That looks cool but the poly count should be reduced to about half that at the very least. Milkshape can only handle about 10k polygons if i remember correctly. Would you be interested in making capital ship class turrets? I've built a Javelin Cruiser with its own custom turrets already but it needs improvement without significantly raising the polygon limit. If you are interested, email me and i will send the files. 3ds or Max but i think max would be a better choice since the textures are already there.

wow that is one dam good ship the only thing i would do is make the light turret small and add some slope to the side of them as thay stick out i will not edit it as i have a newer version of max and for some reson i can't export to 3ds I will see if i can get it to work.

nice turret, how many polys is that, and how much can freelancer handle, im new, im used to games that can take around a max of 1200 is freelancer the same

well that turret is 1,357 poly and as for freelancer i'm not sure i need to look in to it

Seriously, there's not much reason to make a turret more than about 200 polys, since you don't see much of it, and even if you take a look at it, you can't get that close anyway.

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so why do a ship if u are going to just use the in game gun model and then have ppl say that it looks crap and to me there as been some good model of ship for the game sofare but when u start to add guns from the game thay realy look crap as thay were not made with that in mind or at best thay do not look right. I have a ship in the making for that turret and i will make new guns for it the way i like them to look on my ship i will not use the one in game if i am to do a job i will do it right. now there is no need to flame me on this it is just my point and everyone will do what thay like and use what thay like as for me i will not use ship that i do not like and if thay look bad i will keep it to my self as it not up to me it up to the ppl that download the ship and mod.