Space Pickles Collide: A Wallpaper That Really Stings (May 11, 2006)

[Bandit LOAF]

As promised, Sean Murphy has rendered a new Wing Commander wallpaper -- and it's a beauty! Pictures speak better than words, so check it out below. Sean has kindly made the picture available in several different resolutions.

Not sure what you're looking at? The Nephilim Stingray-class Interceptor/Cap Ship Interdictor is one of Wing Commander Prophecy's signature fighters, representing one of the Vision Engine's unique abilities: ships that can connect and separate during combat. Stingray are unique in that they carry no missiles - an individual Stingray mounts two Light Plasma Guns... and when three are together they can lock via magnetic/capillary cohesion to form their weapons into a single ship with a devestating Heavy Plasma Gun. In this way, Stingray are a threat to both individual fighters and to large capital ships. Individual Stingrays are 24 meters long and mass in at 18 tonnes.

Here's Sean on the image:

I'm dropping them in right now. The wallpaper is a render of three Stingrays about to combine...I don't know if there's ever been a decent image of the Stingray available, at least none that I've seen! I did four different size versions so folks could download their preferred resolution.

Let me know what you think!

PS - Thank you guys one more time for the help with the fundraising; thanks to you guys our family raised over two thousand dollars for MS research and assistance. That's quite a feat, and certainly something for you - and the whole WC crowd - to be proud of!

And now, the scene you've all been waiting for!

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Original update published on May 11, 2006

 

[Edx]

Mmm very pretty!

 

[Lt.Death100]

Hurry, kill the thing before it merges! Really nice wallpaper btw.

 

[ChrisReid]

Anyone have a problem with the file sizes? We kept them as pngs because they look so gorgeous, but they're pretty hefty files for dialup users. At a 1% compressed jpeg they still look incredible and would come in about a third smaller. In keeping them the size they are, we figure that in the future we'll all have faster connections and would have appreciated any extra detail retained.

 

[Taser8]

I can deliver them to you guys in whatever the preferred format is; I'm rendering the images out to tga format then bringing it into photoshop to do the logo and stuff, then save it out. Lemme know what the preferred format is and that's what you'll get!

 

[Peidu]

It took about a minute to load on my comp... which has a 256 kbs connection. But I just did other stuff whilst I waited. BTW, nice, very very nice.