I see that most of the ships in our library are lower poly than would be nice even in a fleet scene. We can come back to the poly issue when there is work on a combat engine. For now I have moved over to the nebula scene. It needs to go in line before the fleet anyway.

Forget about the lighting and such. This is just a test of the animation. Flying the camera works nicely but it pans over the nebula. The image of the nebula ends up low resolution by the way it is used as "sky" in the render. I can keep a fixed camera and just fly the ship to the full Nebula image but it is a lot less interesting. What do you think?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGdbznBfkLk

It is still really good. Ken, you get the motion and the warp flashes right on! Bravo. I need lessons. Bashir

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27VEVO3D ... re=related

This can help you with the ship position, scene, lighting, camera angles....

What I had in mind is at 4:21 - 4:29

http://stblender.iindigo3d.com/meshes_startrek.html

Second model on the list is perfect for this.

Thanks, I will be able to see the youtube stuff once I get home and out from behind the fun filter at work. That is a good site and I am wiring some of those ship to fly in animation already.

Now that video was interesting. It will take longer but if I build the nebula as a particle system in blender I should be able to also animate it with the lightning as seen in the video. (4.21 - 4.29) Here is something new to learn.

Well, you don't have to recreate the entire nebula, this can be done in either post-production or simply make just a few particles that will light up in front and behind the nebula texture at a certain point. I'm also not that big on the lightning in space idea, and was thinking it was unnecessary imo

Here is some work in progress

Looks really great!

It is taking hours to render the animation of part 3 of the Federation Intro. I cannot show you that yet but here is an early collection of models for the fleet action scene, part 4.

It looks real to me! Like it came from a film. Superb!

You're amazing Kenneth.

Bashir

I LOVE WHAT I'M SEEING, it's awesome, and just wanted to let everyone know the voice actor is still here wish I could be more useful :S

I do have photoshop, premier and after effects. I'm not the greatest video editor anything...and I am all about learning blender if you can recomend a tutorial...

and I know it's sinful to post here...but I do have a lightsaber effects video I did :S if you want to see...

sorry I like star wars and star trek

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V6zZfBaGNQ

either way I'm glad to be part of the team I've not had time to try any of the new races yet...however as I'm noticing what' I've done should keep you all busy for the rest of the year most likely

The force is strong with this one. Very nice work on the video. You have done enough to keep us busy for a while. I get a little done here and there on the Federation Intro. There have been a few false starts as well. When we are looking at the 3D combat engine I would expect the need for a few more recordings.

To learn blender I would look at things like this:
http://www.blendercookie.com/getting-started-with-blender/
http://www.blenderguru.com/
There are a lot of other good tutorials if you do get into it.

If you know photoshope there are still 2D art works that need doing.
http://www.botf2.star-trek-games.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2388

Hi Blaze! Glad you showed in. And happy also that you're still in kickin' good health !

YouTube animation test, this is just a test:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_uvbVefzPA

Like Matress I am also not dead. There were some major crash issues with this load of animation in blender. With the latest update version of blender, 64 bit and on the newest PC it seams to be stable again. Now I can get back to actually working on it.

That I know!
Loooks promising Kenneth...

I will be recording our Tal'Shiar agent this weekend. Here is my revision of the Romulan Intro.

Romulans are the rightful rulers of the galaxy.
Obedience, duty, victory - these are the principles that guide you.


To be victorious first study your enemy. Find their vulnerabilities.
Attack only when they are weak.


Never reveal your true intentions and shroud the Empire in secrecy.
To be unknown is to be unconquerable.

Here is our agent in the combat clip, see attached.

Will we have to change our old voice clips for these new ones if agreed?

She has a sexy voice!

Lets see how she sounds against what we have and then decide.

Working on the glare and glow of lighting for the Federation Intro.

Masterful. Beautiful work.

You've captured the beautiful ladies' good side there, Kenneth.

Awesome view my friend!!!

The big E, beautiful

I just noticed that the windows on either side of the center of the front of the saucer are showing through to the back of the saucer. (They are on either side of the impulse engine and just above the back saucer windows). I think.

Thanks for noting that. It can be fixed. To get the glow and glare a compositor is used. The compositor splits up the elements from different layers, applies the light effects and recombines the images. You have to watch for issues just like that as solid elements in one layer will not block light based on relative depth in images from other layers. It shows up very clearly as wrong when the ship moves.

And it's still a fabulous job. Looking forward to the video.