Cymro

So, I've been playing with Lightwave again. Until a couple of weeks ago, this was going to be the "Command Table" for the bridge on ST(R). I'm going to continue building it for practice. Anyway, I think I'm getting better, whadya think?

(Enterprise Included for reference)

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iamspenagain

I like it, but I think the rim of the table, the usable space, ought to be expanded a bit, at least enough to comfortably fit a sheet of paper or a file. Aesthetically, it's damn near perfect, but functionally, it's not particularly excellent, assuming an officer needs to bring exhibits to a briefing or whatnot.

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Cymro

That's exactly the kind of constructive criticism I was looking for. Consider it done

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"Let me tell you something about humans, nephew: They're a wonderful, friendly people - as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working.

"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."

Bean

I think it should be pink....

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Stag

OK, how about the data cards? TREK of that vintage always had data cards. If you are going to make room for paper, what about a receptacle (sp?) for the data cards?

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Cymro

Aha! That's what the little panel to the right of the Keyboard will have.

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"Let me tell you something about humans, nephew: They're a wonderful, friendly people - as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working.

"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."

Stag

OK three more things...what is that multitude of circular gingerbread around the periphery of the table?

Second, you need cup holders dammit!!! Don't need a cup of coffee spilling all over everything and shorting it out if there is sudden jolt to the ship.

Thirdly, are those supposed to be back to back monitor screens in the center of the table? If so, what about slightly elevating the end of the screen near the center point of your table where the monitors meet, like 15 or 20% to make it more readable to the operator?

I know what you are going for (I think), but even the table in Next Gen engineering had an upright monitor and in Enterprise they had a flt screen on the table but the image also was shown on monitors on the wall if I am remembering correctly.

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Bean

Yeah, I can't say I like the little circles all around the edge. Maybe if you removed those and just left the ridge for contour. But from the looks of what you have so far, you're going for more "utilitarian" than stylish. Other than that it looks great.

lol, the last CG work I saw from you was back when you were doinf those textureless Romulan ships lol. You haven't just improved, you've come LIGHT YEARS from then. Good stuff.

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Cymro

Lights. It's not something I particularly like either, but for the moment I can't think of anything else to put there to make it more interesting in terms of aesthetics. I'm toying with the idea of sort of a handrail.


It is on an angle, if you look closely you'll notice the rim of the elevated bit gets thicker around the middle. I previously had them on more of an angle, but I didn't like the way it looked.

The table isn't supposed to be used for briefings or anything like that, it's just somewhere for the Captain and First Officer to stand and give out orders when something's afoot, so you've got the intercom phone, something to change the alert status, and a screen to show them vital info, command codey controls, and that's it.

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"Let me tell you something about humans, nephew: They're a wonderful, friendly people - as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working.

"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."

Stag

What about instead of circles you make it an indent with some recessed lighting in it?

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