Babylon 5 3D tutorials

[dakota69]

I was messing around with an old copy of Inspire 3D (the 'lite' version of Lightwave 5.6) while waiting for my package of Lightwave 8.3 to arrive. To bide my time, I decided to check out some old tutorials to see if any of them were do-able in Inspire.

Well, at this one site there are tutorials on how to do better starscapes and nebulas and stuff in Lightwave 5 + 6 (it's kind of an old site). Among these tutorials was a great one for beginners on how to model the shuttlecraft from B5. It was tricky to do with Inspire, `cause it's lacking a lot of the Lightwave tools (plus it has no numerical input in the modeller...arrrgghhh!)

Anyways, I was able to cobble together a reasonable Alliance shuttle and texture it. Then......Lightwave arrived at my door last week .....Yeeeaaaaahhhhoooooo!! And so I was able to take the model into Lightwave and improve the textures and do a quick animation (well not that quick, it took forever to render on my clunky old G3)

Anyways here's the URL for the tutorial site

www.ap3d.com/betterspace/

And here's the shuttle animation I did (excuse the crappy starscape, gotta work on that, and the engine flames too)

Oh and excuse the poor video quality. The free site I use for hosting is....well....whaddaya expect for free, eh?

[dakota69]

Here's a still shot (again, excuse the crappy starscape, Ive gotta work on that)

[Quest]

I think this is really great. I wish I could do things like this.

[enigma]

Me to Quest, I don't know how many 3D sites I've been to, getting Wallpaper for my Computer.

There are a lot of talented people out there when it comes to 3D art; including our own Mr dakota69 ;D

[dakota69]

Thanks for the kind comments.
I've still got a lot to learn. At least there are plenty of people out there willing to help by putting up tutorials and such.

Think I'll try the Whitestar tutorial soon. Hmmm maybe even a Thunderbolt (I always liked that design)

[LadyTass2001]

Pug that is awesome, I know you don't think so but I do.