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Getting there dude! http://www.orbiter-forum.com/album.php?albumid=379

I'm gonna take some time today to hang with friends for Labour (Canadian spelling) Day. Have a happy Labor Day in the US. I think with all the tweeking and finishing the accomanying system we might aim to release her as part of a complete package containing Nostromo and LV426. My artistic...

Hi again, still working between orbiter and anim8or to get the scale right in orbiter etc... in the mean-time I've made a beta version of the planet LV426 (the planet from the first two films) I've used the original planet textures etc, but I still have to build the rest of the system. Watching...

Hi Steve, Good news, by hacking the Obj mesh into component chunks ie command section main hull naccelles etc etc I've been able to get the whole model into Orbiter and I am flying her as a static model. She still needs textures / a paint-job, but seems that there is only minor frame rate...

Great work! Looks good to me. The trick to getting her into an orbiter mesh format is to hack the single obj / anim8or mesh into several smaller meshes which are re-positioned to match the original. I think this is also neccessary if we ever want to animate any of her components. Usually I find...

I found that by focusing on removing details like the tiny pipes on the octagonal booster beams and making very smiplified landing gear the file size wasn't too bad. I can post a link to the files I've created just to show some of details that got removed as they will still have the normals...

progress report on the Nostromo Hi everyone, Roadware contacted me today. I've been away on vacation and had not checked this thread in a while, although I've been tinkering along. I'm very glad Roadware did send me a message when he noticed my avatar is in fact based on his model. I think...

So cool! I'm very excited. I've never gotten into 3D modelling so some of what you've disussed will take a little time to fully understand, namely following your links and checking out Kerkythea etc. Dude, if you get around to it by next month I'd be still grinning, Let me know if you need of...

Hey Roadare YOU built this baby!? Oh am I ever glad you found me!!! I was sweating bullets over giving appropriate credit. I just really want to have her in Orbiter cuz she's a beauty! How are the faces coming? I've tried everything in Animator to sync them so they don't produce holes in the...

Thanks Roadware. It's a project I've been tinkering on for a couple months. I found a model of the Nostromo from the original Alien on Google Scketch-up's archive. Soooo, I thought it might be cool to find a way to convert it into a working Orbiter add-on. Sadly it's turned into a monster of a...

Hold onto your socks! We're getting closer and closer to being able to release her into the Orbiter community. This latest pic is a screen capture I just did to test my evolving texturing abilities. it's gonna take a bunch more work to hack her down to smaller and smaller bits to get detailed textur

Thanks for the reply Saturn V. I'll do just that. I promarily plan to use the conversion privately, but if it turns out well I'd like to share with the rest of the community. The conversion process, due to my newness, has meant I've had to do a whole bunch of kitbashing to fix scaling issues...

Hi all, I've managed to import the mesh of the Nostromo from Google Sketch-up into Orbiter, rigged a cfg etc... but she needs materials tweeking and textures (those are more complicated and beyond me as of yet) Before releasing her to the world I want feed-back on etiquit regarding the use of...

Hi there, I'm a bit of a noob with Orbiter, totally self taught. I've long lamented not being able to travel to Alpha Centauri buy just pointing in the general direction and firing up the ol warp drive or FTL capacitors. This project sounds absolutely amazing!!! I don't have a programming...