Pardon the plug, but I figured somebody might appreciate this as I spent a couple of weeks putting together this method of expressing my affection for the game franchise.

A bit of time ago I pulled the ship asset files out of the Star Citizen pre-alpha "hangar module" that's out now, and used the free Cryengine editor to do a literal re-creation of the classic IWar: Defiance intro movie (with the complete audio track overlaid)

It has more than a few quirks (i.e. ship landing gear stuck down, a few particle issues) that I unfortunately had no easy workarounds for at the time, but I'm hoping I captured the spirit of the game reliably.

There might be more in the future if I can ever figure out how to get the ships imported with working animations. For now, enjoy!

(Seems I'm not allowed to actually post links since I'm new to the forums, so I guess the only thing I can advise is to go to Youtube and look up "Star CItizen Defiance", sorry.)

Well that was pretty good! A lot of fun to see an alternative take on the sequence.

Thanks for making and sharing :)

Thanks! That makes it much easier.

This was a lot of fun to make. I'm hoping this might actually help inspire a drive to make an Independence War mod for Star Citizen when it comes out... it might actually fit really well and it would be awesome to see the classic missions, gameplay, and ship designs brought back to life.

Do we have access to the model data as base to start or do we need to remodel everything from scratch, screenshots and memory?

The underlying data is all lost and gone. I believe it was Ravenger (former I-War dev) who wrote that the data had to be deleted due to HDD space shortages. This is very unfortunate, but apart from taking the LWO models from the game data and retexturing them there is nothing to be done.

Impressive work, thanks for sharing.

We'll meet in the vers may be ;)