Scifi Sketchup Modeling

liam887 · 23 Apr 2009, 14:37

Nice, i knew it was sketchup when I saw it lol and being star-trek it could only be you ha. When I get back from work in a couple of hours ill be sure to post some of my things form my hard drive. Been playing around with lightwave aswell, working out its renderer so I can render my sketchup models in that should be awesome when that starts working lol.

dolphus · 23 Apr 2009, 15:53

Excellence an inspiration to a mere mortal like me please post more

liam887 · 23 Apr 2009, 18:54

Practice makes perfect and im still far off that, thats why I joined this site to get some help with certain things and feedback. Here are some more pictures of things I have done with sketchup.

liam887 · 23 Apr 2009, 19:16

This image is supposed to be 6000*px in width however due to upload constraints it is now 1700px, therefore the images loose a lot of their clarity and the text is no longer readable. The larger images can be seen over at my page on SFM if you wish to read the text. The link is in my user profile.

spider74 · 23 Apr 2009, 20:11

great work,would love to see more models....

cadmunkey · 24 Apr 2009, 10:05

Nice work Liam, post more!

liam887 · 24 Apr 2009, 10:15

I would ive been trying all morning however when I try and post images the loading bar just stays in limbo for 20mins+ and doesnt post. Ill give an image hosting site a try fingers crossed! The internet in work is going a bit slow maybe its something to do with that?

Well as you can see I used pic tiger, but this site is still going slow on my computer?

liam887 · 24 Apr 2009, 10:51

Yeah same to you, although i could have sworn i saw one of your models on concept ships .org? Yeah anyay thought id join this site as there arnt' many sketchup users knocking about on SFM anymore. Ive got a few ships in the works is there anywhere on this site I can post a few WIP's? then I can show you?
Also only 9 of these ships are form the games the rest came from my own expanded universe, or brain lol. I did have help with some models taking descriptions form the novels, but still put my own spin on them especially the stations, the largest of which was over 100MB sketchup file!

Marian · 24 Apr 2009, 12:22

Good work, by the way did you take a look at the amazing plugins available here, you should take a look at these:
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=16909
I'm sure you know some of them...anyway very good tools for sci fi stuff...

liam887 · 24 Apr 2009, 12:36

I didint know about most of them, i only have soap skin bubble and skin lol. Wow this is going to save me loads of time thanks man. Lol good job i migrated here form scifi meshes or i would never have found these things out!

Marian · 24 Apr 2009, 12:56

Glad to have been of help, this site is a real treasure trove of ruby goodness and helpfull people.

liam887 · 24 Apr 2009, 13:03

Yeah looks amazing. Some of those plugins look very good especially the bezier edge thingy lol! That will save hours! Have you got any new models in the pipeline? I remember that site from years ago we where on, 'sands of Mars' or something lol, you where making some pretty cool trains! still doing them?

Marian · 24 Apr 2009, 13:09

NO, no more trains, i haven't made any new trains since then just some ships and cars, here take a look on my thread here, most models you might already know.
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?t=8546

liam887 · 24 Apr 2009, 14:37

Another larger image of the pelican from a previous post.

dolphus · 24 Apr 2009, 15:48

Awesome i would like to see the models with a lighter background the detail is no to clear, but that's me please keep on posting

liam887 · 24 Apr 2009, 17:23

yeah, unfortunately my images are to big to post here I have to scale them down and you cant see the detail as for the lighter background, in future ill bear that in mind.

Daniel · 29 Apr 2009, 18:18

Fantastic work, Liam.

liam887 · 29 Apr 2009, 18:24

Here is something I made today while I was off Uni bored. Did some test renders with the trial version of turbosketch. Made a texture map as well and applied it in photoshop. far form finished but here it is so far:
Its basically a cargo ship, but instead of seaborne its airborne. Suited for a post-apocalyptic type of world, where the oceans have dried up and long range cargo hauling is now carried out by airborne sky-ships like this.
When its finished it will have all the decking and railings installed and hopefully have kerk up and running for a nice shiny render. Imported it into Lightwave this afternoon so might just try and render it in that instead.
If you go back to the previous page and see the image of the mobile repair yard, thats the type of surface detail I hope to include on this model.

(note: the cargo containers where from the 3D warehouse, maybe by Birdman?)

liam887 · 6 May 2009, 19:20

Here are some recent models. As I havent got any sort of rendering engines these have all been illustrated with Photoshop, using the model as a background template to get the scale.
The Airship & Maglev Train models where extremely detailed, I look forward to getting a good renderer so I can show them better and in more detail.

Stinkie · 6 May 2009, 19:46

@liam887 said:

Here are some recent models. As I havent got any sort of rendering engines these have all been illustrated with Photoshop

I wouldn't worry about that too much - the images look great. Coen should ask you to do tutorials!