Thanks for the support, guys!

flibbits posted at 6:23AM Fri, 15 July 2016 - #4275889

Why does Atlantis need a gate room? By the last season, most of their travel was done in space ships.

Earth folk never would have even gotten to Atlantis without the stargate. Midway station depended on bridging the Pegasus gate system to the Milky Way gate system. And, as HBorre noted, gating is much faster than traveling by ship. Atlantis did have a stargate, so the model needs to have one.

My question is how many gates were sized to be usable by the Furling, and where were those gates located? Or did the Furling only have gates to accommodate guests?

Modeling progress: railing for the balcony near the conference room doors; I'll also make railing for the control room balcony and the skybridge connecting the control room to the commander's office.

By the way, your dolly will load into the scene at the red cross near the foot of the main staircase, facing the stargate, with the default main camera facing the staircase. Dolly will be sunk thigh-deep into the floor, because that central dais is four steps higher than the base floor. I considered placing the dais surface at Poser Y=0, but I feared that Poser newbies would fail to move or hide the construct (ground plane & skydome), and so the base floor level would be buried.

Poser 12, in feet.  

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