Here's some pix of a generic destroyer class starship I'm working on and on and on...

They're of the forward hull, the section I just tore apart, went back and utterly remodeled.

Done in Blender 2.5x, a free program.

www.4shared.com/photo/1rmOmFnO/dd95.html

www.4shared.com/photo/165gLkvE/dd95a.html

www.4shared.com/photo/JUfsH9xn/dd95b.html

Looks like a lot of work. What sort of textures will you end up using?

Well, I plan to make the recessed panels some time of quantum vacuum armor that works by absorbing incoming energy, and they will have a hexgrid bumpmap. I actually did that on an earlier version.

And you're right, it's an incredible amount of work.

Overall I want something similar to a BSG look; dark, hard, no extraneous windows to weaken the hull, etc.

Here's an earlier version. I had some things wrong in terms no one not familiar with 3d modeling would understand, and I did not like the way the :ribs" flared outwards as they went down.

www.4shared.com/photo/xgAiLSb-/untitled1.html

The hexes are meant to be energy adsorbing quantum vacuum cells, they absorb incoming energy and reradiate it as heat. The ribs seperate the cells into groups so if some cells in an area at at full capacity and take more energy, resulting in an explosion, it limits the amount of aror cells that can be blown off in a chain reaction. Also the ribs act as heat conduits and try to carry heat away from the cells.

Here are a couple earlier views of the whole ship, I've redone some things since these were done:

www.4shared.com/photo/pmfU8k7J/3_online.html

www.4shared.com/photo/OIJYGs8C/5_online.html

www.4shared.com/photo/3Zr_bEpv/6_online.html

Lastly, images of the ship's PD turrets:

www.4shared.com/photo/WPC9O8--/pdt2.html

www.4shared.com/photo/pXbj55bt/turret8.html

Let's see incoming ordnance get past 13 of those...

Here's another old blender project I was working on, the ship was meant to be a more detailed version of the cover of "Slag!" and I based this on it.

This was a lot simpler than the last ship, and the energy beam was fairly easy to. As for the people who are going to say that a laser in space would be invisible I'd say that a laser firing an intense beam in the x or gamma freq might cause interplanetary dust and gas particles to florescence along the beam as it converts them instantly to superheated plasma, so there!

s32.photobucket.com/albums/d25/tanhauser...mp;current=ussbb.jpg