Tutorial: Building a 3D Spaceship Model with Wings3D

[GaryChildress]

Voila!! Our space ship is complete and ready to fly off on intergalactic adventures.

This completes the model making tutorial. Believe me, we've only touched the tip of the iceberg on what Wings3D can do. I hope you have fun creating your own models in the future. Experiment with the program and have fun.

The next tutorial will be on exporting and importing models into a rendering program to create 2D images for the game. I'm pretty much spent for tonight. I'll probably need to put off the second tutorial until this weekend when I hopefully have some time for it.

In the meantime you can practice your ship making skills, come up with some interesting designs of your own and by the time you have some of your own designs I'll have the second tutorial up. [:)]

[GaryChildress]

ORIGINAL: D.W.O.H

i have never done anything like this before and i think with your help I may be able to do something

but even tho its not exactly the same as your i followed along nicely & if i done it right the pic of it should show

Well done! Looks like you're getting the gist of it rather quickly! From here you can experiment a little and come up with your own designs. Basically all it takes is practice. Just dabble around with new things. See how everything works. If you have questions I'll try to answer them as best I can. [:)]

[D.W.O.H]

yea i got into alot of the structures but i just got into coloring n all that b4 i think something in my brain broke,lol

This is what I got so far.

[Valkyrie666]

will render it soon

[GaryChildress]

ORIGINAL: D.W.O.H

yea i got into alot of the structures but i just got into coloring n all that b4 i think something in my brain broke,lol

This is what I got so far.

Not bad. Looks like you're getting it. Just takes some practice.

[drillerman]

Mr Gary Childress,

YOU my man, are a STAR!!!!!!!
Thanks for putting this tutorial together. BRILLIANT!!!!

[murteas]

thank you so much for doing this.   I'll make sure to share what I design.

[uncc]

ORIGINAL: Gary Childress

The next tutorial will be on exporting and importing models into a rendering program to create 2D images for the game. I'm pretty much spent for tonight. I'll probably need to put off the second tutorial until this weekend when I hopefully have some time for it.

Thanks Gary -- Great tutorial. [&o] Looks like you've had some practice writing instructional materials. I've been playing around with Wings 3D...lots of fun. I'm hoping the rendering app used in your next tutorial is as easy to use as Wings 3D. I've poked around the net looking for a free app and found Blender. The learning curve looks pretty steep, but I've only just started poking around in it. Anyone know of any others?

[Valkyrie666]

fast render:

[Valkyrie666]

and the lambda shutle

[Webbco]

Holy smokes, there's a lot of effort gone into this!

I've never even considered doing any 3D design but after seeing this it makes me want to download this Wings3D program and give it a go.

[Barthheart]

Hey Eric!

This fantastic tutorial needs to be stickied to the top of this forum!!!![&o]

[D.W.O.H]

I patiently await the next step =)

[lordxorn]

GOD BLESS YOUR SOUL~! [&o]
I love these tutorials and they always ignite my inner game designer, then my wife goes ."Babe I need.."

[Shark7]

While I certainly can match the Emperor's finest, I do think I'm off to a fairly good start...at least it looks like something that could fly through space...of course, you might see a resemblance to another fairly famous spaceship...just a small one for sure.

[Shark7]

And a little further on...granted it still looks very amatuer, but its better than anything else I've ever done. [:)]

[lordxorn]

Very cool, looks like a corellian corvette from Star Wars mixed with 2001 Space Odyssey

[lordxorn]

What renderer are you using?

[Shark7]

That screen shot is just a pic of it with smoothing on from inside wings. I'll move it over into a better render engine with better texturing once I get a UV map done for it.

[Valkyrie666]

WIP
Super Star Destroyer Executor