Privateer 2... in 3D! (August 11, 2009)

[Bandit LOAF]

Back in 2006, Paul Hughes made our birthday party a huge success by providing a wealth of Privateer 2 material in honor of that game's 10th anniversary -- and it turns out he's still watching out for us! Paul e-mailed me, out of the blue, last week: he had found an old backup of Privateer 2 material and would Wing Commander fans be interested in taking a look? You bet we would - and the material is fantastic. It has some 300 'source' images from the game... hundreds of sound files... and 300 3DS-format 3D models! You can get a close look at every ship, gun and station in the Tri-System by downloading the archive here (12 MB).

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Original update published on August 11, 2009

 

[Deacan]

...feels like in heaven...

Great stuff! Btw - does anyone have a good program to watch the 3D- models? I have a simple tool called "3D viewer", but it doesn't work with the files in the folder...

 

[gevatter Lars]

I use 3d explorer and it works pretty well. You just have to setup the right folder for the graphics to use. Else you will get all black models.

I have been browsing throught that stuff. Some realy nice thing. Some models I don't even remember.

 

[Bob McDob]

Do you mean 3D Exploration? Looking up '3D Explorer' gives me nothing.

I can get it working in 3D Exploration properly, but I want to set it up in 3ds max and I can't find a simple way to handle it. Matching the materials is like a hunt-and-peck.