3D Model Showroom

Oh now finally a good looking Nomnom ship. I like it. Blake’s 7 meets Nomads yaay good mesh.

Thank you Kuze!

Hm, I don’t like it that much… It just doesn’t get in line with the common design elements of Nomad ships. For instance:
Nomad spikes tend to have their thickest point rather close to the origin than to the tip.
They are supposed to look organic, but not like open flesh, so that semi-slimy connection between the spikes just totally ruins it.
The spikes are an essential design element, yet they are a necessity of Nomad anatomy on larger ships and serve no direct purpose (or are a major ship compartment for that matter) - If they could, they would have gunboats and battleships without spikes altogether.
The shape of the central corpus is sure supposed to be smooth, but it is also supposed to be organic and not look as regular as something would that was designed with intent.

A side note: I’m not criticising the design itself. I find the general idea very nice, its just that for what it is now it hardly is what one would expect to be part of a Nomad fleet. And I also think that it could quite well be made to fit the Nomads, too.

I’ve not posted anything in a while, so here’s my final project for this semester - Phaser Type III (Rifle) Circa 2373, Cinematic Resolution.

This rifle makes me wanna pick a Star Trek game and play the heck out of it for some reason Nice model mate !

So when I was doing some 3D stuff in C4D after a long time today, I am byproduct. A random low-poly BS shape thingy. Now I need your opinion guys. Is this shape interesting enough to make a proper capital ship from it, or it is s**t and delete it?

http://imageshack.us/a/img837/7126/starshipshape1.png

I’d say it is quite interesting so keep at it.

Hmm thanks for the response. Not sure how the BS will turn out in the end but it will be big.

Any idea how to make FL-ready models in Blender?

If you want to know about the modeling, texturing part of Blender, sorry I am a Cinema 4D user I am not familiar with the Blender UI (note to myself: I must learn Blender :-D).

There’s no trick for ‘fl-ready’ models. There are two exporters - the MS3D exporter, and the 3ds Max 2010/2011 Exporter. The Max Exporter supports smoothing groups, and DX9 vmesh data.

There are some general poly count limitations, but there are ways around it in both exporters, though 3ds is more flexible. I don’t remember the numbers off the top of my head.

Does the exporter support Max 2013 student edition?

It supports 2010/2011 all editions.

Dang it! I don’t want to pay $35 for Milkshape, and certainly not $5,000 for an earlier version of MAX. Any other options? Converters, free tools, open source SUR projects?

If you have access to the 2013 student edition, you have access to 2010/2011.

Upon loading the maxCMPExport2011_x64.dle . . .

The procedure entry point
?GetInterface@ClassDesc@@UEAAPEAVFPInterface@@PEAD@Z could not be located in the dynamic link library core.dll

Gave me an error code 127. Procedure not found.

BTW, How can I have access to it when I Installed Max 2013 from an Educational bundle?

A) We don’t condone piracy.

B) MS3D’s exporter is far inferior to 3ds. Just go grab Max 2011 from Autodesk’s student site? We’ve already told you the exporter won’t work with 2013 so I don’t see what the hell you expected when you put it in anyway.

Because I’ve already graduated from college, the .edu email used is expired. Therefore I cannot grab anymore student licenses. Why can’t you update the Max plugins? I strongly encourage you do this because I don’t have access to the student downloads anymore.

FACEPALM I thought my membership expired, I guess not. I’m downloading Max 2011 now. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Because ‘we’ are not a unified group, and it is not a developer tool, but a community tool compiled by a community member. ‘We’ do this in our free time, and ‘we’ decide what we publish for. I can tell you as a game designer myself, that MANY companies maintain legacy versions of suites because most places DON’T update plugins for every new version.

Sorry for offtop and calambour, but Kuze’s signature is pretty Well - Model showroom really!