Sheppard: Thanks! the time period I'm targeting is 2656 - Before the 'Claws destruction, And I'm sort of wondering if I can use this particular mission (to test and evaluate a new Firekkan Space-fighter) as an excuse to get Hunter off the Claw before she gets toasted.
The player character in my version here will likely *not* be Blair, but some other green pilot. As a joke I was planning on making the new guy look like Luke Skywalker.
thecoredump, FekLeyrTarg: Yeah, that stuff all exists. It'd still be a lot of work to get them set up again to render properly, as more than a few of the textures are in .CEL format which 3dsmax no longer natively supports.
So minor changes - added some atmosphere to the lights (sorta a dry run for the hangar scenes up next) and some Color Ramp brightness desaturation - basically on thing like walls and floors and especially fabric, as they get brighter they lose saturation. Helps add some depth to the scene. I plan on doing some of the same to the dark end of the spectrum - only they desaturate to a more blue tone, rather than a neutral gray like I have for the brightness.