Future Starfleet Emblem

Draconian · **Posted:** Tue Sep 06, 2011 8:30 am **(#1)**

Here's one for all you Star Trek lovers. I saw this on one of the Voyager episodes where the captain came back from 26 years in the future (their future) and noticed this emblem. I google up starfleet emblems and found it. I decided to see if I could make it a little better and here's what I ended up with.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Very nice, how did you make that cage? Is the netting a pattern or did you make it?

2-ton · **Posted:** Tue Sep 06, 2011 11:16 am **(#3)**

I like yours better! And yes, please tell us how you did it, it begs for a tutorial!

Draconian · **Posted:** Tue Sep 06, 2011 3:33 pm **(#4)**

Thanks guys & gals but I wouldn't know where to begin on makng a tut. I'm just a duffer when it comes to fooling around with GIMP. I'll attach the zip on the metal patterns for you Molly. I just saved them as .pat to my GIMP pattern files. I got the mesh idea from another tut and just kept messing around until I got it the way I wanted. I had to google up a couple of photos and scale and crop and select and delete, then map to gradient on some, displace on another, etc, etc. Took me about three or four hours, lots of trial and error so there's no way I could remember what all I did and in what order, sorry.

Draconian · **Posted:** Tue Sep 06, 2011 3:40 pm **(#5)**

Well, It says "not downloaded yet" in the attachment so let's try just the individual pattern.....

Draconian · **Posted:** Tue Sep 06, 2011 3:45 pm **(#6)**

Here's some of the others

mahvin · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2010 **Posts:** 4050

You can get the whole metal pack (if you're interested) here:

http://axertion.deviantart.com/art/Meta ... -107942844

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

thanks guys

Draconian · **Posted:** Tue Sep 06, 2011 4:25 pm **(#9)**

Thanks Mahvin, I couldn't remember where I got them from. Looks like th zip I posted finally downloaded.

mahvin · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2010 **Posts:** 4050

You actually have some that aren't in the pack. So, it's good either way.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

thanks Draconian and Mahvin
Do these 14 Png's go into the pattern folder?

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12844

Very cool result Draconian and thanks for sharing the link Mahvin. Very cool textures indeed.

mahvin · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2010 **Posts:** 4050

Yes, Molly.

2-ton · **Posted:** Tue Sep 06, 2011 6:52 pm **(#14)**

Thanks for the link. Are they all seamless and do we open in gimp and save as a .pat?

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

thanks MAV

mahvin · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2010 **Posts:** 4050

2-ton, some are seamless (that I have used), and any image filetype will work in the patterns folder, they dont have to be .pat.

2-ton · **Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2011 8:12 pm **(#17)**

Really? I never knew that!

PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:37 pm **(#18)**

Sweet work!!

I definitely like Draconians emblem the best!!

Thanks for some great resources!