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    Mostly Truespace 3.2, with some help from PSP, RealDraw, and XaraX. The starfield was made using PSP and Uleads Particle plug-in. RealDraw was used to make a circle and exported as an esp file. Imported the circle into Truespace and used the sweep tool to make the top part of the saucer. Applied a texture then rendered to a tga file. Imported tga into XaraX and added some details, then exported as a jpg. Used the jpg to texture the saucer shape again. Copied the saucer and then matched the flat sides together. Used a few cubes to make the thrusters. Used a few spheres to make the planet with an atmosphere. Planet texture was made in PSP. Rendered several views to tga files which were then imported into XaraX to assemble the final image.

    Spent a total of 14 hours working on it. Mostly working to get the shapes to line up correctly in Truespace. Still working on figuring out the best way to move, rotate, and scale objects

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    great image. I like the shiny 'dome' on the saucer. The background is perfect. The lighting is good - at least for my non sci-fi eyes. Reason: I can see all details of the object. In most cases starships from artists feature a dark surface to give it a more powerful or threatening look (I will never understand why). Maybe it's like in the western movies: the good guys had light colored clothes, while the bad guys had dark colors or black. The old 'good guy - bad guy' scheme ;-}

    This is a saucer I would welcome or at least not fear to encounter.

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    Very nice work!


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    Nice job. Keep on getting better with TrueSpace.

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    Jens, Gary, Randy.

    Since reading Gary's lessons, I've enjoyed working with Truespace. I bought the upgrade to version 4 (can't afford the version 5 or 6 at this time) and it should arrive later this week. Verson 4 includes nurbs and bones. I'm not sure what nurbs are but I think working with bones will be good for making figures of people.

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    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> I'm not sure what nurbs are <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

    NURBS are Non Uniform Rational B-Splines, which translates into 3D vectors. In XARA you draw vectors in 2D, and in Truespace (among others) you can generate volumetric objects - meaning solids and surfaces - with vectors in all 3 dimensions.

    You'll love it!

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    Yea! Soquili. Looks like star treck

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    Jens, thanks for the information about NURBS. They sound like they will be great fun!

    Thanks Mike, I'm working my way up to doing a Star Trek starship

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    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> I'm working my way up to doing a Star Trek starship <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

    I've modeled a star trek spaceship long time ago. If you are interested, I can send you the file, though I don't know which formats TrueSpace can handle for imports. Even if you can import it only as a polygon object, it might help you to get a feeling for 3D???

    See pic below.

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    trueSpace can export to DXF.

    Nice starship!


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