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Any ship designers here?
2005-03-12, 2:16 PM #1
I haven't made a model in a long long time and I'm hitting a creative dry spot. I can't come up with a good idea on how to build a command bridge on this thing. It is supposed to be a battle cruiser / mid-size battleship type of craft. Right now I am just trying to work out the basic overall shape.

Anyone have any good ideas?
2005-03-12, 2:28 PM #2
I like the start of it. Interesting shape. But I think it looks like a ship that transport smaller ships and stuff, not really for battle.
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2005-03-12, 2:31 PM #3
How much are we allowed to expand on it? Just a bridge, or more?
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2005-03-12, 2:54 PM #4
It looks like a whistle with gas tanks on the back of it.
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2005-03-12, 2:55 PM #5
I'm open to any expansion. Don't really know where to take this thing right now.

Maybe it should just be a small cruiser type ship.
2005-03-12, 3:11 PM #6
My initial bridge design, for a light cuiser.
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2005-03-12, 3:30 PM #7
Dont get me wrong, its nice, but it looks like a vacuum cleaner, lol...

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2005-03-12, 3:42 PM #8
Quote:
Originally posted by Simbachu
My initial bridge design, for a light cuiser.


That cross shape detracts from the sleekness factor to me. The rest of the design is along the length, the sideways bridge wouldn't fit.
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2005-03-12, 5:05 PM #9
I say it looks like a blowdryer... without the handle:
[http://www.raybeauty.com/pix/bab6675.jpg]

No offense, though. It's still a nice original design. Just make the engines look more like engines and not blue cans stuck on the back. :p
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2005-03-12, 5:30 PM #10
hand-held vacuum cleaner of DOOM. muwahaha.

but yeah, i think if you put the bridge in the area that looks like a rectangle that's cut out in the front, that would look cool. kinda curved upwards but not too round. kinda like the hood of a car, just inbetween the two sections. and then have the glowing windows and stuff in that area, and bigger ones in the front, like headlights, just a bunch across the front of a car.

and you should mount the engines on that brace thing coming off the back. maybe on on each side of it.
2005-03-12, 6:43 PM #11
Muahaha, reminds me of that vacuum-wielding iron maiden in Space Balls. :D

Seriously though, I love the ship. The design is sleek and really attractive. The engines cheapen it though IMO, but I assume those are just prototypes. Personally, I think it would have made for an excellent spaceship for the Hitchhiker's movie - you know, Zaphod's ship, what's it called?
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2005-03-12, 7:46 PM #12
Well, here is an attempt at the "on" switch to the space dust buster. I got rid of the ladder thingy, didn't seem to work too well.
2005-03-13, 3:40 PM #13
Maybe I should go for the vacuum look :) Of course now it looks more like a transport hauler.
2005-03-13, 6:37 PM #14
The latest shot--Wow. I like it.
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2005-03-13, 7:21 PM #15
The new engines are superb, but I much preferred the front half of your original design. Ahh well, I guess ships are like women - you can't have everything. :(
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2005-03-14, 7:45 AM #16
I drew once some space ships.....
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2005-03-14, 5:22 PM #17
That last shot looks great. however it reminds me too much of a Correllian Corvette.
Maybe you could call it the Space-Dust Buster.
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2005-03-14, 5:55 PM #18
Quote:
Originally posted by Zell
I say it looks like a blowdryer... without the handle:
[http://www.raybeauty.com/pix/bab6675.jpg]

No offense, though. It's still a nice original design. Just make the engines look more like engines and not blue cans stuck on the back. :p


agreed. :)
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2005-03-14, 6:09 PM #19
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Originally posted by Daft_Vader
Personally, I think it would have made for an excellent spaceship for the Hitchhiker's movie - you know, Zaphod's ship, what's it called?


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2005-03-14, 6:30 PM #20
They'd better not.

Wasn't the HoG a shoe shaped ship, and not a vaccum shaped one? Or a ball shaped one, for that matter.
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2005-03-15, 6:56 AM #21
as far as i was aware, from readings, and listenings to the radio programme, the HoG was a ship shaped ship.
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2005-03-15, 9:59 PM #22
Engine tweaks.
Now I have to figure out how to repair the front now that I rotated the hull 180 degrees.
2005-03-15, 9:59 PM #23
Another shot of the engines
2005-03-16, 8:01 AM #24
Those are some damn fine ships- I really like your design style. It's a nice blend of functionality and aesthetics, and nothing looks busy or overdone. I was going to suggest a spot on the first ship for the placement of the command structure, but it looks like you beat me to it. (Your second choice was exactly what I was thinking.) As for these things bearing vague resebleance to household appliances... who cares? The KSE Firespray our hero Boba Fett flies was inspired by a street lamp, and who can forget the hamburger and olive that led to the design concept for the Millenium Falcon? Everything comes from somewhere.
2005-03-16, 4:09 PM #25
wow very cool ship u got there, kinda reminds me of the premithus from Stargate SG1
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2005-03-16, 5:58 PM #26
What do you use to make this sort of stuff? (BTW, it's awesome.)
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2005-03-17, 11:21 AM #27
Wow, very nice detail and texturing work on the engines.

If you want to make it look more like a vacuum/dust buster just put a hanger at the front of the ship...
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2005-03-17, 12:32 PM #28
Wow, that looks really nice! One thing though - dunno, but it kinda has some similarities to a corellian corvette

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2005-03-17, 1:37 PM #29
i agree, i would have gone with the original bridge on the light crusier design but thats just me...
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2005-03-17, 2:25 PM #30
That's effin' nice
wish the ships I have designed for my shmup looked half that good...
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2005-03-17, 7:42 PM #31
Yep, I do plan to make some kind of frieght door in the front. There are no textures applied yet. It's all geometry right now. This will defintely be a cargo hauler.

The old combat curiser design wasn't working too well for me, it looked a little too much like an ocean sailing ship.

Here's what it would have looked like:
2005-03-19, 2:58 PM #32
:eek: wow thats cool! I can do that sort of thing too! wut pgram ya using? Me use lightwave.
2005-03-19, 3:02 PM #33
I'd suggest releasing them both, one as a battle cruiser, the other as a freighter.
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2005-03-19, 4:23 PM #34
It is all modeled in 3ds Max 4. Polycount is getting much higher than I am use to. Right now it has 34,000 faces and 17,000 vertices, and I still haven't made any cannons on it yet. My typical JO/JA models where only around 2000-3000 faces. UV mapping is going to be a nightmare!
2005-03-19, 4:53 PM #35
Swing those engines to the other side and the back can become a bridge! In any case, it's looking nice, spiffy and Star Warsy.
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