Some time later..

[Psycholis]

Putting the alcurean fleet on the back burner again.. this time to bring an entirely different ship.

I present the Aldebaran.





It was highly influenced by a very good deviant artist that goes by MeganeRid. This ship is not nearly as detailed as the one he drew out, but I like how it came out. Time to make a template and get rotating. It's too bad solidworks doesn't do dynamic shadows like most other renderers, but I use what I can get. Hope you all like.

*editted for spelling. not going to bother renaming the files though.

[Arisaya]

Just FYI, for the final transcendence render, the light should come from the top right, not bottom left (in reference to looking at the bottom picture)

Looks very nice! Does solidworks let you texture it?

[Psycholis]

yeah, i do the lighting in the final rendering when i make the rotations. sadly, solidworks is very limited in terms of texturing and shading.. it's good for making solid objects, but not so great at rendering them. full support for the program is only available if you have a workstation card. i tried to export images but they come out really truncated.. still looking into it though.

[digdug]

very impressive

[Psycholis]

Well, this is embarassing.. I spelt it wrong. Aldebaran is a orange star in Taurus. The name I used is some hashed up wrongness of it.. My apologies.

[Psycholis]

Major update on this. For all intents and purposes, I am done with the modeling of this ship. The final result can be found here:

http://s13.photobucket.com/albums/a255/ ... Aldebaran/

For those afraid to link outside of this page (I hope none..), here's a sample:



Now to rotating!

[Psycholis]

Uploaded to xelerus now.

http://xelerus.de/index.php?s=mod&id=648

[Psycholis]

Just finished this today. I have more plans for it, but this is a good idea of what's to come.

[Periculi]

Wow, you've done a lot of improvement since the paper fleet days! These ships remind me of those quaternion fractals, ever seen those?

http://www.unpronounceable.com/julia/julimir-1.html

[TheLastBrunnenG]

Wonderful job! The green version reminds me a great deal of the Kadeshi Swarmer fighter from Homeworld.

http://shipyards.relicnews.com/kadesh/swarmer.htm

[Psycholis]

Wow, you've done a lot of improvement since the paper fleet days! These ships remind me of those quaternion fractals, ever seen those?

http://www.unpronounceable.com/julia/julimir-1.html

having worked on this side quests, i think i can start again on the alcureans. might even be done this year! (here's hoping)

Wonderful job! The green version reminds me a great deal of the Kadeshi Swarmer fighter from Homeworld.

http://shipyards.relicnews.com/kadesh/swarmer.htm

i miss homeworld. it wasn't my favorite of that era (that goes to descent by the same people) but i still massed the hours in it.

[Psycholis]

Sadalmelik (the new green ship I just made) is now on xelerus.

http://xelerus.de/index.php?s=mod&id=676

Enjoy.

[Psycholis]

another ship for your consideration. should be rotated and implemented by next week.

[Psycholis]

Fomalhaut (the blue ship) is now up on xelerus.

http://xelerus.de/index.php?s=mod&id=710