I’m not following the development of the standalone episodes because I’m very busy with life and other personal projects, but I couldn’t miss out on trying my favorite episode. Although some of the problems have already been highlighted by others, I thought I would share something in the attempt to be helpful in one way or another.
I don’t know if the current M404 is just provvisory of if it’s going for a modernazied version of the original ship, but I think it’s pretty far from the original, so I would like to share my personal recreation of the CI3 M404 made in CIU:
I putted extreme care and attention to deteils into this, and I can say this is by far the closet recreation of the original CI3 M404 in CIU.
Now, not everything is perfect, of course; the axhaust is too thin, but the length is basically the same as the original. The darker parts aren’t also very replicable. The tip of the ship is, but the ones the wings are not. Though I noticed there is a new texture type in the episode which makes it closer to the original (still not 100% the same though), so you could just use that with the same color already set. As for the cockpit color, there are a lot of misconceptions of wether it’s light orange or fucsia. I went with fucsia because it’s the most logical one, since it reflects the purple starts in the background, just like the original one, and the blue border captures the rest of the sky perfectly, so it’s the best combination in my opinion.
If you want to use this one for the next beta update, I could share the exact values, and for the shield too (which quite frankly, it’s 1:1 with the original). Too bad I can’t just export a file with the data to make it some sort of preset, but oh well; whatever works.
Oh and the I also tried to recreate the original CI3 UI theme as best as I could, so I guess I’ll post it as well since I’m at it:
I hope to have been useful, and if not, I gave it my best try. Good luck with the rest of the development!