Re: Building the USS ENTERPRISE NCC-1701 in Lightwave
 

Here are some wire frames for those who like such things, I know I find wire-frames interesting and helpful.

Like EG180 wire-frames he sent to me of his model, while it was made in Truespace but wire-frames are vary helpful short of having the model to view.
So thanks Chris for them, they helped a lot when I was stuck.

http://taraniscgi.files.wordpress.co.../12/wire-1.jpg
http://taraniscgi.files.wordpress.co.../12/wire-2.jpg
http://taraniscgi.files.wordpress.co.../12/wire-3.jpg
http://taraniscgi.files.wordpress.co.../12/wire-4.jpg
http://taraniscgi.files.wordpress.co.../12/wire-5.jpg
http://taraniscgi.files.wordpress.co.../12/wire-6.jpg
http://taraniscgi.files.wordpress.co.../12/wire-7.jpg
http://taraniscgi.files.wordpress.co.../12/wire-8.jpg

Re: Building the USS ENTERPRISE NCC-1701 in Lightwave
 

I did? I don't remember that, but I'll take your word for it. :stunned:

Like I said on your blog, it looks great. Nice and clean. :D

Re: Building the USS ENTERPRISE NCC-1701 in Lightwave
 

Thanks , there are areas that need attention but it passes muster at this point.. non-planer surfaces. but there is not many

Re: Building the USS ENTERPRISE NCC-1701 in Lightwave
 

Well...whoever...the wireframes are awesome. I love wireframes. Those are extra awesome.

Re: Building the USS ENTERPRISE NCC-1701 in Lightwave
 

Thanks ...

Its almost the end of the editing

Re: Building the USS ENTERPRISE NCC-1701 in Lightwave
 

The Tutorial is finished..... and my editing of it, thank grud .

Pages 413
Image 1197
Words 44745



http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7033/6...e095c58964.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6...7ff0e289d1.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7007/6...6a889ebf44.jpg

this is what I did for the nacelles, textures.... something I am very weak at.... but I am happy with the outcome.

Re: Building the USS ENTERPRISE NCC-1701 in Lightwave
 

It looks great to me, bro. Textures are something that come with time and experience and a lot of trial and error (especially error.) But you're definitely off to a great start in that department. Plus, you don't want to over texture the classic E. :)

Re: Building the USS ENTERPRISE NCC-1701 in Lightwave
 

Thanks Chris..

I have updated the images via Flickr.

I think I could improve on the nacelle struts, I think they could be rounder.

Re: Building the USS ENTERPRISE NCC-1701 in Lightwave
 

I don't know about that, they look good to me. Of course, I also don't know exactly how round they were on the studio model.

Re: Building the USS ENTERPRISE NCC-1701 in Lightwave
 

I have released the tutorial and it can be found on my blog.

Its free

Re: Building the USS ENTERPRISE NCC-1701 in Lightwave
 

Thank You!!!!

Going to go download it before you change your mind!!!

You are the man!

Re: Building the USS ENTERPRISE NCC-1701 in Lightwave
 

Thanks .... it will remain free.

I hope you like it and let me know how you get on here

but post a comment on the blog that you have it if possible
but not required .

:)

Enjoy

Re: Building the Classic USS ENTERPRISE in Lightwave (now released)
 

It´s TO MUCH generous from you, make the tut free Ger. All that time spent in doing it... a hard work, I know!
I´m not a lightwave user, but now you gave me a reason for at least try it. Knowing where the buttons are, can help me when importing/exporting from/to lightwave.

Thank you a zillion of times!!! :bounce::cool:

Re: Building the Classic USS ENTERPRISE in Lightwave (now released)
 

Your welcome Starship,

It was just over a year of work (not every day) but my mind was on it working out approaches to some parts, and starting again to make it better if I could.
Rounder tool in Lightwave can at time not work as expected as it only works on 4 sided polygons, so when I was work on the secondary hull and the 3 umbilical´s and the fantail and warp engine areas I had to pay particular attention to how the polygons are arranged.

Vertibevel or Jettobevel would have removed the need to work so much on these areas as much, but as a foundation course I thought the long road was the better one. let me know your thoughts on the tutorial

But I only wanted to build the model with lightwave from out of the box approach, in doing so I learned alot myself.

Note: that I planed the model without consideration of texturing it, it was an exercise in modelling only.

But I am looking into learning UVMAPPING and perhaps in the future I will add that to the tutorial.

I have provided a donation button on my blog if anyone wants to donate,

at the moment I am looking at another tutorial project and I will plan it accordingly.

Re: Building the Classic USS ENTERPRISE in Lightwave (now released)
 

I have removed the tutorial links for a short while as I rework one of two areas

Re: Building the Classic USS ENTERPRISE in Lightwave (now released)
 

The revised tutorials have been reloaded .....

Re: Building the Classic USS ENTERPRISE in Lightwave (now released)
 

I have removed the tutorial to once again work on it.....

Re: Building the Classic USS ENTERPRISE in Lightwave (now released)
 

Crap, I already downloaded it a while back. :tongue2: One of these days, I'm going to give it a go, maybe this coming week. :)

Re: Building the Classic USS ENTERPRISE in Lightwave (now released)
 

No problem.

I´m not changing the tutorial approch, only its appearance and some errors in text I found... and instead of 30 files to download ... it will be 10.

Hope to have it back up in the next few days

Re: Building the Classic USS ENTERPRISE in Lightwave (now released)
 

Looking forward to the new version. I need to get back to working on building it.