Prometheus Class Engineering

Commodore-SirJohn · January 16th, 2003, 01:15 PM

Awfully small, isn't it?

seanr · January 16th, 2003, 01:22 PM

You're only seeing part of the room.

January 16th, 2003, 04:00 PM

That's where the core goes though, right? Or just a plasma conduit or something?

seanr · January 16th, 2003, 04:41 PM

Yes, that's where the reactor core will be.

January 16th, 2003, 06:20 PM

It kinda looks like Geordi's office onboard the Enterprise-D... at least this time the whole warp core will be surrounded by forcefields and metal if need be. Nice work as usual Sean. So will the engineer have an office/console?

seanr · January 17th, 2003, 09:15 AM

FYI, I have now extended the back wall of the reactor room out to the same distance as the from wall (though the side walls are still in the same spot). Here's a render showing the corridor to the main work space:

The main work space will be a round room about the size of the bridge with control stations for each of the three cores and a large work table. The corridor leading to it will contain one of those vertical transparent reactor cross-section displays like the one that appeared in Star Trek VI.

January 17th, 2003, 01:04 PM

I actually like the core being contained, but looks a little TOO tightly contained - might be hard to work on or repair in that region. Love the work, as always, though.

January 17th, 2003, 05:11 PM

It reminds me of the Enterprise-D engineering set...

seanr · January 17th, 2003, 05:33 PM

That's the idea, Michael.

Zanith, I'm going to make more of that wall glass, so that might help a bit.

seanr · January 18th, 2003, 11:23 AM

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seanr · January 18th, 2003, 07:18 PM

Does no one reply to updates around here anymore?

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I'd really love it if someone could get me a higher resolution version of that MSD. The one I have SUCKS, and I haven't been able to find a better one anywhere. If someone could help me out with that, I'd really appreciate it.

January 18th, 2003, 07:48 PM

Nice work SeanR with the more 'glass'/transparent aluminium. I like the double sided semi clear MSD you got there. It would be cool if someone on one side can touch an area of the ship, zoom in on it, etc., etc.

I love this, as all of your works.

seanr · January 18th, 2003, 08:03 PM

That's the idea - a completely responsive, reconfigurable, self-illuminating, transparent display. About the only thing it's not is holographic (and maybe even that could be arranged).

Thanks.

January 18th, 2003, 08:40 PM

Heh Heh! I always wanted to design a bridge that was a dome, giving half of that dome to the bridge and having the ability for interfaces to be used on that viewscreen. That is a part of the Remington project . . . . Ssssh . . . . No one sees it yet.

January 19th, 2003, 12:32 AM

Wow, looking very foxy there Sean... that glass MSD thing was used before in the TNG episode Parallels with Wesley in a yellow uniform. I have an alternative Prometheus MSD that I got from Flare Sci Fi Forums that a member made, I think. It's using the Voyager LCARS color scheme.

January 19th, 2003, 01:41 AM

I like that. One of my very favorite things was the clear overlapping diagram layover boards at the Utopia Planetia design room in the STTNG episode "Boobytrap" which introduced the Leah Brahms character. Sorry, I can't offer an image, maybe someone else can.

Is that the sort of thing you are trying to achieve or will you just have the single pane?

seanr · January 19th, 2003, 09:19 PM

Dru, I liked that one, but it was a little too static for my tastes, not at all intereactive like a computer diagram would be. That same panel was seen in ST6 too, BTW.

Michael, if you could send me a copy of that (webolutionary@webolutionary.com), I'd really appreciate it.

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January 19th, 2003, 09:20 PM

That was suppose to be some kind of 24th Century drawing board, basically having a Galaxy Class schematic made of white tape or ink on clear plexiglass. It's like printing the ST: TNG Tech Blueprints on the clear material instead of paper and having it being tacked up on a board. Oh sean, I have LCARS jpgs and gifs and bmps that you might be able to use that I've collected from web sites if you are interested.

January 19th, 2003, 11:30 PM

Michael_T, I would be interested in those images as well. I would like to acquire copies if at all possible.

Very nice work, SeanR.

January 20th, 2003, 03:54 AM

Ok Zanith, send me a line at ghome208@aol.com and I'll send you a sample of what I have collected.

January 20th, 2003, 11:52 AM

Gotcha

seanr · January 21st, 2003, 10:03 AM

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January 21st, 2003, 11:27 AM

I REALLY like that descending shot of the Warp Core - kinda reminds me of that scene in ST:VI. Now if only they'd used that kind of core in the film!

Actually come to think of it, with regards to your own version of the Ent-A Main Engineering, Sean, I would have expected the updated Constitution-class to be a little more enclosed - like this - after the problems of having an open, cavernous Engineering Deck would have been highlighted in TWOK (ie, difficulty in compartmentalising damaged sections, protecting engineering crewmembers, etc). Surely they would have decided that more hull protection around the core was necessary also...

January 21st, 2003, 04:55 PM

Nice...

seanr · January 22nd, 2003, 09:39 AM

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Still not happy with the plasma transfer conduits, but they're better than they were before.

January 22nd, 2003, 04:54 PM

Hiya Sean,

As usual, looking good! (Love the lighting!) I was wondering... ever tried designing levels for games? This had me thinking of the PC game Elite Force... You could probably come up with some reaaaaalllly nice stuff.

Cheers,

Bonzai Gopher

seanr · January 22nd, 2003, 07:08 PM

I'm not good at low poly stuff, but I did try some UnrealTournament level editing once. That editor is so wierd that I never got anywhere with it, though.

January 22nd, 2003, 09:29 PM

Quick, find someone who can convert these into EF 1 and 2!!!

seanr · January 22nd, 2003, 09:59 PM

As I've said before, they'd have to completely rebuild them from scratch, it's not just a conversion.

Update - I've updated the reactor design a bit - hopefully, this should look a bit better in the set:

No shadows in that image, so don't nitpick that.

I'm going to render another shot looking down throught the decks overnight. I expect that to be a good deal more impresssive than the previous render from that camera.