I found a zip file containing models I thought I had lost recently.

Fighter line based on a design by 3d artist Kristijan Petrovic:

Freighter based on a design by 3d artist Coolhand

Those base models are EPIC

Kuze wrote:
Not exactly a Freelancer ship, since it already have around 30k polys, but I thought I show it to you guys. It’s a wip, many more details to come.

Kuze that’s an excellent design, I really like little details like the airlock on the side. One thing that bugs me is the cockpit though; The human figure in the pic indicates it’s a large ship (perhaps a freighter or bomber) but it has a fighter-style buble canopy and which is scaled to indicate a pilot 4 times larger than is shown.

It would look better with either a smaller canopy or a more classic ‘bridge’ with small windows….to me at least

This model would make an awesome Zoner base.

Freelancer uses normal maps now :-??? I feel so out of touch.

Sizer wrote:
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My latest work.

Isn’t 10,000 polys a bit on the high side? You could have saved some polys but putting more detail into the textures.

Looks really good though.

Kuze wrote:
And the camo one is inspired by a Homeworld 2 concept art, right? I recognize the one with the scull and flames too as a HW2 concept. There is not so much starship arond I am not familiar with :-D…sometimes I make a ship and then I find a similar design on the internet…:)

BTW have you guys noticed how good ANY starship looks with camo? It makes little sense in space but gives the ship the cool military look.

Actually the camo ship (Grendel), the one with skulls (Loki) AND the Mustang (the one with the blue bits) were all heavily inspired by homeworld concept art.

I also agree with you 100%; Camo does make a starfighter look kick@$$.

Davis wrote:
Jesus Christ! PantherX from EVO nightmare? Good to see you here bud. You had several good ships.

Wow that almost made me blush…Thanks for the enthusiastic welcome

Hopefully I can finish some of the work I started and maybe one of the few active mods left will use them.

Kuze wrote:
The last one is inspired by the Navy fighters from Cowboy Bebop: The Movie? It looks awesome.

Yes! You’re the first person to recognize the design

Thaddeus wrote:
Welcome back Mr X. I remeber seeing these on the old Evo site years ago, was a little dissapointed when they never made it game side. Particulary the Junker ship and the mini Hellhound Xeno fighter, the texturing on the old 'stang looks pretty good too. Any chance of a download?

Not as disappointed as I was not to finish them. Real life was kicking my butt at the time and I burned out, I only ended up finished about 25% of what I had started.

The Mustang texture was done for a clan on a single server mod, I made a matching one for the WC Banshee as well.

I’m more than happy to upload all my finished models for general use but I have to warn you that I didn’t have all the nifty tools you guys have now. So no custom .sur files or animation.

Now that I think about it I can upload Ospreys Sentinel and the APS ship pack as well since I exported those myself and was given permission to distribute the models.

I used to make ship models for Freelancer about 7 years ago (I was on the original Evolutions mod team). Star Citizen ignited the 3d modeling bug again so I decided to dig through my archives and see what I still had left. A lot of stuff has been lost over the years but did have a few things left.

These are models that have completed cmp’s and mat files.

These are unfinished models:

I fired up my modeling software and started working on some of my unfinished work but exporting models for Freelancer seems a daunting task now. It seems that there have been some real progress made since I last involved in the modding scene so It’s like I have start all over again.

Still just working on 3d models has been like hooking up with an old friend. I’m happy to see that people are still working on the old game too