Would be cool to have the option of using a different ship model in the tech room & weapon loadout screen, similar to what we already have in weapons.tbl. This would be for situations where you need to specify a ship weapon as a separate object (i.e. to animate it or make it rotate).
Another option would be to be able to specify that a given model will be displayed with it's 'default' weaponry in the tech room and weapon loadout, and be updated as the player switches out different weapons in the loadout screen. This would be more ideal, but sounds to me like more work than the former idea.
Just something I've been thinking about, and trying to do with existing assets, but can't seem to make work.
Cheers guys, love your work.
M.