My Google Sketchup Model

by me naam is m 2008-10-28, 17:41

May I present you: the DSI Phobos.
for size comparison: currently the model is 1440m (1575.36 yards) long, and it's saucer spans 880m (962.72 yards)

It's yet unfinished, that's why it has no textures yet and why there are helping lines and why the secondary hull and the nacelles aren't ready yet.

by raffitz 2008-10-28, 18:23

Oh my god! That's pretty amazing... I'd never have the patience to do something like that..... BTW, I think I'll move this into the Graphics section... I think it's more appropriate...

by Jerome Star 2008-10-28, 22:24

Agreed! Amazing work, me naam! I'd try making 3d graphics myself, but my windows emulator doesn't support my graphics card. And I'm not even sure if there are any 3d graphics programs for Linux Sad

Anyways, keep up the good work! Basketball

by Darkjedi 2008-10-29, 00:13

That looks great me naam!

I've tampered with Google Sketchup, but it all always ends in frustration.

I like hand drawing my 3d models better.

@ Jerome

You can run it using WINE

sudo apt-get install wine

Then download sketchup.

cd .wine/c_drive/blah blah

wine my_google_sketchup_program.exe

It works under ubuntu 7.10 and 8.x.

It's a bit glitchy though.

Sign the petition for Google to make Sketchup for Linux!

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/linuxsketchup/signatures.html

by Karlo 2008-10-29, 02:16

It rocks ma naam!!!!!
thats some amawzing 3d graphic ships you got there...
anyone wanna try implementing that into BMII or BMIII?

by me naam is m 2008-10-29, 06:23

there. petition signed.

@ raffitz: it helps when you got free hours at school and you're too bored to do anything else...

by Earthdeath 2008-10-29, 09:41

nice work.how long do you think until its finished?

by Darkjedi 2008-10-29, 12:29

Karlo wrote:It rocks ma naam!!!!!
thats some amawzing 3d graphic ships you got there...
anyone wanna try implementing that into BMII or BMIII?

Yeah, if we recode the ENTIRE game in C++ or something.

Flash doesn't like 3d graphics that much yet.

Mabe in the future......

by raffitz 2008-10-29, 13:15

@MNIM: Well, I've got a lot of free time as well, but I've got a huge lot of projects (I believe I've made a list before, but now I've excluded some stuff from that list...)...

@Darkjedi: I don't know about the existence of something called Swift3d, right? I had it once, but it was kind of crappy...

by **JPB18** 2008-10-29, 13:31

Well, it's cool

But I can't wait to see it finished!

by raffitz 2008-10-29, 13:33

Me neither!!! And how did you do the hull? Did you use the path extrusion tool?

by me naam is m 2008-10-29, 16:24

I've finished the warp nacelles, with the horizontal wings.

I think it will take half a week to finish the basic meshing, and then maybe two weeks for detailing (windows, decks, guns etc.) and texturing/coloring.

currently the ship is a 1960m long, or 1.217 Mi, or 2143 yards. that's LONG. maybe I'll enlarge it further, it's an cityship / colonization ship. as size comparison: a Galaxy class will easily park between the nacelles.

@ raffitz: which hull? saucer or secondary? and no, I didn't use path extrusion. I simply used the push/pull tool and hand drawn diagonal lines.
I am making the model from a 2D drawing on paper. for scale: one of those squares is 40X40 m in real size, and 5mm in my drawing.

Hey! I have finally found the cast shadows button!

by raffitz 2008-10-29, 16:38

I was talking about the primary hull... It's round, and it would be pretty difficult to do without a certain tool... I might make a video to exemplify...

by me naam is m 2008-10-29, 17:34

oh, that? maybe that was the most simple.
step one: make a slice-through schema.
two. at every edge, make a circle. make sure all circles have the same number of segments.
three. connect the circles like spokes of a wheel.

OR...

step one: draw the biggest circle.
two: pull out that circle. make sure the program still recognizes the circle as a whole, very important
three: adjust the diameter of one of the circles of the cilender, and voila, topped of cone
four: repeat as necessary.

by raffitz 2008-10-29, 17:43

There's a much easier way to do that... As I said, I'll make a video to explain later...

by me naam is m 2008-10-29, 17:57

easier? maybe. less time consuming? higly probable.

by me naam is m 2008-11-01, 18:37

OMG no! doublepost!

ok, I've built the horizontal wings, and I've made a start on the assisting warp nacelles. they are still hovering in mid-air.

by Earthdeath 2008-11-01, 18:39

good so far.
and just so i know, what kind of PC do you use?

by me naam is m 2008-11-01, 19:17

custom built, with AMD sempron 2400+ processor and Nvidia Geforce MX 400 video processor

by Earthdeath 2008-11-01, 20:09

What OS?looks like one of the early windows.

by Shemuel 2008-11-02, 09:28

NT, isn't it?

by me naam is m 2008-11-02, 10:56

no, 2000

by stewi0001 2008-11-03, 14:14

I guess I should get back to work on mine lol

by me naam is m 2008-11-03, 14:48

yep. I wanna see more of that! yours was the reason I came on the idea anyway.

by stewi0001 2008-11-03, 15:38

I'll try to. Right now I've got to get caught up on my school work since of the passing of my grandma

by me naam is m 2008-11-03, 16:04

that's understandable. oh. btw, I always seem to get annoying disfigurements when I turn off the edges. is there a way to fix them?

by stewi0001 2008-11-03, 16:55

do you want to smooth it out?

by me naam is m 2008-11-12, 12:04

canceled - until further notion

by Shemuel 2008-11-12, 12:24

Stop writing in invisible writing

by me naam is m 2008-11-12, 12:30

DJ doesn't want to see my writing anymore - figured I might as well do that

by Darkjedi 2008-11-12, 17:55

Stop being an bum hole.

You're doing exactly what I told you not to do.

You're taking your personal issues out on others.

Just because I helped expose your sorry bum to everyone, that doesn't mean that you need to try to act like more of a sorry bum.

by me naam is m 2008-11-17, 11:33

I lied.

I've made colors for the warp drives, and I added 2 shuttle-bays already.

here you can see the overall look of the warp units and the shuttlebays

here you see the horizontal wings, and auxiliary whcih have been incorporated into it.

here you see the main warp nacelles and some auxiliary. note that the fronts of the main warp nacelles are see-through yellow. early shots show that the original enterprise NCC-1701 has more yellowish nacelle fronts, as do the newest shots from ST 11. might still going to change that though

closer shot of an auxiliary nacelle. note the line of red windows in the wing. I'm planning to do all windows of rooms that are not meant for living red, like the red light in submarines.

two shuttlebay doors, with above them a line of blue windows from the shuttlebay overview deck. may still change the color.
(oops. I only now realize i had the red patches still selected, hence the blue dots. they're not supposed to be there.)

(Geez... that uploading took half of my life!!! Mad

)

by Darkjedi 2008-11-17, 14:16

Oh...

pretty!!

by stewi0001 2008-11-17, 14:19

I like how you're thinking out of the box

by Darkjedi 2008-11-17, 14:21

Yes, boxes are evil.

They're for animals, like myself.

LOL!

My Google Sketchup Model Ovalb

by Meganew Trek 2008-11-17, 14:56

Finally, an update!

by me naam is m 2008-11-18, 14:06

what would be cooler, red or yellowish nacelle fronts?

by me naam is m 2008-11-19, 17:35

red windows?

or...

yellowish ones?

by Shemuel 2008-11-19, 17:52

Yellow would make sense

by me naam is m 2008-11-19, 18:12

have been trying out against some different backgrounds. i'll go for the yellow, but a bit more white, and less yellow in it.

by me naam is m 2008-11-19, 18:25

i think i will keep this window color. haven't decided yet on the hull clor though, because i don't really like the 'rough steel' look.

by me naam is m 2008-12-14, 17:50

Ok, due to crazy school business and personal life, i haven't had much time to work on it lately, but during some sparesome stressfree and untired time, i've been working on windows, which is a mad, monotonous, dull and annoying job. i'll give ya some image on progress:

by Darkjedi 2008-12-15, 13:32

Oh, goodie!

I like!

by me naam is m 2008-12-15, 16:57

WINDOWS!!!

WINDOWS!!!

windows everywhere! darn, i'll convert to linux! Laughing

by me naam is m 2009-03-25, 17:41

[necro]
uergh, freaking windows. gave up on 'em really.

anyway...

jay! new image!

have been working at the front and lower section...

i'm not really satisfied with that large chunk of red there.

hmmm...

i don't like it, i can't do enough with google sketchup.

so i'll be upgrading to pro, so i can export the model in OBJ format, which i can open with my recently acquired program Blender.
[/necro]

by me naam is m 2009-03-28, 16:50

awww... no reaction?

anyway, i like how i did the new red fronts.

by Shemuel 2009-03-28, 17:42

It looks really good. The small blue/red nodules on each side look a bit like the training wheels on a bike, but you can see how much effort you've put into it.

by me naam is m 2009-03-28, 17:55

Well thank you. what you see is the result of quite some boresome hours.

Shemuel wrote:The small blue/red nodules on each side look a bit like the training wheels on a bike

yeah, that's also basically what they are, extra warp nacelles to stabilize warp flight. I try to let them be as aggressive and wingy as possible, like the wings from an Apache

by **JPB18** 2009-03-28, 18:34

nice! I have no words to describe it...

by Galaxy-Scarface 2009-03-28, 18:53

awesome! (sorry for zulian post)

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