Griff's normalmapped ship remakes

[Griff]

yep, it works OK with Oolite 1.73.4, the oxp doesn't overwrite any of the ships on the title screen, you'll still get the default cobra III, coriolis etc showing up on there, but after these have all scrolled by the griff ships should show up - BTW, you can move forwards/backwards quickly through the ships by pressing the left and right cursor keys on the keyboard
trying pressing the left arrow when you see the coriolis after you say N to loading a new commander on the title screen, you should see the griff worm show up (unless you have other oxp ships loaded) or try having a look in the ship yard (press 3 twice when docked at a main station) there's usually a one of these ships for sale if you have the oxp installed

[ADCK]

Kinda off topic, but is there a limit to how many decals you can have on a ship? Was thinking of creating a random serial number generator for ships where ships could have numbers on them similar to Frontier/FFE (Letter Letter dash Number Number Number)

[JensAyton]

Kinda off topic, but is there a limit to how many decals you can have on a ship? Was thinking of creating a random serial number generator for ships where ships could have numbers on them similar to Frontier/FFE (Letter Letter dash Number Number Number)

Not as such. If you go overboard, your shader will become slower, and you may hit limitations of graphics cards (number of instructions per shader, number of active textures).

Also, you only get one pseudo-random number per ship, and most graphics cards aren’t good at the sort of integer maths that’s best suited to manipulating it to get more.

[Diziet Sma]

Just a bit of news for you Griff... it has now been just over 3 months since the all-in-one oxp was released, and in that time it has been downloaded 348 times!! This afternoon I'll have my latest weekly report, and if recent trends are anything to go by, I'd expect that figure to increase to about 375 or more.

Also, with regard to the way you keep referring to it as "Dizzy's all-in-1 oxp", I'd just like to say that I feel both chuffed and utterly unworthy that my name has somehow come to be associated with the Griff all-in-1 oxp! All I did is provide a bit of server space, which I have plenty of.. and around the same time as the all-in-1 package began, my hosting company stopped charging for excess bandwidth, so my contribution is severely minimal..

But thanks all the same, it's nice to have even this tiny connection to such an awesome oxp!

[JazHaz]

With my new Wiki account, I have today created a page for Griff's Wiki profile, with a link to the Dizzy account.

I intend to create a proper OXP page for it though, unless anyone else wants to have a go... Griff, you ok with that?

[Griff]

please do! i'm really wiki-phobic and wouldn't have much idea of how to go about sorting out a page for the oxp so if you can come up with something that would be great

[Diziet Sma]

The latest report is now in, and the current total number of downloads of the Griff_Normalmapped_Ships.oxp is 396!

[DaddyHoggy]

The latest report is now in, and the current total number of downloads of the Griff_Normalmapped_Ships.oxp is 396!

I'm only not on that list because I downloaded the ships individually as they came out...

[JazHaz]

With my new Wiki account, I have today created a page for Griff's Wiki profile, with a link to the Dizzy account.

I intend to create a proper OXP page for it though, unless anyone else wants to have a go... Griff, you ok with that?

please do! i'm really wiki-phobic and wouldn't have much idea of how to go about sorting out a page for the oxp so if you can come up with something that would be great

One problem is that we currently can't show the graphics, but hopefully I can get that sorted with Winston's help.

[Griff]

The latest report is now in, and the current total number of downloads of the Griff_Normalmapped_Ships.oxp is 396!

I'm only not on that list because I downloaded the ships individually as they came out...

And i've downloaded it at least 3 times

[Griff]

Kinda off topic, but is there a limit to how many decals you can have on a ship? Was thinking of creating a random serial number generator for ships where ships could have numbers on them similar to Frontier/FFE (Letter Letter dash Number Number Number)

This isn't quite what you're after but a few days ago somewhere on the boards Another_Commander demoed a small script that generated random ship registration plates and displayed them on the screen near the players crosshair, when i find the post again i'll edit this and put up the link

[JazHaz]

I intend to create a proper OXP page for it though, unless anyone else wants to have a go... Griff, you ok with that?

please do! i'm really wiki-phobic and wouldn't have much idea of how to go about sorting out a page for the oxp so if you can come up with something that would be great

One problem is that we currently can't show the graphics, but hopefully I can get that sorted with Winston's help.

I have started a Griff Industries Wiki page, here: http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Griff_Industries

[another_commander]

This isn't quite what you're after but a few days ago somewhere on the boards Another_Commander demoed a small script that generated random ship registration plates and displayed them on the screen near the players crosshair, when i find the post again i'll edit this and put up the link

This demo can be downloaded from here. Note that it requires trunk to run, it will not work as expected on 1.73.4, which is why it has not been officially released yet.

[ADCK]

Ah cool, thats what i was after now that actual visual numbers didn't seem feasable.

[Diziet Sma]

The updated Griff's all-in-1.oxp with Escape Capsule and Moray Starboat is now available to download via the link back on page one.