Serenity model / mesh anyone? by foffilms

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Serenity model / mesh anyone?

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Wednesday, December 31, 2003 9:50 AM

Has anyone done a serenity model / mesh in any 3d platform - lightwave, 3ds etc... that they would be willing to share?

I am working on a Firefly Fan Film, one that is based in the Firefly verse but takes place on a different ship with different crew.

Also, any modelers out there willing to work on it, it's going to be a 3d tech heavy fan film, so any volunteers for helping?

Thanks much.

Michael

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Saturday, January 17, 2004 1:19 PM

DORAN

I've been working on a Serenity model for about a week. I'm a long time Lightwave user. I have the port and starboard engine detail completed and I'm now working on the aft/main engine.

Doran

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Originally posted by foffilms:
Has anyone done a serenity model / mesh in any 3d platform - lightwave, 3ds etc... that they would be willing to share?

I am working on a Firefly Fan Film, one that is based in the Firefly verse but takes place on a different ship with different crew.

Also, any modelers out there willing to work on it, it's going to be a 3d tech heavy fan film, so any volunteers for helping?

Thanks much.

Michael

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Saturday, January 17, 2004 2:02 PM

FOFFILMS

Doran - I got a really nice model from Fireflyfans.net user Biotech it was a 3ds model and was really nice, I did a retexture on it. There's a snap shot over in my current blog if you want to take a look.

Now what I am trying to work on, as I am a novice 3ds and lightwave user, is getting the nacels as seperate structures so I can pivot them, and getting the ring and shuttles as seperate pieces.

We'll see if I can figure that all out.

I'd love to see your model as you progress.

www.fof-films.com
Firefly Fan Film - Coming SOON

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Sunday, February 1, 2004 12:03 PM

DORAN

http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=130480#post130480

Here's what I've got so far. It's going a bit slow because I have other things happening. :O)

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Sunday, February 1, 2004 1:23 PM

FOFFILMS

Wow! Looking really great thus far, I can't wait to see it as it progresses. As you're doing it, and keeping in mind that the firefly fan film would greatly appreciate your modeling help as we progress - my one request for you, as you model would be to make the shuttles seperate entities that can berth in their spots as they did on the show.

I know it's a lot, but that would make the model seriously kick some a**. :)

Anyway, the detail is really amazing so far, keep up the nice work.

www.fof-films.com
Firefly Fan Film - Coming SOON

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Sunday, February 1, 2004 1:48 PM

LINDLEY

I can't help you, but its possible that you might be able to help me.

I'm working on a Firefly total-conversion plugin for Escape Velocity: Nova (primarily a Mac game, but a Windows version is out now too: www.ambrosiasw.com/games/evn ).

One of the major sticking points I'm going to have with my project is ship sprites. A sprite consists of 36 top-down images of a ship, at 36 different orientations (seperated by 10 degrees, of course).

While one could simply take a top-down screenshot of a ship and rotate it in photoshop, that doesn't look nearly as good as snapshots of a 3D model. (I know. I tried doing Serenity this way.)

If you're making/aquiring models for your fanfilm, perhaps you could take a few minutes to help me out as well, by sending over images that I could compile into sprites for the game. :)

Anyway, let me know if that's something you'd be interested in helping with. There's no real timetable, so that's not a constraint of any kind.

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Sunday, February 1, 2004 7:55 PM

LINDLEY

Thanks for your reply, but I wasn't able to figure out how to respond privately, so I'm posting here.

Your current blog in your profile indicates some issues---did that happen before or after you offered to help?

In any case, regarding which angles, that's kind of tricky. I'm going to have to get back to you on that. In general, I'm going to need 36 shots of the ship, and possibly 36 more for a "mask"---an image which is all black except where the ship is, which is all white. Its possible I can generate the masks with another program; I don't know.

The tricky part is, I'd rather not make the view be directly overhead, but I'm not certain exactly what angle it should be from, and whether that affects the degree turn between snapshots. I'm going to consult with some people who have done far more of this than I have.

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Monday, February 2, 2004 3:37 PM

LINDLEY

Assuming you've still got something to work with---which is unclear from your profile---here's an example of the snapshots I need.

(To avoid the board software actually displaying them, I'm leaving off the .jpg. Just add that to each link.)

http://img11.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Lindley/Example
http://img11.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Lindley/Mask

The second one is the "masks". The easiest way to produce them is to render the model with an all-white texture, but there are other ways as well.

In other words, snapshot 1 should be 45 degrees above the x-y plane *behind* the ship, with the ship pointing straight up; snapshot 10 should show the ship pointing to the right (the camera doesn't move at all, the ship rotates in the x-y plane); snapshot 19, the ship points straight down; snapshot 28, to the left.

Someone on the EVN developer's board said that you get a better result if you eliminate all "depth of field"----things closer to you shouldn't appear a whole lot bigger. The explanation he gave:

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What you need to do is get rid of the depth of field. This can be done one of two ways depending on your program. The first and most straight forward way is to find the check box that takes your perspective view and makes it orthographic. I don't mean it makes it a top or side view, I mean that it gets rid of all perspective (the definition of orthographic). The other way is to find the zoom of your camera, and zoom it in several thousand percent which will do the same thing. Generally, however, you have to reposition your camera, which can be a pain.

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Tuesday, February 3, 2004 9:52 AM

FOFFILMS

your image links directed me to blank pages - but I get the idea. As I will be re-doing textures at a fevered pitch here I will snap off some shots for you and post them so you can grab them asap.

Thanks.

www.fof-films.com
Firefly Fan Film - Coming SOON

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Wednesday, February 4, 2004 9:57 PM

LINDLEY

Make sure you add ".jpg" to the end of the links.

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Wednesday, February 11, 2004 7:26 PM

LINDLEY

If you're still willing to help me out, there's a bit of a complication. I recently took it upon myself to learn Cinema 4D and how to model a ship and make it into an EVN sprite.

In the course of doing that, I realized things aren't so simple as I may have made them seem.

The base image sprites are just as I said----easier, in fact, since I now realize that a 36-frame rotating Quicktime animation will work just as well as 36 individual snapshots, and is far less work.

However, the EVN engine also supports engine glows, which I'd like to include; that's no biggie in itself, but here's the catch: I'd prefer to give Serenity two types of engine glows, one for normal travel, and one for "hyperspace" (full burn). That's not supported by default, but there is a way to make it happen-----its just a tad more complicated. I'm not actually certain of the specifics myself at the moment.

I'd rather not derail your thread any further----you did, after all, start out asking people to help you---so we should probably take any further discussion about this to email.

Use lfrfly@icqmail.com if you want to discuss this further.

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Monday, July 26, 2004 12:36 AM

CYRUS

hey can someone email me a 3d model of Serenity?
my friends and i want to make a flyable Serenity for the game Freelancer, but we all suck at making 3d models, we will give you full credit for the model if you do.
if psooible we need it for the milk shape 3d program

E-Mail: SwordAndShield@Gmail.com

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Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:46 PM

UBERWIGGETT

G'day everyone, i just signed up. I'm also working on a short fan film of firefly, not particularly looking for a high poly model, cause im also working on making a basic space flyer/3rd person adventure game based on firefly. i need to find a lowish poly model of serenity to get a demo up and running. so if anyone happens to find one post the link.

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