Congratulations friend! I knew you could do it easily!

Wow, I've missed a lot!. Very cool vjeko! You will be assimilated, adding your distinctive talent to our own.

I love the Klingon D7 and the Ktinga Class. Been working on one for the pure fun of it. This has the engines from the Q'uonos from ST Undiscovered Country. It's a hybrid - does not have the sensor dome from the Q'uonos. Instead it has the Motion Picture sensor dome. Mostly because I like it better.

A thing of beauty.

Thanks you two.

I also loved those...this one is a beauty, can I buy one to serve as my capital ship?

Vjeko and Zeleni. Did Croatia win water polo?

I can put any name on the ship you like, and any backdrop. Any orientation. There is a lot of work to be done yet.

Let me answer it with this:

http://www.hrt.hr/index.php?id=oi2012&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=176408&tx_ttnews[backPid]=821&cHash=77f8a93f83

first video, skip to 13:35

Hey Ken, I would eventually like to learn how to do video with this. I was thinking of a Klingon, equivalent to the Enterprise refit. In other words, refitting an old D7 in dry dock to a newer set of engines. You know, little Klingons in space suits and work pods unhooking outdated parts and floating them away, while others are seen arc-welding pieces on.

I can't read it but I see a lot of guys kissing gold medals. Congrats. Quapla and all that.

hehehe, thanks, our anthem and proud players...a moment to remember, this is the first time (ever I think) that one national team won world and european championships and olympic games in a row.

So what else did Croatia win? The American coverage didn't show all of the events. I don't think I ever saw handball. One of my favorite moments in the games was Mo Farrah and Galen Rupp crossing as #1 and #2 in the 10,000 meter. Mo is from Great Britain and Rupp from the U.S. They had trained together under a Spanish coach in Oregon. That's so "Olympics". Everyone working together.

The animation is easy enough. Building all those models is the hard part.

Well we won gold in disk throwing, trap, waterpolo; silver in rowing and bronze in handball (should have been gold if we had just a bit more luck, we were playing the best handball at the tournament), rowing and taekwondo.
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I know it's not that much, but in the number of medals/population section we are first of second (I'm not that sure) nation in the world.

http://www.london2012.com/country/croatia/medals.html

I know that the US battled a "cold war" battle for the number of medals with China, how did you do?

The US came first both in the total number of medals and the number of gold medals, see
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/201 ... /countries

However, most of the gold medals came from the basketball where "Dream Team" (not really a dream team, but whatever ) won one gold medal per player...

Regarding Greece, we sucked since we only got two bronze medals and came just above countries like Afghanistan & Tajikistan. Damn the financial crisis

Awesome ship!
Now some good texture and get poly down by 99%
How many triangles is it? :o

He built it in Lightwave so those will be quads. You are right though. It looks too high count to run with 50 or 60 other ships in combat. You make a high count for the beauty shot and then decimate it down for the game engine.

well I know but at that a high count you don't decimate it down anymore. Instead you create a 2nd mesh and try use the high poly one for generating a nice bump texture.

Right now, about 75,000 Polygons. It could double before it is done. I plan on making it a real detailed ship. However, they overdid it with the Undiscovered Country model. It will be a good cross between the motion picture K'tinga class and the Undiscovered Country model.

So something around 150k triangles probably.
With all the round shapes and details, even using gouraud shading I expected lots more.
Good work!

With chance I'll talk you back for some lower-poly practice soon™

I've put my Mutara nebula into widescreen HQ format if you want it as a wallpaper. Captain, perhaps we could combine it with your Constitution and Miranda models to reconstruct some TWOK scene

OMG that's beautiful! And the minute you see it, you know exactly what it is. I'll PM you.

That is a wonderful render.

Superb vjeko!

Thanks guys, here are some more HQ backgrounds:

I must admit, these I like more than the nebula. However, multiple planets in that scale and the bright colors and aura reflection which is also too long around the planets in 2nd and 3rd picture and also the incomplete darkness by the shadows (where shall that light come from) doesn't look much realistic.

Ok, well forget criticism, your images look great!

Thanks man, I'm developing new ways (or perfecting old ones) of dooing things with every image...if you take a look at the first planet I've ever made (supremacy banner) and the new ones you'll notice considerable improvement...only the first image (terran with twin moons) is new, other work is old and forgotten I dug up cleaning my PC

This is an example of the perfected technique:



And I'm still working on making sun reflection in the sea.

Very nice work.

It is a complexe built to do that in a 3d program but you can set the water to be the only areas with high reflection, bump the surface of the land, set the clouds in a higher layer to cast shadows, glow the atmosphere, turn on city lights on the dark side, ...

http://www.blenderguru.com/videos/create-a-realistic-earth

That is most of what I did, but in Lightwave, for the comet coming in on a planet in the Dominion intro.

Really nice, really! I love it!