[FUBAR-BDHR]

The original X-Wing was extremely easy.  You could destroy the Star Destroyer in just about every mission.  All you had to do was get the fighters to chase you with all power diverted to engines so they couldn't keep up.  Then when you were far enough away turn back on them, fly past them at full speed and assault the cap.  The cap wouldn't launch any more fighters if there were any in game.

[CountBuggula]

The original X-Wing was extremely easy.  You could destroy the Star Destroyer in just about every mission.  All you had to do was get the fighters to chase you with all power diverted to engines so they couldn't keep up.  Then when you were far enough away turn back on them, fly past them at full speed and assault the cap.  The cap wouldn't launch any more fighters if there were any in game.

I once went through the game blowing up the star destroyers every time one appeared, but the way I did it was just taking out the fighter waves over and over until they run out (they eventually stop launching - plus you get lots more kills on your record this way).  Once it was just me and the big brute I'd make attack runs on the shield generators until they blew, then disable it if I had Ions.  Took slightly longer in an X-Wing without the Ions, and much longer in an A-Wing with only concussion missiles, but I could do it just as well in any craft.

Wow...I was a big nerd back then.  I can't believe I spent that much time with X-Wing...

[aRaven]

you really have too much time on your hands

[Thaeris]

It's not that hard anymore...I'm playing it all the way through at the moment .

It's ****ing fun.

I made it harder by trying to keep all my wingmates alive, otherwise it'd be too easy with all the skills I've developed playing flight sims. Now that's hard!

I must agree. I would send off my squadmates when they reached critical damage. I try to do the same with FreeSpace. Unfortunately the game never seemed to recognize or reward your good intentions/skills in keeping your allies alive. It seems this will not hold true in Diaspora, which I've heard will keep track of the fighters and pilots available as a whole in the battlegroup's inventory. This concept could also work well for FotG, where the Rebels are commonly undergunned and undermanned.

-Thaeris

[Snail]

Yeah, it will be interesting to see what innovative mission concepts FotG will implement. We've seen orgasmic ships, hopefully we'll play orgasmic missions too.

Ahem.

[aRaven]

For now the only things orgasmic I need are the X-Wing and TIE Fighter models .

[Turambar]

I recognize that normal map problem from when we were putting normal maps into Homeworld 2.

They solved it with a modification to the conversion process, which i assume modified the model data in some way.  Perhaps i can ask around at Tanis Shipyards and we can modify PCX2 the same way.

[chief1983]

It might need the model itself changed, I think some solutions involved running a narrow row of polies down the centerline of the ship.

[Turambar]

I think their solution involved changing the W coordinate for half of the ship, if the ship was symmetrical.  When we mirror in max, the W coordinate gets flipped, and we need it to remain the same.  Their program changed it in the model data, i think, but i'm not really sure how to do that manually.

[chief1983]

Maybe that centerline thing was just a hack to trick it into not flipping the W coord.  Would be good if we could force it not to do that.  It could happen at any stage really, in max before export, applied directly to the dae, or on dae import to PCS2 (or, maybe even directly on a PMF).