Very cool. check out my TOS Enterprise from long ago.
I like the way they are presented 
Unless you know something about the world settings that I don’t the answer is “No, it’s not”. The ambient light or more like a uniform “wash” and certainly doesn’t provide shadows that enhance the details of a mesh.
Now that’s a nice animation! Love the bridge bit. Heck, the whole thing was pretty spiffy (if I might be allowed to use that word). How did you do the stars?
FInally got around to fleshing out the aft compartment as well as fixing some mesh errors left over from the not so gentle development stage. Things look much better from a mesh standpoint and the nose has been fixed (both the lower curvature and general angle where it meets the sides).
Still need to re-cut the viewports
A closer look
Here’s a few renders of how things are fitting together
From the top
Here’s one that sort of looks like it’s had some major nacelle damage and is drifting along somewhere
Tried my had at Blender’s Video Sequence Editor for the first time and here is the resulting animation…
VSE Test (4.51MB, WMV9, 16.650 seconds)
I like it. It looks very much like an orignal series shuttle.
Question about the movie itself: Did you use the blender sequencer to put that frame around it? The sequencer is a tool I have yet to learn, so I don’t really have an idea of it’s features.
Actually the background image is just a background I used when pre rendering the source AVIs. I rendered three animations: 1 exterior solid, 1 exterior wire, and 1 interior with the walls transparent blue.
I then used the sequencer for fade between them in different combinations.
For some reason, I CANNOT get your fake GI file to open at all…it keeps crashing blender.
what version of Blender did you use for it?
Or am I just missing something???
Help!
MDuncan
BUMP!
Still need help with this…
Cujo
Cujo13: It crashes my Blender 2.34 as well.
Here is a file made in 2.34 that should work for you and explain everything. If you have any questions, let me know.
<–Note: It is packed with the uffizi_probe Ang Map world texture, so it will be a bit of a download if you have a 56K connection. Sorry for that.
[EDIT]Changed the file to a ZIP file. Should be a little quicker now.[/EDIT]
BgDM
Wow! What a great model. But it confirms something I’ve always wondered about those shuttles.
No bathroom.
Honestly, you should make a poster of that. It looks great.
why would you need a toilet … just open the back door and take a wizz.
that would be funny if i alittle impossible.
BgDM Posted: 02 Sep 2004 15:14 Post subject:
Cujo13: It crashes my Blender 2.34 as well.
Here is a file made in 2.34 that should work for you and explain everything. If you have any questions, let me know.
Hey thanks… but when I try to download and open your .zip file, it tells me that it is corrupt or invalid. Hehehe can ya check it and send it to me again?
thanks for taking the time to do this for me… much appreciated!
Cujo31
Sorry…
But I didn’t get a response from BgDm…
So
BUMP
Thanks…
Cujo
FourMadMen,
I’m not a Star Trek fan. However, I like the illustration quality of the renders on the first page. The lighting really makes it stand out. Good job.
Cujo31: Sorry man. Long weekend here and I was busy with the family.
I edited my post above. Took out the ANG MAP background to lower the file size. Should be fine now.
BgDM