[Roanoke]

give it an (original) BSG bridge at the front.

[pyro-manic]

A what? What's a BSG bridge? And the bridge is the huge tower on the back anyway. I might put a little observation bridge thingy underneath the bow though.....

[Roanoke]

sorry, I was too lazy to type BattleStar Galactica

[Pnakotus]

If you're going for a battleship-esque prow, take a look at SW Eclispe.  It manages to work a prow, a beam cannon, AND a ginormous antenna into the front, without disrupting the overall asthetic.  Indeed, have you tried your existing prow concepts, but inverted (ie, wider at the top)?

I feel ATM that the prow structure doesn't fit with the rest of the ship; its curvy, its non-square, and the rest of the ship is both straight AND square.  Have you tried not having such a elephantine prow structure?

[Cobra]

Originally posted by pyro-manic
You're all dirty, dirty little people....

Aren't we all? That does look like a great destroyer, though. Just even everything out and it'll look retail-ish.

How did you get 3D Studio Max? Store? Internet? If on internet, please give me the website because I desperately need it.

[Taristin]

It's much better, but the connecting 'shaft' that leads to the very front of it needs to be differentiated a bit, IMO. It's too....rectangular.

[Cobra]

Make it a rhombus shaped style.

Aren't I such a great speller? Such beautiful grammar, excellent. I can read at the highest level. :devil:

[c914]

heh..first version of nose was much better.  
Mayby you could try to extend and lenght latest version of it.

[Roanoke]

Originally posted by Cobra
How did you get 3D Studio Max? Store? Internet? If on internet, please give me the website because I desperately need it.

Not Studio Max, GMax. 3DS Max minus all the render code IIRC. You can get it pretty much anywhere.

Originally posted by  c914
heh..first version of nose was much better.  

I quite like the new nose

[Cobra]

Originally posted by Roanoke



Not Studio Max, GMax. 3DS Max minus all the render code IIRC. You can get it pretty much anywhere.

WHERE???

[Getter Robo G]

GOOGLE is your friend...

In case you don't know what GOOGLE is I did it for you, BANG! First entry, wierd the Discrete people send you to Turbo Squid for their free download (scroll down to lower left all the DL's you need are there, main file is almost 20mb and it seems you have to register it with them)
http://www.turbosquid.com/gmax
l8tr!

[pyro-manic]

Whoa, loads of responses. Thanks peeps!

Right - the bow seems to be the most contentious part fo the design. I didn't want to change it at first - I liked the angular shape. It did look very low-poly though, so I changed it reluctantly. However, I do like the new one better now I look at it, so I'll be sticking with that shape (It took me bloody ages to change it anyway, so I'm not changing it back!).
As for the central hull, I've not done much to that yet. The idea is that it's going to be broadly similar in shape, but with a lot more detail. There'll be gun batteries down the sides, giving it a sort of "ribbed" pattern (I'm sure KT will have something to say about that...), and there'll be some more sturcture on top. I may also make it more of a trapezium-type shape, a bit narrower at the top, and a fraction wider at the bottom.

On the bow, there'll be a large sensor spike coming out of the very tip (where the gap is now), and another on one side about halfway back and up. There'll also be a heavy beam cannon somewhere on the bow, and an observation deck/sensor cluster underneath.

I've not worked on this over the weekend - been busy - but I'll post an update later today or tomorrow.

Thanks for all the comments - they're very useful.

[Cobra]

....:blah:GamespaceLight 1.5 is easier than Gmax:blah:....

[karajorma]

GameSpace Light limits you to ships with only 650 polys though.

To be honest if you like GameSpace Light you'd be better off getting Truespace 3.2 instead. Especially if you're planning to make High Poly models.

[Cobra]

Hmmmm. TrueSpace 3.2 Demo doesn't let you save anything. Let me guess. You're some rich guy who can buy TrueSpace. I always look for free wares so you know what question I'm going to ask: can you email me a full copy of TrueSpace 3.2? [email protected] if you will.

[karajorma]

The Truespace 3.2 demo doesn't let you save anything.

The Truespace 3.2 Full version available for download from here allows you to do whatever you like with it as long as you register here first.

Seriously Cobra you need to think before assuming that someone has made a mistake. 5 seconds on the net would have told you that 6.6 is the most recent version of Truespace so half a seconds thought should have made you wonder exactly why I was reccomending an outdated version if I was suggesting that you buy it.

[Grimloq]

truespace 3.2 is free because it was old and outdated, so caligari decided to put it for free download. i got TS5.2 on a pretty good deal, (99$ for that, 2 tutorial disks, and a w00tload of TSXs; which are little extensions)

TS3 will satisfy all modelling needs, but if you want to upgrade to commercial version, it is much improved, and the rendering options are quite amazing

BTW cobra, dont immediately assume that were all rich people who will buy the full 600 dollar (!!!) version of a program, and then will send it to you for your own personal use

also, DONT discuss warez in forums! it is a very GOOD way to get banned! i got TS3 for free as a start, and then upgraded to 5. and im not especially rich. actually, im not rich at all, i have a grand total of about 20$ usually

[pyro-manic]

Not much progress as of late - I've been wrestling with HL2 and Steam... I'm working on the model this afternoon though, so expect an updatethis evening....

[Cobra]

Thanks, kara. Now only about an hour-and-a-half to go before I can use it.

[pecenipicek]

if you have any brain in that head of yourz youll use TrueSpace.
if ye dont well... pity on you.