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seanr
Member # 277
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Here is the ship which contains the tranporter room I posted here earlier. It is a carrier and will be entered into the Carrier contest at SFA upon completion. This ship was lunched just after the end of the Enterprise B's first five year mission. It is basically a modularized Constellation with Excelsior leanings. It will have a Nebula type sensor pod mounted on top of the two upper 'necks' (for lack of a better term). These images illustrate some self-illumination techniques I am trying out. Please let me know what you think. http://www.mania-online.com/truespace/gallery/seanr/temp/hornet-3.jpg http://www.mania-online.com/truespace/gallery/seanr/temp/hornet-4.jpg ------------------ Sean Robertson webolutionary@webolutionary.com WEBolutionary Consulting Services Mania-Online "Great is the glory for the strife is hard" - Wordsworth "Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?" - Dr Evil
[This message has been edited by seanr (edited September 03, 2000).]
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Nim
Member # 205
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Ahh, a severely beefed up Constellation-design! I've thought about that idea. Very nice, but can you brighten it up a little? I can't make out many details... Why are the pictures named "hornet"? ------------------ Ready for the action now, Dangerboy Ready if I'm ready for you, Dangerboy Ready if I want it now, Dangerboy? How dare you, dare you, Dangerboy? How dare you, Dangerboy? I dare you, dare you, Dangerboy...
�on Flux, "Thanatophobia" [This message has been edited by Nimrod (edited September 01, 2000).]
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seanr
Member # 277
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Dude, you need to turn your monitor brightness up. They are supposed to be somewhat dark, because this is a test of the self-illumination, so I couldn't have bright lights. Nevertheless, I can see all the detail perfectly on both of my computers.As for the hornet filename, there was a previous Midway design that was the same parts arranged in Excelsior fashion. I decided to create this version and resaved the scene with the class name. The USS Midway is a Hornet class multi-role carrier. ------------------ Sean Robertson webolutionary@webolutionary.com WEBolutionary Consulting Services Mania-Online "Great is the glory for the strife is hard" - Wordsworth "Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?" - Dr Evil
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Fructose
Member # 309
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They are kinda dark on my monitor too and it's brightness isn't low at all. But if they are supposed to be dark, then that's cool.------------------ It doesn't matter if you don't know what you're doing as long as you look good doing it.
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Teelie
Member # 280
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My brightness is at a normal level too and they're dark, but still good enough I can see them.  ------------------ Where's the bathroom on this ship?
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AndrewR
Member # 44
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It is pretty dark...I have adobe gamma correction - if that was what you were mentioning in that other post. Your going to have to up the gamma correction... you can use PSP for this. ------------------ "I threw bitter tears at the ocean But all that came back was the tide..." 'I Will Not Forget You' Sarah McLachlan
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seanr
Member # 277
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Like I said, these are self-illumination tests, so the main light in the scene is pretty dim. I'll post more later with normal lighting.------------------ Sean Robertson webolutionary@webolutionary.com WEBolutionary Consulting Services Mania-Online "Great is the glory for the strife is hard" - Wordsworth "Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?" - Dr Evil
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Federation Shipmaster
Member # 15
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Just wondering, but what is the ship named after specifically? The battle, the carrier, the airport, or one of the two airlines?
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seanr
Member # 277
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Updated, now with lighter lighting.  http://www.mania-online.com/truespace/gallery/seanr/temp/hornet-5.jpg
http://www.mania-online.com/truespace/gallery/seanr/temp/hornet-6.jpg http://www.mania-online.com/truespace/gallery/seanr/temp/hornet-7.jpg ------------------ Sean Robertson webolutionary@webolutionary.com
WEBolutionary Consulting Services Mania-Online "Great is the glory for the strife is hard" - Wordsworth "Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?" - Dr Evil [This message has been edited by seanr (edited September 03, 2000).]
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seanr
Member # 277
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Shipmaster: The battle, of course. The carrier was named after the battle; I've never even heard of the airlines, and the airport isn't worth naming something after (I should know, I flew a prop from there to Cincinnatti once - used to live in Chicago).
------------------ Sean Robertson webolutionary@webolutionary.com WEBolutionary Consulting Services Mania-Online "Great is the glory for the strife is hard" - Wordsworth "Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?" - Dr Evil
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Shik
Member # 343
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Y'know, I really wish you'd stop posting full pictures. It's a monster pain in the ass to keep having to load up, & for every new set, there's more bandwidth eaten.What, links don't work for people any more? ------------------ "There are three things I HATE, Jet: kids..pets..& women with attitudes. So WHY do we have all THREE on BOARD?!?"--Spike Spiegel
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seanr
Member # 277
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You're goona click the links anyway, so what's the diff? All previous images have been converted to links. Here's the latest: Still no impulse engines yet. Those should be next, I think.
------------------ Sean Robertson webolutionary@webolutionary.com WEBolutionary Consulting Services Mania-Online "Great is the glory for the strife is hard" - Wordsworth "Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?" - Dr Evil
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Fabrux
Member # 71
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Seem to be having some problems connecting to your server at the moment, seanr.------------------ "Incest! A game the whole family can play!" -Jonah Rapp
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seanr
Member # 277
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Its working just fine here. Run a tracert and post the results here so I can see where it is hanging up at.------------------ Sean Robertson webolutionary@webolutionary.com WEBolutionary Consulting Services Mania-Online "Great is the glory for the strife is hard" - Wordsworth "Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?" - Dr Evil
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Saltah'na
Member # 33
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I'm not so sure about the "indents" on the front sides of the saucers. That's where whatever ships come out of, right?This ship was lunched just after the end Lunched? LUNCHED? *L* I'll wait for someone to make the wisecrack.  ------------------ "My Name is Elmer Fudd, Millionaire. I own a Mansion and a Yacht." Psychiatrist: "Again."
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Fabrux
Member # 71
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Run a what? And it's working fine now.------------------ "Incest! A game the whole family can play!" -Jonah Rapp
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Nim
Member # 205
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Where did that pod come from alluvasudden?  Lemme guess, general purpose sensor/tactical pod? Very ahead of it's time, I must say.  ------------------ Ready for the action now, Dangerboy Ready if I'm ready for you, Dangerboy Ready if I want it now, Dangerboy? How dare you, dare you, Dangerboy? How dare you, Dangerboy? I dare you, dare you, Dangerboy... �on Flux, "Thanatophobia"
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seanr
Member # 277
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Nimrod, not really. Take a look at Jackill's Starfleet Reference Manual, Volume II. All of those ships are movie era ships, and the heavy scout shown there has a pod like this (this one was made to look similar to that one). A carrier like this one will need extra sensors to track the locations of all of its shuttles.------------------ Sean Robertson webolutionary@webolutionary.com WEBolutionary Consulting Services Mania-Online "Great is the glory for the strife is hard" - Wordsworth "Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?" - Dr Evil
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Timo
Member # 245
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Just out of curiosity - what is the scale of the ship?The warp engines seem like Constitution-refit ones (the ones fandom usually calls the LN-64). Yet the saucer rim has four rows of windows, and the fighter bays seem to fit within the saucer with ease. If one scales by the engines, then the bridge dome looks okay - but if one scales by the windows and the fighter bays, then the dome is really huge! I'd suggest making a slightly smaller bridge dome, or perhaps putting multiple rows of windows on the dome or changing the shape. It would be a big ship for the TOS movie era, but I have nothing against big ships... Timo Saloniemi
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seanr
Member # 277
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The primary hull is approximately the diameter of an Ambassador class primary hull. The bridge hull is scaled about the same (relative to deck size) as the Enterprise A references I have. I'll post a side view later that should help a bit.As for the shuttlebay, the center of the bay fills a space 6 decks tall. The upper and lower outer launch bays are 1.75 decks tall for a total of 3.5 decks, the two inner bays are each about 2.5 decks tall above and 2.5 below for a total of 5 decks. That is consistent with the scale of the Enterprise Refit's hanger deck. Again, a side view should help clear that up a bit. ------------------ Sean Robertson webolutionary@webolutionary.com WEBolutionary Consulting Services Mania-Online "Great is the glory for the strife is hard" - Wordsworth "Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?" - Dr Evil
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seanr
Member # 277
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P.S. The engines are loosely patterned after Constitution class engines, but are closer to Excelsior class engines in scale.
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Harry
Member # 265
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Why oh why is it the NCC-3100-A
------------------ "Human race in tha house!" KoRn & Kittie, This Town --- Titan Fleet Yards - Harry Doddema's Star Trek Site
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seanr
Member # 277
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Because if you go to shipschematics.net, there is already a TOS era Midway, NCC-3100. Don't even start griping at me about the overuse of suffixes on Starfleet ships; in this case we can just assume the original one did something important enough for another ship to be built with the same name and reg number.
------------------ Sean Robertson webolutionary@webolutionary.com WEBolutionary Consulting Services Mania-Online "Great is the glory for the strife is hard" - Wordsworth "Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?" - Dr Evil
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