Enter Darth Vader's Tie Fighter

https://sketchfab.com/show/eIFt03aD0BrZPcTVU4F9jfw9duj

by showwebgl • 14 years ago

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pierreant_p• 14 years ago

Awesome model !

anactofgod• 14 years ago

<nit>It's a TIE Interceptor.</nit>

And, it's nice work.

<edit>Doh. I stand corrected. Vader did fly a TIE Fighter - technically the "TIE Advanced x1".

Looks like I'm overdue to rewatch SW:ANH. smile</edit>

tiddchristopher• 14 years ago

It's a TIE Advanced x1. Although features developed for it were incorporated into the later TIE/IN Interceptor, the x1 had substantial differences, such as shielding and FTL capabilities. The mass-production craft resulting directly from the x series was the TIE/D Defender.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/TIE_Advanced_x1

jiggy2011• 14 years ago

That brings back memories of playing the MS-DOS "Tie fighter" game from the mid 90s where you could pilot the Tie Advanced later in the game, IIRC it was also slightly faster than a standard Tie Fighter.

However from what I remember of the original movies though there was no reference to Vaders craft having shields or hyperdrive (maybe I'm wrong?).

So I wonder if the technical details of the craft were invented specifically for the game and then retrofitted into the overall mythos?

One thing that always amused me about star wars was that the Imperial forces must have had a military budget that would make global GDP look like pocket change but had such clearly flawed designs for all of it's equipment (crap fighters, walkers, death star etc) while the Rebels had stuff that worked much better. Was Lucas trying to say something about the inevitable result of the military industrial complex?

festivusr• 14 years ago

No, actually, it's a TIE Advanced x1. An Interceptor has characteristic dagger-shaped solar panels.

chill1• 14 years ago

I very much enjoy the geekyness of this comment thread.

hluska• 14 years ago

Would someone please build a 'don't distract freelancers on Hacker News' app? My morning started off so strong, now I want to watch the original trilogy.....

(Great model!!)

acuozzo3• 14 years ago

> now I want to watch the original trilogy.....

The original original trilogy or that "Special Edition" crap?

Edit: Despite the down-votes, I stand by both my opinion __and__ phrasing. The 1997 Special Edition, 2004 DVD, and 2011 Blu-ray releases were done poorly (a.k.a., half-assed). They suffer from numerous issues that suggest an inexperienced team was used for the "restoration". See: http://savestarwars.com/specialeditionfail.html

xyzzyb• 14 years ago

How about the despecialized edition?

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Harmys-STAR-WARS-...

oseibonsu• 14 years ago

Is it possible to download the 3d model in a format that could be used with a 3d printer?

showwebgl4• 14 years ago

Soon! We are working on it.

jrabone• 14 years ago

What's the licensing situation with such models? I seem to remember Lucasfilm (http://www.lucasfilm.com/divisions/licensing/) being pretty active ($3 billion in licensing revenue in 2011), but presumably they're not interested if there's no money involved?

mhandley• 14 years ago

All I get is a "100%" loading indicator, then the spinning pizza of death and repeated "unresponsive script" warnings for several minutes until I gave up.

peterwwillis2• 14 years ago

WebGL doesn't work for me, guess i'm screwed

showwebgl4• 14 years ago

Which browser? You should ideally use chrome or firefox, or activate WebGL from developer mode in safari.

peterwwillis2• 14 years ago

I'm using Firefox (latest) and at one point tried to enable WebGL. I'm not one to keep trying to fix something just to make a web page work, though.

Does WebGL even work in software rendering mode, or do you need to have hardware rendering enabled? I have no idea if it is or if my drivers support it (Windows) but I would hope we're not forcing everyone on the web to have direct rendering now.

camiller• 14 years ago

<James Earl Jones voice>I find you lack of interior ... disturbing</James Earl Jones voice)

Admittedly, you would be making stuff up since not much of the interior is visible in the movies but...

TheAmazingIdiot• 14 years ago

This is useful how? This is no better than a read-only image, with right click 'disabled'. It does look pretty.

I'll just head to thingiverse or clones. Those sites let you <gasp> download the models.

Unregistered• 14 years ago

The model actually comes from here

http://www.blendswap.com/blends/vehicles/vader-tie-fighter/

where it is download-able

sukuriant• 14 years ago

How large is the file? It's taking a VERY long time to load.

showwebgl4• 14 years ago

It's not that big, 2.8 mb, but keep in mind that more than 300 people are browsing it right now :)

larrik• 14 years ago

Very nice.

I thought the 4 stripes on top were actually windows, though (since you can see through them in the movie, such as in this photo I found: http://media.photobucket.com/image/recent/ThePropDen/cee7e16...)

felixthehat• 14 years ago

Amazing work, great model. really clean. Reinforces that IE is really messing up by not supporting webGL. Works smooth as butter in chrome for me.

Enter Darth Vader's Tie Fighter

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