Freeworlds: Tides of War is a fan built Star Wars total conversion mod for Digital Anvil's Freelancer game that was released several years ago. When fans began to make mods for Freelancer, one of the many things people were keen on seeing was a Freelancer mod based on the Star Wars universe developed by George Lucas. Freeworlds and Tides of War were the answer to this outcry. The development team of both mods have now joined forces to create an epic new Star Wars TC, Freeworlds: Tides of War.

Prototype Normal Map Work (view original)

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Since W0dk4 has cracked and created the code to institute normal maps into the mod, we've been hard at work redoing some of our biggest polygon hog ships. This is a very much WIP of a Normal Map for the ISD that FriendlyFire has been working on. We have shaved over 100k from the original ISD to this model. There is still much work to perfect the normal map, but as you can see, it's a powerful tool. Essentially, all the surfaces you see are flat. The normal map is what gives the surface the appearance of depth.

Quite amazing, don't you think?