Never thought any one here would know this great game series on the PSX except me!

I know, it was great!

This is my model for the S-21 Eclipse from the first game(My personal favorite). It’s still needs more vertex’s, to be smoothed out, and some texturing of course. But its under 300 polygon’s right now and all made from a single sphere ;D

The difficult part is the orginal models im basing them off of from the game were extremely simple. Leaves alot of work to the imagination

Hello all,
First off, about me:
My name is James, i’m 24 I live in the US(Eugene, Oregon to be exact) and I love the rain. I’m going to college to become an EMT and I am an avid gamer ;D

Secondly, and probably the more interesting part. I am a modeler. I have made many models in my career, mostly SOD’s ship for Armada and some Unreal Tournament weapons and levels. I have always loved space sims(colony wars, imperium galatica, sins of a solar empire, startrek games, ect).

My freelance story:
About a month ago I was looking on gamespot and toward the bottom I saw the freelancer title. I read the review and brought it from amazon and about 3 weeks ago it arrived. This has been my first time ever playing it and I must say, I’m loving it. I have never found a game that clicked so well with my interests. I haven’t tired multiplayer yet(I hear its popular) but I did start reading up on tutorials right away and now i’m getting very close to finishing my first ship model. I have played the game for about 8 hours and spent about 20+ hours messing around in gmax and milkshape.

All that is to say, I enjoy making content for people to play more then I actually enjoy playing the games themselves ::)
I really like the community here and once I have a good feel for model development I plan to start taking requests for ships people would like to see added or perhaps even get onboard with a mod someday. But for now, i’m just saying hi

I had hoped there would be some trigger I could use for speed or turning. It was probably a bit ambitious of me to begin with since I have mainly done static objects.

I guess using the docking state change I could get them to rotate for some kind of vertical take off when your leaving a planet or dock if i’m understanding your statement about the animations but that would take more work then its worth at this point.

Anyway how, Thanks for the reply and info ;D

My goal here is to make a ship from a game called Colony Wars(The T-1 Typhoon), for those who are not familiar with the game the typhoon had its engines mounted at the edge of its wings and when it went to turn it would rotate one of the engines backwards allowing it to spin on a dime basically. It was a ridiculously agile craft to say the least.

I have alot of experience in gmax however I would like to know if having moving joints on a ship is at all possible before I make an attempt since I have little experience with milkshape and/or moving objects.

Image of the typhoon taken using my phone directly off my television with the game, sorry for the low quality.