Spaceship (Collaborative Project)

iichiversii

You know what, I'd like to see our ship rendered with Thea, seems it may give a very realistic render to it, does Thea have the ability to bake textures?

Marian

@iichiversii said:

You know what, I'd like to see our ship rendered with Thea, seems it may give a very realistic render to it, does Thea have the ability to bake textures?

I don't know, but Simlab will have that ability in the next update, which should happen very soon.
http://www.simlabforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6542

The big difference is that I can make animations with Thea from scenes in SU.

Rich O Brien

With Thea there's even deeper animation options. Check out their YouTube channel for top tips.

Marian

Thanks Rich. Will do.

iichiversii

@rich o brien said:

With Thea there's even deeper animation options. Check out their YouTube channel for top tips.

I did not know Thea could do this, interesting

Rich O Brien

Not character animation if that's what your thinking of.

Thea plays nice with Blender though which is a big plus

iichiversii

@rich o brien said:

Not character animation if that's what your thinking of.

Thea plays nice with Blender though which is a big plus

No I have a workflow for character animation that works really well now, I put that up in an earlier post, iv perfected it even more which I'll show and tell in due course

iichiversii

This is what i have so far for ya, not entirely happy with it but have a look, alter it if you have any ideas, you know yourself
LOWERPOLY_MINISHIP_CONCEPT.skp

Marian

Just one thing....it was supposed to be the secondary bridge. How does that work as a secondary bridge

iichiversii

Oh I taught you were scraping it from the main ship, I was suggesting if you scrap it turn it into another ship, oops

iichiversii

Is the bridge detachable from the main ship?

Marian

@iichiversii said:

Is the bridge detachable from the main ship?

Damn it...I misundertood that you would make it as the bridge but be a spaceship too.

iichiversii

Yeah that was the impression I got from that, will we just make it non detachable?

Marian

@iichiversii said:

Yeah that was the impression I got from that, will we just make it non detachable?

That would probably be better since the ship already has 3 dettachble parts. Lets not go overboard with that

We can make the smaller ship later. So any ideas for the bridge?

iichiversii

I suggest having the bridge flush with the main body instead of the 1 we have, best way I can describe it would be a pimple with a small pitch, if that makes sense