S: AaB USS Saratoga

Darrell Lawrence · April 9th, 2006, 11:01 PM

The USS Saratoga from Space- Above and Beyond is now available here in LW formats.

The original is 3DMax by Jeff "Zoomey" Murcko at SciFi-Meshes.

evil_genius_180 · April 10th, 2006, 02:33 PM

Makes me wish I could import LW 5.6

Darrell Lawrence · April 10th, 2006, 11:54 PM

What program are you using?

BTW, your TOS image has been approved for the Gallery. Post it in the Finished Art forum and I'll comment there on it

evil_genius_180 · April 11th, 2006, 12:42 AM

I'm using TS 3.2. I can import older .lwo, but I tried one from 5.6 and it couldn't read it. I can also import .3ds.

As for the image, thanks for letting me know. I just wanted to contribute to the Trek gallery, it's growing nicely, BTW. But I've got projects I'm working on, so I posted one of my older pics. I've got something rendering right now that I'll put in the forum

Darrell Lawrence · April 11th, 2006, 12:45 AM

No... I meant post the one from the Gallery to a thread in the Art forum :laugh:

tS, eh? ...hmmm

evil_genius_180 · April 11th, 2006, 01:08 AM

If you insist

Yeah, that's the only thing I feel is lacking from you site, more TS-friendly meshes. I know there aren't a lot of us TS users because a lot of people underestimate it, but it's a good program

gmd3d · April 11th, 2006, 01:43 AM

TS 3.2 is the prog I started with I even upgraded to TS 5.2 ..... but I alway had my eye on LW mainly because of star trek ships that where avalible . but I never tried to build anything ..... look I had LW for about a year and I only started to build anything 4 weeks ago more of less

I have some TS pictures still around some could be here if not. I can alway locate and post them ..

evil_genius_180 · April 11th, 2006, 01:45 AM

I don't know if Warrior or anybody else is viewing this, but I couldn't find the answer to this in the FAQ. Exactly how do I post pics in my forum replies/threads. I want to put some pics in the art forum but I don't know how.

Darrell Lawrence · April 11th, 2006, 12:19 PM

Get the link for the Gallery after the images are aproved, then use the IMG BB codes for posting the pics.

evil_genius_180 · April 11th, 2006, 12:23 PM

Thanks. I knew I should've put this in the help forum, but I thought it was dumb to waste a whole thread on what was going to be a simple answer. Your site just does things a little differently than scifi-meshes, which I'm used to. I guess I'll have to upload a couple more pics to get approved

Darrell Lawrence · April 11th, 2006, 12:40 PM

Not sure what you mean about uploading more to get approved. if you mean you want to upload more and get them apporved so you can post them, then ok.

If you mean you need to upload more to get approved for something else, then I'm confused

This image you added to the Gallery was approved-

http://www.3dgladiators.net/gallery/...dia/3/Hood.jpg

-and thus you can start a thread using that URL and the IMG tags to post the image

evil_genius_180 · April 11th, 2006, 12:46 PM

Yeah, I have a couple of pics I made last night that I want to add to the gallery to get approved. I know I wasn't clear on that and I apologize

Sometimes even I don't know what's going on in my head.

Darrell Lawrence · April 11th, 2006, 12:56 PM

Ah. Ok

Darrell Lawrence · April 12th, 2006, 12:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by evil_genius_180

If you insist

Yeah, that's the only thing I feel is lacking from you site, more TS-friendly meshes. I know there aren't a lot of us TS users because a lot of people underestimate it, but it's a good program

You can import OBJ format, right?

evil_genius_180 · April 12th, 2006, 12:42 AM

Yup. I can import .obj format.

Darrell Lawrence · April 12th, 2006, 01:18 AM

Have you looked into a free file converter?

evil_genius_180 · April 12th, 2006, 01:23 AM

Yeah, the one I had sucked. Besides, it made LW objects into one bigh white mesh. That's not an easy thing to paint.

You don't even want to see what it did to .3ds objects. The funny thing is, it was the highest rated one at 3dlinks.com. I guess the people that rated it never tried to convert to .cob format.

Darrell Lawrence · April 12th, 2006, 01:41 AM

"3D Object Converter for Windows V3.2"? Never heard of it

Try the Deep Explorer demo. It's good for 30 days and converts good.

Just convert as many meshes as possible before the 30 days is up!

evil_genius_180 · April 12th, 2006, 01:45 AM

Actually, they're up to 3.6 now. It's one of thos WIP programs that's free to use forever, but it doesn't do as much as it does when you register. And it doesn't do .max no matter what

evil_genius_180 · April 12th, 2006, 01:46 AM

Also, I can convert for 30 days, reformat my hard drive, and convert some more :evil: I save stuff to CD anyway....

evil_genius_180 · April 12th, 2006, 02:20 AM

Actually, I just had a ray of light shine on my crappy day. It seems I can import LW 5.6 It was just the V.I.N.CENT model TS 3 didn't like

I downloaded your Romulan BOP and it loaded great

Darrell Lawrence · April 12th, 2006, 02:27 AM

Download the Saratoga from the beginning of this post. I'd like to see how it comes out in tS.

evil_genius_180 · April 12th, 2006, 02:39 AM

That's a beefy download on a 56k. It'll be several minutes before I get back to you.

edit: Actually, that thing's gonna take about an hour on my connection. It's getting early right now, so I'd better get some sleep. I promise to make that one of my top priorities later. After all, I want that model

Darrell Lawrence · April 12th, 2006, 12:23 PM

Hey, I had to UPLOAD both on a 56K, and DOWNLOAD the original Max version (LOTS bigger zip file) on a 56K :laugh:

evil_genius_180 · April 12th, 2006, 01:23 PM

Yeah, Max meshes are huge. It's good to know that I'm not the only one poking around in 56k

evil_genius_180 · April 12th, 2006, 02:22 PM

It worked

Fortunately, I had First Blood to watch while it was downloading. I imported the objects and glued them back together. I'll have to reapply the textures later, but the ship looks good. It's really small on my screen (it was either that or really big. I'll have to move in on it later) but it looks like an untextured version of your picture.

I guess I shouldn't have assumed I couldn't load this format based on one failure. It's too bad about that V.I.N.CENT model, that's the only one of those I've seen. I'm glad I got this beast downloaded when I did, because not two minutes after it was done, Net Zero kicked me offline.

I'm happy now. This means there are a lot more ships on this site I can download, like that collection of Pre-TOS ships. Unfortunately, TS doesn't do your beautiful NX-01 justice. I downloaded that one already and it looks funky. I have no doubt that that's due to my program, not your model. Unfortunately, that happens when importing into TS sometimes.

gmd3d · April 12th, 2006, 02:31 PM

snap 56k is what I have too .. and a bad line to boot .... looking forward to see the results

Andy M · April 22nd, 2006, 11:35 AM

Awesome model, thanks for converting it,

Andy

April 27th, 2006, 12:35 PM

Warrior your doing a great job on these S.A.A.B. conversions to LW. Keep up the good work. Are you planning on adding the basic Chig fighter as well.

Ron

Darrell Lawrence · April 27th, 2006, 01:59 PM

Ron, unless someone sends me 3DS versions of the remaining meshes or I get Max 8, I can't convert them.