[maje]

The Hand of God finally makes it's low-poly 3D debut in my little WIP thread.  I began this at some point in the morning today and have more or less completed the ship.  A big thanks goes out to FUBAR-BDHR, who generously supplied some screen grabs from The Legend of the Rangers movie, To Live and Die in Starlight.

Now, like most of you here, I wasn't too up on the Rangers pilot, but I did think that some interesting concepts and ideas came about from it, and it's a pity that JMS never went anywhere with it, but maybe the Lost Tales will explore more about this race claiming to be more powerful than those who resided at Z'Ha'dum. 

Anyways, this is the fruit of my current 3-4 hours of labour, taking a minor break from my Z-95 Headhunter for the Star Wars conversion (whose respective thread can be found here: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,50331.0.html  ).

[0rph3u5]

Impressive work 

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Don't know if you could see this from the screen shots but some of the extensions coming out from the core of the ship articulate. 

[terran_emperor]

I look forward to seeing this in action when it's complete

[spartan_0214]

Cool.how many polies? 

[IPAndrews]

Very pretty.

[Colonol Dekker]

Its a crab

[IPAndrews]

Silly boy. It's a snowflake.

[-Norbert-]

Isn't that ship supposed to have a hole in the middle, were this red glowing thing was, or am I mixing this up with something else here?

[maje]

I'm not sure if it's an actual hole that punctures through one side of the hole or the other as we never see a Hand ship with the glow off.  I did go back and make the recess deeper though, so it should be more visible.  I'll probably start work on this again after the Z-95 is textured. (UVs are done now, God I hate unwrapping those.

Btw, what kind of method was involved for texturing the Shadow vessels?  Did you guys actually go nuts with the UV placement or just kind of hit automap (maya's version of Box in Max) and create a tileable texture from a procedural?

[IceFire]

Thats the most beautiful/terrifying snowflake of death I've seen.  Awesome work!

[Admiral Edivad]

Brilliant... it will look even more impresive in game!

[Hades]

Do I see snowing?
Nice sno... erm ship.

[spartan_0214]

Silly boy. It's a snowflake.

Where are you from? I come from Colorado WHERE WE ACTUALLY HAVE SNOW, and that looks nothing like snowjust kidding

[Col. Fishguts]

He said snowflake. While snowflakes have a 6-fold symmetry and this ship only has 5-fold symmetry, it still looks very much like a snowflake.

I'm from Switzerland, we have plenty of snow, therefore I AR EXPERT!

[spartan_0214]

Okay Colonel, I was just kidding. May I direct your attention to the small text at the end of my post...

[Colonol Dekker]

Eh? I don't mind it's cool i know not a lot about B5 since it was on telly in the uk on channel 4 back in the mid 90's 

[tomcat]

Silly boy. It's a snowflake.

Dude... you Britons never seen snow ... maybe that miserable rain

[maje]

So, here we go, update time.  Sorry it took nearly a month to get back to this.  It took about another few hours of playing around in Max to get the right procedurals going and then to figure out how volume lights work (which is different than from what I remember using Maya; either way I'm not a lighting person).

Well, here are the piccies.

[spartan_0214]

Holy Crap!