starship design

"Martin Heathcote" (hea...@lineone.net) writes:
> i have designed ships on paper for a while now but i want to get them as 3d
> models for my computer and the website im building has any1 got any info
> they think i may find usefull
> 
> like how to do the hard bits of the ships and how to make a site with the
> lcars interface?
> 
> thanx
> M.Heathcote    -    hea...@lineone.net
> 
> 
> 


There are several 3D modeling programs.  I am told that a few good ones
are 3-D Studio Max and Lightwave.

There's a great site that I came across a few months ago called:

http://www.scifi-art.com

They have specific tips on different aspects of modelling starships on the
computer.   Just look around for them.

As for an LCARS interface...you'll probably need Java experience for that,
unless you have software that can do *really* good animated GIFs.  I'm
assuming that you want a "Voyager"-style LCARS. 

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I hope that conforms to your vision.  About a year ago, I thought about
building a site that was based on Voy's style.  I even watched "Equinox"
on slow-motion to catch the specific movements of the grafic.  For
instance, I noted that when the square of light travels up the bar it
doesn't just go RED, WHITE, and RED again.  I actually goes RED,
*ORANGE-RED*, WHITE, RED. (You'd know what I'm talking about if you watch
the scene in Equinox where the Doc transports to Equinox's sickbay and
learns that they've been usiing the Aliens for fuel.-man, I really have to
get a life)

Of course, you could mean a "traditional" Next-Generation LCARS panal. 
For those, look at the way the following sites have been designed:

http://www.bravofleet.com
http://www.ditl.org
http://www.startrek.com 

Hmmm...looking over my LCARS thing, I have to admit it doesn't look that
half-bad.  I'll post it to alt.ascii-art to see what they think. :)


Good Luck
-KMB
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"Martin Heathcote" (hea...@lineone.net) writes:
> i have designed ships on paper for a while now but i want to get them as 3d
> models for my computer and the website im building has any1 got any info
> they think i may find usefull

There is a shareware modeller where you do the wireframe editing called Moray,
it is one of the more popular shareware programs. You will need POV-Ray
(freeware) to create the actual picture. Both programs need to be installed.
There is a good Yahoo! club where you can get help with it too.

POV-Ray - the Persistence of Vision Raytracer
http://www.povray.org/

The Moray Homepage
http://www.stmuc.com/moray/

Yahoo! Clubs unnoficialpovrayhut
http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/unnoficialpovrayhut

> like how to do the hard bits of the ships and how to make a site with the
> lcars interface?

I would check out the Java Boutique or some other java resource page, they
might have something like that.

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-- 
I am the one you warned me of. - BOC - Imaginos

> Of course, you could mean a "traditional" Next-Generation LCARS panal.
> For those, look at the way the following sites have been designed:
>
> http://www.bravofleet.com
> http://www.ditl.org
> http://www.startrek.com
>

Another LCARS panel:
http://www.geocities.com/lcarsworld/index2.html

Feel free to 'borrow' it. But plz link to my page if you do so.

--
WilleM
http://www.geocities.com/lcarsworld/