Leviathan Kahguyat (Farscape adaptation build, in -progress)

[plusnine]

This is an adaptation of the bio-mechanoid "leviathan" ships from my personal favorite sci-fi series, Farscape. This leviathan comes in at just over 600m in length. i have a huge wedging job ahead of me, and have spent some time working on the interior planning.

more images and animated GIFs here: http://imgur.com/gallery/oIjCv/new

this build utilizes plusnine's Default Pack Extension for Servers and Clients

 

[Planr]

dont make the majority of the exterior use wedges. you are dealing with lots of unique shapes and curves here that will end up looking distorted with wedges placed on them. it looks better without them and is much easier to build on public online servers

 

[Reilly Reese]

Oh shit! I haven't seen a Farscape build in ages.

Do the interior right or else...

 

[plusnine]

finished the hangar bay tonite! this is a good shot showing off the luscious golds of the warm blocks from my texture pack mixed with brown, lit by orange lights.

more finished rooms to come...

 

[kikaha]

need more Starmade spiders around :P

 

[plusnine]

core room all sealed up:

viewing chamber (shaped but unfurnished):

 

[Comr4de]

I feel like this is a masterful advertisement of your extension pack :P great work!

 

[Peekie30]

beatutiful!

 

[plusnine]

transport pod!

 

[Anubis Evo]

By the gods.... This is pretty impressive!

Good luck for those wedges man. That's always my least favorite part.

 

[plusnine]

this sort of thing just happens when you're working on a farscape ship:

 

[Reilly Reese]

Me.

Spoiler: View at your own risk!

 

[plusnine]

 

[Keptick]

The interior looks amazing, really captures the biomechanical look from the real thing! Btw, did you use smedit with manual smoothing to make the hull or do you just have god-like curve making skills? To be honest I can't tell because of how perfectly smooth it is (smedit generates errors a lot).

 

[plusnine]

The interior looks amazing, really captures the biomechanical look from the real thing! Btw, did you use smedit with manual smoothing to make the hull or do you just have god-like curve making skills? To be honest I can't tell because of how perfectly smooth it is (smedit generates errors a lot).

thanks! i knew getting the interior right would take a lot of work and i still have some other areas inspired by the show to put in, but the largest ones are done, which is great. it is a very fun project.

i did use some smedit to assist with generating the frame with no smedit-knobs. i use a process borrowed from spacie detailed in this post:
http://starmadedock.net/threads/3d-model-importing-guide-faster-better-stronger.20948

 

[Nauvran]

That use of light, shadows, and colours is amazing.

 

[plusnine]

many thanks for the kind comments left on this thread so far. progress continues on the leviathan's interior. i'm expanding the hallways out into similar rooms, which i've settled on a sort of framed kidney-bean shape, like an organelle. this screenshot shows a frame up, and some half-plated rooms:

each on-symmetry pair is individually shaped, panel-framed and plated out to ensure optimal lighting:

once the lights and panels are plated out , here's the view from the inside of a small chamber:

also finished up a kind of technical / neural nexus room. i will animate the directional arrows on the floor at a later time.

i am very much looking forward to adding individual customizations to each these chambers!

i've also laid out a prison-block area so the ship can continue its mission of serving as a Moya RP / cinematic ship if need be and added timers to all the doors, etc. the project continues to be a lot of fun to work on!

 

[Dellexe]

Make the arms articulate as part of a logic activated starbur- I mean, jump sequence. :P
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Kinda joking, that'd be hard to get the angles right. But if you did it, it would be amazing.

 

[alterintel]

Beautiful ship!
I'm so glad somebody is doing some farscape stuff.

 

[Dalmont]

Looking amazing plus! Can't wait to check out the progress!