Reference: Sprite Sheet Collection

Like most people, I constantly find myself needing to refer to the ship sprites from the original Wing Commander games. Four (or five, depending on how you count Super Wing Commander) different Wing Commander games used an engine called 3Space which stored ships not as 3D objects but as collections of sprites that were resized and rotated to simulate 3D. This allowed the earliest games to have ships that appeared to have textures or details beyond what was possible on home computers when they were released.

Over the years, we've collected plenty of orthographics and sprite sheets to show off this material extracted from the games... but it just occured to me: why not just upload all the source images in galleries? So that's what we've done! All 3,362 in game sprites are now accessible via the WCPedia links below! Whether you're studying up on Kilrathi insignia or just need a side view of a Gratha for a project they're all here.

• Wing Commander (22 ships, 794 sprites)
• Wing Commander II (29 ships, 1013 sprites)
• Wing Commander Academy (2 ships, 74 sprites)
• Wing Commander Privateer (19 ships, 703 sprites)
• Super Wing Commander (21 ships, 778 sprites)