Cool

Good, then I'll leave its development up to you.

Check my message now.

LOL You can still have a crack at it.

That's a cool idea.

@iichiversii said:

Is that your external bridge on top?

First attempt.....not really proud of it.

Some tweaks.

LOWERPOLY_STARSHIP_CONCEPT.skp

@iichiversii said:

Our baby

Ok ok...MY baby.

@iichiversii said:

I see your online, come on, what have you done to my baby

I've been rolling over it with a train....

I was on a train all day...didn't do anything to OUR baby.

@iichiversii said:

I did not know this, i must research it some more, cheers Marian

It was just a thought. I don't think shaders have necessarily a different kind of texture.

Toon Shader and Texture

(www.reallusion.com)

But being a toon shader, wouldn;t it need simple one color or two tone texture?

@iichiversii said:

Ha how about you take a spacewalk, theres your external bridge, thats for page 8

So you're designing me a spacesuit then.

That looks pretty cool, no idea abou the toon shaders. Shouldn't that be included in the renderer you are using.

@stefanq said:

Guys......stop having so much fun.....is depressing.

@iichiversii said:

i taught it was gonna get hairy there at one stage when Marian told me off

You mean on page 8?

@iichiversii said:

@Marian, we still gonna do the interior on this

The bridges for it yeah and maybe some corridors. I'm still thinking of a way to put in an external bridge, any ideas?

No texture for now. I;m just tweaking the mesh.I think we'll model in most of the details and use texture only here and there, I'm no expert either.

Don't worry Peter, we;ll post it here.

Hahaha, funny you should say that...I was thinking of starting more like this "This is the story of the Starship ******, sent on a mission of discovery and exploration where no man has yet set foot."

I do have some more serious ideas though, but I'll write something another time.

Hey...another idea just slammed my noggin. How about we come up with a short story about the ship, we animate it and post the clip or clips on youtube? Of course after we completely finish it.

@iichiversii said:

I ain't driving thu, skimming the atmosphere are you crazy, good luck to ya with that Marian

Come ooonnn! It will be fun.
Be thankful that I scrapped the idea of skimming the atmospheres of stars. Now that would get you a nice tan pretty quick.

Well the, the wings also contain two secondary engines so they're practical.
In any case we're talking about a ship capable of crossing interplanetary space, for a civilization which reached that point, just about any shape would be feasible.

My motto is: If it looks cool, keep it!

@solo said:

So this is a technology/explorer type vehicle right?

Yup

@solo said:

Will it be able to enter and exit the earths atmosphere or is it built in orbit and strictly space bound?

I think it would be more feasible for a ship this big to be built in space.
I made it more aerodynamic because it generally makes for a more beautiful vehicle, but also that it might need to skim through the atmospeheres of various planets and it would need a minimum of control in that situation.

@iichiversii said:

I said at the start, "lets make something beautiful" and thats what we did, and its still not finished, names??? ummmmm, we have to work on that

Yeah still lots of tweaks to be made but the overall shape is done. I don't like how the engine block looks from the top, so I'll tweak that too.

About the name how does this one sound, wanderer in Latin: PEREGRINUS = STRANGER, ALIEN, FOREIGNER, PEREGRINE, PILGRIM, WANDERER

Maybe the name of an explorer