I have never played Wing Commander II or the Privateer games with a joystick. Some of them have better mouse support than others. I think Wing Commander III and IV had a really bizarre default setup where the Y axis controlled the throttle?

It gets worse because some of his work is just gone. The Tarsus is lost. The corvette is lost. The Concordia model itself would have been lost, but fortunately Klavs gave a copy to Mac, who gave it to the CIC for preservation. Though it doesn't have textures for some reason, so that's gone...

This happens when Blender has no texture to display. The 3DS importer doesn't link the textures properties so they won't show up even if you put them in the same folder. You have to click on the materials tab (the red sphere at the bottom of the right toolbar), select every material, click on...

They worked fine for me, except for the Chirichan Demon. I think you can export them from the game files too now using the Originator. They're not the high-res models on the cover though, we don't have them and I'm not sure they exist anywhere. Michael Paul Cottam was one of the artists on the...

Remember that Kilrathi are larger than humans, so you probably want to make a lot bigger.

It looks good! I have nothing to suggest other than to ignore the official ship lengths if they don't match up with the visual depictions. Example: the Raptor's length is given as 36 meters in Claw Marks. Super Wing Commander created a new design for it but kept the length. That design was...

I would say Matthew Lillard's acting in the movie is pretty good. It doesn't really get appreciated because he's playing a jerk in an unsatisfying script who doesn't really get a payoff, but he's very very good at playing that unsatisfying jerk.

I've wondered about this for a while. Which script is this referring to? Is it the second revision that Chris Roberts did? Or is it the third, and the "new script" is in fact referring to the post-production cuts? Or did he actually read the first draft with the evil Tiger's Claw and sign on for...

Iron Sky was preceded by Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning, a mostly-CGI and entirely-Finnish fan film about Star Trek fighting Babylon 5, which is appropriate given last week's movie. You can watch the whole thing on Youtube!

I was a pretty big Dilbert fan back in the late 90s, but lost track of it after that. From reading his books it seems Scott Adams always had an incendiary streak to him that enjoyed getting a rise out of people. I think what really broke him was his son's concussion that led to his fentanyl...

Those are fantastic photos! I especially like the cockpit. I wonder if you could slip a small camera inside for first-person shots?

Was the virtual cockpit ever seriously considered for the RealSpace games? I remember the topic coming up before but I don't remember the details.

There are quite a few connections between Harlock and Wing Commander. Both the first game and Wing Commander III received full Japanese dubs. Two of the actors appeared in this movie! The first is Takeshi Aono who voiced Shotglass in the Sega MegaCD port of Wing Commander. He plays the enemy...

Also Courtney Gains (Radio Rollins), the guy who harasses Lorraine at the dance when Marty is on stage!

I know and it's a shame. Games should always be experienced the way they were intended to. I doubt there's been a study on it but surely more film workers watch the movies they make than game developers play the games that they made? Even if games are a massive industry now and Grand Theft Auto...

Has it been confirmed that she actually did play it. though? I know that writers sometimes don't play the games they work on, which would be a shame if you worked on the greatest game of all time. Or now!

Tangentially related: when the game Battletech was translated into German, the licenser decided to localize all the unit names for some reason. Now there's also a vehicle called the Behemoth whose name was changed, apparently, to Koloss (Colossus). So it's something that seems to be relatively...

I wasn't sure at first whether Forstchen had slipped something in without realizing it. But then I realized who the actor is at the start of the scene the line is from: Jack Hawkins. This must be a conscious reference.

This is great! Almost nobody has modeled the Wraith so it's very good to have. I think the only other one was in Standoff?