Invisible We Stand

The Wing Commander Saga mod for Freespace 2 has achieved an important success: the Freespace 2 engine has been modified to allow cloaking ships - a feature Freespace did not originally have. They write: "Thanks to modifications done in the SCP-Engine (some older and some newer ones) we are now finally able to make a full-blown cloaking effect like in the original WC games. The technical side requires the usage of a few simple scripts for each cloaking ship, but those are easy to create and the effect for the player will be just like what we are used to in WC gameplay. Even better than that, the final animation will be very close to what we saw in the original CGI movie sequences of Wing Commander 4. To celebrate this achievement, screenshots of the Strakha-class stealth fighter in the Freespace engine have been posted.