As stated in our welcome page, WCpedia's focus is on the future of Wing Commander, rather than its past. We'd like this site to be the preferred resource site for constructive WC fans; –modders and modellers working on fan projects, primarily games, expanding and enriching the Wing Commander universe from within. But this focus would be incompletely served without addressing practical, every day problems and solutions pertaining to modding, modelling, texturing, story-writing; as well as a bit of discussion about what constitutes “canon-correctness”, “canon-compatibility”, and game balancing.

• Getting started
• Space sim engines
• Organizing a game project
• The case for Open Source
• Participating in a game project

• Choice of 3D modeling application
• Intro to fast modeling, video tutorial by Brad Mick
• Links to Blender3D tutorials, manuals, etc.
• Modeling ships and stations
• Understanding the concept of "smooth groups"
• Making bevels that shade correctly, Part 1
• Bumpmaps and normalmaps, a quick intro
• Making bevels that shade correctly, Part 2
• Floating vs. welding geometry
• Smooth-welding geometry
• LoD's (Levels of Detail)
• Basic UV unwrapping
• Advanced UV unwrapping
• Modeling for Wing Commander

• The Best Texturing Tutorial Ever Written
• The tools of the texturing trade
• Achieving realism in texturing
• Free texture libraries (links)
• Texturing examples and real life photos
• Texturing for Wing Commander
• The texturing pipeline

• Texture bakings from Blender3D
• Understanding and using the La Grande Noodle

• “Canon-quality”: consistency and coherence
• Science fiction writing quality
• Plausibility
• Backgrounding
• Adding dynamics to the background
• Timing and timelining
• Outlining the plot
• Fleshing out the characters
• Adding personal stories (human side sub-plots)
• Summary and metrics for good story/plot
• Writing dialogues
• To branch or not to branch

• Ships, weapons, canon and balance