By: Sizer
Way back in the fall of 2010, when I was still reveling in the new-found glory of being a member of the FW:ToW team, Sushi approached me and asked me if I'd be interested in re-working Kuat Drive Yards and Mon Calamari Shipyards. I sort of soiled my pants a bit and ignored that request for a month or two (sorry Sush... stuff's downright terrifying). Eventually, I got comfortable enough to actually start working on them. You've all seen the models for both KDY and MCSY. I did them, and I was relieved.
Mon Calamari Shipyards
But then time went on and they weren't getting used... because there were no textures. And our team at the time was horribly short on texture artists (We still are by the way, if you're interested, drop me a line). It was around this time I decided to man up and teach myself how to texture. You've all seen the results of that.
Corellian Patrol Boat:
Strike Cruiser:
All the while, I was VERY aware of the monumental task that awaited me - the two shipyard sets I'd designed months prior. Eventually, I just gave up and started working on MCSY. Over the month or so I've been working on it, the most common word to come out of my mouth has been
"LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINES"
Because, well, lines. Lines and lines and lines and lines. Straight lines, angular lines, lines that make your head go WUT. All hand drawn. But in the end it's been worth it, because I've been able to bring you all THIS -
December 15th 2011
As always any comments, suggestions or questions are always welcomed!
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You all ruined my summer
hay put it this way. GO OUT SIDE AND PLAY!! then when it winter you can play all you want.
Agreed!
We're hoping for an open beta in, roughly, 4 months. Full release on December 15th. Sorry about ruining your summer :(
Looking forward to the release :)
Thank you!
December 15th 2011?
omg so much months to wait D;
Open Beta in roughly 4 months. So not /that/ bad!
I've been waiting for this mod for years. I think I can wait until December.
Thank ya!
December 15th, on the last day of SWG.
Actually, EA contacted us to ask not to release the game before, as SWTOR should be out, and didn't want us to be a competition. Especially that the Space Combat in SWTOR will be quite boring.
Of course i'm joking.
Hehehe >:D
**** yeah
Thats my birthday
Best present ever ^^ thx
Woot. That's awesome. :D
I'm really looking forward to December 15th.
(Hopefully i will have found my Freelancer disc till then ;)
Btw: great work on the shipyards.
If you can't find it, follow this link to see where you can get it: The-starport.net
I think I am the only one that thought this game would not come out before 2012. All the work that has been done in the past months is really above the ordinary, development seems to being accelerated, and even if you won't hit this deadline (you wouldn't be the first game-project) nobody could blame you. Thanks for your dedication to your work.
Thanks for the kudos!
Great news and great textures. Btw at least try and release it December 1st, its my bday :P
Hehehe. We're going for open beta in 4 months then full release. So you may get your wish.
the best freelancer mod is right here :)
There are many good Freelancer mods. We strive to be the best Star Wars Freelancer mod, though ;)
Wait, so... Am I the only one whose going to point out that, for a fairly recently self-taught texturer, that is INCREDI-TASTIC WORK??
Amazing job on the shipyards. Clearly the Force is strong with this one. Were you able to turn off your targeting computer for that one? :P
Ya, Sizer is an integral component to the team.
omg can't wait!
Good! :D Neither can we
Heh Sizer, I feel your pain, I avoided doing texture work for the longest time, especially with our mod using the BF2 engine which is infamously fiddly to work with for texturing, but like you, I had to man up and get some texture work in to fill the gap in the dev skill set.
You've done some cracking work here, and that textured Mon Cal shipyard looks fantastic. Nice job.
Also great news on the release date. I look forward to it.
Many thanks, Talon!
Awesome... now, where did I left this Freelancer-CD ? :D
Cool, cant wait for all the LIIIIIIIIINNNNEEEESSSSS! lol
Sizer dreams in linear format XD
There's quite a sad amount of truth to that statement.
This mod looks amazing guys! I Haven't played Freelancer is forever, looks like that is going to soon change =)
I was a long-time member of the ToW community back in the day, and was wondering whether the fighter flight style was like that in ToW, or will it continue to use Freeworlds?
Much more similar to ToW