I (Trevor Morris) started modelling this object on an A500 with 1M RAM (and had to preform all the complex slices on a friends A2000 which had 9M RAM) using imagine 0.9! When the ship was almost finished I bought an A3000/030 with 14M RAM and proceeded to labour away on the multitude of brushmaps.
Well, after sitting on my machine for about two years, I finally released the object to the masses (in imagine format - Ent1701D.lha on aminet/gfx/3dobj). The original project took about 1½ years (due to a significant amount of propcrastination and never-ending brushmap drawing). At first I had no intention of releasing this object, but since I no longer liked it and never used it I thought I would package it up for everyone else. The reason that I was no longer happy with it was because I wanted to build it better in LightWave (© NewTek) - you see this thing had lots of brushmaps and required about 22M of RAM (I'm guessing, but 18M was not enough - see Usage), but you could render it with 14M if you were lucky (again see Usage). This was partly due to imagine's lousy memory handling of brushmaps! The object was, however, quick to render (since it had no textures...); about 5 to 20min per frame depending on how close you were (on an 030 with FPU).
Then my good friend Ralph came along! Ralph scooped the imagine object off aminet and preformed the arduous task of converting the object and its surfaces into LightWave. Ralph enhanced the ship well beyond my expectations by improving some of the details, and adding bumpmaps, lightmaps, etc. And now, in our opinion, the ship looks better than the one used in the original television episodes!
Ralph has also rendered several gorgeous images (1701-D_5.jpg is my personal favorite ;-) which are all available in aminet/pix/trace and an mpeg (warp-s1.mpg) which is available in aminet/pix/mpg.
