Topic: Cheyenne Class WIP (Read 5274 times)

sandman69247 · « **on:** June 24, 2003, 06:41:54 pm »

Thought I lost this when my power supply went, but I found it intact. Mesh was done a while ago, but just started working on textures. As I've stated before, my texturing sux, thought I am getting better...so if you like the model but not the textures, re-work 'em after I release her.

Also, these textures will probably suck worse since this is the 1st time in a couple months I've done anything...RL getting in the way and all.

BTW, don't get me wrong, these are just the beginnings of the texturing process...it should look alot better in a couple of days.

James Formo · « **Reply #1 on:** June 24, 2003, 07:33:09 pm »

I like the mesh. Glad to see you got a bit of time to work on it. Looking forward to its release.

LightDrone · « **Reply #2 on:** June 24, 2003, 10:54:54 pm »

WTF

I thought you had been modeling for a while, my god thats a piece of [censored]!!!

christ put some effort into it, or read a tutorial, but dont post crap like that

ChrsLWlstr · « **Reply #3 on:** June 24, 2003, 11:17:34 pm »

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WTF

I thought you had been modeling for a while, my god thats a piece of [censored]!!!

christ put some effort into it, or read a tutorial, but dont post crap like that

Marauth · « **Reply #4 on:** June 25, 2003, 08:37:01 am »

Didn't Taldren ban this prick after the 2 near-flame wars he's started? One of you admins get this f**ker's IP and ban him permanently. And circulate his IP to as many other message boards as you can find so they ban him too.

Kaenyne · « **Reply #5 on:** June 25, 2003, 09:46:16 am »

I agree?there is no place on this forum for insulting remarks and/or general unpleasantness.
I do npt want to lecture, but the forums are here to foster goodwil, friendships and creativity.

And Sandman...ignore the remarks this person made about your ship. They are not objective in purpose?Their sole purpose was to anger you.

Your ship gotten off to a fine start. I'm looking forward to seeing more pictures of your progress.

Reverend · « **Reply #6 on:** June 25, 2003, 09:58:54 am »

LightDrone... why dont you mkae a model? You're a nigger... why don't you go home and apologize to yur father and mother for being such waste o resources and a personal embarrassment and disappointment, if they haven't killed themselves because of you.

Marauth · « **Reply #7 on:** June 25, 2003, 01:38:16 pm »

Okay what's up with the rascist comments people!!? Don't rise to him, and don't lower yourself to his level. Now can we please get back to the ship?

sandman69247 · « **Reply #9 on:** June 25, 2003, 01:45:40 pm »

So speaketh the eternal slug...oh well, actually I feel honored. Lightdrone only does this to those that actually do something good, so I take it as a compliment. Beside, I shall not engage in a battle of wits with someone who come to the field unarmed. Oh, and if you're too dense to figure that out LD, it means you have the intelligence of a moth bouncing off of a hot light 'til you're ass gets burned.

To everyone else, thanx! This is really my 1st TNG style ship, and it's hard to get things right. I'm remembering some of the tricks I was starting to learn before my leave of absence, so it should start looking better soon. Despite the comments of LD, I feel good about the mesh, just the textures are bad. Until I get a better grip on things in Photoshop, I do a lot of the work in PSP, then tweak in PS.

More to come soon.

Anthony_Scott · « **Reply #10 on:** June 25, 2003, 02:27:43 pm »

Not bad so far...keep up the good work!

Pay no attention to dimwits and fools

Reverend · « **Reply #11 on:** June 25, 2003, 02:53:33 pm »

Oh my, that comment was not intended to be a slur, I wouldn't do that, but I do know that it is pretty punctual- got his attention:) Fight fire with fire, and all that. I wonder if you, Sandman, are going to put TNG-style nacelles, or TMP?

Marauth · « **Reply #12 on:** June 25, 2003, 03:57:56 pm »

Why would he put TMP nacelles on a Cheyenne? What did I miss here?

sandman69247 · « **Reply #13 on:** June 25, 2003, 08:37:00 pm »

The nacelles are how they are supposed to be, according to the shots at ex-astris scientia, except I made the bussards larger...they were only little dots at the front of nacelles, and I thought they would look better as they are now.

They are definitely TNG, as the class was designed as a companion scout for the Galaxy Class...unfortunately, not very effective in that role as it's top speed is lower than the Galaxy, so was reassigned as a Frigate. As such, I'm going to be making some changes to the canon look and fell to make it a more capable Frigate...canon is way overrated anyway.

Marauth · « **Reply #14 on:** June 26, 2003, 10:59:15 am »

Where did you get the info that it was slower than a Galaxy? It wont be from the show as nothing is known about it. Oh well. I personally really like the look of the studio model, and the bussards are not dots on the model, they are the front of a highlighter pen actually but...

Marauth · « **Reply #16 on:** June 26, 2003, 02:51:06 pm »

the DITL is a pile of crap quite frankly, I never use that site except for the occasional articles like the one on the Nemesis Enterprise. The stuff there is almost completely made up by the one guy writing the site and is very arbitrary, especially his opinions on the DS9TM kitbash ships.

Reverend · « **Reply #17 on:** June 26, 2003, 11:14:00 pm »

I had just asked about TMP nacelles because to my partially-Trek-educated eyes, I actually couldn't tell exactly what generation if any- no offense meant by my lack of intuition, just curious.
Oh, and and another additional comment to anyone who is curious, I got real loud real fast for Snadman- he was the first person to ever coach me on modding SFC series, and has always been patient with me, even when I could tell he didn't really feel like a '20 questions'' round- I owe it to him to be at his defense any day or time- you all know what I mean, right?

sandman69247 · « **Reply #18 on:** June 27, 2003, 01:14:00 am »

No offense taken or percieved.

This is taking longer than I thought, due to the "rust" faxtor...got rusty, not working on anything for so long.

I'm wondering if I should make an untextured ship file on my yahoo group...that way if you like a mesh I do and have some texturing skill, you can get the model a texture it yourself? Does that sound like it might work? I ask because I feel that my models don't get out there due to my lack of texturing skill...I have some untextured models moldering on my hd since I can't texture worth a %$#@. Let me know what you think, I have no problem with sharing credits...I welcome it, so that my stuff can get done. That way I can quietly work on my skills, then dazzle y'all with a work of art.

BTW, I have to re-work the whole texturing (thankfully I made a backup), as I screwed it up bad...forgot to do something and now it looks like something a Ferengi wouldn't give a 1/4 bar of latinum for.

COWABUNGAA DUDE!!

Klingon Fanatic · « **Reply #19 on:** June 27, 2003, 05:52:19 am »

Sandman,

Hey she's off to a great start!

Are you still working on the USS Remora Pataflafla sent you?

Qapla!

KF

atheorhaven · « **Reply #20 on:** June 27, 2003, 06:05:45 am »

Hey..

Just a quick note.. to make it easier to retexture with those blank meshes for those without Max, just block them out. You don't have to texture the whole thing, but map basic textures. A 64x64 red square even done up in Paint will do for the bussards, similar for the blue glowies on the nacelle sides. A grey texture with one or two circles on it will make sure that the textures for the saucer are mapped without distorting. Something similar with a couple of horizontal lines down the texture should do the same for the secondary hull. A 256x256 or 512x512 texture is pretty, but the mesh doesn't care one way or another as long as it's mapped. So if you take a little care and make sure that they are all illumination mapped, you can have the mesh out there in a state that is easy as pie to have anyone texture for you.

sandman69247 · « **Reply #21 on:** June 28, 2003, 01:06:38 am »

Smiley, I'll put it up tomorrow...just got home from work and too pooped to poop right now.

KF- I sent the Remora to Atheorhaven...I just can't do it justice. He has a lot of projects going right now, but hopefully it won't be too long...I want to see it flying myself.

Alec- Thanx for the tips. Even though I use max, this helps...gave me some ideas. One day I'll be able to release something and feel good about it...I hope.

sandman69247 · « **Reply #22 on:** June 29, 2003, 11:50:54 pm »

Well, this is going on the back burner for awhile...screwed the textures badly. I'm just too out of practice, so I am going to start with something easier to do. See my new WIP post for details. I guess I'm going to be doing these old ones for awhile, work my way up to TNG...more complicated textures for more complicated ships. Thanx for the support. Smiley, it's on the way.

Thanx again.

sandman69247 · « **Reply #24 on:** July 03, 2003, 11:12:27 pm »

OK, got it sent to ya. Thanx again for the help.

Smiley · « **Reply #25 on:** July 14, 2003, 02:18:58 pm »

Ok, I've started to texture Sandmans' Cheyenne for him, with the name and registry he has requested!

James Formo · « **Reply #26 on:** July 14, 2003, 09:22:16 pm »

Great start. Hey Smiley. I have a Norway mesh that could use texturing. I kinda suck at Fed textures. I have a version with an open shuttle bay I would like to get it released. Any chance you got time to give it a shot?

sandman69247 · « **Reply #27 on:** July 14, 2003, 10:01:07 pm »

I look at that and hang my head in shame. I could never have gotten it anywhere near that good. Great job!

Smiley · « **Reply #29 on:** July 15, 2003, 12:12:02 pm »

Update, just got the nacelles to do now really

sandman69247 · « **Reply #30 on:** July 15, 2003, 04:32:36 pm »

That looks awesome bud!

Anyway I could get the PSP or PS files from ya when you're done? I want to try and see how you did it, so I can improve myself.

You're really good at this, thanx for the help.

Smiley · « **Reply #31 on:** July 15, 2003, 04:33:16 pm »

Finished! BTW Sandman, do you want damage textures too and a break model?

sandman69247 · « **Reply #32 on:** July 15, 2003, 04:39:08 pm »

Sure, if you can do 'em. I haven't figured those out either.

That looks awesome man!

2 thumbs up.

Smiley · « **Reply #33 on:** July 15, 2003, 04:52:43 pm »

oh, HI!
Lol, you must have posted your response while I was uploading the finished picture! i didn'ty see your post at all!
Thankyou very much, i do my best

How can I send what I have done so far to you? The .rar comes out to be 4.5mb, your hotmail account won't handle that...

sandman69247 · « **Reply #34 on:** July 15, 2003, 04:59:35 pm »

You can try sanders_j5@yahoo.com if yahoo allows that large a file. If not, can you upload to the yahoo group SFC MODELS ?

Thanx for all your help and hard work. I have a readme to add with proper credits, then release her.

I'm stoked!!

anduril · « **Reply #35 on:** July 15, 2003, 05:06:29 pm »

Good stuff boys.

Swap the port and starboard running lights Smiley.

James Formo · « **Reply #37 on:** July 15, 2003, 09:36:21 pm »

Great job guys. Smiley, check your email. Sent the Norway mesh. Thanks for giving this a go.

Smiley · « **Reply #39 on:** July 15, 2003, 10:29:28 pm »

I tried to upload the Cheyenne to your yahoo group Sandman, however it says that I cannot upload files larger than 5120k :-\ hmph!

EDIT: This should be out real soon as I've gotten the files to Sandman now!

Anthony_Scott · « **Reply #40 on:** July 16, 2003, 12:22:34 pm »

finally a sweet-looking Cheyenne to add to my fed fleet.....Good work there Smiley!

Smiley · « **Reply #41 on:** July 16, 2003, 12:24:46 pm »

Thanks, but don't forget it's Sandman's mesh

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