Registered: Mar 2001
Location: IL, USA
Posts: 7

After reading the stuff on Volition's fighter tutorial, I got Blender and have been fiddling around with it. I might try out doing some of the B5 designs that haven't been started yet, but the only 3D tool I have is Blender, so I'd have to pass it along to someone else to texture/finish it.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Vancouver, WA, United States
Posts: 1290

You could always get TrueSpace, which I think allows you to texture. I've been going through Max Sterling's fighter tutorial, and after making a 3D cube in Blender I can't help but admire those modelers who are doing the ships for B5. Trying to do just one of the ships they're doing would take me a month, and that's just for creating the mesh.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: The Cold Northland!
Posts: 8392

I made a cube too! I even textured it with a quasi-borg looking thing. So it was a Borg Cube

Yes!

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: scotland
Posts: 1205

a cube you say? wow i wish i had the talent to do that

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Registered: Mar 2001
Location: IL, USA
Posts: 7

It's not really too hard to use, once you get the hang of most of the functions. Of course, the model isn't just going to fall together either.

And if all else fails, I can just make a Borg fleet


PS- When I have more than one object in Blender, sometimes the little blue vertex icons disappear and I can't edit the shapes. Anyone know how to make them come back? (It's not because I'm out of Edit mode)

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Registered: Nov 2000
Location: Finland
Posts: 553

Are you sure you're in edit mode? Beside that I don't really know.

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Somewhere in the Sol system
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BEHOLD: The POWER of BLENDER!!!!
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[url="http://www.atlantic.net/~lakesid/drakhonthemove.jpg"]http://www.atlantic.net/~lakesid/drakhonthemove.jpg[/url]

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Registered: Nov 2000
Location: Finland
Posts: 553

Nice renders

Yeah, any Blender questions, direct them to A2597, then Max Sterling and his fighter tutorial, and if you can't find either, I may be able to help

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Vancouver, WA, United States
Posts: 1290

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Originally posted by cleverjoey:


And if all else fails, I can just make a Borg fleet

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I couldn't even make a pefect cube since I can't get all the sides and planes to be congruent!

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Finland, beyond the Rim
Posts: 164

Yep, nice renders, but the Drakh beam is too green... It's actually more white/blue. That way it looks more energetic .

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