[boewolf]

I wasn't sure if I should post this in the Diaspora forum or here.  So I ured on the side of caution and chose here.  So I have been working on my own little tribute ti the line of the great Battlestars.







I've only been working on it for a few hours.  I'm also trying to work out how to greeble, so the detail is still a little on the light side.

Any ideas on how to start with extra details?

[Water]

I've only been working on it for a few hours.  I'm also trying to work out how to greeble, so the detail is still a little on the light side.

Any ideas on how to start with extra details?

Work from large to small. So if you find you are doing small detals straight away then you are on the wrong track.

Before you add details, some of it has a squareness to it. Aim to sort that first.

[boewolf]

I would assume that your looking primarily at the back end for the squareness.  but ill see what i can do with it

[Water]

I would assume that your looking primarily at the back end for the squareness.  but ill see what i can do with it

Well the pods as well. Think squashed octagons.

[Vertigo 7]

use the fillet tool in TS. that will do a decent job of rounding out the edges. takes a lil getting used to on its operation but it works!

[boewolf]

I'm not familiar with a fillet tool.  Is it an addon or a tool that was introduced before 5.2?

[Vertigo 7]

ehh ive only ever used 7.6... does you version have the lil ? icon thingy that brings up a list of every single tool?

[boewolf]

that would be a neg.  but the help sections have nothing on it either.  So I am going to assume it doesn't exist.

[boewolf]

After some frustration with truespace and a few hours later.  I have this...





The engine pods are now a lot more Galactica.  The fighter bay pods on the other hand proved to be far more troublesome.  So I took a more Pegasus look.

[Vertigo 7]

lookin good =D i would rivet the pods too in between the downward and upward slopes

[Hellstryker]

The front section needs -alot- of work, but it's looking good so far.

[boewolf]

I'll admit that details aren't something I am that good at.  But here is the starting point...





I have reached a point where I am thinking of turret placement.  These are the ones I am using.

[Jadehawk]

I like your progress on this Can't wait to see more as this continues on Good luck.

[boewolf]

I've finished the main large scale details.  But I have no idea on how to make small details.

Something like these..

Any suggestions on how things like that are done?

Also most of you have seen my extreme lack of texturing ability.  When the time comes would someone like to have a go at putting some textures on it for me?

[Vertigo 7]

of those things are just simple extrusions from inset faces. what that means is, for example, if you took a square face, and created a smaller square on that face, you end up with 2 faces in the same plane, right?

so then you take that smaller face and extrude it. That will then raise that face, perpendicular to the face it was on.

so basically, what this person did was made a bunch of those real close together and extruded them at various heights.

you can also use negative extrusions to put pits on a face as well.

[boewolf]

Basically like this?



Divide my face into squares and then build up or down depending on the result I am looking for?

[Vertigo 7]

yep =) I can't remember if truespace has an "inset" tool or not, all that basically does is create smaller copy of the selected face on that face. if it doesn't, you can use the bevel tool at 0 degrees to do the same thing... anyways, you can use that to create smaller polygons to greeble the model, move edges and vertexes around to make them in the shape you want, etc.

*edit

sorry i didn't catch your last line there. gimme a min and i'll whip up an example for ya

ok in this first pic, i started with a simple box, inset the top face just so i have some edges on the top to begin working with




next i moved some of the edges around, inserted some vertexes added more edges, just where ever i felt like atm. selected some faces and randomly extruded or beveled them.



now this is by no means an example of good greebles, but the concept is the same. all you're doing is adding detail to an otherwise flat surface.

[ssmit132]

Basically like this?



Divide my face into squares and then build up or down depending on the result I am looking for?

That looks like some kind of game. Reminds me of an isometric Lemmings I played once.

And are these going to be proper Battlestars or just something based on it? I'm not very learned in BSG.

[Vertigo 7]

Q-bert is what you're thinking about   

[boewolf]

Basically like this?



Divide my face into squares and then build up or down depending on the result I am looking for?

That looks like some kind of game. Reminds me of an isometric Lemmings I played once.

And are these going to be proper Battlestars or just something based on it? I'm not very learned in BSG.

Well that was just me conferming what I was needing to do.  This is easily the most detail I have ever put on anything I have attempted to make.

And this will be as close to a proper battlestar as I can make it.  But it is my take on a battlestar.  Its not meant to be the Galactica or the Pegasus.   I also am not that well learned in BSG.  So I am guessing a little when it comes to weapon placement.  Then again I might just make a version based on Diaspora when we get to see what kind of loadout and weapon locations they use.  Also a FS port and FS2 weapon loadout.  After I finish this I will probably make my take of a Viper as well.  Can't very well have one without the other...