All I can say it has been a heck of week in development. That's to do with a few factors, one mainly being I've been on vacation for a week from my residency program. Fortunately, this has allowed me to dedicate my time working on some of the models in the mod and getting them to use the full capabilities of the DX9 engine. As a result, I've been able to upgrade all 107 ships of our shiplist. To see that link, click here. About 85% of those ships have normal and specular mapping applied. The rest will be added at a later date when we upgrade the XWAUP ships we're currently using for the mod. For those of you that have missed some of the videos, here's two of my favourites:
YT-2400 - Normal and Specular Mapping - Mod DB
Gallofree Transport
GR-75 Gallofree Transport - Mod DB
Now that the ship models have been completed, I've focused my remaining vacation getting our stations up to par with our ship models. The list is only 30 models, however, the models themselves are more intricate because of the way they were designed. That being said, I've completed about 40% of the list in the past few days and hope to have the remainder done in another week or two. Here's some footage of that:
I've not been the only one hard at work this past week. Qi, a mod development lead, and website designer/creator/coder, has been working on improving the website where the official server will be hosted. He's currently working on putting the shiplist, including in-game screen shots, onto the website. This will allow players to look up the ships, their stats, images and where to buy them almost instantly. It's quite a great design and I cannot wait to see when it's fully completed. For those that want a preliminary look, please click this link here. (Note: the NR/GE starfighters are completed so please click those ships to see what the final result will look like as the rest are still pending)
Also, for those of you that are interested in following the day-to-day progress of the mod, I'd take a look at Qi's worklog for all his doings...he's going to be creating some wonderful things for the mod. Take a look at that link here.
Not only Qi has been working on the site, Darkforce, our RP lead writer/developer, has been putting the Official RP Guide, onto the website for ease of use of the players. Take a look at this preliminary work here.
Quite a week, I must say.
In other news, we are looking for an interested party to make a trailer for the mod.
For those that are interested, please send an email with links to previous game movie/trailer work to: freeworldstidesofwar[at]gmail.com
To the person chosen, you will get a full copy of the mod to shoot the video and credit upon final release.
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Cool the ship from Star Wars: Shadows Of The Empire.
I'm going to buy Freelancer just because of this mod.
Where to buy the game?
That really makes me happy to hear that. The game, on its own, it's amazing and I think you'll enjoy it. As to where you can pick it up, follow this link and it should help you out.
The-starport.net
Sounds great. Can't wait to play.