Star Trek Builders Unite 8: THE REBOOT

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  • handyman4545handyman4545 Posts: 408

    Great work Ash!

  • MattymanxMattymanx Posts: 6,902

    I built a short section of corridor TOS style to sit outside the Stateroom. It can only be shot from a few angles because of the open end on one side, but it feels more attached to a ship/starbase this way I think.

    Revisiting my Destroyer set corridors and actually building corridors as opposed to just having them attached to the Destroyer sets. I also tried to blend in more of a TOS feel so this is more like TOS Enhanced. I need to build doors, get some signage made, and I'm putting in the grav plating markings on the floor we saw in Enterprise Mirror Darkly. Going 2 routes with it too, regular lighting and materials emulating TOS and then another set that's a bit glossier and would fit more with Discovery. :)

    Then I went and built a CIC / Mission Ops for the Phase II/TMP era using some parts from my revamped Engineering set and built a new pool table. :)

     

    Those look amazing! 

  • Robert FreiseRobert Freise Posts: 4,433

    Some very nice work

  • jaguarry3jaguarry3 Posts: 230

    Anyone looking for decent Klingon Morph Ghoastman just released these for LaFemme. Can be used individualy or mixed for different looks

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  • jaguarry3jaguarry3 Posts: 230

    Capt Lurker of the USS Divergant at your service. Just playing around with the new discovery Bridge

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  • Playing around with the Daz version of VP's Starship Bridge 14 to fit the Reliant-Class from STO. Most of the console textures are placeholders until I can design a proper layout (rather than just stealing a bunch of old ones from STO). Some kitbashing here, too, with VP's Sci-Fi sets for Daz and a couple of Sketchup models of consoles. The aft doors lead to offices for the captain and first officer (port and starboard respectively). The captain is a Caitian, so I kept the TNG beiges for a natural, but bright look. And, the first officer I'm thinking would be a Gorn who likes the 23rd-century Starfleet aesthetic. Naturally, he has a small basking area near the back with a rock to sit and relax on.

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  • AshleyTingerAshleyTinger Posts: 498

    That looks great Night-Forager!

    Still doing some testing on the Stateroom before I even prep it for the masses, but work is continuing on other sets. Revisited my Throwback Corridor pieces and built up a full blown corridor set for it.



     

     

    And then I thought, why not set up the corridor for the Discovery aesthetic.



    I'm also re-visiting my Bridge of the Week or the Guest Bridge idea starting with a TOS version. Basically it's the Enterprise C bridge bones and I build the consoles and everything into it. 

  • DodgerDodger Posts: 304

    Dodger!
    You are so cool man!
    Great job!

    Thank you.

    I tried to mod your uniform for her but cant make it work for her.
    Can you make the mods for the chest and waist???

    No. Sorry, but I don't actually want to support this company nor its products. I made a figure for it to fit, and I could even conceive of making it fit Dawn or something. But to make it work with a DAZ product, you're on your own. We have beef with one another.

  • DodgerDodger Posts: 304

    I've just started a Kzin character morph for my Traveller Aslan figure.
    While the actual source is, of course, the Larry Niven Known Space stories (such as Ringworld), it'll also be Star Trek, thanks to The Animated Series.

    I'm not sure how long until I do the textures, etc for it, though, to finish it. And it doesn't look QUITE like the ones in TAS, since the animators weren't super-strict in their interpretation of Niven's writing (they appeared in TAS because Niven wrote the episode in which they appeared).

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  • DodgerDodger Posts: 304

    (This is how the Kzin were shown in TAS)

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  • DodgerDodger Posts: 304
    edited June 2019

    The biggest difference is that TAS left out their rat-tails. (not the bad 80s hairstyle, actual tails)

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  • tikiman-3dtikiman-3d Posts: 34

    Hi All,

    Here's something I've been working on.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a1OnpNGt40&t=103s

    This was animated in DAZ3d and rendered with Octane.

     

  • Paul PettyPaul Petty Posts: 48

    Looks Great!

    I can not wait for Part 2

  • Paul PettyPaul Petty Posts: 48

    If anyone is coming up to Ticonderoga this weekend ask for me I would love to meet you.

  • RedfernRedfern Posts: 1,598
    Dodger said:

    The biggest difference is that TAS left out theit rat-tails. (not the bad 80s hairstyle, actual tails)

    Well, in some shots.  Here's one when the Kzinti enter a large chamber of their stolen police vessel and one can clearly see a tail.  Now, whether or not the artists realized it was meant to be hairless is another matter.  Here it looks like it is "sleeved" in pressure suit material.  That exterior shot (and likely others) suffers from careless omission of elements.

    Sincerely,

    Bill

  • DodgerDodger Posts: 304

    Just needs textures. (Currently just using procedural materials and the Traveller Aslan textures since it's an Aslan character)

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  • DodgerDodger Posts: 304
    Redfern said:
    Dodger said:

    The biggest difference is that TAS left out theit rat-tails. (not the bad 80s hairstyle, actual tails)

    Well, in some shots.  Here's one when the Kzinti enter a large chamber of their stolen police vessel and one can clearly see a tail.  Now, whether or not the artists realized it was meant to be hairless is another matter.  Here it looks like it is "sleeved" in pressure suit material.  That exterior shot (and likely others) suffers from careless omission of elements.

    Sincerely,

    Bill

    did you mean to attach a picture? You said "here's one..."

  • RedfernRedfern Posts: 1,598
    edited June 2019
    Dodger said:
    Redfern said:
    Dodger said:

    The biggest difference is that TAS left out theit rat-tails. (not the bad 80s hairstyle, actual tails)

    Well, in some shots.  Here's one when the Kzinti enter a large chamber of their stolen police vessel and one can clearly see a tail.  Now, whether or not the artists realized it was meant to be hairless is another matter.  Here it looks like it is "sleeved" in pressure suit material.  That exterior shot (and likely others) suffers from careless omission of elements.

    Sincerely,

    Bill

    did you mean to attach a picture? You said "here's one..."

    Hmm, bloody h3ll!  Lets try that again.

    http://tas.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/blu-ray/114-BR/theslaverweaponhd0088.jpg

    Oh, BTW, the long standing anecdote about Hal Sutherland being colorblind and thus resulting in pink Kzinti spacesuits, tribbles and Klingon vests turns out to just be a tall tale.  The odd hues were selected by a thoroughly disgruntled Filmation employee.

    Sincerely,

    Bill

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  • Redfern said:
    Dodger said:
    Redfern said:
    Dodger said:

    The biggest difference is that TAS left out theit rat-tails. (not the bad 80s hairstyle, actual tails)

    Well, in some shots.  Here's one when the Kzinti enter a large chamber of their stolen police vessel and one can clearly see a tail.  Now, whether or not the artists realized it was meant to be hairless is another matter.  Here it looks like it is "sleeved" in pressure suit material.  That exterior shot (and likely others) suffers from careless omission of elements.

    Sincerely,

    Bill

    did you mean to attach a picture? You said "here's one..."

    Hmm, bloody h3ll!  Lets try that again.

    http://tas.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/blu-ray/114-BR/theslaverweaponhd0088.jpg

    Oh, BTW, the long standing anecdote about Hal Sutherland being colorblind and thus resulting in pink Kzinti spacesuits, tribbles and Klingon vests turns out to just be a tall tale.  The odd hues were selected by a thoroughly disgruntled Filmation employee.

    Sincerely,

    Bill

    Even if that's true, I decided to go ahead and play with the screenshot. That said, green is used way to often on Star Trek's alien ships...

     

     

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  • wsterdanwsterdan Posts: 2,343

    Hi All,

    Here's something I've been working on.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a1OnpNGt40&t=103s

    This was animated in DAZ3d and rendered with Octane.

    Very, very well-done! I hope to see lots mote...

    -- Walt Sterdan

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232

    Hi All,

    Here's something I've been working on.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a1OnpNGt40&t=103s

    This was animated in DAZ3d and rendered with Octane.

    Very nice — I particularly like the pose and expression animation. Some of the voices were a bit hard to make out, though.

  • Hi All,

    Here's something I've been working on.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a1OnpNGt40&t=103s

    This was animated in DAZ3d and rendered with Octane.

     

    Interestring, subscribed.

  • DodgerDodger Posts: 304
    Redfern said:
    Dodger said:
    Redfern said:
    Dodger said:

    The biggest difference is that TAS left out theit rat-tails. (not the bad 80s hairstyle, actual tails)

    Well, in some shots.  Here's one when the Kzinti enter a large chamber of their stolen police vessel and one can clearly see a tail.  Now, whether or not the artists realized it was meant to be hairless is another matter.  Here it looks like it is "sleeved" in pressure suit material.  That exterior shot (and likely others) suffers from careless omission of elements.

    Sincerely,

    Bill

    did you mean to attach a picture? You said "here's one..."

    Hmm, bloody h3ll!  Lets try that again.

    http://tas.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/blu-ray/114-BR/theslaverweaponhd0088.jpg

    Oh, BTW, the long standing anecdote about Hal Sutherland being colorblind and thus resulting in pink Kzinti spacesuits, tribbles and Klingon vests turns out to just be a tall tale.  The odd hues were selected by a thoroughly disgruntled Filmation employee.

    Sincerely,

    Bill

    I like to use the following headcanon:

    At some point, the Kzinti were in confict with the Klingon Empire. They found them worthy opponents.
    While klingon blood has been shown as normal blood-coloured on most occasions, when we see klingon blood in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, it's notoriously pepto-bismol pink.
    The one distinctive aspect of this one time Klingon blood looks this way is that the artificial gravity is turned off.
    We can then conclude that, for some reason, when Klingon blood is not under the influence of gravity, it turns this strange pink colour.
    Direct being-to-being battles in the Kzin-Klingon conflict took place almost entirelty in zero gee.
    Because the blood the Kzinti saw shed was all pepto-bismol pink, they decided that this blood of worthy warrior adversaries would make a terrifying shade to use as their signature colour, and so took on this colour for their uniforms to strike pink terror into their foes.

  • DodgerDodger Posts: 304

    We are the Borg. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own.

    http://threednd.com/borg.html

    Resistance is futile.

    This is a FREE character (with its own CR2) and conforming "clothing" set for the 3D&D Klingon. You will need to install the Klingon figure (also available for free from 3D&D) first to use this package.

     

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  • Dodger said:

    We are the Borg. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own.

    http://threednd.com/borg.html

    Resistance is futile.

    This is a FREE character (with its own CR2) and conforming "clothing" set for the 3D&D Klingon. You will need to install the Klingon figure (also available for free from 3D&D) first to use this package.

     

    Nice! It reminds me of the old Playmates action figure.

  • DodgerDodger Posts: 304

    I have no idea what brand the action figure I referenced is from, just that it's a First Contact one.

  • RedfernRedfern Posts: 1,598
    edited June 2019

    PlayMates prett much had a corner on the Trek action figure market during the 90s.  But  "First Contact" was something of an oddity as the figures associated with that film were in a larger scale from the rest.

    Anyway, here's my attempt with your generous freebie.  I introduced some modifications like a woven wire mesh "sleeve" for his left arm and stuck some greeblies upon the right.  He's standing upon the alcove Matty Manx converted to Poser/DAZ use from an item offered at Foundation3D.

    Sincerely,

    Bill

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  • Well, I hope to see those semi-TOS corridor packs show up somewhere as a build-a-starship-interior pack.  I love them!  :D

    On a different note, does anyone have a DazStudio-ready Vulcan shuttle like the one from ST:TMP?  The only one I could find in a Whatever3D search was one for Lightwave, which I can PROBABLY grab and convert, but then I figure I'd have to make a best-guess when trying to scale it for DS.  I'd rather have one already ready already for DS, perhaps even with hatches that open and close.

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    On a different note, does anyone have a DazStudio-ready Vulcan shuttle like the one from ST:TMP?  The only one I could find in a Whatever3D search was one for Lightwave, which I can PROBABLY grab and convert, but then I figure I'd have to make a best-guess when trying to scale it for DS.  I'd rather have one already ready already for DS, perhaps even with hatches that open and close.

    Is that the one from TrekMeshes, made by Kenny Mitchell? I have that, although I haven't tried to convert it to D|S format yet. Doesn't look like it should be a major undertaking; I use PoseRay to convert .lwo and .3ds models, with a variable but usually fairly good success rate.

    Although that model is a bit scanty on details, especially on the underside. And as far as I know, there aren't any windows and we never got a look inside, so any interior details will be fan-speculation at best.

  • I mainly want to simply park it in a TOS shuttlebay, and then have a couple characters standing around in front of it as if they'd just gotten out of it.

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