Who's Intrepid is that? It doesn't look like the one you were working on before.

Are you saying you manually remapped the entire ship? Wow, impressive!

Aside from the misalignments here and there, and the specular triangles problem, she looks great!

Looks like you're using the specular texture on the Enterprise-E there, instead of the diffuse. Looks kinda cool, lol.

are any of the new ones showing the triangle thingies?

The way I remapped the Enterprise-D is to assign all of the materials in max to one new texture 3 times the vertical height of the original, then paste the 3 textures into it at different places.

Then it's just a matter of dragging and resizing the UV mapping for each material to a new place on the map - no need to change the mapping, as such

You've definitely got the wrong texture assigned to the visible texture in SE there. On the Sovereign at least, but the Galaxy looks odd, too.

In the case of Bridge Commander, it uses a separate map for specular reflectivity - the Texturename_specular.tga file. BC uses the alpha channel on the Diffuse maps, named like Texturename_glow.tga, for the illumination maps for windows, engines, deflectors dishes, and so on.

Space Engine uses the Diffuse map's Alpha channel for specular. What I did was paste the specular maps into the alpha channels (Actually, I blended the illumination maps onto the specular first - I like the way it makes the light seems to shine off the windows), and then used the original specular maps as the bump map in SE.

Looking at the Galaxy texture you posted, I get the impression you're putting a lot of labour into these textures, ending up with an altered product. That's a step beyond simply porting, and since these ships - for the most part - are beautifully textured and modelled by people who meticulously research their work, and really ought to be doing this professionally, it's to the detriment of the model.

I'll try to come up with a step by step explanation of how I do it, to make it easier for you

I don't mean to be coming down hard on you, sorry. I'll admit I did alter the colour of the deflector, and some parts of the specular on the Enterprise-D to account of the lack of glow.

Great job avoiding the triangles! Any insight into how you pulled it off?

You're certainly churning these ships out!

The disappearing TARDIS (appropriate as that is...) is down to SE's renderer settings. I think it's governed by a variable in Main.cfg, clipping plane or something.
Lowering the number there will bring the rendering plane closer to the camera point, and allow the renderer to show smaller objects closer.

Mucking around with the Alpha channels is necessary

I appreciate that you didn't have any intent to change the textures

When I get close to this ship, its very small, it does this

I just noticed these ships are extremely small, is there anyway to resize them in SE?

In the script for the ships, just specify their length in meters.

and the specular merely defines what part of the texture reflect more light than other parts.

DiffMap - diffuse (i.e., color), RGB or RGBA (if it has an alpha channel, it is interpreted as the brightness of the specular highlight).
BumpMap - height map, Grayscale or RGB (the first is better - it has a smaller size). The engine automatically calculates the normal map on it.
NormMap - normal map in tangent space, RGB. If it is specified, the BumpMap and BumpHeight are ignored.
DetailDiffMap - detailed diffuse texture, i.e. minor color pattern. Applied to the entire model with repetition, so it is a tiled texture. The format is similar to DiffMap.
DetailBumpMap - detailed map of bumps, that is, minor surface irregularities. The format is similar to BumpMap.

The specular is not meant to be seen in that way.

The NX-01 looks a whole lot better, though! keep up the good work!