Topic: Anyone care to volunteer a model/damage texture Update Package for OP+4.0?

[Tumulorum Fossor]

Sorry about this repost from the General Forum, but I thought it might be more appropriate here.

So periodically, like a lot of us, I gravitate to and from SFC-OP.

I'm now in a "gravitating to" cycle.

Usually this involves having to update everything, especially OP+ (thanks again, Firesoul!).

And this work is made MUCH easier thanks to Pestalence's OP Enhancement Package (still at v3.2, like when I last gravitated to SFC). (thanks, Pestalence).

But it appears v4.0 seems pretty darned established, including its extensive model inputs.


However, some of the modellers out there have been putting out some damned good stuff since 4.0, which, I believe, had its one year birthday last month.  In fact, it was Khaliban's model for the F-CA Yorktown, which I happened to come across, that got me thinking:

Is it time to "update" some of the models in 4.0?

If so, does anyone have any suggestions for model changes they would make?  Some of the REAL exceptional ones that maintain the spirit of SFC/SFB/OP+ of authenticity, detail, and LOGICAL DESIGN while maximizing variety is what  I'm talking about.  There are so many different SSDs incorporated into OP+, and, like I said, it's about a year old, so I think it'd be nice to periodically enhance it.

It's just that since I'm not as regular a visitor as I should be, I'm not at all qualified to figure out what are those special models that should be integrated, and I'd love to hear what our community has tagged as some of the most significant models to have come out since OP+4.0 (basically the past year).


-TF

[ModelsPlease]

Is Firesoul updating his OP pack ?

[Tumulorum Fossor]

Updating his pack?  Not that I've heard.

I'm just thinking since OP+4.0 is ca. 1 year old, maybe it's time to update some of the models.  But like I said, I have NOT been staying on top of what the modelling community has been producing over the past year.

But I'd have to think that there are at least a FEW models worth adding into an OP+4.0 model update (even if unofficial) that have arisen over the past year.  Even if it's not even CALLED an OP+4.0 model update, because I would not wish to do ANYTHING to Firesoul's shiplist without his endorsement, I still think it would be a neat project to assemble to best of 2005 that keep in the spirit of the shiplist.  And there are SOOO many ships on the shiplist, there's no reason, even with size limitations, in this age of BitTorrent and broadband, that most of the ships, even minor variants, cannot have their own models.

Just a thought.

-TF