Still the same old basestar

[TwoBrainedCylon]

... but at least its reworked.

I finally got fed up with the old basestar model that's been floating around for years and decided something had to be done. Since I knew this upgrade wasn't going to be a canon work, or anything like it, I decided that I wasn't going to spend more than 2 hours on trying to improve it. I ended up spending three hours. The first image is how the model rendered out before I started screwing around with it. The second is the rework.

http://allgalactica.com/hold/BasestarCompare.jpg
http://allgalactica.com/hold/basestar-rework-02a-mod1.jpg

As I said, its not canon by any means but its a lot more acceptable for medium shots. I guess it could be considered the basestar equal to the ABRaider. My version of that isn't really canon either although it was the best version I could build at the time with the source material that was available.

Overall, I'm pretty happy with the final result. When I have more time, I'll tackle the textures and see if I can optimize it somehow. Right now, the model renders like an absolute pig! It really sucks up the CPU and sucks it up bad, worse than the raider rework.

http://allgalactica.com/hold/basestar-rework-03a-mod1.jpg


Sandy

[ernie90125]

GREAT images.

Will you be making this model available as a mesh for others to download ?

I really like the pictures. There's nothing to say it wouldn't be right it fan works, its just a slightly different design to the Basestars that happened to encounter to Galactica, in the episode we saw.

I like it........

[mikala]

Very nice go at filling in the "blank" spots!
Now a nice render of it going up against the Galactica

[jjrakman]

That looks great. One thing I was always curious about these digital models, was if you could do kind of a reverse Tron effect, and bring them into reality somehow, how big would they be? Would this thing be the size of a football, a pizza, a car, is it life size?

Would it be big enough to say, have a shot following a Raider, into the interior of the basestar?

[TwoBrainedCylon]

JJ,

In this case, I'd likely have the basestar model for a medium shot and have the raiders shown flying towards it from the rear, then show a frontal of their approaching, an interior of the cockpit, and then another rear of the raider going towards a hanger bay model. The last could be built to allow for a follow through into the interior of the bay.

I'm not yet sure how I'll release the mesh. Its technically still in the development/upgrade stage but the usual suspects can have a copy if they wish, like everything I do.



Sandy

[jjrakman]

So how big is the model if it were real, like the size of a pizza?

[TwoBrainedCylon]

The original computer model was based on the old plastic model. That's about 8 inches across.

Sandy

[Smallworld]

Great job! Omly three hours to add all those details? Wow, thats some fast modelling. What modeller do you use?

[TwoBrainedCylon]

Lightwave modeler.

Sandy