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Enter Darth Vader's Tie Fighter
- camiller 14y ago<James Earl Jones voice>I find you lack of interior ... disturbing</James Earl Jones voice) Admittedly, you would be making stuff up since not much of the interior is visible in the movies but...
- pierreant_p 14y agoAwesome model !
- anactofgod 14y ago<nit>It's a TIE Interceptor.</nit> And, it's nice work. <edit>Doh. I stand corrected. Vader did fly a TIE Fighter - technically the "TIE Advanced x1". Looks like I'm overdue to rewatch SW:ANH. smile</edit>
- tiddchristopher 14y agoIt's a TIE Advanced x1. Although features developed for it were incorporated into the later TIE/IN Interceptor, the x1 had substantial differences, such as shielding and FTL capabilities. The mass-production craft resulting directly from the x series was the TIE/D Defender. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/TIE_Advanced_x1 http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/TIE_Advanced_x1
- jiggy2011 14y agoThat brings back memories of playing the MS-DOS "Tie fighter" game from the mid 90s where you could pilot the Tie Advanced later in the game, IIRC it was also slightly faster than a standard Tie Fighter. However from what I remember of the original movies though there was no reference to Vaders craft having shields or hyperdrive (maybe I'm wrong?). So I wonder if the technical details of the craft were invented specifically for the game and then retrofitted into the overall mythos? One thing that always amused me about star wars was that the Imperial forces must have had a military budget that would make global GDP look like pocket change but had such clearly flawed designs for all of it's equipment (crap fighters, walkers, death star etc) while the Rebels had stuff that worked much better. Was Lucas trying to say something about the inevitable result of the military industrial complex?
- endlessvoid94 14y agoThat was a great game.
- davidp 14y ago> Was Lucas trying to say something about the inevitable result of the military industrial complex? You're giving Lucas far too much credit. Exhibit A: "Nooooooooooooooo" Edit: Agreed, TIE Fighter was a stupendously great game. It captured the feel perfectly.
- NDizzle 14y agoThe Tie Advanced had shields and an incredible top speed. It was amazingly overpowered. Fun, though. Tie Fighter and XWing had some of the best expansions of any game, ever.
- talmand 14y agoNo, the idea was that the Empire was using clones for their pilots so they didn't give a crap whether they lived or died. Therefore they received the cheapest equipment possible. That way they could often win by sheer numbers. Only important people got nice equipment that would keep them alive. On the other hand the rebels considered every pilot they had as rather important since they had so few. That, plus the fact they had so few in the first place, warranted more expensive yet more robust equipment. So, as the rebellion continued, the rebels were winning more often than losing and were swaying more and more to their side. Which made it easier to obtain the same equipment. The Empire had to respond in kind because pilots started becoming important, especially the pilots that had learned how to win against superior equipment. Kind of sucks to lose your best pilots because you were too cheap to get them cheap shields. This led to the development of later TIE fighters that had shields and other "rebel" equipment. You didn't really see things like the TIE Interceptor's until Return of the Jedi time, which by then the rebels had the A-Wing to counter that as well. This is the reason that TIE Fighter is one of the greatest games ever made. You don't know how much it sucks to face a highly trained opponent with superior equipment until you fly the TIE fighter into combat. It's like being the pilot of a flying trash can with two lasers attached to it. Also keep in mind that a common tactic of an X-Wing or Y-Wing pilot was to fully charge forward shields and just ram the poor guy in the TIE fighter. No need to debate who survived.
- festivusr 14y agoNo, actually, it's a TIE Advanced x1. An Interceptor has characteristic dagger-shaped solar panels.
- chill1 14y agoI very much enjoy the geekyness of this comment thread.
- hluska 14y agoWould someone please build a 'don't distract freelancers on Hacker News' app? My morning started off so strong, now I want to watch the original trilogy..... (Great model!!)
- acuozzo 14y ago> now I want to watch the original trilogy..... The original original trilogy or that "Special Edition" crap? Edit: Despite the down-votes, I stand by both my opinion __and__ phrasing. The 1997 Special Edition, 2004 DVD, and 2011 Blu-ray releases were done poorly (a.k.a., half-assed). They suffer from numerous issues that suggest an inexperienced team was used for the "restoration". See: http://savestarwars.com/specialeditionfail.html http://savestarwars.com/specialeditionfail.html
- xyzzyb 14y agoHow about the despecialized edition? http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Harmys-STAR-WARS-Despecialized-Edition-HD-REMASTERED-is-now-released/topic/12713/ http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Harmys-STAR-WARS-...
- acuozzo 14y ago> How about the despecialized edition? I'm a fan and an active user at originaltrilogy.com :-)
- SkyMarshal 14y agoIs there still a version out there where Han shoots first?
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- acuozzo 14y agoAre you asking this question seriously?
- oseibonsu 14y agoIs it possible to download the 3d model in a format that could be used with a 3d printer?
- showwebgl 14y agoSoon! We are working on it.
- jrabone 14y agoWhat's the licensing situation with such models? I seem to remember Lucasfilm (http://www.lucasfilm.com/divisions/licensing/ http://www.lucasfilm.com/divisions/licensing/) being pretty active ($3 billion in licensing revenue in 2011), but presumably they're not interested if there's no money involved?
- showwebgl 14y agoToday, without download option, we are just considered like YouTube: a service hosting files uploaded by users, on which we have no control. When we launch download & commercialization of models, we will indeed have to find a licensing deal for copyright content.
- peterwwillis 14y agoWebGL doesn't work for me, guess i'm screwed
- showwebgl 14y agoWhich browser? You should ideally use chrome or firefox, or activate WebGL from developer mode in safari.
- peterwwillis 14y agoI'm using Firefox (latest) and at one point tried to enable WebGL. I'm not one to keep trying to fix something just to make a web page work, though. Does WebGL even work in software rendering mode, or do you need to have hardware rendering enabled? I have no idea if it is or if my drivers support it (Windows) but I would hope we're not forcing everyone on the web to have direct rendering now.
- philjohn 14y agoIIRC Firefox disable WebGL if you are on certain, known buggy, versions of your GPU driver.
- mhandley 14y agoAll I get is a "100%" loading indicator, then the spinning pizza of death and repeated "unresponsive script" warnings for several minutes until I gave up.
- TheAmazingIdiot 14y agoThis is useful how? This is no better than a read-only image, with right click 'disabled'. It does look pretty. I'll just head to thingiverse or clones. Those sites let you <gasp> download the models.
- Unregistered 14y agoThe model actually comes from here http://www.blendswap.com/blends/vehicles/vader-tie-fighter/ http://www.blendswap.com/blends/vehicles/vader-tie-fighter/ where it is download-able
- sukuriant 14y agoHow large is the file? It's taking a VERY long time to load.
- showwebgl 14y agoIt's not that big, 2.8 mb, but keep in mind that more than 300 people are browsing it right now :)
- larrik 14y agoVery nice. I thought the 4 stripes on top were actually windows, though (since you can see through them in the movie, such as in this photo I found: http://media.photobucket.com/image/recent/ThePropDen/cee7e16f.jpg http://media.photobucket.com/image/recent/ThePropDen/cee7e16...)
- felixthehat 14y agoAmazing work, great model. really clean. Reinforces that IE is really messing up by not supporting webGL. Works smooth as butter in chrome for me.