Oolite Bulletins

Uploaded an Adder, i think it all works, rushing a bit to upload from work as its much faster than from home and it's a bigger oxp than usual as i stuffed in a few colour variations,some of them a bit lurid so will probably need fixing :) https://i.postimg.cc/FRbPM0R0/griff-HP-adder.jpg Download fol...

These popped up in my youtube recomendations the other day, some early 90 VHS video tape tutorials the from the late, great Ron Thornton modelling and texturing a Babylon 5 style spaceship using some early versions of Lightwave3D and Photoshop (a version so early it doesn't look like it supports lay...

cbr wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 2:10 pm

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I thought it was nice detail, some kind of special galcop coating...

I pushed the green-ness a bit too far i think , but it might be fun to keep these "impossible materials" in mind for the Thargoids

Ha yeah, that was a bit of a late night last minute change after checking the textures in game, I think i went too far with it though :) I've uploaded a v0.2 of the oxp that reduces a lot of that green in the spec colour for those blue panels and dials down the gloss level a bit on them too, i think...

added a viper to the download folder: griff_SpecGloss_Viper_Materials_V0.1.zip https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_8EtoVvwNyXXvqe5GCGy1HuFRRw3NxB7?usp=sharing sorry about the moody lighting, non-oolite screenshot, i don't have it installed where i am at the moment https://i.postimg.cc/xCYDHrHR/...

Lovely last few pages of screenshots, fab texture work cbr!

This is amazing KW

This is awesome! Thanks for making this phkb, it going to make checking textures on ships for mistakes when OXP'ing so easy, think i can finally retire the spawn script i usually use

no i don't think it not having a beacon will make a difference, the ship just needs to fly directly out the docking bay for a certain distance before it starts thinking about its role and what it should do next

i don't think launching ships make any AI choices until they've gone a certain distance away from the dock towards the docking beacon, so i think if they had a really long tunnel to travel, they'd just go down it in a straight line until they've cleared the tunnel and its parent station by a certain...

That is beautiful KW, the level of detail is astonishing!

Ha yes, took that from the 1980's "Cylon Raider" from Battlestar Galactica TV series

Thanks for the kind comments, a_c got some beautiful photos of it in the screenshot thread, i'm slowly warming to the design, still feels a bit off around the cockpit and 'nose' bit, an x-wing with its wings closed was what i originally thought to go with, not sure that was right for the ship

Beautiful texture work cbr, lovely stuff

yeah that sounds great! Awesome work

Seeing your ship from outside and the being auto docked sounds like the sequence that plays out when you use your escape capsule? the ship glowing also sounds like it's critically hot, have you got any expansions that auto eject you when the ship explodes and one that plays with the ship temperature...