[AgentZero]

Bit of both, actually, Strategia. On the second page of this thread, a couple posts up from the Cruiser pic there's a description of what the plates are made of.

ZeroAdunn, as is often the case with me, you've given me an idea for the battleship and dreadnought that probably will look nothing like what you had in mind. But thanks anyway!

As for this series appearing in SEV, I wouldn't count on it. For one thing, if it did, me posting it here would be a violation of the NDA, albeit retroactively. Second of all, when it was said that SE5 would handle higher-poly ships at a reduced frame rate, I think we were talking about somewhere in the 2000-3000 range as opposed to the recomended 1000-1500. As it stands, the Dreadnought is probably going to hit 200,000 easily. Which means that 5 DNs would take up the same ammount of poly-crunching power as an 500-ships per side battle using the recomended number of polys. If that same battle were to be played out entirely with DNs, you'd be talking about 200,000,000 polys! I think most computers would have a bit of a problem with that.

And third, Bryce can't export to .X! Auugh! One of these days I'm going to sit down and learn myself a modeller that can, then maybe you'll see these guys in SE5. Any suggestions for a good (ie: easy & cheap/free) modeller that can export to .X?