[chief1983]

I'm glad he nuked his HDD

Whoa ho ho, be careful there.  He might just decide to let it happen again.

[EtherShock]

The variable markings simply came from someone requesting the R2 unit be R2-D2, and therefore I figured I'd go with Luke's X-wing (Which was Red 5 in the original movie, and the original had individual markings for each fighter, from reds 1-5 (red 6+ were never shown)

Makes sense. What I was trying to say though was if the flight group color of the ship was red, a different colored astromech would probably look better because of the contrast in colors instead of say a red one on an X-wing with red markings for example.

Pffff, R-5s were totally overrated. Everybody knows that R-2s were the pinnacle of astromech technology, duh.
Maybe an R-7 could work, but that would probably be too much trouble.

Seriously though Brand, that is one hot X-Wing. Are you sure you didn't nuke your own HD for an excuse to start over?

Wedge flew with an R5, so they couldn't have been that bad, though R2s are more visually appealing.

That all depends on what brandx thinks. Do you consider losing your work a big mistake or a happy accident?

[StarSlayer]

R5 has a bigger flowerpot head and a better chance of absorbing a laser blast heading for the cockpit 

[swashmebuckle]

Just got back from a trip, and holy crap, the X-wing is glorious.  That render to me is a dead ringer for the ANH special edition models, missing only a couple minor bumpy details and a little dirt.  It already looks better than impressive commercial stuff like the GameCube Rogue Leader version, IMO.  Lock S-foils in attack position.

[Narvi]

I wonder how they're going to do the S-foil thing. FS2 really doesn't have many animated ships, after all.

[Flipside]

Freespace 2 Open, however, does have support for animated ships 

[Galemp]

To wit, the afterburner flaps on the high-poly Horus. Take a look if you haven't already.

[General Battuta]

To wit, the afterburner flaps on the high-poly Horus. Take a look if you haven't already.

BWAH.

Must see.

[Mongoose]

To wit, the afterburner flaps on the high-poly Horus. Take a look if you haven't already.

...do what now?

*scurries off*

[brandx0]

Good reason to necro a thread, here's a variant texture I based off of a model that someone had painted this way.  You can see the original here: http://www.alfredsmind.ca/xwpg.htm

Anyways, without further ado,

[Dragon]

Hey, this: http://www.alfredsmind.ca/advxwpg.html looks interesting.
It seems to be a creation of the website's author, but there are many different variants on Wookiepedia.
Would you be able to modify this model to create variants such as XJ-Wing or Stealth-X?

[brandx0]

I think I'll leave those for later, as we're not really focusing on the vong era, plus I'm not really a big fan of that particular redesign

[LordMelvin]

I like it. I think I'd like it more if the yellow had black checkerboard pattern, a la Wedges helmet, but it's very very nice.

Edit: And by Wedge, I mean Biggs.

[chief1983]

Well he had done most of Rogue Squadron at one point, but that work was eaten by a hard drive.  He may do those again sometime.