Celestra Completed

gmd3d · November 10th, 2006, 12:26 PM

Celestra Completed ?? No. But I have gone as far as I can .. My Texturing leaves a lot to be desired, But having said that I am pleased at the results

It is after all my second Model (so please don't shot)

The Textures are Magma's and with his permission I will be releasing the mesh with them . If The texturing is bad , that's because of my lack of skill not Magma's Textures ....

There is perhaps a few things yet to be done or could be done .. but not now .I want to move on to the other ships in the Rag Tag Fleet .. until i finally think I am ready for the Galactica(TOS) ..

evil_genius_180 · November 11th, 2006, 12:15 AM

Don't beat yourself up, bro, that really looks great.

I've always had a special place in my heart for that ship. My only complaint is that they didn't feature it enough on the original Galactica.

As for texturing, you can do weathered panels like that using only Windows Paint and Gimp. All you have to do is paint some overlapping rectangles in Paint, replicate it to whatever size you want in Gimp and add some light noise and a layer of solid noise with alpha transparency and layer transparency to make it look weathered.

gmd3d · November 11th, 2006, 12:20 AM

I tried Gimp after reading one of your post on 3DG and I downloaded it.. for some reason it crashes on me ? no Idea why .. but Manga from Lightwave Group .. allowed me to us his

.. normally you have to download from there and add them later .. but I had to craft these for the Celestra ..

I Started the prison barge ..

evil_genius_180 · November 11th, 2006, 04:10 PM

Did you get both the Gimp runtime environment and Gimp 2.0 files? You have to have both for it to work.

gmd3d · November 12th, 2006, 03:02 AM

no I did not .. that possible Problem

thanks i will go for that again and let you know.. thanks bro

gmd3d · November 12th, 2006, 03:07 AM

here is two pic with the celestra and vipers passing by and shuttle already launching as the vipers speed past

Stevew · November 12th, 2006, 05:18 AM

Most impressive "T" Take a bow
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gmd3d · November 12th, 2006, 05:24 AM

Thank you .. I will .. I have already started the prison barge ..

Stevew · November 12th, 2006, 05:42 AM

Love to see a little more light just to see the model better, I know space is dark but put it close to a star, show off that detail

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gmd3d · November 12th, 2006, 05:58 AM

sure .. I was using that light level to show the landing bay lighting .. but I do as you ask asap

scifiguy · November 13th, 2006, 08:07 AM

Very Nice!

gmd3d · November 13th, 2006, 08:13 AM

Thanking you

gmd3d · November 14th, 2006, 02:49 PM

I have learned that some lightwaver cannot use the model for some reason .. as its save in LW8.3 and any the you below that have trouble .. there also seam to be other issues with it .. while it works perfectly well on my LW but not others ..

this is very disappointing for me .... I was hoping to share this will all, that would want it .. but my ambition exceeded my talent ..

jewels · November 14th, 2006, 07:58 PM

Nice job, Taranis.

gmd3d · November 15th, 2006, 01:23 AM

Thank you Jewels

Unimatrix · November 15th, 2006, 09:40 PM

Wow, any chance I could get ahold of the .lwo and see if it and blender will place nicely with each other?

evil_genius_180 · November 15th, 2006, 11:30 PM

Awesome work, bro. Your Celestra model looks great with some viper action.

gmd3d · November 15th, 2006, 11:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Unimatrix

Wow, any chance I could get ahold of the .lwo and see if it and blender will place nicely with each other?

sure

pm me your e-mail address and i will send it ... it is made in lw8.3 can blender see in layers? i can try and save it in lw5 .. but i think you have to reload the textures ..

gmd3d · November 16th, 2006, 12:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by evil_genius_180

Awesome work, bro. Your Celestra model looks great with some viper action.

I'll get right on that