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Subject: spaceship modelling reference sites -yeah, I know

pakled opened this issue on Mar 07, 2004 · 18 posts
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pakled ( ) posted Sun, 07 March 2004 at 10:52 AM · edited Tue, 19 November 2024 at 10:30 AM

I should post this in 3d links, but these are sites that are for modelling (real and 3d)..I was looking for the next spaceship (collective groan..Pakled's doing another spaceship..;) but thought these might be useful to only this forum..
Starship modeller http://www.starshipmodeler.com/tech/othr_ref.htm ref pics of spaceships, forums, etc. Lost Plan-it http://my.execpc.com/%7Eppavlovi/lostplanit001.htm Reference pics, links, etc. more physical than 3d Costume/prop building http://www.studiocreations.com/howto/index.html more towards actual outfits, but not a bad reference site Scale Calc http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/franckwagner/SCALE.htm figure out scaling metric/english, etc. Starship Schematics http://www.shipschematics.net/ blueprints of various ships IDIC page http://members.aol.com/IDICPage/main.html pics of the original Trek models used in filming Eduardo's page http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/manatee/272/ many, many airplane blueprints enjoy

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)

Teyon ( ) posted Sun, 07 March 2004 at 10:58 AM

Thanks for the links. :) I will probably never use them myself but I'm sure some of those ship builders out there are salivating even as I type this...

BazC ( ) posted Sun, 07 March 2004 at 1:48 PM

Excellent! Thanks a lot Pakled :o)

pakled ( ) posted Sun, 07 March 2004 at 2:26 PM

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oh..here's why..;)

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)

jwhitham ( ) posted Sun, 07 March 2004 at 2:32 PM

Yeah, thanks a lot. Just spent 3 hours looking at those when I should have been doing some work I brought home to do over the weekend. D'oh. Seriously, nice links. :) John

jwhitham ( ) posted Sun, 07 March 2004 at 2:40 PM

Pakled;

from Silent Running? My second favourite SciFi after Dark Star, but who'd want to do the models from Dark Star - except maybe the rubber chicken - they weren't meant to be good.

This looks good!

John

pakled ( ) posted Sun, 07 March 2004 at 4:26 PM

actually, one of the sites has reference pics for Dark Star, so if you feel inclined..;) it's from Silent Running, just posted the final pic..thanks.

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)

jwhitham ( ) posted Sun, 07 March 2004 at 5:23 PM

Pakled, so just posted the final pic, like where?

pearce ( ) posted Mon, 08 March 2004 at 7:35 AM

Attached Link: http://sfstation.members.easyspace.com/rocket.htm

file_101452.jpg

You're all wrong there Pak; this is what real spaceships look like. Mick :o)

pakled ( ) posted Mon, 08 March 2004 at 12:01 PM

oh..ok..would make a good blunt instrument..;) thanks for the link, tho..;) back, and FEH!..coulda used this when I was making my Flash Gordon spaceship..thanks..

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)

bonestructure ( ) posted Mon, 08 March 2004 at 5:33 PM

I love Silent Running. but putting the forests and stuff in the domes would take sone high poly work. Thyough I wouldn't mind having models of Huey, Dewey and Louis. Wasn't someone here at rosity working on that model?

Talent is God's gift to you. Using it is your gift to God.

pakled ( ) posted Mon, 08 March 2004 at 7:49 PM

I forgot to do a couple of things to the dome..to intrude slightly so that I could texture the grid on it..I thought about it, and was going to take a regular grid, and do some 'forests' somehow..but went with a cheap texture..;)
yeah, someone is working on the robots (really detailed stuff..much better than the one I did..;), I think it was one of the modelling program galleries..

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)

bonestructure ( ) posted Mon, 08 March 2004 at 11:27 PM

It's a gorgeous model of the ship tho pakled. Silent Running was such an underappreciated movie. One of the few films I've ever seen in my life that genuinely moved me emotionally. And Huey, Dewey and Louis can certainly lay claim to being the first robots with personality, shooting Lucas' claim out of the a water by several years.

Talent is God's gift to you. Using it is your gift to God.

pearce ( ) posted Tue, 09 March 2004 at 7:25 AM

If you didn't need to get too close to the greenery in the domes, you could use the billboard technique of mapping alpha-channel-transparency foliage textures onto flats. This is used in games a lot; some good examples occur in Deus Ex. You get extremely low poly counts at the expense of big (32bit) texture files. Agree with bone -- it's a great model. M.

pakled ( ) posted Tue, 09 March 2004 at 11:20 AM

uh..;) hmm..I'll have to look that one up, but thanks..;)

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)

macsavers ( ) posted Tue, 09 March 2004 at 2:16 PM

Attached Link: http://www.scifi-meshes.com

If you want another resource for spaceship modeling, check out www.scifi-meshes.com Tons of resources and quality modeling goind on over there.

pearce ( ) posted Tue, 09 March 2004 at 3:40 PM

Attached Link: http://www.vterrain.org/Plants/Modelling/

This page might be helpful as regards plant modeling. With alpha channel, you just set one particular colour to appear as transparent when you render, and use that as background colour in the texture pic.

nomuse ( ) posted Sat, 20 March 2004 at 1:31 AM

In a rather different direction, try these spacecraft... http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/scalemodels/

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