How to change default player Cobra MK III textures?

[v01i0]

Hello,

First, I am total newbie to Oolite - and to this community - although I used to play Elite back in 80s with ZX spectrum.. What a great game it was, and thanks to the community, still is

I just installed OXP called Griffs normal mapped all-in-1 in order to update those default ship textures and succumb into some extra immersion. Everything went okay, but my (the player's) cobra is still one of old model. Is there anyway to make player's (default) Cobra to look one of those awesome NPC cobra's that cut the space? I know I can buy a new one from station (tried that), but it takes so much of my hard earned credits, so I decided to turn onto you and check if there is another way...

And if there is, I'd appreciate very detailed instructions, because I am not hacker, just an occasional gamer.

Thanks in advance.

-v

PS. I tried to search for instructions, but couldn't find anything very useful. Maybe I didn't have right key words.

[Smivs]

Hi,
and welcome to the friendliest Board this side of Riedquat.
You'll find the answer here.
Best of luck.

Edit:- It is easier than it sounds, and a word of advice. DON'T use notepad to edit Oolite things. It adds nasty un-wanted characters and breaks everything. Most other text editors are fine.

[Cody]

Hi v01i0 and welcome.

Open your save-game file (found here ~\Oolite\oolite.app\oolite-saves) in a text editor (if you’re using Windows, don’t use Notepad… Wordpad is okay though).
Find the lines that say:

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<key>ship_desc</key>
    <string>cobra3-player</string>

All you need to do is change:

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<string>cobra3-player</string>

to

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<string>griff_normalmapped_cobra_mkIII_player</string>

Save the file, restart Oolite holding the shift key down until the spinning Cobra appears… and that should be that.

Of course, if you want the Griff ‘scuffed’ Cobra MkIII, an altogether 'classier' ship, just change:

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<string>cobra3-player</string>

to

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<string>griff_normalmapped_cobra_mkIII_scuffed_player</string>

[v01i0]

Thank you Smivs and El Viejo for welcomes and instructions. Nice to be here - and nice to learn that there exists such a great game as Oolite. I've been expanding it lately, it is so much more than old Elite used to be, yet capturing the same feeling as the old did.

Okay, the instructions from El Viejo's post did the trick.

I used Windows WordPad instead of Notepad, as you guys instructed. And it was as simple as El Miejo's post instructs - awesome, now I can fly nice looking Cobra MK III too. This also teached me how to cheat with my savefile, add some thousand extra kills to reach Elite status and few extra credits to buy that big boa class cruiser I've been drooling over Just joking, I don't want to do that. I didn't even try, so I don't know if it just that simple as to edit the save file... In fact, don't tell me

Anyways, thank you both for quick reply and sound help. Appreciated. Thanks!

-v

[Disembodied]

Okay, the instructions from El Miejo's post did the trick.

Psst ... "El Viejo" ... I think "El Miejo" might be an elderly cat ...

[Grimm]

El Viejo's solution doesn't work for me. I used Notepad++ to change the savegame and restarted the game while holding down the shift key but nothing happens. In fact my savegame disapeared and i can't load it

Have anyone an idea why this problem occurs?

p.s: my OS is Windows XP and i'am using Oolite 175.2

[Smivs]

Can you post the contents of the save somewhere. Not here as it could be quite long, but use pastebin or similar.
It won't have 'disappeared' from your oolite-saves folder.

[another_commander]

El Viejo's solution doesn't work for me. I used Notepad++ to change the savegame and restarted the game while holding down the shift key but nothing happens. In fact my savegame disapeared and i can't load it

Have anyone an idea why this problem occurs?

p.s: my OS is Windows XP and i'am using Oolite 175.2

My guess is that you saved with a default extension, which basically added something like a *.txt suffix to the savegame filename, making it invisible to the game. Check your oolite-saves folder, your game should be there with a wrong extension.

[Grimm]

The save file has the right suffix, its still the ollite save. The file exist but i can't acces it in the game.

here is my save file:
http://pastebin.com/4GiyPnDa

and thank for the quick answers, this is really one of the friendliest and helpfull boards in this galaxy

[Cody]

edit: see Eric's post below.

Hi Grimm... does your save file suffix definitely look like this: ~.oolite-save? If so, try this please:
Start a new game/commander, save it immediately as a virgin Jameson, then edit the Jameson save-file as above.
Is this Jameson then available in game?

[Eric Walch]

The save file has the right suffix, its still the ollite save. The file exist but i can't acces it in the game.

here is my save file:
http://pastebin.com/4GiyPnDa

That file on pastebin is also illegal for me. My plist editor says is starts with the illegal character 'F'. I don't know if you just added it to pastebin, or if its in your saved commander also.

Suffixes can be tricky sometimes. On the mac I can use periods as part of a filename. That allows me to define a filename like:
'~.oolite-save.txt'
But, when I have selected to hide extensions for that file, I just see '~.oolite-save', while the real extension is '.txt.

[Cody]

Damn, I should've spotted that... thanks Eric.

[Eric Walch]

Damn, I should've spotted that... thanks Eric.

Not me, but my plist editor spotted it for me.

[v01i0]

Okay, the instructions from El Miejo's post did the trick.

Psst ... "El Viejo" ... I think "El Miejo" might be an elderly cat ...

Oh scrap, you're right. My V-letter must've somehow turned upside down and doubled itself

I'll edit it to in a correct form. Thanks for heads up. Honestly, it was an lapsus.

-v

[Cody]

now I can fly nice looking Cobra MK III too.

Good… enjoy your newly-skinned Cobra MkIII.

Of course, it’s possible to have a Cobra MkIII with your own custom colour scheme, and up to four decals of your own design, as I have on Rolling Thunder.