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Old July 21st, 2008, 04:45 PM   #61
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What's the stats on each section/object?
I'll have to check into that when i get back home. Right now it's actually progressing nicely but i've learned a great deal over the years about poly reduction during my modeling. If ya don't need it get rid of it. Merge points, delete poly's as you go. Means for a much nicer end result.

The model sit's at about 975,000 poly's presently.

I'll post some renders soon.

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Old September 13th, 2008, 09:01 PM   #62
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My favourite scifi ship. Some REALLY impressive versions of the TOS battlestars
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Old September 26th, 2008, 05:52 AM   #63
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Hi All, I'm back for another go around.
Well I think I have done all I can do to fix her...

I have temporarily abandonded the texturing idea, because I wasn't getting the results I wanted, and I couldn't make them look better than the poly-plating.

So I believe that I fixed the sizing problems with the Engine, Mid-Section and the Landing Bays, so everything looks more acurate in proportion.

I am pretty happy with the results, still not on par with Titon's effort, but I'm happy with it now.

As always, critiques welcome...


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Old September 26th, 2008, 06:02 AM   #64
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Folkrm it looks incredible .. It holds up great .. whats the polycount now ..
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Old September 26th, 2008, 06:49 AM   #65
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Folkrm, what version of lightwave are you running?

It's truely a wonderful accomplishment what you've done but i'd like to see a true perspective of it.

If you running lightwave 9 and above you can switch the camera to perspective. That will give you a true look of the model. Maybe you already set it that way but i'd like to know.
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Old September 26th, 2008, 07:30 AM   #66
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I am running Lightwave 7.5. And now it seems I can't use the "i" key anymore to get poly info. I'm pretty sure that is how I've done it in the past, but all it does now is try to eliminate points. I'll have to look more into it, but for now the Poly Count unofficially stands at: 2494361 polys.
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Old September 26th, 2008, 10:47 AM   #67
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That's looking really nice. You can tell you've made improvements. The shape looks a lot better.

How about a side view?
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Old September 26th, 2008, 06:06 PM   #68
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If you have the cap's lock on and touch the "i" it will try to elimanate points. Look into that.

If your running 7.5 you will not be able to give a true perspective unless you move the camera out to about 2 kilometers....

This is the way we used to do texturing. It elimanated the distortion around the model when you moved the camera out and then zoomed in close to the model
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Old September 28th, 2008, 09:29 AM   #69
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Unbelievable - This is the best GALACTICA-Mesh I have ever seen... How many hours ( if you know ) did you need for a mesh like this ?
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Old September 29th, 2008, 02:00 PM   #70
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To make an educated guess, approx 6 Months @approx 8-10 hours a week, on and off = ~240 hours, give or take.
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I almost forgot.... Here is your side-view and a front-on view with lights.

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Old September 29th, 2008, 02:16 PM   #72
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Boy oh Boy...do I want to see her kicking Cylon a$$ in an animation.....
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Come's alive with the lights on ..
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To make an educated guess, approx 6 Months @approx 8-10 hours a week, on and off = ~240 hours, give or take.
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Boy oh Boy...do I want to see her kicking Cylon a$$ in an animation.....
YES...! With her sister PEGASUS side by side...??
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Old September 30th, 2008, 12:29 PM   #75
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Still trying to put together a really nice Space Scene to photograph her in, but for now, this is one of my favorite shots. If anyone has already created, or has a good tutorial for creating a Realistic Space Environment, please let me know. Idon't want to have to re-invent the wheel here.

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Well it is finnaly finished and home among the Stars....

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Old October 8th, 2008, 02:11 PM   #77
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That, sir, is a DAMN fine job!

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Old October 8th, 2008, 04:54 PM   #79
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Old October 8th, 2008, 07:07 PM   #80
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Heh, I think I'll stick with small ships until I'm more familiar with modeling.
Right now, that beautiful monster you've modeled is rather intimidating.
When I saw it, my reaction was:

Hope I can equal that skill someday.

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Old October 9th, 2008, 01:14 AM   #81
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Its a massive modelled and masterly done by fulkrm
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Old October 19th, 2008, 04:42 PM   #82
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I'm itching to see if I can crash blender on a conversion. I can load Steve's mesh into Blender 3D and work with it, but it does slow down in certain views with a 128MB video card, Core 2 Duo machine.

Excellent work, any shots of the landing bay available by chance?
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Old October 20th, 2008, 03:11 PM   #83
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No real plans to do anything with the Landing Bay interiors yet because, I beleive Titon, has already done a beautiful one. The itch may get to me enough to pursuade me to do one, but not until I finish my other projects.

Thanks for asking though.

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Taranis is the one that did a Landing Bay that's available.
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Apologies for being so slow to comment on this thread. RL was crazy and I missed this.
Folkrm, all I can say is...WOW! You have done a very fine job. The detail is quite remarkable. The lights do bring her alive. I do hope someday you might tackle the landing bay interior. BTW, do you have plans to mount the landing bay turrets you were working on here in another thread? (Haven't been following that thread for a while also... )
As ernie90125 stated, I would also love to see this in an animation. Again, a stunningly beautiful and accurate model you have created. My hat's off to you. Very well done.
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Your Galactica looks awesome dude!
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That came out really well. Now it just needs to be animated and rendered.
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Its ear marked for use in the this fan film where I have played a small part in building a few models ..

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