BUT, the don't have to retract. We can always change it to be an X-Wing-like open and close motion, which I personally think would be awesomer.

thats what im thinking of doing on my model i made. also retracting spikes makes no sense, that is far from what it fells and looks like in c1. For me i would think of it as a claw that opens and closes like the x-wing.

I do, I'll shout out in All chat when I'm on.

I really really like this model, it is definitely leaps and bounds ahead of the old model. Very good work in my opinion. It could perhaps use a few tweaks to smooth out the intersections of the various parts, but overall I think it is good as it is.

As for animations, I agree with the idea for an x-wing like animation (if it is possible).

What's the poly count?

Also, I wouldn't want to replace an animating model with a non-animating model. Ideally, every model should either have some kind of idle animation or combat animation.

ill be animating it soon. but i have no way of testing if it works in game. I have asked a few people to see if they can tex map it since im not very good at that area.

the final poly count after the few edits i did is 1436.

I do have a copy of the mesh viewer so i figured i show what it looks like in there.

There is no tex map. well i though a random one on there so you can see the lighting affect better.

Looking pretty good. Just need to get it textured.

That'll likely be me doing that. Just need to get a (working) link to somewhere I can download the model from cgc.

I sent you another private message. if it isnt working do you have msn or skype? if you do send me it in a PM and ill add you. then i can just send it to you manually.

here is a youtube vid of the model and the animation. There is no tex map on it atm.

Tex map is being working on by Darth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V95SD1WU ... tube_gdata

Nice. I'll get on to this texture once I'm done with the Blue Photon models.

Way too round for my preference in the rear and sides. Other than that much better than the current DS.

Why is round necessarily a bad thing? I like it that way, but then again I just generally don't like blocky space ships. Maybe it is just a matter of preference.