Star Trek Online: Enterprise-F
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Hey PC. So I've been doing ships for STO for about 2 years now. Recently we held a Design the Next Enterprise contest. It was won by an artist named Adam Ihle. We took his original sketch and brought it in to our game as the next Enterprise in the Star Trek fiction. Here is a link to the development diaries.
http://www.startrekonline.com/node/2549
And here's some images of Star Trek's latest incarnation of the U.S.S. Enterprise.
Enjoy! - I've been defending myself against the flame on the STO boards under the name CapnLogan. Trek fans are so splintered on literally every issue but I've managed to get most STO players on board with this design.
http://www.startrekonline.com/node/2549
And here's some images of Star Trek's latest incarnation of the U.S.S. Enterprise.
Enjoy! - I've been defending myself against the flame on the STO boards under the name CapnLogan. Trek fans are so splintered on literally every issue but I've managed to get most STO players on board with this design.
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Great!
A little iffy from the back but overall I really like it.
Also, fanboys hate everything. Let it roll.
Looks great man, any chance of wires or maps?
And yes, trek fans are tough to please. haha.
Did you happen to ever work on the Perpetual team?
Screw the haters, they always look for something to moan about.
The curved design is amazing.
Great work. I like how it's similar to the "E" but has it's own style as well. It actually inspired me to do a little speed sculpt of a Romulan.
I don't want to hijack your thread, but your model made me want to play around with some Star trek designs myself:
I was never on the perpetual team, I joined Cryptic in June of '09
Texture
You'll notice there are dark areas on the ship that aren't shown on the texture. This is done in our material editor where you can choose patterns to lay over your hull and tint them any color you like.
the game looks great buddy love the ships!
- Awesome job, I love it.
- How is the "NCC 1701 F" done? A decal from another texture?
- Could you do a cross reference of areas of the ship to where they are on the texture? For instance - the lit windows, where are they on the sheet? Etc.
Thanks!
In this image you'll see the ship all as one unit, and one where all decal elements have been shifted to the side. These elements include-
-window/escape pods (checkers)
-IDName and IDNumbers
-Decal materials (starfleet logos)
The checker material on the windows represents the in-game textures that are customizable by players to show different kinds of escape pods and windows. The checkers represent where the UV's must be mapped in order to not have any cut-off windows if the player chooses a different type.
The super colorful texture on the ship itself represent the areas where the player can change his/her trim maps to get different swatches on the hull. The entire ship is mapped to a flat, horizontally tiling 1024x1024 square that has areas for mapping special parts of the ship like phaser strips, warp nacelle glow, impulse engines, deflector arrays, arboretum windows etc. This can be seen on the previously shown texture.
As you suspected, the registry names and numbers are dynamic and are decal'd by another texture. Obviously this is the same for the windows etc. It gives a great deal of customization to the players. All STO ships have 3 variants (well... almost all) that can swap out interchangeably. This is one of the hardest parts of the job is making variants that are vastly different from one another, but still all work together no matter what combo the player chooses.
Ae! I noticed you're working on the new Star Trek game too -