Request Super Dimensional Fortress

[lowerlowerhk]

After driving star destroyer and Galatica, the desire to drive large battleships is killing me T.T
Anyone would like to make a Macross?It's a wonderful (space)aircarft carrier that originates from a japanese animae.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDF-1_Macross

 

[tgep]

I've been looking high and low for years now for a mesh that was low poly enough for me to work with to bring it to Orbiter but alas.......... it seems to have folded to a diffrent dimension where the engines underwent a spontaniouse and total existance failure ......... :-(

 

[liber]

Here is Macross model,but I did not watch that so have no idea how accurate is it.

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=3abde6cba31d6dade14ec870063d8e5c&prevstart=0

 

[tgep]

Colors look good.
The front end is beveled out the wrong way though.
The top is straight and bevels down and back so that when the foreward section rotates and opens, the bevel turns inward to form the main gun with the spires on the outside.
If I could convert sketch-up, I might just give this one a shot.

 

[ar81]

If you find blueprints, and pictures on details, it would be easier to model.

 

[Astronut409]

A Macross/Robotech addon would be awesome, and of course you can't have the SDF-1 without veritech fighters...

 

[weirdguy]

How about this?

They are both my own creations. I got the VF-1J blueprints from a Yamato toy, so the scales of the parts are actually acurate and correctly transform from Battaloid (robot) to fighter and such. The VAF-6 Alpha I found blueprints for as well, but they were hand drawn, and therefore actually needed some alterations to get the parts to all fit when in both a fighter and as a battaloid. Plus, I also modified them both a bit for personal tastes. I added horizontal stabilizers to the VF-1J because I never liked the fact they were missing on the original. The VAF-6 I made the feet a bit shorter. It always had some ridiculous clown shoes otherwise.

Getting it to transform in Orbiter, now that is another question. I think the best way would be some sort of swap out that instantly switches between two different ships in orbiter by pushing a button, perhaps even with an intermediate ship that you just quickly pass through in less than a second.

I think animating the change in Spacecraft DLL would be a major pain in the butt otherwise.

 

[JamesG]

Here is Macross model,but I did not watch that so have no idea how accurate is it.

That looks like one of the ones from the movies or the later "revisioned" series.

Transformation:

What if you made each module its own "craft" and docked them together. On transformation you script their undocking, movement, and relinking?

That would get you around the poly count limit (somewhat) and make the transformation animation more accurate.

 

[RisingFury]

I was gonna suggest Destiny from StarGate Universe, but I can't find a decent picture anywhere...

 

[Urwumpe]

The Saratoga from S:AAB would also be nice, it is just stars wars physics sci-fi.

http://users.telenet.be/robin.leysen/saab/bp_toga.html

 

[RisingFury]

The Saratoga from S:AAB would also be nice, it is just stars wars physics sci-fi.

http://users.telenet.be/robin.leysen/saab/bp_toga.html

For a moment there I thought you were talking about USS Saratoga that got sunk in a nuclear detonation test...

 

[Brycesv1]

i suddenly wanna pull an aircraft carrier mesh from FSX and make it spaceworthy

 

[tgep]

The Saratoga from S:AAB would also be nice, it is just stars wars physics sci-fi.

http://users.telenet.be/robin.leysen/saab/bp_toga.html

I've got it in my drydock right now. Gonna be a while yet though. Real life and other projects keep interfearing.