This OPT was very nearly a nice silver colour but I discovered that I could prevent the OPT-measles by editing the textures palette in PSP and so it kept the orange stripes.

The first version I uploaded I found the center point was rather high and so the engines were buried into the hangar floor when launching from there. I changed the center-point to more like the actual center and moved the engine glows and laser hardpoints accordingly.

Tweaked with self-illuminated engine backs and wing-lights.

Quad-faced. 438 down to 232.

128k

For quite a long time I wasn't sure if I'd got the armament right as I hadn't been able to find my copy of "I, Jedi" and nobody had confirmed/denied what I had done.

Managed to find "I, Jedi" and I had got it right. 2 chin-lasers, 1 ion cannon on top fin, no warhead launchers.

Quad-faced. 228 down to 140.

77k

This is one of the few OPTs I have done which isn't actually hideously overfaced. Just probably rather overfaced.

Tweaked with self-illuminated engine backs.

Quad-faced. 266 down to 129.

122k

On the cover of "Family Ties : Part 2" this rather interesting UGLY made its appearance. I am not sure if somebody already did it before me but it was quite fun.

Tweaked with self-illuminated engine backs.

Quad-faced. 528 down to 283.

165k

Mentioned in a Rogue Squadron comic, though the artist drew some more TIE-Wings so this design is speculative.

Tweaked with self-illuminated engine backs.

Quad-faced. 187 down to 99.

114k

As I read "Starfighters of Adumar" I tried to figure out what a Blade fighter looked like and having made some doodles I made a DXF, and having made a DXF I made an OPT.

I have no idea how accurate or otherwise this is to how Aaron Allston pictured them.

Tweaked with self-illuminated engine backs and canopy.

Quad-faced. 635 down to 349.

98k

There are actually two versions of the Prowler available, my pinkish one and Dreadnotts greyer version (based on my model but with different textures).

Tweaked with self-illuminated engine backs and canopy.

Quad-faced. 771 down to 461.

309k

Looking at Dreadnotts twin-hull X-Wing I wondered if there was a different way of adding the extra missile storage space and I ended up with this.

Tweaked with self-illuminated engine backs.

Quad-faced. 705 down to 292.

154k

I saw the fighter in the one panel and decided to make some sketches.

A few weeks later I decided that I would make the OPT file after all, even if I was pretty much extrapolating from nothing rather than doing a proper canonical ship.

Tweaked with self-illuminated engine backs and canopy.

Quad-faced. 460 down to 239.

123k

Thanks to my marvellous imagination the first Starship OPT to be redone to utilise quad-faces and then the first to be revised again since it is the first in the list.

The trench boxes were redone and more detail added to the hangars.

Tweaked to have self-illuminated hangar textures, windows, and engine backs.

719k

This went quite smoothly as I reused textures from the pictures / animations model and found that I could actually reuse a few parts.

Made the ship a bit larger and more powerful than the previous version.

Revised to have greated hangar detail and self-illuminated hangar textures, windows, and engine backs.

449k

I couldn't believe how much detail I had missed out on the previous version when I went back to it and compared it with the pictures from the comics.

Turned out rather well, though the care I put into the textures is also unfortunately reflected in the large filesize as well as the looks.

Revised to have greated hangar detail and self-illuminated hangar textures, windows, and engine backs. Shield generators are not set to be destroyable.

1.02MB

No Superlaser and not as many guns as I would have liked because beyond a certain number XWA crashes on me no matter which part I have added the hardpoints to.

And the shield-domes are deliberately not set to be destroyable, you'll have to take the shields down the hard way.

Still unrevised & so sub-1370 triangle faces rather than a higher number of quadrangles.

This OPT has the 512*256 textures which ACE and 3D Hardware ON / Software MIP Mapping accept, but which causes problems with either 3D Hardware OFF (software mode) or Hardware MIP Mapping. The problem will be corrected when the OPT is revised.

482k

Mirrored to correct.

Unfortunately it still has the problem with Hardware MIP Mapping since it still has the "oversize" textures.

Still unrevised & so sub-1370 triangle faces rather than a higher number of quadrangles.

This OPT has the 512*256 textures which ACE and 3D Hardware ON / Software MIP Mapping accept, but which causes problems with either 3D Hardware OFF (software mode) or Hardware MIP Mapping. The problem will be corrected when the OPT is revised.

579k

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The Reef Home class (also known as the Anonymous Pearly Wingless)was the most common Calamari Cruiser seen at the Battle of Endor.

This OPT is a replacement for the TG CRS so installation would just be copying the OPT over TGs (though correcting Specdesc.txt to give the correct name would be both easy and nice).

Tweaked to have self-illuminated hangar textures, windows, and engine backs.

This OPT is part of the XWA Upgrade Project and will be released with that and here when the project is completed.

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Essentially the Reef Home with Wings as that's how ILM made the model.

Unfortunately as I followed their example it does mean that it is higher facecount than the Reef Home as there is more ship there.

This OPT is a replacement for the TG W/CRS so installation would just be copying the OPT over TGs (though correcting Specdesc.txt to give the correct name would be both easy and nice).

Tweaked to have self-illuminated hangar textures, windows, and engine backs.

This OPT is part of the XWA Upgrade Project and will be released with that and here when the project is completed.

This OPT was a real trial to redo. First I did a couple of hours work on a accidentally mirrored version and then I found that XEG did not want to load the otherwise completed OPT or any of the backups. This meant that I had to do all the ACE work again.

The first version was intended mainly as a test of the higher facecounts which could also serve as a replacement for the TG CRS. It is now intended to be used mainly as an additional ship with the Reef Home (when released) being the replacement.

490k

Decided I'd do a version. Probably less accurate than Michael Andersens but came out reasonably well.

Pretty much reused the textures from the MC-75, just fiddled with the colour balance a bit to make it more orangey.

Still unrevised & so sub-1370 triangle faces rather than a higher number of quadrangles.

396k

One thing to note is that this has a chin-hangar as that fits into the silhouette of the underside rather than a port-side hangar as suggested at SWTC.

Having decided to take a break from doing new OPTs and having mentioned that I was dissatisfied with having orange swirlies (which were not apparent in Dark Empire, just on the Calamari texture I had used as a base to work on) I found myself fiddling about with the textures. Revised version seems closer.

Still unrevised & so sub-1370 triangle faces rather than a higher number of quadrangles.

275k

Wondered about doing this for a while, so I did it.

Didn't shoot well when substituted for Star Galleon, but fired properly when substituted for Lancer Frigate.

If I had a freighters section then it would be in there.

Still unrevised & so sub-1370 triangle faces rather than a higher number of quadrangles (although as a freighter it might be a lower number of quadrangles instead)

408k

I had the MAX version of this and had made a small attempt at doing an OPT (seemed ideal as it was flat-faces rather than having curves). The people of the league had not been enthusiastic about the ship so I left it.

Then a message was posted at Datamasters by somebody working on an OPT of this and I decided to finish my own.

Still unrevised & so sub-1370 triangle faces rather than a higher number of quadrangles.

The OPT is also badly undersized at about 4/5 scale. This will be corrected with the redone version.

164k

The original opt of this was my first OPT as with the release of version 4 of ACE some friends asked for a DXF of my MAX model.

By the time I'd redone things with so few faces I decided I might as well continue myself.

I then went back a few weeks later and redid the hull to have a better cross section.

Still unrevised & so sub-1370 triangle faces rather than a higher number of quadrangles.

216k

This is fairly close in looks to one of the many variants of the MC-80, however I decided that yet another 1300m long cruiser would not add much to the game.

So I made it 1000m, armed it appropriately, and knocked 5 off of the designation to reflect it being a smaller ship.

Still unrevised & so sub-1370 triangle faces rather than a higher number of quadrangles.

278k

I wondered about doing a counterbalancing class to the ESD-II but this turned out to not be necessary so I was free to downscale the design I'd been working on to more like Home-One equivalent.

Tweaked the textures very slightly as it looked a bit flat.

Thanks to XWAs occasion confusion over what is in front of what there are rare glitches in the hangars.

Still unrevised & so sub-1370 triangle faces rather than a higher number of quadrangles.

This OPT has the 512*256 textures which ACE and 3D Hardware ON / Software MIP Mapping accept, but which causes problems with either 3D Hardware OFF (software mode) or Hardware MIP Mapping. The problem will be corrected when the OPT is revised.

363k

Terracing was added to the main hull sections and some minor changes / improvements were made.

Tweaked to have self-illuminated hangar textures and windows.

549k

The same as the XWA OPT, just saved as XvT instead.

127k

The same as the XWA OPT, just saved as XvT instead.

77k

The same as the XWA OPT, just saved as XvT instead.

122k

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The XWA version of this OPT is part of the XWA Upgrade Project and both versions will be released with that and here when the project is completed.

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The XWA version of this OPT is part of the XWA Upgrade Project and both versions will be released with that and here when the project is completed.