cheetah light cruiser
 

here is a ship im working on

nice little ship you have there. How big is it ,will you be doing a side by side comparison with the Galactica. :salute:

keep up the good work :thumbsup:

i will try

ok here is the side view with the galacitica

here is a start of the front and her rear

Beautifull, is there a small landing bay anywhere? for a squadren of raptor scout ships or a couple of vipers.

EXCELLENT job on the cruiser, keep up the good work :salute: :thumbsup:

she carries 12 vipers, 6 raptors and 4 shuttles. her launch tubes are 6 port and starboard. her landing bay is in her aft between the engines. i just havent quit figured out how to draw it yet.

She is a light cruiser, she is able to launch 12 vipers and has 16 heavy guns, 1 heavy pulse cannon, 205 smaller guns. crew is about 1,500. her length is 3,500 feet from stem to stern. her role is to intercede and disrupt any attacks from raiders or missles.

That's awesome. I love that shot with the Galactica. Did you draw the Galactica also?

Nifty.

no i used an ortho of the galactica.

Ahh fantastic stuff, I have been wondering how a cruiser would stand next to a Battlestar :)

will you be doing a 3d model of your light cruiser or stick with 2d?

I am hoping for a 3D version personally :salute:

i dont have the programing to do a 3d version. all i have is windows paintshop on my computer.

Blender is free.

*hint* *hint* *nudge* *nudge*

Yep Blender is free and easy to use - trust me on that :D

I knew I knew That name form some where .. Oovebei you also post at Sci-fi mesh... ??

Yep Scifi-Mesh, 3dscifi and here :), and hopefully still getting better at 3D :D

ok i have blender but am ignorant of its potential use.

You can do work to almost professional standards with Blender (with a little practice), I would suggest you just jump in and give it a try (Blendernation is a good resource) :D

it took me a year of using Lightwave before I started to model ..... at present I am working on my second mesh the Celestra .. so your not alone :)

:)

great to see you have found your way here .. can you post pics of your work here..

I can! hmm LOL - hello Photobucket :LOL: , thanks for the vote of confidence :D

That's great :) I started to use http://imageshack.us/.. I seen your mesh of the Viper craft on Sci-fi Meshes .. but alas they seam to be having a bad time of it :(

Yes a very bad time, however at least I have here and 3dscifi.com to run to :)

true .. and good to have you here :) as there are a number of CGI people here :) using different programs .. as you may have discover already:)

One of our most prolific is Stevew .. A truespace user .. man most of his stuff for Galactica is mind blowing .. I started on Truespace and my PC just about handle the details that he adds to them .. that before I move to Lightwave ..

Then there silentbobs landing deck animation in progress these last few weeks .. CF is really taking off with the artistic endeavours :) .

ok the problem im have is trying to use my jpegs and opening them in blender

Ok here we go:

1, Open View and Background Image
2, Click on the hand next to the word image
3, Select the jpeg you want to use
4, Make sure the button 'use background image is selected' on the box in part 2
5, Press 1 on the numberpad (with numlock on)

You should see your image

For numberpad - 1 is side view, 7 is top view and 3 in front view.

I hope this info is what you want :salute:

ok that helps on how to upload the images. but i cannot find a tutorial on how to take the 2d image and make a 3d image from it. im sorry if i sound stupid for asking these questions.