I went to a great talk last night at Lucasfilm/ILM which was in an area I’ve never seen before. Hiya #RogerRabbit and a steamrolled #JudgeDoom. Also a model of a #DeathStar trench, #xwing and #millenniumfalcon
#XWing
50 years ago, ILM completed their first Star Wars model
#ANewHope #ILMVFX #XWing #StarWars #FanthaTracks #ILMVFX #xwing #anewhope #50years
Look at the creation and build of the X-Wing filming model for Star Wars, completed 50 years ago.
Read the whole story at the below link:
#otd #starwars #theforceawakens #rey #kyloren #finn #poedameron #xwing #firstorder #tiefighter #milleniumfalcon #desertlandspeeder #actionfigures #jakks #funkopop #hasbro
Playing some Ace Combat 7 - probably
Playing some Ace Combat 7 - probably
#LinuxGaming #GamingOnLinux #SimPit #Linux #EliteDangerous #EliteDangerousOdyssey #StarCitizen #PewPew #ViperPit #X4Foundations #Macross #VF1 #tech #videogames #XWing #TieFighter #Arduino #Mega #HomeCockpit
Short morning stream
Just testing codecs - not really streaming
#LinuxGaming #GamingOnLinux #SimPit #Linux #EliteDangerous #EliteDangerousOdyssey #StarCitizen #PewPew #ViperPit #X4Foundations #Macross #VF1 #tech #videogames #XWing #TieFighter #Arduino #Mega #HomeCockpit
Star Wars e il futuro al cinema: David Corenswet rilancia l’idea di Rogue Squadron
Tried Alliance Peacefighter
The #AlliancePeacefighter (demo) was sitting in my backlog for a while now. Last time I tried I was not able to really start but most of the menu navigation issues with joysticks are fixed now. In fact it accepted any joystick I threw at it.
It also supports ultra wide screen, runs smooth af and just works™ with Proton. There is really not much else I can ask of a space pew pew [indie]game in 2025. Well mayhap OpenTrack UDP support but let’s not nitpick 😀
Can’t say much about the story, since the demo doesn’t feature much of any. I got to see some neat features, like landing on a carrier, which required approaching through a virtual corridor until the carrier snagged me in. There’s also a path to follow during a jump adding a mini game to this procedure as well.
It also offers the genre typical shield and energy management, boosting and drifting, targeting of subsystems or missiles and counter measures so #XWing or #WingCommander players should feel right at home. This goes to my wishlist 🤓
https://beko.famkos.net/2025/12/10/tried-alliance-peacefighter/
Pierwsze okienko kalendarza adwentowego otworzone.
#xwing #legostarwars #lego #kalendarzadwentowy #adventcalendar
X-Wing Aircraft are Trickier than they Look.
The iconic X-wing ship design from Star Wars is something many a hobbyist have tried to recreate, and not always with success. While [German engineer] succeeded in re-imagining an FPV quadcopter as an X-wing fighter, the process also highlighted why there have been more failures than successes when it comes to DIY X-wing aircraft.
#starwars #Xwing #quadcopter #diy #engineering #artist #media #tech #art #maker #news
![For one thing, the X-wing shape is not particularly aerodynamic. It doesn’t make a very good airplane.
👾Quadcopters on the other hand rely entirely on precise motor control to defy gravity in a controlled way. It occurred to [German engineer] that if one tilts their head just so, an X-wing fighter bears a passing resemblance to a rocket-style quadcopter layout, so he set out to CAD up a workable design.👾](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/115/639/280/699/184/617/original/62f464ae99a5b42b.jpeg)
![[ImageSource: YouTube - German Engineer]
⁉️The unit still needed a lot of fine tuning to get to a properly workable state, but it got there. It takes off and lands vertically, like a classical quadcopter, but when flying at speed it levels out almost completely and looks just like an X-wing as it screams by.⁉️
👾There are also a couple design elements in [German engineer]’s build I thought were notable. The spring-loaded battery door [all 3D-printed, including the spring] looks handy and keeps the lines of the aircraft clean. And since it’s intended to be flown as an FPV [first person view] aircraft, the tilting camera mount in the nose swings the camera 90 degrees during takeoff and landing to make things a little easier on the pilot.👾](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/115/639/280/741/898/726/original/f3d069892fbead94.jpeg)
Dann!
Guten Morgen III,
schaut euch diesen echt haarigen Bombing Run mit einem Y-Wing an. Die Computer-Kumpels sagen noch "break off" aber Raphi will nicht hören. Das Überleben war echt zweifelhaft!
#xwing #xwvm #Xwing1993 #fanmod #VideoGames #VR #Quest3 #MetaQuest3
Special Report: Why the aviation industry can’t agree on how to certify AI
If someone is looking for me, I have an essential work-related meeting. Don't look for me in the garage near the 3D printer, printing an open-source X-Wing Drone.
#drone #xwing #opensource
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Engineer-3D-prints-134-mph-X-wing-drone-and-makes-it-open-source.1147835.0.html
#XWing #salzgitter #germansystemopen #xwa #pewpew https://xwing.life
5 Runden X-Wing am Samstag mit 48 Teilnehmern. Da ist der Tag voll und der eigene Akku danach leer. Anstrengender Spaß. 😆
Laser engraved onto clear acrylic, this Star Wars concept art looks great, especially when backlit!
#StarWars #Xwing #LaserEngraving #Art #Thinklaser
Laser engraved onto clear acrylic, this Star Wars concept art looks great, especially when backlit!
#StarWars #Xwing #LaserEngraving #Art #Thinklaser
Heritage Auctions: Red 5 filming miniature sells for $375,000
#HeritageAuctions #Red5 #StarWars #FanthaTracks #heritageauctions #red5 #xwing
Red 5 sells for big moolah at the latest Heritage Auction.
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I've been playing XWVM today. It's a fan rewrite of 1993's Star Wars: X-Wing, requiring the original to play (there's a version of that available on Steam).
It's delightful.
It's still in alpha, and has a few rough edges, but it's extremely playable. Of particular interest to me is that they added VR support. Zooming through the Pilot Proving Ground of my childhood at a million miles an hour, only now I can look around, was a wonderful experience. They've also added two MFDs to the fighters that show the sort of data you got in the various paused screens in Tie Fighter: the map, the mission objectives, damage control, that kind of thing.
There was an official Star Wars VR game whose name escapes me that I tried a few years ago. I hated it. Too on-rails, fighters too sluggish. What I wanted, really, was this.
Highly recommended.
This might be enough for me to break out my Oculus Quest again.
Old-School X-Wing, but with updated graphics & VR!
#StarWars #XWing #VR #LucasArts
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