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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 7951707" data-attributes="member: 710"><p>The real reason should be obvious - many TNG era ships don't even have 3D models, and even if they have, they were made in the 90s and early 2000s and are not up to the current CGI standards (quite possibly with proprietary or obsolete technology). They can't be reused. If they want to use them again, they have to make them again.</p><p></p><p>A bit less obvious, but a sign on how things work with CGI models: In an interview about their in-game models for ships in Star Trek Online, one of their ship artists said that they had access to the actual 3D models used by Discovery. But they still rebuild the entire model for their game, because attempts to simplify these models so they work in their game (with the performance people are used to) are futile. The models are good reference points, but they have to still build a completely new model.</p><p></p><p>And if you are going to make a model for a Star Trek show set 25 years since the last time we saw a Starfleet ship in-universe, you probably spend your efforts on making new ships for the era. They did already make a model of the Borg Cube and the Galaxy Class, that was probably deemed sufficient.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 7951707, member: 710"] The real reason should be obvious - many TNG era ships don't even have 3D models, and even if they have, they were made in the 90s and early 2000s and are not up to the current CGI standards (quite possibly with proprietary or obsolete technology). They can't be reused. If they want to use them again, they have to make them again. A bit less obvious, but a sign on how things work with CGI models: In an interview about their in-game models for ships in Star Trek Online, one of their ship artists said that they had access to the actual 3D models used by Discovery. But they still rebuild the entire model for their game, because attempts to simplify these models so they work in their game (with the performance people are used to) are futile. The models are good reference points, but they have to still build a completely new model. And if you are going to make a model for a Star Trek show set 25 years since the last time we saw a Starfleet ship in-universe, you probably spend your efforts on making new ships for the era. They did already make a model of the Borg Cube and the Galaxy Class, that was probably deemed sufficient. [/QUOTE]
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