I have some fairly big news about this ship. As of yesterday, I stopped producing the textures and have restarted them from scratch. It's not due to any PC problems, but rather the following....
1. Due to the size of the ship, I was working with very large texture maps, and many of them. Already the ship had enough maps to use up 8 times the texture memory of the Ent F.
2. Saucer map was not square. It was giving an odd, stretched out jagged look to the textures on the saucer.
3. Hull panels were taking extremely long to do, were very tedious (each being drawn by hand separately), and I didn't feel were producing a very realistic look.
However, the new textures are already underway and looking much richer, more detailed, and are much faster and simpler to produce.
During the texturing of the Lawrence Holland, i found a quick and easy way to use splines to produce quick and realistic hull paneling. I wanted to adapt that method to the Eclipse Class. While this may seem to be a step back, I assure you all that it will in fact lead to a faster release. Hopefully by Christmas.
I'll put up some pictures as soon as I'm confident no one will say, "the other one's were so much better!"
Seeing as how at this point there's not much comparison.