Help with a spaceship

NAIMA

Hello , Is the first time I am sketching up a spaceship , I do not pretend to make it 100% perfect with all vertexes in the right place, its mostly a quick sketch to assemble a good shape and in meanwhile learn some todos and not todos whiole doing it ...

So I was wondering if you can help me on that one ...

I have started with an idea in mind but no handmade sketches or premade plans or any blueprint ... so I am a little trying this and that and see how it looks ...

My main issue now is I have no idea how to do a nice plating on the main hull that could fit the shape and eventually how to approach , making a goodlooking segmentation ...

SO I wonder if someone could help me make one or give me ideas on how to cut the shape to make a nice , well fitting and good looking plating ?

this ship should be a military corvette . Its 125 m long .


Here some pictures :

Eric Chadwick

Depends. Are you only rendering in Max, or do you want to put it in a game?

You can get some interesting results if you layer multiple procedurals with some masks. The procedurals don't require UVs, they're 3d textures.
http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_education/procedural_noise/procedural_noise.html

NAIMA

no I want to carve it , not using textures .

Eric Chadwick

Ok. Search for the Greeble modifier.

NAIMA

no I know that , but I do not want to add boxes and extrusions just for the sake of it , what I mean is carve in a platint that can go with the flow of the ship , I am not really sure how to draw those on the silouhette , so its more an aestethic problem than a modeling one .

NAIMA

Its mostly about the linees flow to segment the hull surface ... i am stuck and dunnobhow to proceed ...

wirrexx

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyg79xF7r7A[/ame]

like paneling?

Eric Chadwick

Yeah, you could do it like that, subdivision surface style.

If you like Zbrush style brushing, another way would be to re-topo the ship hull into a simpler and mostly-quads shape, import into Zbrush, and carve away in there, then optimize it down and import back into Max for rendering.
http://pixologic.com/zclassroom/homeroom/lesson/helmet-design-with-joseph-drust/

Joost

So if I understand correctly you don't need help with the technique itself but rather how to decide where to place the panel lines? Because then you should really just look at reference. Current day aircraft carriers, subs, planes etc. And other sci fi (concept) art.

http://conceptships.blogspot.co.uk/

NAIMA

Joost wrote: »

So if I understand correctly you don't need help with the technique itself but rather how to decide where to place the panel lines? Because then you should really just look at reference. Current day aircraft carriers, subs, planes etc. And other sci fi (concept) art.

http://conceptships.blogspot.co.uk/

Yes this ... But I am stuck on giving it a good paneling shape .