First Contact :D

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Looks close enough to me, I never even noticed writing there before

Question, are those plates on the wings modelled? If not then that's some mighty fine texture work!

Thanks! Of course they are not modelled, this ship is made for Armada 2 and not Armada 10
With Photoshop you can easily achieve such an effect. And those who use this effect more often do know that one can scale the effect and set the direction of light
I found it very important that the text isnt plain but has the same bump effect

looks like a very nice bumpmapped texture to me.

No bumpmaps. Neither MS3D nor Armada 2 (with MS3D SOD Exporter) support bump maps
Thank you anyways xD

Looks good from here.

Thank you

One can make textures to look as if it's bump mapped without a bump map. I do this a little, like with my latest project and it's textured on warp grills.

right

Yeah, thats what I ment....I think. Unless we aren't talking about the same thing. FO uses bumpmapps, but for my mod, I bumpmapped textures. I tried to make it look like they were bumpmapped, without using bumpmapps. I think we are talking about the same thing, but I'm not sure.

You are definitely right.

Its not

I have a copy of Star Trek The Next Generation Writers Bible and it clearly states that its a name and as such is cannon

Oh very interesting. I want to do a TNG colour scheme for this ship too (blue colour without the brown plates). I might consider a different text on that one.