To celebrate the completion of modeling on the secondary hull, I created this 13-second animation which mimics one of the classic series' opening sequences.
(640x480 AVI, 4.1 MB, DivX 5.0.2+ req'd)
Alternate formats:
The items left on the "todo" list:
- Finish detailing the warp nacelles and struts
- Tweak the primary and interconnecting dorsal textures, and finish the texturing of the secondary hull and warp nacelles
- Add "window boxes" behind the larger windows for more realism in closeups
She won't have a working hangar deck anytime soon--it's not needed for what I have planned for the model. At the rate I'm going, I'm guesstimating mid-May for completion. (I don't know how
Vektor and
Nova Class knock off their models so quickly, but I suspect that working with a text-based system like POV-Ray is partly to blame... along with my chronic lack of time to fiddle with this thing!)
