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"but at least it's not nothing. "   it's also very true .
It is something .   

Dang I been fighting grammarians for all my life it seems .  And Spelling Nazis! LOL

looks good man .

Quote from: Prime_8 on Jan 06, 2020, 04:10 pm"but at least it's not nothing. "  it's also very true .
It is something . 

Dang I been fighting grammarians for all my life it seems .  And Spelling Nazis! LOL

looks good man .

Thank you, my friend!

Didn't have time to work on the model, but I did have an idea how to make changes to my camera settings.  I think it is a little closer to the photograph I am trying to duplicate.

What did you do to the camera?  Change focal length or ISO?

Quote from: Tralfaz on Jan 08, 2020, 03:21 amWhat did you do to the camera?  Change focal length or ISO?

For this particular image, I changed the sensor size to 16 and the Focal Length to 50.  I think it gets closer to matching how the model looks in the photograph I was trying to mimic.  But it only was about making the model look correct.  The first version of this that I did made the warp engines look entirely too long.

Also, when the time comes and I make a serious attempt to duplicate the original photograph, I'll want to change the color management settings as well as the lighting.  Not to mention that the model isn't finished yet.  But, small steps first.

What have we said before about trying to pass off real pics as renders?

Quote from: scifidude79 on Jan 08, 2020, 10:20 amWhat have we said before about trying to pass off real pics as renders?

Thank you, Chris!  That honestly made me laugh out loud!

A little tiny bit of progress.

Made some changes to my temporary textures and added more of the windows and ports.  The spires on the warp domes are now gold.  The "glass" textures no longer makes those fireflies.  It's a mix of transparent and metal.

The angles I selected where based off of pictures taken by the original effects crew when they got the 11 foot model, and an image from the second pilot.  I should get to the banners today on the Engineering Hull and perhaps the warp engines.  Then I hope I can start to texture.

It looks good.

Quote from: scifidude79 on Jan 11, 2020, 11:47 pmIt looks good.

Thank you, my friend!

Stunning as always!

Quote from: Freak on Jan 13, 2020, 07:36 amStunning as always!

Thank you, Dean.  You are too kind!

looks good mang .

the attention to details when building somethin cannon or to/from a known source would be more pressure than i would call fun . you're all nuts .. but in the good kinda way .

Quote from: Prime_8 on Jan 13, 2020, 04:20 pmlooks good mang .

the attention to details when building somethin cannon or to/from a known source would be more pressure than i would call fun . you're all nuts .. but in the good kinda way .

LOL!  Thank you, Scott!  I love to try to get a model to look like something that already exists.  For me, it takes a lot of pressure OFF! 

Here's a test for the placement of the pennants for our lovely starship!