Topic: Gaze on my perfected Neo-Tholian!!! Thou shall be awed (Read 4249 times)

Atrahasis · « **on:** March 30, 2004, 10:01:16 am »

First, if you like what I did here, it's thanks to the helpful comments and criticisms that were made in the earlier thread by everybody.........I'd like to use this as an example of what can happen when people aren't afraid to give input and the modeler listens.

The basic Tholain ship design is very simple........so to make it spicey it's pretty much all dependent on the textures. I decided the textures just had to blow the viewer away using a very crystal-like appearance. This is the result of 2 mights of continuous experimentation using god knows how many different combinations.....I tried every color that was suggested, but decided in the end to emulate a white-crystal kind of look with blue and purple hues here and there. If you like what you see here, or have some more suggestions, it could lead to more Tholians by me.

I think what I have here tries to stay true to the original ship in the episode, with the exception that it emphasizes a crystal appearance, and not a major departure form the original hull color / lighting effect that they tried to achieve. They spotlighted the original silver-grey hull with purple and red lights, and so I decided I should try the same but add in a crystal appearance, and voila.

Anthony_Scott · « **Reply #1 on:** March 30, 2004, 10:03:38 am »

Much better!!!!! I like this one even more than the one in the other thread! Good Work!

Semper Fi, Carry On

Captain Ron · « **Reply #2 on:** March 30, 2004, 10:15:00 am »

Quote:

Much better!!!!! I like this one even more than the one in the other thread! Good Work!

Semper Fi, Carry On

Definitily,

This one I like very Much.

Rhaz · « **Reply #3 on:** March 30, 2004, 10:36:54 am »

<Picking up jaw from the floor>

That is totally awesome! Any in-game shots yet?

Kaenyne · « **Reply #4 on:** March 30, 2004, 10:44:04 am »

Now THAT'S a Tholian!

JayMoles · « **Reply #5 on:** March 30, 2004, 10:52:04 am »

-CLUNK-clatter-clatter-

CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!

(sounds of chair falling aside as standing ovation/applause begins)

When you are speechless, it is because there are no words to express your thoughts and feelings. But least ways - I say GREAT JOB!

TOS -is- Star Trek!

red_green · « **Reply #7 on:** March 30, 2004, 11:03:25 am »

Great job. I have yet to see a Tholian on TV

but they must be popular. Yes I live in a cave.

Wolfsglen · « **Reply #9 on:** March 30, 2004, 11:38:54 am »

Beautiful!

ChrisJohnson · « **Reply #10 on:** March 30, 2004, 11:55:04 am »

Oh my god... That's beautiful! Kinda bright, icy-like though, yet beautiful. I don't know what to reccomend! But... Are you doing more Tholian ships?

It's really well built and textured!

Grim Reaper · « **Reply #11 on:** March 30, 2004, 12:18:04 pm »

Well i think you done it m8. Now they're gonna bug you till you've done a fleet

;)

BTW i agree with the comments above... Looks awsome

Atrahasis · « **Reply #12 on:** March 30, 2004, 12:30:36 pm »

My plan is to get a hold of those Klingon Academy Tholian meshes and redo the textures for them into something as sophisticated as this. I probably won't need to re-mesh them, so it's the kind of "quickie" project that I'm into these days.

I'd love to do the entire KA Tholian fleet PLUS the SFB Tholians. It's fun doing them because I get to do so much experimenting.

Marauth · « **Reply #13 on:** March 30, 2004, 12:35:09 pm »

Sounds cool dude, by KA tholians do you mean the weird stick like ones that look like a jumble of crystals?

MarianoDT · « **Reply #14 on:** March 30, 2004, 12:43:32 pm »

They are amazing !!!

Looking forward to d/l them...

Mariano

Lord Schtupp · « **Reply #15 on:** March 30, 2004, 03:55:29 pm »

I'm awed

ModelsPlease · « **Reply #16 on:** March 30, 2004, 04:04:43 pm »

Outstanding sir,I love this Tholian look. I am dying to see a Crystaline Tholian base now.........WOW

-MP

DeltaAssault · « **Reply #18 on:** March 30, 2004, 06:11:43 pm »

Looks good, though it's really more of an Archeo-Tholian, not a Neo-Tholian. You can tell them apart because the Neos have a rear hull with nacelles.

http://no-spin.net/delta/Thol.jpg

Dizzy · « **Reply #19 on:** March 30, 2004, 07:34:34 pm »

Atra, I took P81's Andros and changed the base hull PA Panel texture to a shimmering blue, similar in color to your crystal thol hull, then did the illumination in blood red. The result was a ship that, depending upon what angle it is viewed from, shimmers from blue to red. It's a look of which I have never seen a ship have in the sfc engine. It made the PA Panels look alive and seething with raging energy...

You might have known about this illumination trick from your extensive modeling/texture work, but I thought I'd point it out just in case it might be applicable to your thol project...

And I do LOVE your thol design! May I use them when you are finished for the thol server mod?

I am not familair with the KA meshes, Do these include the rest of the Thol multi web spinner hull designs as well as the Neo Tholians? And what are the differences between that and the sfb thols? Will they have the same textures?

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