Vince T's X-Wing HQ Blog

  The wait is over! The XWA Upgrade proudly releases the XWAUP Mega Patch 2020   After months of hardship, development, testing and bugfixing, it is finally here: The newest all-in-one XWAU 2020 patch! The "XWAU 2020 Mega Patch" is a total remake of our old Craft Packs from the ground up. It contains ALL the previous 20 years of releases in one installer. It's all been bundled into a brand new clever installer by DTM and JéreémyaFr. Now there are only a few simple choices it will guide you through that you need to install it and run the game. No more need to download 42 different installers. As part of the pack you get Babu Frik's Configurator, a new program which is accessed from the Game Launcher and allows you to change the game to your liking. You can choose variation versions of the available models, configure the graphic effects and toggle the different options for VR or TrackIR and more. All the choices from the previous XWAU individual installers and more hav...

  The XWA Upgrade and I proudly present: The XQ-1 Platform It's about time I got to work on these! Those who've been following my WIP updates may have seen some early model shots of this station and its sisters. Well here it is, the first of the five remaining XQ-Platforms, ready for you to enjoy! The stations comes with a bunch of new features: 5 Flightgroup colors: Along with the 4 regular color choices, there's a fifth Bonus Flightgroup representing Outpost D-34 from 1998's TIE Fighter Collectors' Edition. This verion is generally brighter in tone as the regular flightgroups and features red and blue markings as well as the Designation "D-34" written ontop in aurabesh letters. Custom Hangar: Thanks to new possibilities in Hangar Setups, you can now have several craft setups for a hangar depending on IFF. Ace Antilles made a whapping different setups for Rebel, Imperial and Neutral environments. And yes, there's more where that came from .... Updated...

  Today I'm announcing two new features for this website. The evolution of VXHQ  The First is an Evolution/History of this website and its various iterations. Believe or not, this is by now version 7! This page actually came together because I was looking for something else and stumbled over some old snapshots from earlier versions. So on this new page you'll find the somewhat parallel evolution of both VXHQ and The Bluephantom website through the course of 17 years.   Blogger-News-Archive Alright, so the new blog function is great and all, however, I didn't see myself carrying over 60+ ancient news posts from 2003 to 2015, therefore I've now found a suitable workaround. I've now set up a blogger account which allows me to post the old news fairly quickly and without much hassle. Those posts I can then include into this website via a special Blogger widget. So if you're ever feeling nostalgic and want to check out what I've been up to in 2006, check it out!

  "WHAT? No more WIPs? How can you do this? I hate you!" Alright, hear me out! Yes, I'm closing down the Workbench Section but the WIPs will remain. As of now, every ship has a singular profile page, this goes for new WIPs as well as remakes of existing ships. Now, the latter are the thing: Since right now they were linked to from two different pages, the whole thing was a bit redundant and a slight mess to administrate. Therefore, from now on my various WIPs will be featured directly under their respective theme section and will be flagged as WIPs accordingly. So, for example All available XWAU Downloads as well as all respective WIPs will be featured directly in the XWA Upgrade section, same for the Blue Phantom, Episode III or Standalone models. This should make the site less redundant and make things easier for me to keep updated. I will still be posting workbench spotlights of selected Models, using the blog system.  So, down the line, nothing's lost and all is...

On August 14 2000 the XWAU released it's first big update: the Rebel Fighter Patch . The actual website was around for a little longer but this was the first XWAU milestone you could say. Many talented people have contributed to the XWAU over the years and 20 years on we are still here! Because this anniversary seemed too good to pass up the team put together this week of celebration. All of the previews and more I have posted this week are now live and in the Downloads page for you to enjoy. Imperial II-class Star Destroyer v2.0 This Starship has been a while in the making and many hands have been hard at work on the Opt. Originally converted from SW Galaxies by Driftwood, DTM tuned it and added cool Flightgroup colours. But, this wouldn't be a Star Destroyer with me getting my hands dirty on it, at least a bit. So I chimed in and did some overhauling of my own, improving various bits and pieces here and there to make it more screen accurate where possible. The new model feat...

I have finally redirected the original URL https://vince-t.com from the old website to this one and made it the site's primary domain. The link vxhq.net will continue to redirect to the new link. If you have this website bookmarked or are linking to it, please update your links accordingly. In addition I have set a number of subdomains for the various sections of this site: https://xwaupgrade.vince-t.com or https://xwau.vince-t.com https://bluephantom.vince-t.com or https://bpc.vince-t.com https://workbench.vince-t.com or https://wip.vince-t.com https://episode3.vince-t.com https://standalone.vince-t.com

  The Blue Phantom update release run continues with the XT-30 Piranha The next BPC ship to be ported over form the old website is the XT-30 Piranha. Along with updating the readme file I've made some tweaks to the ship itself: - Fixed some shading errors - Created all new .mat files for Base, Exterior and Cockpit model - Created an .ini file - Updated the cockpit screen textures, sort of as a lead-up for a possible Dynamic Cockpit - integration at a later point. So that's about it for now. Now get out there and have fun!