Tag Archives: Traveller

Scorpion, a new spaceship design sketch

And I’m back doing what I do best, sketching spaceships. The spaceship tag at the top of this blog is the most popular destination on this whole site, and I’ve decided to stop ignoring that. I’ve started with a spaceship sketch that was a lot of fun to do. It’s a spaceship, with a little [...]

D20 spaceships for gaming: and MegaMek: A BattleTech Video Game… for Free?!

Outsyder is another cool gaming blog which I found because it links to one of my posts.
Outsyder Gaming: MegaMek: A BattleTech Video Game… for Free?!
This blog has some really, really nice stuff. For example he links to this D20 rifts site, eeps!! And this games blogger has somehow found this other cool D20 Rifts site, [...]

New 3D Spaceship Illustration at Starbright, the Sci-Fi RPG website

I’m starting to have fun creating my 3D science fiction role-playing game illustrations with Blender (exclusively spaceships so far, with droids and other equipment sure to follow). But there are still a few things that are giving me a little bit of trouble. In blender itself I highlight faces on the 3D mesh and this [...]

Sci-Fi RPG resources site gets a make over

Today sees the unveiling of the new look for this Sci-Fi RPG resources site. This site contains spaceships, maps, planet profiles, NPCs, deckplans, monsters and equipment for science fiction role-playing games, and includes the information needed to use them with Traveller. The previous pink color scheme with pretty stars didn’t really express that and has [...]

JJ`s Star Trek, great movie, no good for RPG inspiration though, and the Enterprise looked short and fat

 
I loved the new Star Trek movie as an entertainment and as a spectacle, but not as RPG inspiration. As a long time sci-fi nerd and science fiction role-playing games aficionado I was a little hesitant about seeing a JJ Abram’s Star Trek, he often does dark and brooding rather than the whiz-bang and [...]

The sci-fi robot spider’s search results, NewScientist it’s a great source of scientific gobbledygook for SF RPGs, and it’s free, and they’ll email it to you.

 
My sci-fi robot spiders are always searching for science fiction and role-playing game related goodies. Today they skittered out of my USB port with a particularly juicy gobbet of SF gobbledygook. While searching through the NewScientist site, a rich seam of this cool  nerdy stuff, they found an article on spin ice. You’ve probably never [...]

Blender is great for creating spaceships, and easier to use than expected

I’ve been playing with Blender the free 3D software for a couple of days now, off and on – mostly off, I had to clear out a shed and there has been a lot of work at my day job – but I think I’m already getting to grips with it. My experience playing with [...]

Photo safari, on the hunt for futuristic looking backgrounds for my 3D models of robots and spaceships.

 
I just got back from Gasometer, a district of Vienna, where there is a treasure trove of empty, futuristic looking buildings.
Thanks to the international financial crisis these buildings are almost completely deserted, which makes getting empty shots to go behind my 3D role-playing game art all too easy, and adds to the feeling of [...]

More role-playing game related robo-fun

My new 3D mesh droid model for Traveller the science fiction role-playing game is slowly taking shape, and it is going to make a nice illustration when it’s done. I’m also well on the way with the background detail that will give life to this role-playing game item of equipment (or even NPC). Here is [...]

3D droid illustration for science fiction role-playing games like Traveller, progress report

  This 3D droid illustration for science fiction role-playing games has started to look less like a lifeless sculpture, in fact it has started to run. As you can see from the previous two posts, which both have previous iterations of this 3D droid design, there has been a lot of progress – but there [...]