Terran Trade Confederation

It looks a lot like your first ship, which is good, because I like the style.

stufuzzycat wrote:

It looks a lot like your first ship, which is good, because I like the style.

Yeah, it turned out to have almost the exact same shape as the Reprisal Class. The original sketches looked pretty different, but because I was working with cubic meter blocks, I had to keep compromising the design and it kept coming closer and closer to looking exactly my first ship...

Also can you send me your modified version of the texture pack, because I need a new one, and your interiors look so friggin cool.

stufuzzycat wrote:

Also can you send me your modified version of the texture pack, because I need a new one, and your interiors look so friggin cool.

Sure, I don't have a site to upload files to yet but I'll try to figure that out in the next week or two.

Also, ANOTHER ship size index added to my op!

Spoiler:

whats the third ship from the bottom?

blockman42 wrote:

whats the third ship from the bottom?

That's a very keen eye you have there. That's a pinnace that I've built but haven't gotten around to photographing and uploading yet. With the obvious exception of the size chart, of course.

Laserbilly wrote:

blockman42 wrote:

whats the third ship from the bottom?

That's a very keen eye you have there. That's a pinnace that I've built but haven't gotten around to photographing and uploading yet. With the obvious exception of the size chart, of course.

I hope you can take some pictures, I would love to see it!

You could email to me by attaching it to the email. I do it a lot.
My email is in my profile.

I LOVE YOUR SIZING SYSTEM!!!!! FINALLY ONE THAT MAKES SENSE!!!!!

Also, nice ships. I was using Deuteros for a while, but I recently switched to another texture pack, carrying over the door styling, beds, and a couple of other less noticeable textures. I'm still looking for a good 128x iron texture though...not saying yours is bad, it just might not match my style.

Avenger_7 wrote:

I LOVE YOUR SIZING SYSTEM!!!!! FINALLY ONE THAT MAKES SENSE!!!!!

Also, nice ships. I was using Deuteros for a while, but I recently switched to another texture pack, carrying over the door styling, beds, and a couple of other less noticeable textures. I'm still looking for a good 128x iron texture though...not saying yours is bad, it just might not match my style.

Thanks for reading it. I thought some of the other ones were close, but just not quite what I needed. What texture pack are you using now then?

Also, I didn't want to necro something for no reason other than a status report, but, have you put any more time into your Grey Knights Dreadnaught? Because the source material for that looked awesome!

Thanks for sending me the texture pack, I like it a lot, but since I don't have a very good computer, I lags out a bit when I run my world, but its fine. I do like the textures, and I think I will stick with the lapis blocks for now, especially since the texture pack doesn't seem to have textures for a lot of things.

Wow, I just realized its 128x texture pack. That explains all the lag.

Laserbilly wrote:

Avenger_7 wrote:

I LOVE YOUR SIZING SYSTEM!!!!! FINALLY ONE THAT MAKES SENSE!!!!!

Also, nice ships. I was using Deuteros for a while, but I recently switched to another texture pack, carrying over the door styling, beds, and a couple of other less noticeable textures. I'm still looking for a good 128x iron texture though...not saying yours is bad, it just might not match my style.

Thanks for reading it. I thought some of the other ones were close, but just not quite what I needed. What texture pack are you using now then?

Also, I didn't want to necro something for no reason other than a status report, but, have you put any more time into your Grey Knights Dreadnaught? Because the source material for that looked awesome!

Presently I am using a very heavily modified Affinity pack. I haven't done much on my Grey Knights ship, sadly, as I have to redesign a lot of the front end and resize the whole thing. I do have a heavy cruiser almost ready to go though, it's about 1/3 the size that my final dreadnought will be.

stufuzzycat wrote:

Wow, I just realized its 128x texture pack. That explains all the lag.

Wow, I didn't know it was a 128! Maybe there's a way to resize it? If there is, I don't know it...

But I hope you enjoy the paintings. All the consoles are my additions, but sadly, not my art.

Avenger_7 wrote:

Laserbilly wrote:

Avenger_7 wrote:

I LOVE YOUR SIZING SYSTEM!!!!! FINALLY ONE THAT MAKES SENSE!!!!!

Also, nice ships. I was using Deuteros for a while, but I recently switched to another texture pack, carrying over the door styling, beds, and a couple of other less noticeable textures. I'm still looking for a good 128x iron texture though...not saying yours is bad, it just might not match my style.

Thanks for reading it. I thought some of the other ones were close, but just not quite what I needed. What texture pack are you using now then?

Also, I didn't want to necro something for no reason other than a status report, but, have you put any more time into your Grey Knights Dreadnaught? Because the source material for that looked awesome!

Presently I am using a very heavily modified Affinity pack. I haven't done much on my Grey Knights ship, sadly, as I have to redesign a lot of the front end and resize the whole thing. I do have a heavy cruiser almost ready to go though, it's about 1/3 the size that my final dreadnought will be.

Are you sticking with your diamond designs? And what was wrong with the bow? It looked perfect to me!

I have 5 completed ships (including my fighters) that I want to flesh out the way I did with the Reprisal on my op, but I can't because of time constraints. Also, 2 and half new ships are in the middle of construction, as well as 3 and a half planned to start. So many ideas and no time! If I didn't have to do interiors I could have the exteriors all done in 2 weeks. But on one, the exteriors need to be at least partially done, but on the rest, I don't know.

What do you guys think? Interiors are killing me.
Should I keep doing them ship by ship and posting them as I go?
Or should I just do the exteriors and come back to the interiors when I'm done?

Until I find some more time to post everything, I'm going to flash my pinnace at you:

Spoiler:

I would do exteriors first.

Yes new pics!

New ship and page restructured!

Niiiiice!

Your ships are pretty good, but what I find most inspirational (and yes, I used that term), is your brilliant layout of thread. Exemplary, perfectly clear and cool.

Why can't my ships be as awesome as yours? Seriously, I need some help with interiors, even just ideas and motivation.

Thanks AC and Mack.

@ stufuzzycat

I feel like doing interiors is the least fun part of making the ship. But if you have to do them, I like to combine modern submarines with WWII battleships. I use the battleships because of their massive gunwells and because their exteriors are bristling with menacing looking gun barrels. But I also like the submarines too, because they include everything you need to stay in an enclosed space for an extended period of time. If I were you, I would either go to the library, or look online and find pictures of submarine cut-aways. When you see the interior of a nuclear sub, the first thing you'll notice is that most of the interior space is taken by the machinery needed to move the sub, fight, breath, and power all those things. there's only a small amount of space allotted for crew.

In fact, I found one for you: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7935927.stm
Go to this site and download the file at the bottom right of the article. By combining this with Firefly and Battlestar Galactica, is how I do my interiors.

Thanks!

My ships are also quite submarine-like, always very cramped and space efficient.