[WIP] Charybdis-Class Cruiser

[Zelph]

So I finally decided to start to try my hand at building a mesh from scratch. Hellkite was kind of enough to allow me to do his Charybdis-Class Cruiser, from his Shipyard Thread.

Spoiler: Show Original Image

Here it is, what do you guys think? I'm not completely satisfied with the Deflector, wasn't quite sure what to do there.

Spoiler: Charybdis-Class Images

Right now it stands at about 2200 polys or so. Working on a way to see if I can reduce that.

 

[Adm_Z]

Not bad at all! Looks good to me, and I think 2200 is fine for a regular sized ship, especially for FO.

 

[CABAL]

I agree with Z. Also, if you need to lose some polys the best place may be around the dish, but I can't really tell what HK wanted that to look like.

 

[Hellkite]

The dish is like the Enterprise NX

but the Gold dish is rectangular


At any rate excellent work Zelph

 

[Starfox1701]

So is this like the ENT version of the tos Antares?

 

[Hellkite]

No

The Antares filled a variety of roles within Starfleet such as a surveyor, cargo ship and transport.

Charybdis is Cruiser for that era " Romulan war "

 

[Zelph]

The dish is like the Enterprise NX

but the Gold dish is rectangular

Ah okay, that makes sense. I'll get on rebuilding that section when I'm done with homework tonight...if I finish my homework tonight...

 

[Zelph]

Okay, so I redid the deflector and the area around it.

Spoiler: Updated Deflector

Not bad at all! Looks good to me, and I think 2200 is fine for a regular sized ship, especially for FO.

I agree with Z. Also, if you need to lose some polys the best place may be around the dish, but I can't really tell what HK wanted that to look like.

At any rate excellent work Zelph

And thanks guys, I really appreciate it.

 

[Hellkite]

Excellent

 

[Zelph]

So is there anyone that can point me to a good tutorial on smoothing groups or anything of the like? I'm running into some problems with certain parts of the mesh that I just can't seem to fix...

 

[Majestic]

What program do you use?

I don't smooth my groups I actually get the game to do it for me by using the _!lambert texture tag, it doesn't always work perfectly but does a decent job.

 

[Zelph]

I use Milkshape3D. The _!lambert tag eh? I'll have to try it when I actually figure out how to get this thing UVMapped and textured.

 

[Majestic]

Yes I generally use this set up:
!phong_texturename_!lambert

The phong reflects weapons light and lambert smooths and reflects ambert light such as sun and directional light.

 

[Hellkite]

Zelph how is it going ??

 

[Zelph]

Slow work on the textures, but they're coming along. It's my first time doing them, so I'm having to figure out a lot of stuff along the way. But progress is still being made!

 

[Hellkite]

Good to hear Zelph