Star Trek unit preview thread

[Flamand]

This was the first deep space vessel called Enterprise. It never appeared on screens, only in pictures and paintings on the walls of the later Enterprises...

 

[Wyrmshadow]

funky looking thing. Never saw it before. Where is it from?

Never seen it? Ive seen it plenty of times in obscure places. This was actually one of the sketches that Jeffreys made for the original TOS Enterprise that eventually took the form of the Constitution class.

It trek lore it was called the SS. Enterprise and was called just a space liner. The only screen time it ever had was as a paiting in the main cargo hold during ST:TMP.

 

[Thorgrimm]

No need to do that one anymore, Morpheus already made a very nice version 1.5 years ago: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?postid=1495692

The list in the first post show just the ones missing from the mod that still need to be made. But don't worry, the original Enterprise will definitely not be forgotten...

Flamand, I hate to bust your bubble, but that is the NCC-1701-A! Not the original Enterprise from TOS.



Cheers Thorgrimm

 

[Wyrmshadow]

I'll find some more pics later

Annotations
1) The SS Enterprise is based on an old design by Matt Jefferies, one of his first ideas for the original Enterprise. It was included to a display on the recreation deck of the USS Enterprise in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", together with other ships named Enterprise. In the bar in ENT: "First Flight", we can see an image of the SS Enterprise too. Considering that it is shown there as a tribute to test pilots, the ship is very likely supposed to still exist.
2) The strange ring structure, where the ring obviously houses the propulsion system, doesn't fit into the Federation design lineage. The ship, however, looks very similar to the Vulcan Surak class. It is possible that humans acquired one or more Vulcan ships, which would explain the name "Enterprise". It is also possible that it is a prototype ship built by humans, inspired by Vulcan technology. If this is so, the project was apparently a failure, considering that all known later Federation starship designs have the familiar nacelles again.
3) The non-canon Space Flight Chronology suggests that the SS Enterprise should have been a 300m long starliner for 800 passengers. As Paul Cargile pointed out some time ago, this is complete bogus. At 300m, the inhabitable bow section would be smaller than the Defiant, and imagine 800 people in there!
4) Rick Sternbach said about the design at TrekBBS: "My only exposure to that design was back in 1978 when I was on ST:TMP. The script called for a few ships called Enterprise to be exhibited in the Rec Room. Gene Roddenberry asked me to stop by his office, where he
gave me a copy of the painting of the ship, printed as a poster. He asked me to make that design one of the five or so ships in the Rec Room alcove. So who was I to say no? ... As to how that ship fits into Trek history, I really don't have anything intelligent to say. I don't know much about it, never speculated about uh, specs, and have no real opinion about whether it was a civvie vessel or a Federation vessel or just what it was. I also have no additional drawings or even the poster I worked from in 1978. You'll all have to carry on as best you can to shoehorn it into the lore."
5) If the SS Enterprise (note that the prefix SS is only conjectural) is no Starfleet ship, there is no naming conflict, and it may have been in service at any time prior to 2153.

 

[Flamand]

Flamand, I hate to bust your bubble, but that is the NCC-1701-A! Not the original Enterprise from TOS.

Yeah I know it is the one from the first movie... You want the one with the round red nacelles, right? I'll see what I can do, but no promises.

Thanks Wyrmshadow for all the pics! I think I stick to the blueish one (the second) with the moon and the fourth one two down . I noticed that the designs have quite a lot of variation, so I'll have some choice...

 

[Thorgrimm]

Flamand, thanks for making my point for me. As I hate to say it, but that IS the Enterprise, everything else was either an upgrade or another ship. Remember this was the ship that protected the Federation for many years, and because of that, is far more important than the upgrades.




Cheers Thorgrimm

 

[Flamand]

Remember this was the ship that protected the Federation for many years, and because of that, is far more important than the upgrades.

Like this you're going to make me feel guilty... I already downloaded the mesh and I'll put it on the list.

Here's the finished model for the XCV. I'll start the animating tomorrow.

 

[Flamand]

The XCV-330 is finished and posted. This guy is next:

 

[Flamand]

Just wanted to post the first results. The death animations will take ages to render, so it won't be ready for another couple of days...

Default and Attack (sucking energy away from opponent):

 

[Flamand]

I just finished three First Federation units and a subspace distortion. I'll post them tomorrow.

 

[Bjornlo]

very clever and nicely done. I was wondering how you would handle the crystal.
Did you experiment with having it rotate on more then once axis? Right now it looks as if it is spinning on just the X. Maybe have it rotate on Z as well, but rotate the Y first so the Z rotation is not perpendicular to the X rotation.
so from the top it would look like this pattern


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.....\

If you get my drift.

-edit-
Dotted lines added to stop the forum parser from messing the formatting up.

 

[Flamand]

Thanks... The first animation only show the 8 different directions, not the ingame animation. In the series the Entity didn't move very much, so I thought a single frame would be enough. For the death I was thinking to make it resonate before exploding, but I'm still figuring out how exactly I should do that...
Unfortunately I think I should start over again with the modelling since for some strange reason suddenly the rendering time went up from 15s/frame to 15min/frame.
Shouldn't be too much work though...

 

[Flamand]

Ok, I remodeled it all over again and have the default, attack and fidget (below) animations ready. But making a decent death explosion is still proving a pain in the bum for now. I'll try again tomorrow...

 

[Bjornlo]

Hypnotic...

 

[Flamand]

The Entity is finished, apart from some palette tweaking. Specially for Thorgrimm, here's the next one...

 

[Flamand]

The Crystalline Entity and the First Federation are posted. The link is in my signature.

 

[Flamand]

I'm happy to say that James T. Kirk has his own ship now...

 

[Flamand]

This is the Stargazer, Picards first command. (green civcolor)

 

[Mentat]

I'm happy to say that James T. Kirk has his own ship now...

Great Work, once more Flamand, I like the units a lot.

 

[Flamand]

And more is coming up... Hope to finish the Ambassador, Oberth, Steamrunner and Shelly before the end of the week.
Did you get my PM?