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This was the first fighter I ever did with all three OPTs (Base, Cockpit, and Exterior) and in some ways it shows in the cockpit. The cockpit does look better with the software texture coordinates zeroed but it is still rather plain compared with other XWAU craft and could do with some modification to have extra detail.
Exterior model is good (in my opinion) and base model is a little plain when examined closely but looks acceptable when flying in and out of your gunsights, which is the important thing.

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C-3 Passenger Liner

I had decided to do some modelling to try to cheer myself up a little and when the Passenger Liner was mentioned in the XWAU private forum I decided to have a go. The model was going to serve as a useful test of some ideas and I planned to do it quite quickly, even turning down an offer to have it textured.

After a series of false starts on trying to get the look of the textures right I finally managed to get it done.

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Dreadnaught

I'm not sure if the version available at XWAU is still mine or if Forceflow swapped it over to Darksabers one with the less accurate textures.
Admittedly my textures became a little messy as I should have started again rather than continuing to layer modifications onto them but at least mine had the "virtue" of the panel lines having been traced from a scan from the Essential Guide and thus being as accurate as I could make them.
Comes down to a matter of preference, I rather like my OPT but then I am biased as it is mine. Visit Darksabers X-Wing Station and see if you'd rather have the other one.

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Home One
Calamari Heavy Cruiser / Battleship

Some people call this Home One, some people say that was simply her callsign during the Battle of Endor and her actual name is Independence. Personal feeling is that this ship is Home One and Akbars personal cruiser (mentioned in Truce at Bakura) is the Independence, and that even if I am wrong about that I would still be advised to follow the example of Michael A. Stackpole and Aaron Allston and use the name Home One.

I was quite pleased with this OPT initially as I had taken quite a lot of care with the textures to make them complex and accurate. Unfortunately due to the method I used to apply these textures there was some quite severe texture joins and texture streakies, both of which were criticised with vigour by Saxman. There was also a problem with the nose where from the side it looked curved, from directly above it looked curved, but from the side and above (sort of 45 degree angle) it looked rather nastily pointed.
I therefore decided to release the OPT as a temporary measure and redo it for the XWAU using better methods to avoid the texture joins and swirlies and to make it more detailed. This unfortunately is a temporary measure that has been in place for rather a long time as the V.3 OPT is something that I have not done, but hopefully will eventually.
Quite a number of the bulges are adequately modelled, enough faces to be smooth, and so these can probably be reused though some of them would be merged with the hull (and then split from the hull) to avoid edge-wobble and others might have some detailing added. The hangars will need to be corrected and made more detailed. All elements of the main hull will need to be remodelled to be smoother and then merged together (before being split back into legal chunks) to avoid edge-wobble. Texturing would follow the same methods as used on the smaller XWAUP Calamaris, which would allow more detail to be placed into the hull textures rather than having a "plain" hull texture being tiled.

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Modified Action Transport

There was a thread on Shading Problems at the XWAU in which Gank posted screenshots of a Bulk Cruiser, Stormtrooper Transport, and a Modified Action Transport. Since this had been a ship I had considered doing when Gank said the M/TRN was not salvageable I enquired about using the textures.

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Other OPTS

Bulwark-II Flag Cruiser

When I first played Rebellion / Supremacy I didn't build a Bulwark Battlecruiser for several games and when I did build one I was very surprised that what I'd thought was mainly foreshortening in the encyclopaedia picture wasn't, the ship really was that short, wide, and deep.

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Dauntless Cruiser

When I revised the MAX file version of this ship that I had available on my previous site (on my old ISP) I decided to also revise the OPT and was surprised at how smoothly it went. I was able to resize and reuse some of the textures and even some of the model parts.

As I was guessing the stats and size anyway I decided to make it a little larger and more powerful than the previous OPT to make it more distinct from the Calamari Cruisers, though still more of an intermediate between a MC-80 and Home One than between a MC-80 and a Bulwark.

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Dominator Interdictor
Star Destroyer

Some areas of excess shading, but not too bad.

It was apparent from the first screenshots of Matts XWAU ISD in the private forum that the Dominator Interdictor would need to be redone as TG had made quite a serious mistake with the ISDs general proportions, their model was a lot narrower and deeper than it should be, and in trusting that as a guide I had therefore given the D/INT the same incorrect proportions.

After some testing, some fiddling, and finding that splitting the model between seperate OPTech projects and calculating the Vertex Normals seperately minimised the excess shading I decided it was worth texturing and making the full OPT.

COMPARISON OF V.2 AND V.3 MODELS

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Eclipse-II Super Star Destroyer

This is one of the strangest ships at SWTC (I have the comic as well), not because it is a particularly strange design but just because Dr.Cutis Saxton has quite a number of ships or vehicles which could be considered as simply a difference in how an artist has drawn something rather than actually being a different design. He even has a pair of "new designs" where the artist was illustrating an event from the novel Darksaber and so we know those were meant to be ISD-IIs.

When it comes to something as different as this though (see note) he only has one type of Eclipse-class Super Star Destroyer.

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Giels SSD

The creature was rendered extinct by the Rebel Alliance through the use of stolen TIE Fighters as they felt that their cause was more important than the life of a presumably non-sentient creature, even one which was the only example of its species. The death throes of the creature were literally explosive and this explosion devastated (and almost certainly) destroyed this starship.

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MC-75 Barracuda
Calamari Medium Cruiser

This cruiser was originally based on one of the MC-80 designs seen at SWTC, but I felt that another cruiser of the same size would not add much to the game so I decided to make it smaller and create a backstory about how the Empire had been continuing to use and construct VSD-IIs which would be too expensive to match ship-for-ship with a larger design. In the revision from version 1 of the OPT to version 2 I then decided to make it considerably slenderer, lessening the resemblance to the original design still further.

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MC-80a Chatnoir
Calamari Medium Cruiser

Description: A New Republic cruiser which was (with the MC-80b) an intermediate design between the passenger-liner conversion MC-80 class and the purpose designed warship MC-90 class (see notes).

When XWA was released Totally Games included a new design for their Calamari Cruiser model, however this design did not fit with events seen in Return of the Jedi as the only thing it resembled (and resembled strongly) was Home One, which was a far larger ship, rather than one of the smaller cruiser designs.

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MC-80b Mon-Remonda
Calamari Heavy Cruiser

The specifications for this cruiser were rendered rather in dispute by Aaron Allston when he had Mon Remonda going toe to toe with the Super Star Destroyer Iron Fist as although Warlord Zsinji always had a distinct advantage over General Solo it never seemed to be by as much as would be expected. The length of the ship had been stated though and so the rest of the stats and the number of guns on the OPT came from that.

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MC-104 Odysseus
Calamari Battlecruiser

When I found how much I liked using Home One in skirmishes I decided to do a similar sized ship which could be used however I wanted. After some doodling I came up with a design for the MC-104 and made it.
Rather underdetailed for her size so some recessing or extrusion of faces to provide complexity to the hull surface, some movement of detail into model rather than texture, the addition of a undernose drop-bay (just a recess with closed doors) to match an idea I had in my long story (set during the time that Role-Play character was in command of the Odysseus), and some texture enhancement planned.

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Modular Star Hauler

Another OPT that looks better than the facecount and the number of textures would have suggested. I did think of just enhancing the textures as an update but on looking closer at the OPT I decided that, even if most of the detail in the textures was my own invention, that it would be better to enhance the model with more detail as well.

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Sienar Fleet Systems Construction Yard

This is a very old OPT which I had pretty much forgotten about until reminded. Textures are almost entirely modified TG and a lot of extra detail would have been included if it was being created these days.

At least it has Flightgroup insignia though.

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Future Releases
(In progress or to be redone)

XWAU OPTs

MC-80 Reef Home
Calamari Medium Cruiser

This has been stuck as an OPT with placeholder textures for quite some time so as I have failed to do the proper textures I decided to take up an offer of having some textures done. I decided though to modify the model through the use of Boolean-Union to avoid the rather bad edge-wobble I discovered and take the opportunity to rename all the placeholder textures (which would be being replaced) to 8.3 format so I could use 3DSOPZ since it had been so horrible reapplying textures to all those faces in OPTech.

MC-80 Liberty
Calamari Heavy Cruiser

The TG W/CRS does resemble Liberty more than the CRS Reef Home in as much as the W/CRS does at least have wings and is the correct colour scheme of whitish with orange swirlies. It is still strange though that TG decided to give their W/CRS only four engines, make it much fatter, change the arrangement of the bulges, and so forth, as it would have been just as easy to at least make something with the correct proportions.

Other OPTs

A-9 Vigilance
(Base OPT only)

MC-90 Defiance
Calamari Heavy Cruiser

The model is an acceptable one though the textures are rather plain as in the one picture available the artist (Cam Kennedy) had simply coloured it smooth and blue and I had not been inventive in my interpretation of this. There is also a problem where for some reason the shading between the top and bottom of the main hull can be rather abrupt because AceDXF does not smooth across coincident vertices in seperate meshes.