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Verman has been experimenting with some technology to bring some of Feng Zhu's unused Privateer Online concept ships to life! They write:
It's been a long time since I contributed anything to the news, I still visit the site often and have quite a few projects for Wing Commander going on at the moment (along with a million other projects too). Well I decided to do some tinkering with 2D image to 3D Modelling AI, using a site called Meshy. I always loved one of the ship concepts for Wing Commander Online so I thought I would test out how good the AI was just using that concept art to produce a 3D model and also the textures from the artwork. I attached some screenshots.
I also made it freely available on Sketchfab so people can download it and make it better or use it in any projects or just study it...
I have also done a couple of the other models but I haven't had time to get them uploaded to sketchfab yet. But I will put in a couple of pictures of them too, Mainly one of the Kilrathi concepts and another Confed ship.Pretty neat way to see what the game could've looked like! You can download a copy for yourself on Sketchfab.
Here are the original designs by concept artist Feng Zhu. The model is a Confederation "multi-role" which is a type of light freighter that can mount fighter equipment. The capital ship is a Confederation cruiser and the Kilrathi ship is a fighter.