Here's something i found while surfing round the net, this model is by a guy called Psionic named the Psionic Fighter which i've converted from a 3ds model into a working CMP file for Freelancer. The model was a freebie on some site i came across.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y155/W ... rfront.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y155/W ... errear.jpg

that is freakin sweet, and its nice to see a new model posted - this would fit perfectly into the borderworld's shipline as a torpedo bomber, imo

And what else have we found? Oh yeah, this new station i've converted for FL.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y155/W ... rrapin.jpg

Ah yes Psionic's fighter, that was a skinning competition on his site back in 2005, IIRC you can find a free copy on Turbosquid with over twenty of the best skins (the General Lee is a classic). Most of the custom models that I have are either converted from other games or freebies I've converted for Freelancer.

**shuffles of with a new headache**

Yes you're quite right, loads of free stuff to be found if you hunt around, and i've converted nearly all psionics ships now into fl, so have the whole collection to fly soon lol

** UPDATE **

More screenies of some of the other textures,

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y155/W ... rfront.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y155/W ... /cubik.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y155/W ... /wilko.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y155/W ... n/thor.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y155/W ... parrot.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y155/W ... shadow.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y155/W ... lspeld.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y155/W ... oskiwi.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y155/W ... omatis.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y155/W ... knight.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y155/Wargibbon/JD.jpg

@Bejaymac
General Lee is bottom link

Edited by - Gibbon on 1/28/2007 3:52:45 PM

Ah I remember that texturing competition, it was early on in my modeling journey so I didn't have the confidence to enter.

Take a good look at the mesh untextured and then with the textures. It's the perfect example of how details put into the texture can preclude the need for detailed meshes, the mesh itself has only 936 polys.

For a professional example I extracted a fighter from a well known FPS game. The mesh has 706 polys:

First the untextured mesh;


Now with the texture;


The texture looks a bit flat because the game engine uses normal maps that dynamically adds shadows to the texture giving the appearance the model has has a much larger poly count. This is a feature that FL lacks unfortunately.

isn't there a way to reverse a normal map into a high-poly LOD? brand new cards just eat FL for breakfast, so I don't see the harm in constantly having 8000+ polys onscreen (eg the player's own LOD0 shipmesh) as long as you let people know that it will run like crap on older cards. freelancer uses directx 8 sadly, so none of this fancy new stuff is available - i could care less, mostly. i enjoy playing emulators and i'm playing multiplayer mario kart 64 almost as often as gears of war now, and mario kart has no bloom lighting or anything

True my friend gameplay beats graphics every time.

I also agree that we have a lot more leeway in regards to polys but many modelers are very inefficient. I've seen a lot of models with polys inside the model that nobody will ever see or flat surfaces unnecessarily subdivided.

Granted this was a awhile ago and the quality of models released is much better now but every so often I like to climb up on the old soapbox .

Hi all. Been a while since i poseted here. I been checking out the models and all I can say is WOW.

Lots of nice stuff posted here.

I lost my freelancer game with a fried computer (Discs are bad also) but i still model now and again. Here is my latest. It isn't set up with hardpoints and all but it's a nice low poly model.



Edited by - jsncalif11 on 2/4/2007 9:37:32 PM

That's a pretty cool design and nice job on the textures also. The only thing is that the borders of the panels and rivets are too thick and look out of proportion with the model.

I like that, nice compact design. As to the rivets PantherX, get a big spanner lol

If you have any that can handle 6 inch rivets I'll need you to loan me one .

I aree about the big panels. I ended up increasing the resolution and recreating the panels and stuff then resized it down. Seems to have worked out ok. I also lightened up the color scheme a tad. I went ahead and got it game ready minus the SUR file. I don't have freelancer on my machine anymore so it's not game tested but if you want it I posted it on the TLR Texture and Model Exchange

Here is a pic.



Edited by - jsncalif11 on 2/5/2007 11:19:54 PM

Downloaded and i'll get on the case. Thx for sharing that