This is a restart of an old project I was working on about four years ago.  I ditched the original and decided that I needed to start from scratch.  I have a plastic model which is an ENORMOUS help!

I have about 10 hours into the project so far (it's actually my second day working on it).  422 parts at the moment.  I'm about out of stuff to model and will move on to adding details using bump channels.

This was done 100% in Carrara.  I sure hope I finish this one.  I had a grea start on the Privateer centurion but never found the time to finish it.

-Kix

Nice work. Look forward to seing all shaded.

Brian

bwtr

bookmarked

www.youtube.com/user/ShawnDriscollCG

Even Hans Solo would be proud of this!!! Happy New Year!!!

I would rather be Politically Incorrect,
Then have Politically Correct-Incorrectness!!!

Niiiiiiice!  I hope you're going to do a nice dirty/rusty finish!

Klebnor

Lotus 123 ~ S-Render ~ OS/2 WARP ~ IBM 8088 / 4.77 Mhz ~ Hercules Ultima graphics, Hitachi 10 MB HDD, 64K RAM, 12 in diagonal CRT Monitor (16 colors / 60 Hz refresh rate), 240 Watt PS, Dual 1.44 MB Floppies, 2 button mouse input device.  Beige horizontal case.  I don't display my unit.

 Great work!

 
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Holyforest,
Hundreds of shaders for Carrara

Work for today.  The paneling was a major PAIN!

-Kix

How did you create those panels?

I would rather be Politically Incorrect,
Then have Politically Correct-Incorrectness!!!

Ya.  Tell us that you did it procedurally.  Just kidding.  But did you?

www.youtube.com/user/ShawnDriscollCG

Do you need a ships "Mother" or whatever? I made this in MoI and rendered in Carrara7Pro today.

Brian

bwtr

Unfotunately I did not make the panels procedurally.  It took me about three hours to paint the paneling in Paint Shop Pro (while watching the Dirty Jobs marathon).  If you look carefully, you can see the approximately 500 small squares I placed on the longitudenal and latitudenal lines (placed and rotated YEEK).

There is no procedural I have found to generate uniform thick lines and uniform panel sizes in a panel pattern in a circular setup.  All the ones I've seen get distorted somehow.

If such a beasty existed, I could have done the little squares as well using some creative mixers I'm sure.  Some of the patterns in the advance pack that was sold be Eovia might have been able to do it but the advance pack was not offered as a free upgrade when Carrara was upgraded to 6 (in fact, I'm not even sure if the advance pack is available at all anymore).

It's unfortunate too because the primivols and some of the gradient manipulators were really great.  I'm not in the mood to pay for plug-ins again when C gets upgraded every time (Gigantic Kudos to the most amazingly awesome and fantastic Eric Winemiller of Digital Carvers Guild!!!!! who does update plugins for free when C gets updated!).

-Kix

Quote - Unfotunately I did not make the panels procedurally.

I'm very disappointed! you know how much I love procedural shaders :)
Terrific work anyway - HF

 
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Holyforest,
Hundreds of shaders for Carrara

Just....

call....

me.....

the.....

Greebleungen.

-Kix

Great work!!

Free men do not ask permission to bear arms!!

I've posted my latest in the gallery.  I would say I'm about 90% done for modeling.  Now it's texturing and I suck at texturing.

-Kix

Texturing is about 10% done.  Still doing some modeling.  I'll be working on the underside for the next couple of days so there won't be a lot to see.

-Kix

Kixum,
The advance pack has continued to be updated. You need to go to inagoni's site not DAZ's. They are current w/ some improvements. C7 isn't quite ready yet.

No need to think outside the box....
    Just make it invisible.

The forums have been fairly quiet--have I been boored?

Anyway, to fill in some time I rendered  (in Carrara7Pro) this Castle I made in MoI---if of interest.

Brian

bwtr

I've been modeling this 36-year-old monorail hovercraft.

www.youtube.com/user/ShawnDriscollCG

What I did on New Years?  This is closer to how it looks these days.

www.youtube.com/user/ShawnDriscollCG

Today is the last day of the holiday.  I spent all day rendering my final image for printing.  I posted an image that's close in the gallery and I'm really glad it all came out nice.  One of the nicer renders that I've generated.

I've already started a render on the platform at Bespin but I'm not really sure if I'll do that.  It's a big pain making all those buildings.

Happy end if all the holidays to everyone!  It was a good break and paid off big after all!

-Kix

Happy New Year

It's great that you are still keeping in touch with the forum.

It's so dissapointing that so many still don't realise that Carrara is not only not a new programme but has led the way in progress from the  Poser/Bryce connection of old.

Carl Desmond (3DExtract) is still around and says Hi to his many friends.

Brian

bwtr