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See what did I Say...

Here's the 2nd pack. There are now 2 TIE's in the pack, and they have realistic solar panels just like in the movies. The V-38 Assault Fighter from Rebel Assault 2 is the 2nd TIE added, and has very detailed parts.
The last ship added is the Preybird fighter, a least known fighter flown by the pirates in XWA, but still very cool looking. Augur's ship pack has been re-skinned, with much more detailed and higher resolution textures. All ships look now much better and more realistic. As you can see Michael's modeling skills are getting better....
















Edited by - bakedpotato on 2/28/2004 3:31:12 PM

thanx for posting the screenshots baked. appreciate it.
I got another shot pack on the way as all Augur's ships suffered a total re-texture, and two more Starwars ships were done by me, the Preybird fighter and the infamous V-38 Assault Fighter or TIE Phantom from Rebel Assault 2. Augur will have the Assault Gunboat also ready hopefully by Monday....
I worked all day to redo the solar panels on the TIE Avenger, and they finally look like in the movies. The TIE Phantom has the same very detailed solar panels, and other stuff(you'll see soon).

Yay! I was worried the TIE advanced would make it into Rebalance without solar panels. Now I can fly in peace ! Those other ships look interesting too. Choices, choices....

If a butterfly flapping its wings can cause a hurricane, what do spammers cause?

One thing I might suggest is fixing the cockpit of the XJ376 Slipstream; there is no canopy.
And also the gun mount on the left side of the cockpit is upside down/inside out/whetever you want to call it.
Other people may not like it enough for it to be worth while, and if that's the case, nevermind. But since this is the 3.40 ship discussion, i figured i'd throw in a suggestion for a ship (if it's even in 3.4 at all) thx

Edited by - Ro9ue on 2/28/2004 3:51:51 PM

I still have not flown all the ships on rebalance, but give me more love tie fighters. Keep up the good work. I have a queston though, is there not a max number of ships that can be put in the game? if so what is getting the cut? and i know that this is gona get me flammed but i do not like cap ships they can go for all i care. I love to fight them but they fly for crud in the freelancer game. that is all i got to say. keep up the great work.

Capships.. hmmm.. I can't say much about your opinion (no flaming) but, the phrase 'fly like crud' depends on how you look at it. The fastest ship can be a capship with the right equipment (excluding the kill engine warp speed, although it comes close to being that fast) In a leviathan you can get up to trade lane speed thats impressive for the cargo and power you get with it. But if you are used to it you can fly them well enough to combat with anyone and anything. You just have to get used to the slow turing most of them have.

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Nice work on the retexturing. It all looks very good.

You have a good intuition Baked... .
The TIE avenger has its solar panels ret-extured as well. You'll all see it in the game.
I'm thinking to re-texture all the TIE models in the game with the new metallic blue textures...but it'll take a LOT of time since it's gotta be done from face to face. The results will be staggering for sure, i saw the textured TIE's in XWA and they're stunning...:O. There were 12 poly's on each of the Avenger's wings,and all needed to be re-grouped in order to get the best results for the re-texture.
Sun_Fang_One, the Fight Space ships are awesome and will certainly remain for good in the mod. As for the others I'll think about it but there's still free space in the mod. Perhaps some of the older ship such as the Elite ships, or the Homeworld ones, since i got some requests here and there to replace them.
As for the models presented, the big freighters as the Behemoth and the Seraphim are most impressive.You should hear them roaring...mounting 4 or 5 Borderworlds XR Freighter engines, their roar is so strong you almost won't be able to hear voices or guns fire...lovely beasts....

Wow! nice stuff! especially the TIEs, the texturing on their wings is spot on. when can we expect this to come out?

"A good pun is its own reword"

Please keep the hyper-enginekill (for fighters, at least); that makes exploration so much easier and more fun! It adds to the openness and freeness of the game

When will 3.4 be ready? I cannot wait and the new ship pictures are a tease...

As for flying a cap ship..Love it - Just gotta learn to pilot them...And yes, they don't handle well, but when you can take out multiple fleets with 1 volley...Nice!

v3.4 will be out as soon as i finish re-texturing the TIE's, and the 4 new models curently in queque: the IRD Fighter, Planetary Fighter, CLoakShape Fighter and the T42 Congreve. Also Augur gotta finish the Assault Gunboat and some SW cockpits(!), and the mod will be then put to shape and tested extesively both in SP and in MP. That'll be done to avoid the "oops" patches.... I'm gonna send some new screenshots with the above fighter as son as they're ready.

Are those the IRD, Planetary and Cloakshape from Xwing Alliance? Ahh, that brings back memories

"A good pun is its own reword"

Yes, all these models are from Xwing Alliance, but not the default OPT's by the enhanced ones made by the XWA Upgrade project and Tony Darksaber. So these look much better but still retain the original feeling of XWA...
The Cloakshape, IRD, T42 Congreve and Planetary fighters will be ready by the end of the week, and a re-done of all the TIE models already in the mod are scheduled soon.