Sweetness. Class histories and established technical specs always make a design more credible. Also has a nice tie-in to your upcoming works. Thanks for adding the Archangel as well.
So how "bad" are the progress on the textures anyway? Colors not blending well? Or adding hull plates is a problem?
The Archangel is on my to-do list and probably will be one of the next models I attempt, with some artistic license of course most notably in the nacelle bussard area. In my Midway Universe I am trying to have it that ships don't have nacelles identical to each other, especially Sovereign nacelles. The Dawnstar and Legacy classes will have very similar nacelles as described in the description on the previous page.
Thanks, I love having ship histories, I too fell they really give people a better understand of the history behind the class, whether a new or old class. It's one of a few reasons why I love those images you sometimes include in your downloads.
As for the textures for the Dawnstar, well they are looking too cartoonist. I am trying to make them look similar to Aad's Galaxy textures, but after hours of work I have gotten nowhere and in fact I am thinking of re-starting them yet again. Not impressed at all with them.
A screenshot of the saucer thus far, something I am really considering re-doing.
This is excellent work Majestic! Really first rate - even if (and I am gonna drop a bombshell here) I am not a massive fan of the design... Its something about the Saucer... just looks off, thats design wise - not your model bro - its tip top.
And also a great idea on the registry template - way to think outside the box, huh??
But, one thing - how do you get the registry text to follow a curve? Ive tried several times, but i can never get it to work right - also, which fonts do you use??
please, to prevent any further thread jacking, if anyone wants to answer, they could PM me??
But still - great work Majestic!!
How I do it is go into adobe illustrator and create text path for it and then save it and open it in photoshop them transfer the layer over. Text I use really depends on the era, TOS ships for example have a completely different text font to TNG era ships for example.
I use
Federation Starfleet Hull 23rd for the TOS ships and for the TNG era ships I use nothing yet, I have never done a 24th century hull registry as of yet. I'll need to find a suitable font for it.
I've attached all my Star Trek font(s) for you and anyone else interested.
View attachment StarTrekFonts.rar
Sounds great. I wouldn't place her earlier (like some people do), but also not much later (then she would have more Sovvy influence). The specs make sense, too. I especially like the sizing!
And I lol'd at seeing my USS Terra on the list. Epicness!
Thanks, I wanted her in-between the Ambassador and Galaxy in size but closer to the Ambassador.
Yes I added all the MSFC Shot Thread requests for the Dawnstar, as if ISS_Enterprise_D wants to use this model when it's finished it will make his job much easier.