Twin Ion Engine

[oovebei]

Well here we go again....

An old Storage drive died and took away all of my Star Wars stuff, I recall being horrified about the possibility of doing all of those greebles over again. So five years and 400 versions of Blender later, here we are.

[scifieric]

Excellent work, my friend.  I'm sorry about your hard drive.  I'm now quite fervently in the camp of storing finished models on multiple thumb drives kept in different locations now.

[scifidude79]

It looks like a good start.

[oovebei]

Lets hope it can get finished, glad I posted it eventually just spotted three mistakes lol

[scifieric]

Lets hope it can get finished, glad I posted it eventually just spotted three mistakes lol

That is the way it works, for sure.  I've already spotted problems in my new USS Enterprise.

[Freak]

Nice, Very Nice!

[Prime_8]

looking sharp.

[oovebei]

Thanks guys I really appreciate it,

Not much more to see right now, as always it takes forever to do the central hub details and then trying to rationalize it all out as well....

Here are two in progress images, one in materials setting and one in render setting so you have half a chance on actually seeing the details..

[scifidude79]

Those details are looking hot.

[scifieric]

This really does.look great!

[Freak]

Nice.
I see you moved over to Blender 2.8 How are you finding it compared to 2.9?

[oovebei]

The jump from 2.79 to 2.80 was a bit like the last one from 2.49 to 2.50 so I was completely lost at first, however after making a change or two, such as the left and right-click back to 2.79 settings it fairly easy to figure out.

A few shortcuts have been lost and a few things have been renamed, but all in all not the worst transition ever. the quick view change settings on the Z key are quite handy mind you.

[Freak]

I need to make the jump over, but I been playing with it a little.

[Prime_8]

i thought teh  options menu for 2.8 had "make like 2.79" wher it trys its best to make stuff like 2.79 for you.

I had to make space bar the search again. but so far just going with the idea 2.8 is a whole new beast.


Are you going to texture (shader/material) the pattern into the 'sails' or mesh it?

[oovebei]

Not decided yet, texture is probably lower impact but I will see after greenies are done lol.