[WIP] Walshicus' Ships

[Majestic]

Wow that's some awesome work mate. Loving the quality of the textures. What do you use to make the textures? I just use photoshop myself.

 

[CptBenSisko]

excellent work.. good to see 3D modlers out there putting in work! Any chance some of these could be released for Armada? I read that one of that bases is about 44k polies.. a bit high.. but could still be workable

 

[Walshicus]

Wow that's some awesome work mate. Loving the quality of the textures. What do you use to make the textures? I just use photoshop myself.

Yeah, an old copy of Photoshop 2015. The Drex orthogonals were the starting point, and with some tweaking to get the seams between views right. Then on to some hand-made normal maps, which TBH make it look serviceable.

 

[Walshicus]

excellent work.. good to see 3D modlers out there putting in work! Any chance some of these could be released for Armada? I read that one of that bases is about 44k polies.. a bit high.. but could still be workable

Thanks! Might take a look at doing some of that in the Spring.

 

[Terra_Inc]

Good work, that looks great!

 

[Walshicus]

So I was inspired again with the process I used on the Klingon ship (I decided to name it the Taj mInDu' class, in lieu of a canonical name), and return to a model of the Bajoran Interceptor I'd been tinkering with for years.

This time I used some upscaling on the source orthogonals at the start of the process, which definitely kept things sharper. I took some liberties with the original design and added an impulse drive at the rear. Not quite as big a change as STO's two impulse exhausts though.




Given this came out with 5.5k tris, a 1mb diffuse, 2mb normal/emissive and 1mb specular/metal/gloss map... I'm pretty happy!

 

[Chiletrek]

Hello:
You've been doin g quite some great models! , I particularly liked the Klingon attack ship .

 

[Majestic]

Yeah, an old copy of Photoshop 2015. The Drex orthogonals were the starting point, and with some tweaking to get the seams between views right. Then on to some hand-made normal maps, which TBH make it look serviceable.

Yeah I use photoshop Cs6 myself. It does the job for the most part. Quite impressed with the textures you can pump out using it though. Very impressive.

So I was inspired again with the process I used on the Klingon ship (I decided to name it the Taj mInDu' class, in lieu of a canonical name), and return to a model of the Bajoran Interceptor I'd been tinkering with for years.

This time I used some upscaling on the source orthogonals at the start of the process, which definitely kept things sharper. I took some liberties with the original design and added an impulse drive at the rear. Not quite as big a change as STO's two impulse exhausts though.

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Given this came out with 5.5k tris, a 1mb diffuse, 2mb normal/emissive and 1mb specular/metal/gloss map... I'm pretty happy!

Very impressive. Don't see many Bajoran ships. I wonder what a capital ship of theirs would look like in an alternative universe/timeline like the one we saw Wolf in TNG: Parallels.

 

[dvatreknerd314]

Yeah I use photoshop Cs6 myself. It does the job for the most part. Quite impressed with the textures you can pump out using it though. Very impressive.



Very impressive. Don't see many Bajoran ships. I wonder what a capital ship of theirs would look like in an alternative universe/timeline like the one we saw Wolf in TNG: Parallels.

Probably like one of the hero ships for the Maquis from Future Wars

 

[Walshicus]

Probably like one of the hero ships for the Maquis from Future Wars

Hmm, I might have to have a go at re-texturing that in line with the Interceptor.

 

[Walshicus]

So remember this ship from Enterprise?



I figured I'd have a go at it.


And in-engine:



On-screen it was only ever shown as an "alien transport". But I've decided to do that common Trek trope of re-using it, in this case as a Xindi Aquatic frigate.

 

[Majestic]

Awesome work man, certainly has the Aquatic Xindi feel to it.

 

[Chiletrek]

Hello:
That is a very good work you've made!

 

[Walshicus]

Took the opportunity recently to redo a Suliban Stealth Cruiser model I wasn't happy with.

Lots of fiddly bits there for the normal-mapping...



Also... decided to have a go at the Radiant class teased in the new Picard episode. This is supposedly the class of the *first* Stargazer:

 

[Walshicus]

And it's on-screen appearance...

 

[Majestic]

Amazing work both of them. Loving the detail.

 

[Walshicus]

Took a turn at the D'Vahl class from Enterprise this week:




Same process as before, starting with the Drex images and going from there. Lots of fiddly details in the normal map this time...

 

[Chiletrek]

Hello:
You have been busy indeed!

 

[Majestic]

As always mate your work is top notch and very impressive.

 

[Walshicus]

Bit of a WIP... but giving the Sagan class a try:

 

[Chiletrek]

Hello:
The mapping is awesome!

 

[Majestic]

That's pretty cool.

 

[Walshicus]

Hello:
The mapping is awesome!

Thanks! Yeah, I wasn't sure how well it'd come out since so much of the flat views were obscured. Needed a lot of interpretation...

 

[Majestic]

Looks awesome. Nicely done.

 

[Chiletrek]

Hello:
Well, it came it awesome, no doubts!

I also liked the gold version like those the Enterprises D and E have!

 

[Terra_Inc]

Awesome stuff all around. I particularly like the Constellation style ships, they look really good!

 

[kjc733]

I'm not really a fan of the design (but that's not on you) but I agree this is some really nice work.
What I really want to know is how the hell you manage to churn these out so quick?!?

 

[Walshicus]

Probably like one of the hero ships for the Maquis from Future Wars

Guess what...

 

[Majestic]

That's pretty awesome mate. Maquis finally have a capital ship

 

[Walshicus]

Haven't been as active with models recently, but I did manage to get a basic-ish texture job done on the Protostar. It's not ideal as we don't have a lot of views of the bottom or side flat-on... but I think it kind of works okay for now.