[CobaltStarr]

       

The first one is a profile shot of a corvette-class ship I finished (I might still do some tweeking but she's finished for the moment) a couple of weeks ago... the second is just something I quickly whipped together today to show her off (30 minutes setup and render time)... As the first image states her name is the Nova Eclipse, she's got 32 variable payload missile tubes and four triple-barreled, high-density, rapid-fire plasma cannon turrets. Max acceleration is around 200 m/s² using her gravitetic propulsion matrix (gravity drive), not to mention inter-stellar travel via her quantum slipstream drive (which she's using in the second pic). She's for a story I'm working on writing (it's not much more than a concept right now), and I probably won't be converting her to a pof since I don't know how...

Ship Size (meters): 28.13 W x 11.99 H x 45.33 L

Portal size: 1 Km in diameter (the portal's nearly 10 Km away from the ship in the second pic... I really need to cut back on it's size...   )

Polycounts:

• Hull: 5039
• Turret base: 864
• Turret barrels: 1163
• Total (Hull & 4 complete (base and barrels) turrets): 13147
• Missile (as barely seen in the first pic): 9936

Everything except for the text and my insignia was rendered in scene, the portal's volumetric and the nebula's just a textured sphere (a volumetric nebula of that size would take forever)...

Now, comments please!  

[Edit] I forgot to mention that most of the polygons aren't triangles... If they were the poly counts would most likely be doubled...

[This message has been edited by CobaltStarr (edited 11-07-2001).]

[SS-Blue Lion]

 Way cool. I dunno, I like the color too

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[Fineus]

Woah... Sweet!

[WarpStar]

Melikes, melikes  

[Unidan]

  It's so simple, yet so complex!

[CobaltStarr]

Thanks for the praise everyone!   I hope you don't mind more of her, because I plan to make (time permitting... fortunately I've got plenty of it) more renders featuring her and any other ships I might make for that story I'm planning on...

[Setekh]

Liked it before, still like it   Ask Shrike for some ideas for detailing, he seems to have plenty on his Deliverance- and Wasp-classes...  

[CobaltStarr]

   

The Nova Eclipse moments after the jump to slipstream shown in the second pic above...

The quote is by the father of the main chara of the story (or rather it will be) as a part of a metaphor to describe what the slipstream is... (you'll understand it better once I finally write the story... I've got a bunch of concepts in my head right now...)

[Edit] One more thing, this still image doesn't do justice to the slipstream coduit which you see in the background... if you want to see what I mean...  http://www.3dap.com/hlp/staff/cobaltstarr/slipstream_conduit.zip  (1.5 MB)

[This message has been edited by CobaltStarr (edited 11-08-2001).]

[Setekh]

Ah, that background looks familiar - you generate these yourself, I take it?