeps flickering up and down, but there is nothing keyframed in, and nothing in the track view (3ds max) about it. I can't figure out why it's doing it, so until I do, no animation haha
either way, I was hoping to have an animation to show off this afternoon, but for some reason the lens flare i was using as a sun keeps flickering up and down, but there is nothing keyframed in, and nothing in the track view (3ds max) about it. I can't figure out why it's doing it, so until I do, no animation haha
kkozoriz1
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Make sure you don't have the J.J. Abrams setting on. There's three settings 1) Off 2) Lens Flare 3) Camera shake
alrighty! Still no progress on my lens flare problem, so ive tabled it for the day and decided to keep working... progress? Windows!!
and something a bit more heroic.
and something a bit more heroic.
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Hope the nacelles aren't too blue for everyone 
Don't take this as a criticism because it's not. I like what you're doing. But as I look at this I keep envisioning a different primary hull other than a sphere. Not a saucer in the familiar sense, but more like a sphere with the top and bottom quarters or thirds removed.Hope the nacelles aren't too blue for everyone
Kinda like this:
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Very good so far. However, the connecting section between the primary and secondary hull is still rather impossibly thin (but always been the case on any design variant of this class I've seen).
Enlarging the neck effects a surprising amount of change to the aesthetics of the design (as I discovered when working on a version of the Daedalus). Unfortunately, aesthetics seem to be the Daedalus design's Achilles' heel. From several angles (mostly those that favor the side), the ship looks impressive, but from many angles - particularly those off-center front angles most associated with Star Trek - the sphere blocks most of the rest of the ship from view, and hinders the necessary sense of movement. (The "cobra" shots of the Enterprise, in which the saucer sweeps over the field of view are difficult, if not impossible, with the Daedalus design.) I always liked the shape of the ship, but I can see why Jefferies ultimately abandoned the spherical hull concept.
Hey guys, I managed to solve my lens flare woes, and let my flyby animation render for a couple of hours this afternoon.
Here are the fruits of my labor. Enjoy!
Here are the fruits of my labor. Enjoy!
Firstly the progress is really good. Yes the narrow connecting neck is narrow but I don't see how you can change that without upsettign the whole thing. Regardless I like it and the video rocks
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