Remade Rheinland Cruiser

[Hades]

about uv mapping... it's possible, I've seen a FL model with it. Let me ask one question, though: Is it still more efficient when texturing a ship line that could otherwise share textures?

Depends. On a hard drive level, not as efficient since you'll have a texture for each ship instead of several ships using unified texture sets. As for a shipline? It depends on how FreeLancer parses textures. If you have a RM Cruiser and gunboat in the same area, and FreeLancer parses the textures they they share twice, then no, uvmaps are more efficient in that regard. If FreeLancer parses a texture once when there are multiple ships on screen with it, then yes, tiling would be more efficient than uvmapping on a shipline basis, but uvmapping is usually always better looking and more efficient on a single ship basis.

Yep, the debris is made from parts of the model. Only so called "damage caps" are in separate models. That's the mangled remains that are placed on the model in place of a severed component. You can check them in the RMC directory. You'll need those too.

One reason why the vanilla ship has more parts (although 50 sounds really a lot) is because it has 7 components - root + 6 separable

Ah, I see. I'll look into finding those.

Also, I went back to make sure, and the RMC cruiser actually has over 1500 seperate little parts in the mesh. Scary.