[Col. Fishguts]

Just a couple of questions:

- Is it normal that missiles are rendered in full brightness, no shading/spec, or are my eyes playing tricks on me ?
I could understand that specular mapping would be a waste of resources, but at least standard shading would be nice.

- Would it be possible to have ship-specific engine glows for missiles, with the "$Thruster Bitmap :    someglow" flag ? I tried it, but the parser refused to accept it.

- Is the starting point for the missile trails hard-coded ? It seems they begin in the model pivot, while I think the engine glow would be a better point.

EDIT: rephrased 2nd question, and a 3rd question.

[StratComm]

Originally posted by Col. Fishguts
- Is the starting point for the missile trails hard-coded ? It seems they begin in the model pivot, while I think the engine glow would be a better point.

Yes.  Why else would all the missile POFs be strangely pivoted about their back engines?  It should be fixed, I agree, but you're not imagining their behavior.