Enterprise Redesign 2020

[scifidude79]

Thanks Dean.

[scifieric]

You've changed the Impulse Engine vents, I see.  Nice!

This has plenty detail enough to keep the eye entertained.  Excellent work, Chris.

[scifidude79]

Thanks Eric. Yeah, I didn't like my original impulse vents.

[Prime_8]

wow man it looks purty'

[scifidude79]

After a short break, I'm back to work on this. The saucer edge was next, so I started by putting some cutouts for it to add details. The three circular ones on the front are going to be the auxiliary nav deflector and forward sensor array. The ones on the port and starboard sides are obviously going to be the docking ports. And, I added some horizontal lines similar to what they did on the TMP Enterprise because I've always liked that look, though I did less lines so that you can make out the individual lines better. And, I put in the saucer rim windows. I went with more windows than the TOS ship, again similar to the TMP ship. I'll be doing very few (if any) windows on the saucer underside because having a bunch of windows on that aggressive curve makes no sense. I may just take a cue from the Kelvin Timeline Enterprise and have no windows down there. Or I may do some indentations like they did on the Enteprise-D and other TNG era ships to put some windows down there.

[scifieric]

Chris, that looks spectacular so far!  I'm curious to see what you do with her.

[scifidude79]

Thanks Eric.

I'm curious to see what you do with her.

Me too. Maybe I should have been working on it this past hour plus, rather than adding stuff to my Netflix playlist and writing a long winded reply over at SFM.

[scifieric]

Hey, it's all good!  LOL!

[scifidude79]

I got the forward sensor/deflector greeblies done. I also added the docking port(s.) The ports are based on other ones from Star Trek. It's a pretty basic design, but there's no need to make it complex. It's (obviously) situated between decks, just like the one on the TMP Enterprise. The airlock would require extra equipment that would make it too large to sit on just one deck. The idea is also that the whole airlock assembly itself can extend outward if necessary to dock with other ships, stations, or whatever. I'm pretty sure that's the way the Voyager airlocks were too.

Anyway, the only thing left to detail on the saucer edge is the impulse engine.

[scifidude79]

The impulse engines are done, so this will do it for saucer edge details. The saucer bottom is next.

[Tralfaz]

That looks stunning Chris.

[scifieric]

This DOES look sensational!  I see you went with impulse engines that are a little more representative of the new movies.  Cool.

[scifidude79]

Thanks guys.

[scifidude79]

I'm going to work in a little while, so no work will be done on the ship today. However, I decided to render up some full ship shots with higher anti aliasing to take a look at how everything is looking so far. And, since I rendered them anyway, there's no reason not to share them.











Rendering full ship shots gives me an idea of how things are shaping up, as well as giving me an idea of problems (if any) that exist with the mesh. So far, I'm not seeing any.

[Freak]

This is looks really great Chris. I love what you have done.
The only issue I have is the cut outs for the airlocks. I think they needs some sliding cover over them when not in use, so the cut outs don't break up the lines of the saucer so much.