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Those are really good! I like them loads. I am a star trek fan, they look exactly like the ships off Star Trek. how long did it take to make these?

Thanks Spicy.

The low-poly version of the Enterprise proably took me about two hours.  That I could use the same textures from my high-poly version certainly saved tons of time on that.

Because the Federation vessels share a lot of common parts, the rest took anywhere from about 10 minutes to an hour or so.  The Klingon D-7 probably took me two hours, and of course needs some better texture work.

The Federation vessels need some more work on the textures as well, if you look close the saucer sections on all of those have the proper number and name, but the warp nacelles all still say NCC-1701.

This was originally just going to be a low-poly version of the Enterprise I was going to throw into my NCC-1701 thread, but it's turned into a full-blown project for me.  I think I am going to attempt to mod a game with these.

These all go about 2,000 polys or less.

These ships, aside from the Enterprise and the Klingon D-7 are not strictly "canon", in other words, they've never been officially recognized by Paramount as Star Trek ships.  They've all appeared in various games, however.

Clockwise from top left are the "Saladin" class, the "Loknar" class, the "Constitution" class (Enterprise), a pre-refit version of the "Miranda" (Reliant), and at center, a Klingon D-7.

No argument there, Olias, as long as it's something truly constructive, and not simply yet another fanboy- (or girl-) type acknowledgment like "that looks great!"  The whole point of the forums is supposed to be as an information exchange.  Once a thread has been dormant for months, anyone resurrecting a thread to merely comment, without providing any NEW information, is not really providing benefit to the community as a whole.

I have seen in the past several NEW members dredge up long-dead threads simply to say "I like it," which is great, but adds no value to the original poster, or to the community as a whole.  Now, if they have a question about how somehing was done, or use it as a point of reference, such as "I want to know how to do this...," then by all means, dredge away...

Well, I'm afraid I have to disagree there as well.  No one but the poster can determine whether or not a post that says nothing more than "I like it" adds value to the poster.

While information exchange is certainly a valuable use for the forums, I'm sure there are people posting their work here not so much for the express purpose of exchanging information, but to display their works to the one group of people that can most appreciate them - other anim8or users.

Besides, one "I like it" post to an old thread isn't going to harm much...that thread will spend a day or two in the limelight then fall back off the front page as activity in the newer, hotter threads everyone's watching keeps them circulated on the front page.

I could just be an issue with .97. 

Various other threads have described problems with ART and I believe Steve mentioned in one or more of those threads that he is aware of the problem.

Thanks everyone, and good eye for details.

Thecolclough:  Yep, I didn't notice it until you pointed it out, but that one shot is clipped off on the right hand side because of the camera placement.

Ensoniq5: Aye, I realized about halfway through the render that I had forgotten to re-align the atmosphere object to make it visible to the camera.

Tanzim:  Indeed, all the lighting in all these scenes, whether its the accent lighting on the Enterprise, or the lights in drydock are all spotlights.  I've since created emissive maps for the ship and I'll get some renders of that up soon.  The drydock, well, I tried to cheat by just putting four lights around the ship -  above, below, to the left and right.  It didn't look very good, so I took the full plunge - there are 96 lights on the drydock model so I placed 96 spotlights.  It took a few hours to do that but in the end I think it was worth it.

The scene in ST:TMP with Enterprise in drydock is certainly what inspired the drydock scenes here.  It's also the moment I got hooked by Star Trek.  The music swelling as the ship came to life, that was just an awesome scene.

As has been pointed out, that was the refitted version of the Enterprise and of course this is the original series version of the ship, so I was envisioning this as taking place before she departed for her oringinal five-year mission or something like that.

One other discrepency in the drydock shots is the red stripe thing is missing along the starboard side of the secondary hull in 'drydock4'.  I'm not sure why that didn't appear.  It doesn't appear in the black background shots but at that point I hadn't created it yet.  Seems to work now, though.