and all is good.Īs you can see by the last picture it doesn't show up unless you render at a sharp angle. I have tried adjusting a whole bunch of settings in light tracer and in the scanline renderer and I can improve the situation, but I can't get rid of it all together. I am using a very simple render setup using a skylight and light tracer - these pics are done with the default settings. So far everything is fitting perfectly - doing lots of measuring on photos and lots of scale calculations to check to make sure.Īfter adding in all these big details on the top I have an anomaly showing up when I render it from certain angles.Īs you can see in the pictures below I have large black spots that are showing up on detail that is stacked more than 1 section high. This week I started back to work adding in the large details on the top of the Galactica so I could check the accuracy of the shell. Working with members Nothing and Skupilkinson in the CardModels forum at I took the original meshes and cleaned them up and adjusted things so they could be converted into paper model kits. Okay, so I took a few weeks off of working in 3D and from writing my book. The Battlestar Galactica Fleet Pack was originally developed by Coxxon as an add-on to a game (Star Trek Bridge Commander I believe).

My books and the 3D models that go with them are going to take priority and this will be a fun side project. I plan to finish this model over the next 2 years or so. Here are some pics of the basic structure sans any details. I was also able to correct some minor scale issues for the rest of the basic structure. Those measurements gave me enough information to rebuild the front structure of my model with a great deal of accuracy.

I recently found a simple top down drawing full of measurements published by a guy who spent a little time with the original filming miniature. I was stuck for the longest time because I couldn't get the whole front structure of the model to look right - until now that is. This week I decided it was time to fix my model and get back to work on it. Over the years I have been gathering every photo I can find of the original 6 foot long studio filming model as well as pictures of the studio scale replica builds people are posting on the Internet. This week I went back into my archives and dug out my TOS Battlestar Galactica work files - they date back to 2003 when I first started this thing.

Battlestar galactica 3d model