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HCl has made further progress on importing ships into Wing Commander 2/Academy. Here he's managed to get the Arrow running smoothly, as seen through the eyes of a Jrathek. HCl is still trying to figure out what kind of stats the ship should have while operating with other mid 2660s fighters. If you have a recommendation, hit the comments button below and let him know! Also, when asked about the possibility of someday modding Privateer with these new techniques, HCl was fairly optimistic - which is very exciting! The Privateers are some of the least hacked games in the series, but they have some of the biggest potential for expansion.
Definitely, I'd love to import ships into Privateer some day as well :) From what I remember, the format is pretty much the same, or very very close, so I think it would be trivial to adapt this script to import new ships into Privateer! (the palette needs changing, the packaging might need some tweaking, as Privateer started using IFFs for ship encoding, but the RLE compression used by the game is definitely the same) If anyone wants to do that, do let me know!

Anyway, doing some progress here cleaning and optimizing the script. I've been using MATLAB for my work, so I had forgotten how slow GNU Octave is in comparison. The way both programs handle for loops (very slow) means my script was never really blazing fast, but Octave has gotta be around one order of magnitude slower than MATLAB! So I'm attempting to vectorize my code in a couple of functions before releasing it. (for context, Octave is kinda the Open Source clone of MATLAB)

In the meantime, I've been playing a bit with the Arrow. If anyone wants to suggest a set of stats, please feel free! I'll incorporate them in the package I'm building. Screenshots below :)


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