Tionisla Orbital Graveyard

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 1:33 pm

we basically need the dodeca and monuments, to establish a basic 'atmosphere'

shipdesigns are welcome, but might take a while to get them flying (except for dirty hack) ... so no real hurry.

if you email your unfinished designs' wingsfile to me, I can translate it to oolite friendly, put it up in space and take screenshot, so you get better idea how it looks.

(except for the shipyard which caused a crash, probably too complex)

if you have no textures, Oolite gives the designs a 'generic' texture, so no problem.

Oh, and one model per file, please, I'm too dumb to separate them... different textures for one model is no problem, but go easy on filesize in that case

Arexack_Heretic · Post by **Arexack_Heretic** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 1:34 pm

Indeed!

Another reason i need your imput on the designs, I could work 24hrs on an elaborate model, which then cannot be used effectively in the game.

So: when I post a model, I'd like to hear it when it's too elaborate, so I can start losing vertices early on.

I uploaded the 'finished' Sarcoroid. Edit:post denied, i'll mail it
I like the tower, but maybe it's too monumental for a generic S'roid model?
Maybe more little crosses and headstones? (For a next generation model, adding stuff renders the textures irrellevant)

(I think I'll design MY monument as a Disney-castle on an asteroid, maybe with a Cobra MkIII on the lawn)[/b]

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 2:10 pm

A_H: Only after your email I realized you're Dutch speaking, too!

Haven't had a look at your files, yet, been busy setting up new playground: with the code in the right maps etc.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spacerash ... 20innards/

hope that link works... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spacerashstash/ should, look in files...

Arexack_Heretic · Post by **Arexack_Heretic** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 2:19 pm

I created a new group called TionislaGY on yahoo, more space!

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TionislaGY

edit: Just realised you did the same.

edit2: Hey waddaya know, I managed to extract a sceeny from wings3d!

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 4:20 pm

Anyone else having problems with A_H's .obj files? DropObj2Dat gives me empty files

Edit, going to put the files at the Tionisla group, and delet the cruft on the other one, so there's more space there...

A_H I emailed you some of your designs, as rendered in the Oolite engine

aegidian · Post by **aegidian** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 4:33 pm

Selezen wrote:
Also, how do I place something relative to the space station? Does the station have a predetermined location relative to the planet, or is the position hardcoded?

Right then. I added a location read-out to the FPS display for my test builds and I can state (to the nearest centimeter) that Tionisla station is at:

pwm 82502.45 -12669.09 40828.51

Arexack_Heretic · Post by **Arexack_Heretic** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 4:50 pm

Cool, thanks Rik.

I'll upload a jpg of the buoy-skin, It's just intermediate.
(will continue work tomorrow or later tonight)

Changed the dockingport into a missile-rack,
I want some feedback on the two designs I came up with...Red tips or black holes? Or other ideas?

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 5:03 pm

Woah!! Talk about workaholics! I feel like the slacker in the bunch now.

Right - if someone can upload the starting point OXP then I can get to work.

A_H, can you reduce the size of the beacon model? It seems a little large. Maybe take it down to half the size?

The Krait skin looks damn nice. The Octagon skins are great, and I like the dark one for the beacons...

What's a sarcophagoid?

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 5:07 pm

Listen, I could set up a shared area on my site somewhere to allow you all to upload and download if you like. I don't have such strict download limits as Yahoo!

If you're interested, let me know and I can sort it out.

Arexack_Heretic · Post by **Arexack_Heretic** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 5:42 pm

That would be nice, Selezen.

I origionally designed the Octagon as a smallish-station for the GY, didn't think it was still the same size (1km) as a beacon...figured 'you guys' had resized it.

How about....25m diameter?

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 5:46 pm

way too small.

Remember, there'll be lots of big structures there, probably, so six teenyweeny beacons/defenseposts would look underwhelming. 25m stations can not launch anything bigger than a missile, too... So no scarabs, OR they would be very small (some kind of unmanned fighters) I'd go for 100m minimum.

...but are you suggesting to make them just beacons, not defenseposts? Or am i reading things between the lines that are not there?

(edit)

btw: don't post textures under pictures, but under files, pictures is for screenshots etc, to look at, but not to work with...
btw 2 (zagevent!) if you upload designs, can you comment what filestructure they are in? (seems I only can use .wings files... Darn compatibility issues...)

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 6:22 pm

We have already exceeded our bandwidh limit at the new group!

so no one can up- or d/l for the moment. What's their limit? 5Mb a day maybe?

Arexack_Heretic · Post by **Arexack_Heretic** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 6:23 pm

Picture posted in photo's is a preview-texture. That is why I didn't put it in the files-folder and chose jpg-format.

*back to the BBQ*

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 7:18 pm

A_H. Sorry for telling you the obvious, have fun.

Selezen: when trying to upload to your place i got:

The following Error occured.

You did not enter a server path to save your file to.

Hit the back button, make the needed corrections and resubmit your information.

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 7:32 pm

Hmm...I tried it out, and it worked OK...my planetinfo.plist file is on there now.

That error usually happens if a file hasn't been selected (it's always best to use the BROWSE buttons, and start from the top of the list).

It might also happen if there's a typo in the path you have entered.

Come Monday, I might be able to install a proper file manager system with subdirs and everything. Trouble is that it's on my computer at work!