Starbuck "Replicate some marmalade, Commander - helm control is toast!"
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Nice! I really should get round to doing some of mine, but university is eating up my time (even on spring break) and I'm also addicted to The Sims!!!
My main problem is visualising how the ship looks from different angles... and its overall 3D shape. How'd you do it??
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I will describe 2D starship design in a tutorial soon (sounds patronizing, perhaps I should come up with another name).
Basically, my starships were all flat like the preliminary versions, but then Masao sent me the ships for the SF Museum, and they all had gradient fillings suggesting 3D shapes. It's only pseudo-3D, but the result is stunning and it's done very fast, and so I decided to improve my ships likewise. The many windows and other details are a lot more work.
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The Andor and Mercury-class I like. The Ramses on the other hand looks a little too Klingon like, especially the front-view which looks just like a Bird-of-Prey.
Overall though, good art work.
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I've changed to gradient fillings too, after I read Masao's Kestrel Class thread.
I think I can post my first gradient-filled ship, the Salamis CLass, tomorrow.
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