Now, that's some fine broken glass! :) The player had better be wearing his helmet oxygen mask ;).

Looks great! Add some cracks in the windscreen, too!

Well, I have to say, the hand and the legs add a lot to the Wing Commander "feel".

With regards to shields and collisions, you above all need to allow your engine the flexibility to use the original game solutions regardless of what they are. Spherical shields are, by now, such a common fixture of WC games that they can be considered canon - or, if we insist that gameplay is...

Wow. It's been quite a week here. And it's only Tuesday :D .

Ha, about time - I mean, it's great to give Howard a thumbs-up five times a day, but some variety is nice... ;) Man, it's great seeing all the activity on this forum lately. Granted, it's really mainly just Howard and Defiance, but it's great stuff. I really wish I had the time to join in the...

Thanks! It's always good to hear this kind of stuff directly from people who have at least experimented with a given engine. As for derailing the thread, I wouldn't worry about it in this case - every time Howie drops another update, all conversations stop as we look around to see where our...

I have heard of Godot a couple of times from other game developers, but usually it's in the context of discussions about engines that are disdainfully dismissed because "nobody uses it". I know I can read their website and read all the snazzy bulletpoints and so on, but could you tell me more...

Very nice! ...But it's still a Hellcat :p.

Damn it, Howard, do you know how hard it is to continually find new and original ways to say "Whoooooooaaaaa! I love it!"? :)

50 missions. Ok, that's a point well taken :).

It's worth noting that WC4's missions are visibly simpler than WCP. They're fairly schematic, and most can be easily reconstructed just using a strategy guide and a bit of in-game observation. Possibly some small nuances would be lost, but nothing significant. That's the major, huge difference...

Not Star Citizen? :D Not the multi-bajillion dollar project from Chris Roberts, but this tiny space sim from some company no one has ever heard of? Sorry, can't help trolling ;). I'm in full agreement, and my only regret is that even though I have a copy of Rebel Galaxy, I can't for the life of...

So, you're saying that if I keep stalking you, eventually you'll cave and work for me? Got it! ;)

I actually kinda felt bad about pointing it out, because it seemed very nitpicky… but then again, I really don't like how few posts the fanfic forum gets, so your contribution helps there ;).

Just a helpful hint… I know it's not a very frequently used part of the chatzone, but we do have a separate forum for fan fiction :).

It's very, very, very, very, very, very pretty. Love it!

Ahhh, the frigate. There is something really exciting about frigates and corvettes in Wing Commander. But the excitement, oddly enough, stems really from the way these ships are so terribly under-used. Corvettes and frigates are ships you're more likely to read about in the novels, than see in...

There was a conversation about Pacific Strike here a few weeks ago, though blast me, I don't recall the thread. Back in the day, Origin pretty much officially gave up on Pacific Strike - it was badly mangled on release, and they promised a patch that would fix it, but eventually they realised...

The model looks great, and those textures would feel right at home in WC3 :) . Come to think of it, I suppose you'd really only need to make some random change to de-symmetrify the Grikath, and it would look like something straight out of WC3. All that being said, I'd really love to also see a...