Ship Graphics: Anypne know or are a good ship maker?

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Originally posted by Curt:
**I don't know a thing about texturing, but I do a pinch of modeling for fun. If anyone actually likes my ship and wants to use it fer somethin, I'll give ya the file for this one or make one custom, in some spare time.

(...image...)
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I think it's suite. 😄

-Nat

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Lequis Design
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PhantoM_63ff@hotmail.com

Reminds me of a Kestrel that turned slightly liquid, and accidentally mated with an alien. But it looks cool.

_wirehead

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He would, after all, be an ambassador; between the old and the new-between the creatures of carbon and the creatures of metal who must one day supersede them.
-a quote from Arthur C Clarke's short story, "A Meeting With Medusa"

So can any of ya texture it and make it... well.... into ship format?

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Originally posted by Gul Banana:
**In a slightly off-topic point, does anybody know of a free 3d graphics program (similar, maybe, to Strata Base, which I used to use) that runs in OS X? My love of fiddling around with making my own ships is equalled only by my hatred of rebooting into 9..

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If you like fiddling, you'll like Blender. 🙂 (url="http://"http://www.blender.nl")www.blender.nl(/url)

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Alas, if it weren't for the whole 'going bankrupt and no longer available' thing...
But Strata runs fairly well in Classic for me, so it's not really a big deal. Thanks anyway 🙂

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"A taco is merely a rigid, deformed tortilla."
- Thomas Castiglione
"There will be MUCH CRUSHING!"
- Pink

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Originally posted by Gul Banana:
**Alas, if it weren't for the whole 'going bankrupt and no longer available' thing...
But Strata runs fairly well in Classic for me, so it's not really a big deal. Thanks anyway 🙂

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There's a free version of blender called blender Creator. It's not as powerfull as the full version, but for free, it aint bad.

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"Actions have reactions, don't be quick to judge, you may not know the hardships people don't speak of,
It's best to step back, and observe with couth, for we all must meet our moment of truth." - (url="http://"http://www.OHHLA.com/anonymous/gngstarr/moment/moment.gsr.txt")Guru(/url)

I know, that's my point - the company that makes Blender is bankrupt, and it is no longer available for download, free or otherwise. Of course, if somebody wants to mirror a copy...

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"A taco is merely a rigid, deformed tortilla."
- Thomas Castiglione
"There will be MUCH CRUSHING!"
- Pink

Hi my name is Alex and I think I may be able to help.

I can model basic polygonal models quite easily but I really want to get into nurbs based modeling with splines. My modeling skills have a long way to go and my goal is to create something that looks as good as the Nova ships if not somehow better. I am finding it really difficult to think of a good original ship design, thats clever and incorporates new alien technology somehow, not an organic ship like polaris, a mechanical, futuristic,powerful and advanced looking ship that has sleek and possibly quite curvy features. Many StarTrek ships meet my ideas but I want to create something unique and not a copy. I want to create a whole race of ships around a theme... this race will not be hideously powerful, but it shall certainly not be a week race.

I present to you the chance to think up a really cool ship design and I shall try to build it. The ship must look good and have something that sets it apart from other races. The Miranu ships in evo were round shapes, the Voinians were pointy and grey, they both have obvious themes. Maybe a new alien race that all use engines bigger than the actual ships... a race that all use engines that are like hover pads sticking out from the ship. I just want a pool of ideas to work from. At least your ideas will inspire me and influence my design to be better. At best I will love your idea or part of an idea and create a string of ships incorporating this idea.

Scan in pictures of ship designs or post ideas. If you wish you can send me your pictures/ideas to my e-mail: kerosene@maniac66.idps.co.uk

This is a very difficult thing to do so I don't expect any ground breaking ideas but that is what im hoping for... Im finding it very brain racking trying to visualize ship designs by myself and so Im hoping someone can think of designs good enough to use. I know allot of you think you have really cool ship designs so heres your chance to show them to the world. And hopefully get them made up for you.

If you want to see what I am currently capable of then I have pictures of a ship in progress at: (url="http://"http://homepage.mac.com/WebObjects/FileSharing.woa/wa/default?user=mr_paul&templatefn;=FileSharing4.html")http://homepage.mac....leSharing4.html(/url)
It is my first ever ship model and needs texturing work still. This is a low poly polygonal model as I wanted an angular style.

I've been playing EV since the first one came out, and I just finally started to get into plug-ins. Here's the deal... If anyone can point me to a good source of ship and weapon design for EV Nova, when I finish I'll make the plugs available on the board. I refuse to use anything but my own! I can also make my best Pilot files available to whoever is interested...

Email me for pilot file details.
Beta_x2@hotmail.com

Can anyone tell me how to convert models into the Rles? I can render them ok, but i need to know how and what to do. Like any apps that i would need to do this too.

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Originally posted by Jimong5:
Can anyone tell me how to convert models into the Rles? I can render them ok, but i need to know how and what to do. Like any apps that i would need to do this too.

The Dr. Ralph Nova Tools package contains a utility called EnRLE/DeRLE, for this very purpose.

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Originally posted by The Masked Igazra:
**I've been playing EV since the first one came out, and I just finally started to get into plug-ins. Here's the deal... If anyone can point me to a good source of ship and weapon design for EV Nova, when I finish I'll make the plugs available on the board. I refuse to use anything but my own! I can also make my best Pilot files available to whoever is interested...

Email me for pilot file details.
Beta_x2@hotmail.com**

I'm not totally sure what you're suggesting/requesting, nor why you would offer people pilot files.. why would they not use their own instead?

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"A taco is merely a rigid, deformed tortilla."
- Thomas Castiglione
"There will be MUCH CRUSHING!"
- Pink

This may not be as unique as Curt's ship above, but

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if you want a ship design in this style, it's good for blending in with EVO, as you can tell, elements that made this ships were used from other parts of UE vessels.

Can anyone tell me how to post an image on this web board like Curt did?

I think I must of screwed up somewhere because my image didn't show up, and don't say that you have to be a registered user, because Curt is an UNregistered user and he managed to get his image on the web board and I want to do the same thing, but my image is not showing up so anyone, can you help me on this?

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Originally posted by Coraxus:
**Can anyone tell me how to post an image on this web board like Curt did?

I think I must of screwed up somewhere because my image didn't show up, and don't say that you have to be a registered user, because Curt is an UNregistered user and he managed to get his image on the web board and I want to do the same thing, but my image is not showing up so anyone, can you help me on this?**

The file doesn't exist..try uploading it again.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, as you know we have something special for you at
Birdland this evening. A recording for Blue Note Records...

"Actions have reactions, don't be quick to judge, you may not know the hardships people don't speak of,
It's best to step back, and observe with couth, for we all must meet our moment of truth." - (url="http://"http://www.OHHLA.com/anonymous/gngstarr/moment/moment.gsr.txt")Guru(/url)

(This message has been edited by the Necromicon (edited 04-07-2002).)

This is another attempt by me to upload the image, if it doesn't work, then I won't be able to save planet Earth from utter destruction.

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If you don't see any images, then try going to this link
(url="http://"http://homepage.mac.com/coraxus/.Pictures/UEBattleship.jpg")http://homepage.mac....EBattleship.jpg(/url)