USS Midnight

And a wireframe, just for kicks

Darkwing wrote:And some more:

damn she looks nice, the textures on this are great.

She looks nice close up, I'll render a shot but it might take a short while, the model's getting kinda intensive on the renderer

what's the file size and poly count?

The model is only 1.8MB and I don't model in poly's, I model in splines/patches and the patch count is 4583

if splines/patches are like poly's then that around the kinda detail a game would use.

Patches aren't quite like poly's. See with Poly's, to define a smoother shape, you have to increase the density of the mesh. With splines however, it's like using vector controls, you define the cruve by editing the handles of the spline so the fewer patches/splines you have, the better quality model you have. Now obviously, some models have more patches than others. The Daedalus is currently cruising around 10,000 patches I think and a fellow by the name of Stian just recently completed his model of the Nidaros Cathedral and that model has nearly 1 000 000 patches (which is now like the record for largest density model made in AM I do believe)

Here's that shot I promised

there's this guy called Fracetlsponge1 or somethink, he made an ISD with 1.7 mill poly's and a custom SW themed cruiser that had about 4.8 million polyies.


On the picture hat background steals the image.

That's too bad

Sorry it's been a while. The model is very close to being completed

the windows look very bulky , but at least it a original design

Part of it's the angle of the mesh and that the decals get a bit stretched to the mesh, plus some are actual circles and not ovals. But I wouldn't say they're that bulky

well i've seen a lot of 3d work in my life , bulky might not be the word but is different

Yeah, they're not quite as thin as the sovvies and whatnot, I'll agree there. I'll do up a side profile more so we can all see the windows better than at that angle there

also if you can add a shadow or to in the a few random windows it would be great

Yeah, that's something I thought about, but right now I'm more concerned with getting the model into a complete status. Changing up textures once applied is bit trickier (not like hard though) just tedious, so it's on the last of my concerns list

i am a bit lazy to search but are the specs of the ship ?

What kind of Texture are you going for, Shiny NX class or 24Th century Gray?

webxro wrote:i am a bit lazy to search but are the specs of the ship ?

I haven't made any up, I got a general idea of the power of the ship though and stuff like that, but I'll make some up for kicks soon

Vedic wrote:What kind of Texture are you going for, Shiny NX class or 24Th century Gray?

Probably more on the shiny side, but not too shiny

EDIT: Well, guess it's kinda a toss up, seems more grey ATM than shiny

Shiny is the way to go, unless it's pink and shiny.

Here's that profile shot:

i was asking about length and width and stuff like that not borg rays

what's it's hight? in meters.

I envision it as a bit smaller than a Sovvie

Vedic wrote:what's it's hight? in meters.

Hold on, I can get specifics in a few minutes

the cannon size for a deck is 3.5 meters, from the look of that shot, i would say you have 7-10 decks

Well, I dunno bout any of that stuff, but I have the ship currently scaled up to 580m in length, 95m in height and 196m in width

then you need more windows

nd it's up to you if you wanna do the maths to get it to fit right with the decks and windows and whatever, I just made it look nice with no real regard for insignificant details like that

well now you have 27 decks.

webxro wrote:then you need more windows

My Sovvie model has 7 rows of windows on the engineering hull as does the Midnight and the Sovvie is 685m in length

Ah the infamous windows of Star trek, never judge a ships size by it's windows. Take DS9 for example, the station has 200 decks but only a few hundred windows.

Indeed, especially considering it poses no real relevance to anything, just to the egos of nerds who have nothing better to do with their time than to count windows

well DS9 started showing again, and i got bored and paused the opening scene and did count a few hundred windows. I have no life.

the numbers of windows give a ship a much better look , making it bigger in the aspect , still this is is very nicely designed , it doesn't matter the size of it

They only look good, if they blue.

Yes, everyone has blue lights in their quarters and hallways because that is so much more effective

Vedic wrote:They only look good, if they blue.

or with a badass captain

or that yes.

i think the deflector dish needs a little tweak , it doesn't have that "something"

This is the part where I stop listening to you. I like my deflector dish, as does Krunchy, no it hasn't got textures on it yet, just the glowing, but I like it

the only thing that needs "tweaking" is the textures, like you said your self.

Yep, and that's simply cause they're not done yet! And by my calculation, I been on this model for about a month and a half now, so that's half decent considering I'm still plucking away at the Daedalus and it's been over year since I started that model

Well the color , it seems to different to be a stock ship , so it might be a new class in the 25 century ? And another question , where is the shuttle bay ?

Yep, definitely a different colour than normal ships


and shuttlebay:

i like that black/dark Gray strip down the middle of the secondary hull

Thanks, my biggest problem though with that colour is if I should make it closer to black or not

Looks good as it is.

Well I am finally finished! The next pics you will see will be beauty shots, so they will take some time to prepare, but yes, it is finally done!!!