WIP Constellation Class

[dubeau]

You can see here where I am in the small project

from a reply asking about the ship:
If you look at the Conviction (Alka-Selsior Class) in my gallery, it's a ship that was made around the same time as Entreprise A, end of life. So I want to link it with a Constitution. I just don't want to do the Enterprise, maybe another Constitution vessel...Like you said, there so many of them and they all look alike, so I am gonna adapt the ship...

I said it was from the Kelvin timeline, but I wonder if I am not doing my own thing.

 

[nascenticity]

Gorgeous!

 

[Atolm]

What he said!
I love them nacelles

 

[dubeau]

thanks. Still a lot to do...and haven't got a name yet, but that can wait. I am still unsure if I have a bug in the mental ray render regarding glowing texture. It does glow like the inside nacelles but not like the previous versions of 3dsmax.

 

[publiusr]

Interesting--Can't wait to see what you do with the impulse.

 

[dubeau]

Saucer top and bridge

 

[dubeau]

Ah man, it should say Constitution class...got mixed up there, and can't edit the title. Well, everyone would have guess it by now.

 

[dubeau]

Bridge to impulse. I tried different things but the one I prefer was an extension of the neck in a wing shape.

 

[dubeau]

Bottom saucer. Did it a bit like the Excelsior...

 

[publiusr]

I like the impulse deck.

 

[dubeau]

I did the deflector with colours to get a feel for it. I opted for something more basic then the Conviction ship, in order to downgrade the tech a bit. Still unsure about the dark blue colour in the middle.

 

[dubeau]

The USS Potemkin maybe...

 

[Fennius]

Oh I like that deflector!

 

[dubeau]

Updates from the back of the ship. I will probably need to begin work on the main texturing soon, as I have to work on smaller details. The yellow strips are the beginning of the strip sensors, which was more everywhere on the Conviction.

 

[publiusr]

Love that aft view.

 

[dubeau]

Main texture with specular and bump

Second color

 

[dubeau]

Sensors and side windows. I had to redo it twice because of a weird bug in Max 2017...kind of lost one hour for nothing.

 

[publiusr]

Love that saucer.

 

[dubeau]

Bridge and texture work, with a subtle greeble.

And a better look at the texture Bump map and specular

 

[dubeau]

USS Potemkin. As you can see I found how to reactivated the glow option. It would represent this ship in the wiki: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/USS_Potemkin_(NCC-1657)
which I found to be interesting