They seemed to emerge from the same general vicinity as the phasers, just above and in front of the lower dome ring. FJ tried to "fix" this inconsistency by placing the launchers in front of the B/C deck area beneath the bridge, but no ship on screen (to my recollection) ever had launchers there. It wasn't until the TMP refit that we started seeing ships with dedicated launch tubes that were distinctly different from the phaser banks. We also saw actual phaser hard points TMP onwards. IIRC, none of the TOS-E filming miniatures actually had weapon placements.
I wonder about that sometimes. Like in an alternate/original universe if the navigational dome was supposed to be the main/lone phaser array with its never-seen-until-recently little pointy thing at the end.
The only time we ever saw anything like that onscreen was in the TAS episode One Of Our Planets Is Missing and then they were depicted as phasers.
Your work is FAR superior, so I hesitate to comment ... but, here goes.
And in "Journey to Babel" we have:TOS was rather vague about whether photon torpedoes were physical or energy objects but in "Elaan of Troyius" Kirk does say, "bring all tubes to bear". So at the very least we should have tubes at the business end of the photon torpedo system
Yeah, do a ballistic missile submer—er starship variant. Captain James T. Ramius, commanding. It could be powered by lithium crystals, fire the meanest lasers in the quadrant, and answer to no one. Except UESPA. Or Space Central. Or Space Command. Or Spacefleet Command. Or...
I was actually thinking fast attack sub--although boomers typically number those other tubes odd to starboard, even to port as well.
After 55 years I doubt that I came up with an original idea here... be my guest.
None of the above, unfortunately. It's a bug in OctaneRender.
The artifact is being caused by Octane's procedural "dirt" texture; in certain scenarios a bright object behind a solid object (i.e., the rooms behind the portholes) causes the solid object to become slightly translucent. The problem is apparently fixed in OctaneRender 2020, but I don't want to upgrade and risk other issues. So, I'm going to spend the next couple of weeks tearing out the "dirt" procedural from 100+ surfaces on the Enterprise and Constellation and will be replacing them with UV texture maps. Ugh.The thing's gotta have a tailpipe.TOS was rather vague about whether photon torpedoes were physical or energy objects but in "Elaan of Troyius" Kirk does say, "bring all tubes to bear". So at the very least we should have tubes at the business end of the photon torpedo system
Whether the torpedoes are balls of energy (which IMO they are--at least during the 2260s--because The Making of Star Trek says they are 
) or shiny black coffin-shaped 
devices, onscreen dialogue says that there are tubes, so my Enterprise has The only thing that was more inconsistent about the look and placement of the phasers was the look and placement of the photon torpedoes. Sometimes they were white. Sometimes they were red. Sometimes they came out of the same place where the phasers were emitted. In at least one episode ("Arena") they came out of the lower primary hull so high up that they wouldn't clear the lower edge of the saucer without scorching the paint. I've placed them as low as possible and as close together as possible while leaving room for the armature that lowers the phaser cannons into their firing position.
None of the above, unfortunately. It's a bug in OctaneRender.
Kudos to the all the extra bits of detail you added. The outer-inner doors opening and rotation mechanisms (turret arm, triple barrel wind up) are well done. I think the metal is a tad shiny though and seemed out of place. Phaser sound and beam color is great! (And I just like replaying the video for the camera zoom in )
