Those renders almost look like they were done by the late mr Mcquarrie himself!
Great work so far man!
Great work so far man!
Launch when ready!
- Thread starter Revell-Fan
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Wait! I found something to help you when you do a Mk VII (and great for the garage):
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...lactica-viper-or-caprica-sixs-red-dress/9833/
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...lactica-viper-or-caprica-sixs-red-dress/9833/
Okay, here we go!
-PREE-OUSHH!-
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-PREE-OUSHH!-
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Now that you mentioned it, the planet does look a bit like Scorpia. The Scorpian shipyard, must be on the other side of the planet.:twisted:
That's the spirit! This is an amazing rendering. I work with Catia instructors, and I am bragging up this project to them!
That looks realy good, i cant waite too see this popping out of the 3d model into the card version model, it looks great!!!
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sgoti
Here are some links:
http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rld/
(plugin for SU to export the *.skp file to a *.pov file)
http://povray.org/
(the render engine)
http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rld/
(plugin for SU to export the *.skp file to a *.pov file)
http://povray.org/
(the render engine)
Texturing the model
As I have stated more than once in this forum the way of texturing faces in SU is somewhat different compared to other 3d programs. You can only put an image on an even surface or roll an image around a cylinder, that's all. Everything else has to be done by projecting a texture onto the surface as shown here:
This is how the Viper gets her "outfit":
First I draw a rectangle around the area which has to be textured, make a screenshot of it (in parallel view), load it into Gimp, paint the texture over the screenshot and export everything as image.
Then I texture the rectangle, project the texture to the parallel area of the model and assign the rectangle to a new layer. This enables me to easily turn it on (= make it visible) and off (= make it invisible) so that it is not in the way when I'm working on the mesh.
I think it might be interesting for some of you to see how I placed the texture images for projection. So I made some renders with all layers switched on.
As I have stated more than once in this forum the way of texturing faces in SU is somewhat different compared to other 3d programs. You can only put an image on an even surface or roll an image around a cylinder, that's all. Everything else has to be done by projecting a texture onto the surface as shown here:
This is how the Viper gets her "outfit":
First I draw a rectangle around the area which has to be textured, make a screenshot of it (in parallel view), load it into Gimp, paint the texture over the screenshot and export everything as image.
Then I texture the rectangle, project the texture to the parallel area of the model and assign the rectangle to a new layer. This enables me to easily turn it on (= make it visible) and off (= make it invisible) so that it is not in the way when I'm working on the mesh.
I think it might be interesting for some of you to see how I placed the texture images for projection. So I made some renders with all layers switched on.
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And this is a wire frame side view, showing possible folding lines. 
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Revell-Fan
In the rendering with all layers turned on, the dark ones under the strip and nose texture and the layers under the craft is this shadowing
does this lie beneath the surface
MAC
In the rendering with all layers turned on, the dark ones under the strip and nose texture and the layers under the craft is this shadowing
does this lie beneath the surface
MAC
