Ladies and Gentlemen, it's a wrap! Unfortunately Season 2 was cancelled; the ratings prefer younger, sexier starships so you're all fired while @Rekkert builds the next bridge.@Savage Dragon: Thank you very much! I would love to visit it as well!
I've made some last second adjustments, most notably raised the doors that lead to the aft alcoves a bit, and removed the extruded panels at the side of said doors to give the bridge a bit more of cohesion.
Here are some finished renders of this beast:
And here's the cutaway graphic, which gave me some troubles displaying the whole thing. In the end, I had to remove the aft alcoves, it was simply not possible to display them without having to sacrifice the aft consoles, and those were more important in displaying the bridge.
Regarding the little schematic, just no source, the person who ordered the commission wanted it there. The set itself probably didn't include any detail on that corridor.
I do love all the other bridges on that list, and yeah the 'The Search' version of the Defiant bridge looks sooo good with the two levels. It's so unfortunate that it was removed later.
Oh wow, that brings back memories! If you dig deep enough, the thread where people helped him hash that out (based on the scant evidence visible in this screencap) is probably still around. There were also some interesting discussions as we tried to figure out how they'd tinkered with the Enterprise bridge set to make the Grissom and Saratoga bridges in TSFS/TVH. (This was long before those behind-the-scenes slides showing the condition of the TOS movie sets surfaced online.)
I'm gonna guess that room where they have the slightly curved/rounded walls. Lacking that, not a clue@CaptainSerek:
I've also started work on the second commission, which is another room on board the USS Galaxy. Can you guess which one?
@Lt. Washburn: Thanks! Indeed it ended up being a very interesting bridge to work on.
@Jedman67: Hahaha, thanks!
@CaptainSerek: Glad you think so! I'm curious, what are your other holy grails?
I've already started work on my next couple of commissions, as I've taken two back-to-back jobs by @Rusty0918. I've accepted the two together only as one of them is a redress of an existing set, which is almost ready. It's the bridge of the USS Dobrovolsky (which I've dubbed Dobby due to my initial inability to remember how to write the name), a Springfield-Class ship active during the 2360s. The bridge is based off of my USS Chekov design, and thus required very little redressing so far.
Oh yeah, I remember that! I always thought it was a silly thing to have an airlock directly off the main bridge. Based on that layout, the captain would be the first to get sucked out in the event of a malfunction!
Given the fact that my meshes are made with photorealistic PBR (Physically-Based Rendering) rather than with a game engine in mind, a lot of tweaks are needed to get them optimized for Unreal.
Haha, yeah that would be awesome, however it would require a lot of effort that could be put into rooms for the Enterprise-D itself, which is our focus.
