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ExoticcTofu In reply to Quinn-G [2015-07-30 22:48:45 +0000 UTC]

There's hardly any Greeble though. That's kind of insulting actually.

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Quinn-G In reply to ExoticcTofu [2015-07-31 00:17:08 +0000 UTC]

I didn't mean to insult. My sincerest apologies. :S

So you mean to tell me that you modelled all the little details by hand? o_o The turbolasers or the shield generators, I can imagine, but the rest?

Surely you've used some sort of plugin to generate at least part of all this. I seem to recall stumbling upon one such paid plugin that generates details in a way the free Greeble plugin can't.

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ExoticcTofu In reply to Quinn-G [2015-08-01 14:17:18 +0000 UTC]

I think almost every person with at least a basic understanding of 3d modeling had a reaction similar to yours. Most people hoped I had just used a plugin to make all this stuff, or just recommended it to me, but thats not the case.
Those recommendations are what gave me the idea of templates, so as a result 95% of the model is hand made. I made all the ship body, components and templates in Inventor, and spent about 2-3 hours on each template by itself; at the end I had about 5. Then I started copy-pasting the templates where possible, and made unique assets every where else. In some places, like the bridge, i overlayed some greeble on top of elements that were already there. I also used it to blend areas between templates. The entire ship itself is composed of 2,226 seperate objects. 
Attached is a picture that highlights all the areas in this shot that have elements that use the greeble plugin; the bridge area by far has the densest concentration of these elements. 
 

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Quinn-G In reply to ExoticcTofu [2015-08-06 00:10:19 +0000 UTC]

Kind of a late reply, sorry. ^^'

Then I take it all back. I'm not what you could call a patient modeller and I always strive to find ways to quickly add detail to a ship's surface (as you can see with my own take on the regular Star Destroyer here and some of my original sci-fi stuff as well) and I tend to forget that other modellers have different ways of doing their own stuff.

Hats off to you, man.

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ExoticcTofu In reply to Quinn-G [2015-08-06 16:15:42 +0000 UTC]

Even so I think your star destroyer is fucking great. Bridge proportions seem a bit wonky but otherwise its a 9/10 model

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Quinn-G In reply to ExoticcTofu [2015-08-07 00:58:09 +0000 UTC]

Oh? I used the schematics from the wiki as a base, though. But I'm glad you like it.

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