My first starship

**Soquili** · 07 June 2003, 11:01 PM

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

Soquili

**jens g.r. benthien** · 08 June 2003, 12:12 AM

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.

jens g.r. benthien
designer
http://www.sacalobra.de

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**jens g.r. benthien** · 09 June 2003, 11:32 PM

<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.

jens g.r. benthien
designer
http://www.sacalobra.de

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**gidgit** · 07 July 2003, 05:27 PM

Very fun looking projects indeed... super job on the working with Gare's tuts and bringing things to this stage... indeed, as Stu has suggested... once ya begins to have fun... well... you know

Go Soquili Go

Jens, I like this little model of your here... also a super job... you guys are rock'n

**Soquili** · 08 June 2003, 11:57 AM

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.

Soquili

**Gary David Bouton** · 08 June 2003, 05:01 AM

Very nice work!

My Best,
Gare

**Gary David Bouton** · 10 June 2003, 04:57 AM

trueSpace can export to DXF.

Nice starship!

My Best,
Gare

**Soquili** · 09 June 2003, 07:59 PM

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

Soquili