Trekmeshes.eu

hi everyone

i'm just going to dump my tests for you all to see here

as you know i've been working on some effects in blender for when the new site is up. i know i havn't been on here for a while, but thats because i recently just moved to college. So now i'm getting back into my old projects.

this is the first shield test that i showed you guys



and this is my latest render



so just wanted to get some feed back on the latest edition
to see if i got it right

so far what i have done
phasers
torpedos

my current wip:
shields
tractor beams
pulse phasers
warp field

so yeah just give me some feedback.

very cool. I like the "progressing" shield effect as the torpedoes strifes the ship. Anyway if the torp moves a little faster then it's actually a perfect st battle scene

so i think its safe to say that my phasers photons and shield effects are done,

so today i was playing around and inspiration hit me
and i figured out an easy way to make a warp field
i'll post some animation later
but it looks promising

ur effects done? can i expect to put it up on STE? (and on STMC)

nah seriously. do you wish your fx to be shared?

eventually...sure
but i want to try an make some tutorials on how to make them as well.
i'm planning on releasing all of my effects once i am done with all of them
kinda an all in one deal.

so i don't have an animation yet
cause i have a crappy video card
but this is a still image
the ambassador can be found on this site by Cyrille Lefevre

impressive

great work Andy P. I made a longer post but this freakin PHPBB is crap. I cant get a post posted it deletes it and asks me to relog in. I am very ticked off right now. Every Phpbb board does me this way.

Anyway, I hope you are making a site for those of us that use blender. Amybe do something like Rashid Al-Marri does at star trek blender. I am waiting on someone to convert the PRometheus mesh. Plus i cant get any nebula mesh to import right.

offtopic:Sherlock, you should try and consider switching internet provider or reinstalling windows (or switch to MacOS or something) cause this problem does not occur with me. it must be something between the STMC server and your pc, or your pc itself. i'll put up a test forum on ste, so you can try and see if it happens there too.
/offtopic

nice job you did there andyp!!

Q: did you use blender specific functions or did you make textured pipes? or did you model all stars seperatly

thanks for the responses
i'll get a tutorial up soon.

will get it asap

@sherlock, that seems like your router switches off your internet connection after certain minutes (mine does too but I want it that way, so the phpbb board looses connection to you and logs you out automatically. if you then also have the cookies disabled, then nothing will help you to prevent the board killing your message after having submitted it). try change your router settings.

hey all,

just to give you a heads up
i'm working on the tractor beam today
and i hope to have the results up later tonight
or even tomorrow.

ok so this is what i've got for the tractor, tell me what you think and what needs to be tweaked cause i think it needs something more to it.

hm. its not very volumetric

maybe your should make some more layers or try to make this effect with volume lighting.

i'm afraid that i don't know what you mean by volume lighting and volumetric.
i was thinking of ashing a spotlight to the effect, but that would only affect the lighting.