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Hardly. That is how it is done in Transformers: War for Cybertron video game. If you own it, watch the transformations carefully you can see that there are three 3D models. A robot, a jumble of bits, and a vehicle. All three have moving parts during the transformation, and they swap so fast...

I think it might be easier to cheat a bit by having 4 models of the valkyrie. One as a plane, another as the robot, and a few in between in a transitory state. Then to transform you swap out the 3D models to the intermediate looking ones for just a split second.

Do you guys think I should release it as is, or should I add more details, or even other support craft and facilities (space dock, ect)?

I guess I should have been a bit more clear. I was only halfway keeping this "realistic". I wanted a happy medium. Most sci-fi ships are horrible looking modern art. They usually just take lots of old model kits and glue and go to town. Oddly, you never see weapons most of the time for...

The basic idea was to be as realistic as possible, but from a time period where millions live in space and the solar system is colonized. Realism caused the initial idea to have a giant gun with a rocket engine. To make people recognize the thing as a warship helped control the design overall...

Ok, taking advice that a more traditional look might help, I re-worked some details. Gone is the big nose gun, instead being replaced by a hangar bay for the marines and small craft. Honestly, I think it would be better this way as I cannot see where to put a hangar on a spinning ship in a...

Turning the towers into a centrifuge is unnecessary, and would in fact add a joint you couldn't hope to keep air tight. Instead you roll the whole ship during those long, long days and months spent coasting around the solar system. The bow is the main gun. It is a rail gun, or coil gun, and...

Well, I don't know how to go about it, but I have made 3D models that can be transformed. Animating it will be the problem. This is why I have never bothered to upload them to the net. I figure somebody will be upset that they don't animate.

Just thought I would share this. I have a small project on the side to develop my own concepts for space battleship. I call her the USS Minnesota. .

Anybody have some good ideas for a deckplan layout of any kind? I've gone so far as to copy down some floorplans of Winnebago motor homes and such, but I'm open to suggestions.

Other than an ISP of 900 for a Nuclear rocket engine, not really. I think I can guestimate the other stats myself, but the idea here is mostly that it will be fully modeled inside. I don't really plan to make the stats super accurate, just accurate enough.

This is a project to make a fully 3D ship inside and out. This thing won't be just a small shuttlecraft or capsule either, though a small surface to orbit vehicle will probably be needed as well. I was thinking something along the lines of a permanent space vehicle that resembles a long boom...

Well, if we're serious about this, I think a new thread in the proper forum is needed. No more posting here guys. Look for a new thread in the projects forum about a personal space cruiser.

Well, I am all for making a 3D model of a ship that is complete inside and out. However, maybe start off by making a smaller ship to speed things up, and perhaps avoid Star Trek. The size would increase the complexity of the model, and that probably will slow down your computer. I think a...

I'm working on making some home grown designs for the future of space flight setting where colonies exist all over the solar system, single stage to orbit vehicles are common (if only to keep things simple), and even the military is in space. Also, a few space stations, probably asteroid...