Call for modelers: Asteroids

[AeternusDoleo]

Right, there's a lot of complaints about the current asteroid fields, and I think we have a good idea on how to solve the bulk of them:
1: Tiny roids like those in various dust fields -> Make them all dynamic, and lots of them. A ship should rightly be able to plow through spacedust and push all of it out of the way instead of getting hung up on a roid 1/1000th the size of the ship...
2: Static roids of various forms and sizes -> These need to be... bigger. A lot bigger.

I've seen an example of this in the asteroid field out in the Alberta system, and am impressed. Asteroids of that size are more easily navigable by capital ships (still have to go around them, but you won't get stuck between em as much - just slowed down), and easier on the server in terms of someone getting stuck and repeatedly colliding. They also feel more threatening. Basically, I want to end up redoing all the asteroid fields in the mod to that example.

To do this for 4.87, we'll need asteroid models. A lot of them. Textured, too. If anyone feels to help out creating a few, would welcome the help.

General idea: Try to keep them relatively simple in shape. An irregular circle consisting of a single group (to be exported as a 3DB) with a single texture. Keep the texture relatively small as well to help out folks with lower graphics. Shouldn't be too hard, roids are just chunks of rock or ice. If in doubt, reuse the existing roid textures.

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