Trekmeshes and StartrekEurope

^ If you can get that thing up to broadcast quality it would make a perfect addition to the epilogue. Right now I'm using a modified version of my 1701-B bridge all the way from the beginning of Specter : http://www.trekmeshes.ch/phpBB3/download/file.php?mode=view&id=124&sid=a6e08159fda6a28c...

...aaaand done! Here's a few renders:

[T]he lettering over the saucer has colors inverted (the red and the black). ;) It got fixed on import into Bryce. I'm almost done with retexturing it, it's continuing to look fantastic and I'm really wishing I could work it into more than just the epilogue. Both Chainsaw and Paul did amazing jobs ...

You know, back in 2006 when I first started producing Specter , I briefly toyed around with the idea of a Sovereign -class USS F. Scott Fitzgerald . That idea was ultimately abandoned because at the time, there wasn't enough reference material available for the interior sets, and there weren't any g...

^ Actually, I've been working on the end credits all along, to avoid a lengthy research process when production is complete. I made the mistake during both Specter and Retribution of leaving that for last, I didn't want to go through that again.

See if everyone's okay with it appearing like this in the end credits:

Well like I said the only two pieces that I had to replace were the blue parts at the very top and the grille lines over them. Everything else was still yours.

Now that I have a single ship for a size reference, I'll try exporting your rework to OBJ and seeing if I can use the nacelle parts from that. I don't think texture mapping will be an issue with those few parts.

Long as we got it, that's what matters. I did wind up taking the displaced nacelle parts from the original mesh and then matching them up with yours, but take a look at the results:
I'm still working on the textures, but still, it looks great!

The 3DS you enclosed shows the same component drift that mine did when I tried it. But I think I may have stumbled on the answer, and it looks like you were close: instead of setting the pivot points to the center of the object, it looks like the right answer was to simply reset the pivot points. I ...

I put out a call for help on just about every 3DS Max forum I could find, hopefully someone somewhere knows how to fix this problem. Meantime let's see what I can do with this new scene. Thanks for this!

I don't know what it is, Paul's original Sovereign didn't have this component drift, so I'm not understanding why your modification does. In any case, I appreciate the effort but like I said I can't use the OBJ. Look at the difference between the two. The OBJ's saucer texture loads very differently ...

Hoping it's a difference between versions..."Center to Object" has no effect.

The hierarchy panel doesn't have Center to Pivot. The three alignment options I see are Center to Object, Align to Object, and Align to World. Am I doing something wrong or is that just a difference between Max 2010 and Max 2012?

The colored nacelles and such aren't the problem so much as the textures on the saucer. Look at how the OBJ version loads them, then look at the 3DS version. The UV mapping looks right with the 3DS, but not with the OBJ. I can manually add the textures on the parts that aren't htere. I'll give the M...