Horatio Pic (Trek stuff)

Thomas P · February 5th, 2003, 07:30 PM

Here is the Horatio that was drawn up by Stu some time back. I have updated, slightly, my original mesh with some revised textures. I was gonna archive the model and textures and wanted to get a new shot of her.

Click pic or here

Melvin the Dork · February 5th, 2003, 08:54 PM

Nice work, looks really good. I have found that most TOS designs sorta licked it but this looks good. One thing, I don't know if it is angle or the fact that is just NCC 10. The prefix looks off center. Maybe its just me.
Mel

Thomas P · February 5th, 2003, 11:10 PM

It's the angle AND it's an odd registry length. It does not help that the text is the only texture mask and suffers from not wrapping properly, even though I had tried to properly map it.

No diff - I just went in and removed the texture and meshed in the registry. The image link now shows it aligned properly and wrapping nicely. I also compressed it some more as the original image was about 480K - it's now about 200K (1280x960).

Melvin the Dork · February 5th, 2003, 11:58 PM

Cool, looks good now. great work.
Mel

February 6th, 2003, 04:29 AM

i like it, the image and the ship

btw, where do you get these background pics from?

February 6th, 2003, 05:15 AM

Kinda a TOS version of the Nova.

Great pic, although I'd proberbly use a higher reg no. personally.

skyhawk223 · February 6th, 2003, 05:28 AM

Nice! I would dig out mine, but it pales in comparison...
I have also always liked your backgrounds.

Thomas P · February 6th, 2003, 08:43 AM

Reg number; STU made this to be an earily mod so guessed the number would be low. I build 'em to look as much like the designer intended

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Backgrounds - will take you guys some work

The ones I use start off as HIGH RES versions of the pics I find, typically I download images that are about 5000x5000 (> 4MB's). Then you have to retouch them to clear up imperfections from camera lint or lens flares - clone tool time. You sometimes have to play with the saturation as well to get something to look good in your scene.

Go here, my two favorite spots:

APOD Archive
Earth from Space

February 7th, 2003, 08:34 AM

Thomas,
Killer Job!! Your images of the Horatio are incredible. She looks so real. It would go good in a "Ships of the Line" calander or something.

Thomas P · February 7th, 2003, 12:09 PM

Thanks Stu!