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It is really good.
I have a super nerdy spaceship physics question though. This was prompted by nerdily watching a nerdy video of a nerdy flying x-wing model. Like a nerd.
How do x-wings fly? Or the millenium falcon for that matter. I mean, how do they steer in atmosphere and in space? I ask because the only element of the new CG stuff that didn't totally convince for me was the spaceship flying bits. They still look unrealistic and cartoonish to me which really jars with how much care and attention is taken elsewhere.
I thought the presumably several hundred tonne millenium falcon bouncing about relatively unscathed like it was a big polystyrene toy drone was daft. The effect was exacerbated by it being in front of a backdrop of convincingly massive wrecked starcruisers.
Then there's the dog-fighting x-wings which seem to be able to perform feats of physics-defying agility in the atmosphere and behave in an oddly ww2 plane-ish acrobatics manner in space.
That is all.