I can tell by the number of hits on my models that I wasn't wasting my or the website's time here so I'm packing those big ones into zips, testing them to make sure the work and sending them for submission review.

I'm digging through MANY back up files from "ages past" to see what else I can dig up that you all might be interested in.

I just want to assure you all and the site that what I post is either mine to give or in cases like that huge Dreadnaught already released ( In that case on 3D World's website and isn't listed anymore or I could have just hotlinked to it. And it was in .max format and most of you don't happen to have 3DSM to load it into. My copy I found only because I'd converted it to objaction (.obj) and used parts for other projects.)

A email I got asked "how do you get into the business? That an easy answer that's not too easy in practicum. Join a guild, union, association in the arts. You'll need a resume (or CV) and a portfolio. This doesn't apply to some game companies, but at least in BAD old US of A the entertainment media does not "scab".

So I can feel safe in posting what I have posted becase I have their "provanance" and the workfiles which is why I'm posting this. KEEP YOUR WORKFILES! BACK THEM UP AT LEAST TWICE!

You never know when they'll come in handy to prove it was you that did something.

Or in the next things I'm posting correct some tragic mistakes made with you're designs like what was done on the ships in that "Jefferson's" mod in the dowload section. The results there we're far from sterling. So I'm putting out the original models again so you all (if interested) can have the un-tragic models to "do with what you will".

Here's another two ships in that mod that didn't quite come out because they ended up having the same textures and are for all practical purposes the same ship when they are, but once with the right textures two different ships as you'll see.

Another note. Other than exporting new .obj and .mtl. I didn't mess with them. If they are filled upside down or have an odd scale that's how the had to go into Milkshape back then. The exporter scaled and flipped them.

As for the story of why two different textures? To Mister George R.R. Martin. If you were playing Freelancer back in 2005 and and picked up on my rivalry between the Ice faction and the Fire faction and spun it into "The Song of Ice and Fire"? GOOD FOR YOU! I'm a fan of the screen version Game of Thrones. My backstory for these was from 2005. In the forums I put the models out on.

Here's my song of the two sides: rivals to beat Corsairs vs Outcasts. Two planets one Ice like Toledo and another fiery and volcanic hance the factions that used to be from the same planet but split over religious differences. No bloody schism and/or war gets as bad as a religoius one. Present times included.

So here are the combatants in all their faded glory and again with my shortcuts for hardpoint names but in adhereance to my philosophy your going to cut the number of guns/turrets down to reason. Right? Right.

Here they are:

EDIT: Be careful trying to swap one ship's texture on the other ship. Look at the right engine intakes and compare. There are subtile differences in the mesh and the UV's might not line up from one to the other.

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FireStar_tex.zip Size: 735.32 KB; Hits: 162

Here's the last from the old mod before I dig up more ones that have never seen Freelancer before. The last two were StarForger and Starfire. The StarForger had a gun platform all the way across the top, the Starfire doesn't and thats the end of the difference. I decided to just post the Starfire here, I was never that in love with the StarForger version.

Like my Fury ship is now the Starfire was my favorite ride back in 2005 bacause some engineering design went into it eg: Gun Clearences. Since these were ready to pack up and into Mete's Milkshape (Had that program before Freelancer. I used to mod Doom and Quake) And because of this it's going to be upside down and probably backwards,but hey it's a free model anyway. So look at the bottom. The gun bases are staggered in height too. Thats to keep guns on one row from firing through the ones in front of it. Might not matter in the engine, but real world your fire plinking you own guns would be in engineering parlance "fratricide" and anybody elses "A BAD THING". So those bases avoid the issue no matter which rows you keep and which you toss. Just a neat design element you might puzzle over. Like that grill on the bottom. That was me asking myself "Where's that landing force field coming from? Better give it an emitter."

So here she is pilots,

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Just an update right now folks. Submitted (I hope) The dreadnaught and critter models for review.

Edit: As of this posting all the large models I submitted are in the download section. I thank the site for this and approving my "Super Ships" mod with ships I showed off in earlier postings.

This site might be "old", but it's still the BEST.

Though that "other site" still has archives of old posts that's good for a chuckle. But, that's about all it's good for. Other that finding an "Anton" chatting with an apprentice "Friendly_Fire". Ah weren't we all younger then?

Wow, they're all great Jefferson001. Especially the 'Mars Ship' is awesome!

Hello people. Jeff here again live from sunny Toledo. Have I got something for you all tonight!
Not 1. No not 2 in one. How about a bargain? Nine models! All in one little zip! Got yourself a grab bag straight from a 3D Trade magazine. All were in .max and it was a Science Fiction themed issue. I have in this grab bag: 5 ships, 2 buildings and 3 things they called vehicles but if so they're a traffic cop's nightmare so I stuck them in to.

Needless to say, they're not my work. Heck I found these in my closet on the insert CD. One thing. No textures. They're low poly too. But free and (of course) in friendly .obj format.

So have fun and if anything jumps of the bag at you, send Spot home for me would you? ...well on second thought. Never mind. Just punch the button down here.

Edits for misspellings Firefox beta test cashed smartphone and I'm back to reading 3mm characters in a magnifying glass using Thrice damned Chrome browser.

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