Building the Classic USS ENTERPRISE in Lightwave (now released) - Page 2

Starship · December 27th, 2011, 05:04 PM

About textures, Fabio Passaro has an old, but still usefull tut in his site.

gmd3d · December 28th, 2011, 01:00 AM

I have forgotten fabio´s site ...... thanks

gmd3d · December 28th, 2011, 01:04 PM

with the name and reg modelled

evil_genius_180 · December 28th, 2011, 01:35 PM

Great stuff. Did you use one of the "Airborne" fonts?

gmd3d · December 29th, 2011, 01:50 AM

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Originally Posted by evil_genius_180

Great stuff. Did you use one of the "Airborne" fonts?

Yes indeed. from Charles Casimiro site.

thanks

gmd3d · December 29th, 2011, 02:07 AM

Some more images, new angles and still no textures everything is modelled.

evil_genius_180 · December 29th, 2011, 09:04 AM

She's looking awesome, bro. You're modeling all of the right stuff, IMO. Now you can get as close to the hull markings as you want and you won't lose quality, like you do with textures.

Starship · December 29th, 2011, 09:33 AM

Looks EXCELLENT Ger! Really a beauty!

About the bussards, I suggest you to look the tutorial made by Madkoi.

About textures, I pointed Fabio´s site cause he is a Lightwave user, as you, but the old Scifi-art has a good tut too, therefore foccused on Studio Max.

evil_genius_180 · December 29th, 2011, 09:47 AM

Texturing is something you really don't want to over think on a ship like this. I've experimented with hull paneling and stuff like that, though it really all looks icky. All you really need are simple maps with some "dirt" on them. I also like to put some very light grid lines on mine, in an attempt to mimic the look of the ship after someone drew them on (sometime around season two.) But, those are just my personal thoughts on this.

For the bussards: textures.

gmd3d · December 29th, 2011, 10:01 AM

Yeah I am looking at simple textures for the ship...... I never liked what they did to the model in the Smithsonian.

So I am experimenting with some ideas...... I like it to be subtle as possible.

I will check out those links Starship, thanks again

gmd3d · December 31st, 2011, 03:54 AM

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.

evil_genius_180 · December 31st, 2011, 09:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Taranis

Like EG180 wire-frames he sent to me of his model

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

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

gmd3d · December 31st, 2011, 10:12 AM

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

Auditor · January 1st, 2012, 04:21 PM

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

gmd3d · January 2nd, 2012, 01:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Auditor

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

Thanks ...

Its almost the end of the editing

gmd3d · January 5th, 2012, 11:03 AM

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

Pages 413
Image 1197
Words 44745

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

evil_genius_180 · January 5th, 2012, 11:39 AM

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.

gmd3d · January 5th, 2012, 01:50 PM

Thanks Chris..

I have updated the images via Flickr.

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

evil_genius_180 · January 5th, 2012, 06:22 PM

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.

gmd3d · February 4th, 2012, 04:12 AM

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

Its free

Auditor · February 4th, 2012, 04:17 AM

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

Its free

Thank You!!!!

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

You are the man!

gmd3d · February 4th, 2012, 05:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Auditor

Thank You!!!!

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

You are the man!

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

Starship · February 6th, 2012, 05:08 AM

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!!!

gmd3d · February 6th, 2012, 06:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Starship

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!!!

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.

gmd3d · February 17th, 2012, 03:17 AM

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

gmd3d · February 20th, 2012, 03:16 PM

The revised tutorials have been reloaded .....

gmd3d · April 8th, 2012, 10:22 AM

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

evil_genius_180 · April 8th, 2012, 01:53 PM

Crap, I already downloaded it a while back.

One of these days, I'm going to give it a go, maybe this coming week.

gmd3d · April 9th, 2012, 02:31 AM

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

Auditor · April 9th, 2012, 03:03 AM

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