Star-Jelly OXP/OXZ v3.0
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Star-Jelly OXP/OXZ v3.0
v3.0 is now available - OXZ only.
The release post is here.
The Star-jelly is a strange, translucent space-dwelling organism, often found in or near asteroid fields, where they may remain for some time trapped in the weak gravitational fields of the asteroids. Star-jellys have limited movement, and are normally content to float free in space being wafted around by the solar wind.
They are believed to 'feed' by absorbing the small traces of Quirium found in interplanetary space. Because of their high Quirium content, destroying them is not recommended.
They are seldom found in interstellar space.
Star-Jellys are not thought to be intelligent, and although their biology is un-clear they are thought to be more like plants than animals.
More info and downloads via the Wiki page.
The release post is here.
The Star-jelly is a strange, translucent space-dwelling organism, often found in or near asteroid fields, where they may remain for some time trapped in the weak gravitational fields of the asteroids. Star-jellys have limited movement, and are normally content to float free in space being wafted around by the solar wind.
They are believed to 'feed' by absorbing the small traces of Quirium found in interplanetary space. Because of their high Quirium content, destroying them is not recommended.
They are seldom found in interstellar space.
Star-Jellys are not thought to be intelligent, and although their biology is un-clear they are thought to be more like plants than animals.
More info and downloads via the Wiki page.
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Re: [Release] Star-Jelly OXP
that looks pretty. "translucent", tho? i thought Oolite didn't do transparency?
if you do any smaller versions as young ones, they'll be....
if you do any smaller versions as young ones, they'll be....
Re: [Release] Star-Jelly OXP
Just by seeing the pic - looks like flipped normals. Funny idea, Smivs! He .-)
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Re: [Release] Star-Jelly OXP
Don't start me....Killer Wolf wrote:
if you do any smaller versions as young ones, they'll be....
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Re: [Release] Star-Jelly OXP
Nice, inspired by ST-TNG pilot episode I'd guess.
Take an idea from one person and twist or modify it in a different way as a return suggestion so another person can see a part of it that can apply to the oxp they are working on.
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Re: [Release] Star-Jelly OXP
Yes it is flipped normals, it was completely accidental and something to do with blenders .obj export function... which ended up messing up the normals, but to quite a nice effect.Svengali wrote:Just by seeing the pic - looks like flipped normals. Funny idea, Smivs! He .-)
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Re: [Release] Star-Jelly OXP
Just uploaded v1.1.
The original version was creating too many of these when Rock Hermits were present, as the Star-Jellys are spawned as Asteroids, and you get lots of asteroids around Hermits.
This will make them quite rare in systems without Hermits (which I think is OK) and you should get 1-2 per system when hermits are present.
The original version was creating too many of these when Rock Hermits were present, as the Star-Jellys are spawned as Asteroids, and you get lots of asteroids around Hermits.
This will make them quite rare in systems without Hermits (which I think is OK) and you should get 1-2 per system when hermits are present.
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Re: [Release] Star-Jelly OXP
They're great !
Think I'll stick with version 1 for now: I like the way they "flower".
Any chance they could be given a unique colour on the navigation thingy ?
Think I'll stick with version 1 for now: I like the way they "flower".
Any chance they could be given a unique colour on the navigation thingy ?
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Re: [Release] Star-Jelly OXP
how's the flipped normal thing work then? when i've been testing docks that face inwards the walls are invisible not translucent.
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I think it just worked with this shape - serendipity.
When viewed straight on the facing sides are invisible, but seeing the 'sides' and 'back' give the impression of translucency.
It's just a happy accident that we were able to exploit to good effect.
When viewed straight on the facing sides are invisible, but seeing the 'sides' and 'back' give the impression of translucency.
It's just a happy accident that we were able to exploit to good effect.
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Re: [Release] Star-Jelly OXP
Nice that Smivs is getting all the credit for the model, even though it was me who made it
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It was you who cocked it up! but it has to be said in a truly inspired way. I don't think I'm getting all the credit by the way....all the blame maybe and I've been careful to share that with you.Staer9 wrote:Nice that Smivs is getting all the credit for the model, even though it was me who made it
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Actually it was Blender that messed it up when I exported to OBJ format ready to convert to DAT, the BLEND file is fine, but both the OBJ and the DAT have this handy little error
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Just goes to show it takes two geniuses and a weird bit of software to make an OXP
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Re: [Release] Star-Jelly OXP
BTW, their rarity will mainly depend on whether the player has other asteroid-adding OXPs installed. I for one have AsteroidStorm.oxp which decreases the chances of a starbelly "asteroid" to be drawn from the lottery. I just did a small test and had about 1 starbelly in 100 asteroids.Smivs wrote:Just uploaded v1.1.
The original version was creating too many of these when Rock Hermits were present, as the Star-Jellys are spawned as Asteroids, and you get lots of asteroids around Hermits.
This will make them quite rare in systems without Hermits (which I think is OK) and you should get 1-2 per system when hermits are present.
What I can't see from the OXP is any relation to the presence of Rock Hermits, so that seems to be a conjecture. Oolite spawns asteroid fields with or without Rock Hermits in them (it seems to me the majority of them have no hermits), and starjellies may be created instead of asteroids anywhere and anytime. (This could potentially break OXPs that add mission-relevant dockables with surrounding asteroid fields, if the asteroids get fired upon. I am not aware of currently existing mission-added stations with miners, though, so the OXP-breaking capability is probably only theoretical at this point.)