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Most of the kiddos are back in class, so it's time for GOG's Back to School Sale to wind down. Most WC games are 50% off with a few select titles discounted by 66-75%. You've got one final day to get your discounted Wing Commander!

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We've got a couple different types of items to share from Wing Leader this weekend. First up, Howard Day has finished the Lumbari transport, which is an awesome derivative of his recent Dorkir model. He's also in the process of implementing advanced lighting effects within the various fighter cockpits. This is a really nice finishing touch!

Okay, got the Wing Leader Hornet cockpit lit properly with all the damage and broken bits properly responding to the light angle. Now here's the question - should I do this for the rest of the cockpits? Is this worth it? I like it, I just dunno if it's that cool. pic.twitter.com/rTM0vohZHU

— Howie Day (@howieeday) September 6, 2024

Okay, got the Wing Leader Hornet cockpit lit properly with all the damage and broken bits properly responding to the light angle.

Got the Wing Leader Dralthi cockpit lit and normal mapped! It's way more complex than the Hornet was, with

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Today in #Wingnut we were admiring the box designs of the blue stripe era.

LETS. OPEN. THE. FLAPS!!!!!!!

Impress your loved one with this Fun Fact Flap(tm): the Prophecy Gold box incorrectly identifies the alien cruiser as MARLIN-class. There was a renaming pass on most of the Nephilim ships late in development and Marlin became HYDRA in the final game.

The artwork for this callout is repurposed (and mirrored) from this Wing Commander Prophecy print ad!

The renaming; the original names are still used internally-

Skate cluster - Tri-Ray
Lamprey shield killer - Siren
Barracuda corvette - Skate
Triton transport - Leatherback
Hydra cruiser - Marlin
Leviathan carrier - Osprey
Kraken ship killer - Narwhal
Tiamat dreadnought - Tsunami

When I did Star*Soldier for Wing Commander Arena I snuck in a little joke about this on the World War I-style spotters guide poster. See how there are two cruisers but one is upside down!

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Today we've got another exciting update to AllTinker's Originator tool! It includes a number of welcome additions from around the franchise. The program will now be able to peer into the code of the magazine-distributed version of Wing Commander Arena, adds new abilities for reading files from Wing Commander 4 on PC/Playstation, plus gets enhanced image support for Secret Ops - to name a few items. Grab it at the CIC Forums here!

First release in quite a while; version 0.3.06 is mainly a bugfix release, but does add a couple of new things:

• Support for the "demo" version of Wing Commander Arena, which can be extracted from the Official Xbox Magazine Game Disc 76 (the content seems identical; the demo differences are all in how the executable is set up to run on the 360 without a full game license present).
• Support for Playstation's VAG audio format, used by Wing Commander 4 PSX.
• Fixed terrain heightmap

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Mac has a very exciting new fighter history video to share! The Sabre is up on deck this time. As hinted about last month, the clip is full of exciting action shots and fancy animation. Give it a watch below!

Blender 4.2s EEVEE Next renderer is some powerful stuff, and this will be the first video to take advantage of it. The Downside? It's a much bigger performance hog then before.

With that being said, the next video: Wing Commander - F-57 Sabre, is now up.

Not your father's F-86 Sabre from the Korean War. This Sabre is much more of a beast.

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Iceblade flew in to announce that a brand new campaign in the Wing Commander Gemini Sector RPG is in the process of kicking off. If you've been in the mood for an interactive WC role playing experience, now's a perfect time to get involved. Most of the action takes place in real time on their Discord server. They've also got some nifty animated cutscenes to help set the stage. If this sounds like your jam, reach out now - events are scheduled for this weekend!

Wing Commander Gemini Sector is still kicking. If fact, we are at the start of a new campaign. WC GS is a Discord Server Multi User Simulation with a custom built combat engine for engaging in text-based combat. Similar to a Tabletop game designed for Wing Commander. —Iceblade