Yeah it may be with volume and tuning dials.
Donny's TOS Enterprise Interiors
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Good guess! It was a lamp/radio combo originally. Probably old news to many here, but I can't recommend this thread and @GSchnitzer's posts in it enough. He seems to be one of the leading authorities on TOS props. Give it a read, it's full of images and information about the most obscure TOS props you can imagine. Here's his post about the recorder/task monitor.
Do you have a link to Greg's Flickr page?
Really? Sure, there are a lot of missing images, but all of @GSchnitzer's posts seem to be intact. At least I can see them.
Do they combine to make a lightsaber? :P
Right, the pair of dials in that configuration was the giveaway.
And all three scanners now finished!
Nice!
I'm a little disappointed that the medical scanner that comes with the Medical Tricorder is thumbwheel operated. I was hoping it would be motorized.
I know you're using Substance, but where are you getting your images for your materials (like the pebbled texture--is it a noise map?)? Are you scanning them, yourself?
Substance comes with a plethora of procedural grunge/noise maps. I rely heavily on their smart materials and base materials, and I've downloaded quite a few base textures from Substance Source, but almost everything I use I end up tweaking heavily to fit my needs. I'm so well rounded in the program now that the process has become very natural to me, and I also save off my own custom smart materials so I can use them on different models. I have no scanning capability, so no. I definitely do not scan textures.
But to answer your question, yes, the grip on the middle scanner is a simple perlin noise generator applied to the height channel.
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I'm sure I read somewhere (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, I think) that the motor was so loud that they had to redub lines upon occasion!
I know this is a real time render, and this is the first time in pages and pages of art that I've thought this, but something is not tying the scanners and table together, light-wise.
OTOH, those scanners are gorgeous. There are definite gaps in my ridiculous knowledge of Trek-lore and these scanners are some of them.
BTW, Donny, I thought of you more than a couple of times watching TWOK at the theater yesterday. Especially in sick bay.
OTOH, those scanners are gorgeous. There are definite gaps in my ridiculous knowledge of Trek-lore and these scanners are some of them.
BTW, Donny, I thought of you more than a couple of times watching TWOK at the theater yesterday. Especially in sick bay.
Yes, you're correct. I did a "quick & dirty" lighting build for the last few screenshots, as I'm inpatient with lighting builds these days. So the shadows technically aren't very accurate and will make objects appear to be floating. I apologize for my sloppiness.
I went and saw it as well. Made me want to jump back in to my TWOK sets and finish/polish them a bit. But alas, I'm so gung ho about TOS stuff right now that I've got to ride that as much as possible. Starting on the shuttlecraft today! Something new!
