[Omniscaper]

Remember the Galaxy class I put up a good 5 months ago? That was a beta version of Scotchy's project. Much has progressed (though at a slow pace), but perfection demands time. And I will gladly be patient for its birth. Checkout the latest progress.















You can bet that I'll be right on top of it , the second he releases it for BC.

[JC Denton]

Beautiful.  No other word quite describes it.

Are all those renders from the same batch, or are they from different test batches?  I say this because the first two images have textures that look a bit more 'complete' than the others.

[Singh]

oh......wow..

that is....SOOOOO pretty!!!!!1

Cant wait for this babe to come out!!

[Setekh]

Dude, those are some crazy crazy levels of detail there. Awesome.

[c914]

we can almoast see Pickard on bridge;)

[DaBrain]

Originally posted by c914

we can almoast see Pickard on bridge;)

Nope, you can't, because he is not on the bridge.


And after all, the detail isn't that high, Pickard doesn't even have a headtexture

[J3Vr6]

Cool ship... Hey, dumb question, but where exactly is the bridge on this ship?  Is it the little bubble with blue at the top of the saucer or is it in the very front of the saucer?

[Unknown Target]

It's in the blue bubble, IIRC

[Starks]

Can the saucer separate ingame?

[J3Vr6]

So if the bridge is the little blue bubble, whenever Enteprise is in a fight why doesn't the bad guys ever aim for the friggin bridge?  I've never seen any of the shows demonstrate them protecting the bridge by flying with their belly exposed (if that makes sense).

[karajorma]

Cause in sci-fi you never aim for the bridge. It would be unsportsmanlike

[J3Vr6]

Well that's gay.  Is there any practical reason to have the bridge exposed like that?  With so much technology, I would think you could have the bridge in the center of the ship or something.  It's not like they look out the window or anything.  They got a giant tv monitor.

[karajorma]

I think it's something to do with the way they never figured out how to insulate the control panels personally.

[Flipside]

Naaaa.. they line the walls with pure security units, you'd be amazing how many you have to destroy before you can wound a major character

[J3Vr6]

How big is a person compared to this enterprise.  I saw on the last enterprise show that they were walking on the ship and the ship didn't look all that big.  Looked like it could only hold a hundred or so crew members.  This one, I imagine cuz it's the future, could probably hold a lot more...

[SadisticSid]

Originally posted by karajorma
I think it's something to do with the way they never figured out how to insulate the control panels personally.

Heh - this is what made all the TNG+ Star Trek episodes so unbelievable - that the 'keyboards' somehow need to be powered from directly the warp reactor or some other suitably deadly voltage power supply.

[Ace]

Originally posted by J3Vr6
How big is a person compared to this enterprise.  I saw on the last enterprise show that they were walking on the ship and the ship didn't look all that big.  Looked like it could only hold a hundred or so crew members.  This one, I imagine cuz it's the future, could probably hold a lot more...

The ship in Enterprise only has a crew of 80 or so. The other Trek ships are much larger and have larger crews.

[Turambar]

the ship in enterprise= somewhat big
the ship in ST-TNG= bigger

type "Nerd" into google and it should come out with some results

[Axem]

Wooow... that's a beauty of a ship, can't wait for it.

STAR TREK NERD MODE:

Galaxy class star ships, along with other Federation starships have bridges exposed so that the bridges can be modular. Different bridges for different assignments. This is how the producers got away with different bridges for some ship of the week that we had seen before.

And normal crew size of a Galaxy class is 1014 with families but can hold up to 15000 during emergencies.

[Omniscaper]

In regards to the bridge, I've been looking for a way to disable a ship in freespace once a particular subsystem is destroyed. I can't find a way to keep a ship from firing once a designated subsystem is destroyed. I believe the Galaxy class that is up now has a bridge as a subsystem but I didn't desginated as targetable in the TBL since its useless.

Any ideas here folks? Especially for scripting a Galaxy Class capable of Suacer seperation. Need input before Scotchy finishes it so I can spruce up for it.

I'd like to create a damage model for the bridge that shows the insides as exposed to space. Perhaps have a low poly, bald headed human fly out of it... hee hee. Or better, an old lady hag twitching.

I think it would be cool to create a custom particle effect of bodies flying out of a ship hole. I just can't figure out how to limit its time on screen. Otherwise it would look like a ship is bleeding people.