Building a Star Ship (1 picture)

[Yin Yang]

I am building a Star Ship, Specifically the U.S.S. Enterprise D. But i am not good at such things, so i'm going to need some help because while i am skilled at eventing, i need help with building the interior ONLY! I will not be building the exterior because noone's going to see the exterior anyways.

just a pic or two so you know what your in for:

Interior:
Link to the actual picture


Directly linking this image dosn't work for some reason so i just posted the link.


I am very commited to this and am already working on a working computer core.
I made a video of me useing it. WARNING! VERY LOW FRAMERATE

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[Yin Yang]

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[Operator¹]

it's very time consuming to create a good looking curved interior

[Yin Yang]

*rolls eyes* tell me about it, i'll try to use wedges

[Reinforcements]

Change topic title to "4 reference pictures" pls

[Bisjac]

you could create JUST the interior. and still have it massive in size and "realistic"

[Sevara]

The Enterprise-D is huge.  It'd be impossible to do interior and exterior and stay within the brick limit- I've thought about working on it myself: with 42 decks that are 7 bricks high, you'd be looking at a 335-brick tall starship.  I'm not even sure you could get the exterior modeled under the brick limit.

[Yin Yang]

you could create JUST the interior. and still have it massive in size and "realistic"

I was thinking about doing that

[AdinX]

The Enterprise-D is huge.  It'd be impossible to do interior and exterior and stay within the brick limit- I've thought about working on it myself: with 42 decks that are 7 bricks high, you'd be looking at a 335-brick tall starship.  I'm not even sure you could get the exterior modeled under the brick limit.

It's quite possible so long as you don't use 1x1 plate bricks for flooring and walls.
Be smart about how you build.

[Sevara]

OK, exterior, yes.  Exterior and interior, no.

I'd give a rough estimate that the Ent-D is also gonna have a footprint of 1928 studs by 1392 studs.  If we made it out of 1x1 bricks (not plates, bricks) and tried to cubescape it that way, it'd take hundreds of millions of bricks.

If you want to see just how mind-bogglingly huge this thing would have to be, there's a Minecraft server where they've been working on recreating the D.  It's still not finished after the past two years, and that was with having a custom script build the skeleton of the hull.

[hodototman]

hahaha, nice.

[TheKid]

recreating the D

huehuehue

[Clone2]

Trust me when I say this.

Too many bricks.
Will take YEARS to build.
It's WAY too big to fit on ANY server.

[Sevara]

Trust me when I say this.

Too many bricks.
Will take YEARS to build.
It's WAY too big to fit on ANY server.

I didn't even get into the fact that almost nothing is oriented straight left/right/forward/backward.  With needing custom BLBs to do any rotation other than 90 degrees, I'd say the only interiors that could be made right now without massive amounts of "rotated" custom bricks would be main engineering and shuttlebays two and three.

If you want to cut your teeth on a Star Trek starship, you're better off starting small, with something with more straight lines, like a runabout: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Danube_class

[AdinX]

I think it's worth mentioning:
You can scale it down and you can "restrict" access, aka just not make the room. If you make a low detail exterior with a medium-detail interior, it could work. When it comes to that slant you mention, ideally you'd just use corner bricks and then make some small changes. Nothing is perfect, and people would understand if you decide to not build the ship at a 43 degree angle.

It's not impossible. I have a 5 story space station, high detail all over, exterior and interior, haven't even made the regular room shells but I have a lot of the props, the brickcount is roughly 60k.

Then again, I'm not a hardcore star trek fan, I just like the original show. I could be speaking way out of my league in terms of ship size.