Oolite Bulletins

Thanks for spotting that problem with the filename Commander_X I'll get that fixed

Nearly there now i hope, just need to oxz-ify it all - I've reuploaded the test oxp with the TradeFactor ship deterioration effect for the player version



I don't think it's worth adding for the NPC's, it'll just mean us the player meets a bunch of grey sidewinder ships all the time, I want these to be fairly colourfull

Griff wrote: ↑Sat Sep 17, 2022 2:48 pm

I don't think it's worth adding for the NPC's, it'll just mean us the player meets a bunch of grey sidewinder ships all the time, I want these to be fairly colourfull

Why not? Perhaps keep the random threshold at the colourfull side?

heh that's a good point!
I've added the tradefactor effects to the NPC's as well and updated the download, might as well have the shader there for reference even if it turns out to be somethig we're not keen on using, actually it looks like maybe editing the scale of this shader uniform for the NPC ship will control just how much paint they loose, i've got it set to this at the moment
but setting the scale to 1.0 would proably result in some ships with nearly all the paint worn away something lower like 0.2 or 0.3 would just end up with ships with just some dusty splots on them at most

Edit:
Expansion Manager version now uploaded, use the filter option to search on the keyword specgloss to find it quickly.
The OXZ includes a player flyable version but the Sidewinder isn't hyperspace capable so i wouldn't recommend buying one, at least not on your main commander save

Added a WIP "SpecGloss" Mamba - uses Oolite's Materials for its shader effects. Textures are still a bit big at the moment

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... share_link
NPC and a player flyable test version

Modding resources are in the same folder - not needed for gameplay

Looks awesome!

Very very nice

I've stalled for a long time on the texturing of this one, got a bit of a writers block thing going on or something but hopefully it's a cobra mk1 next

I think that's a difficult ship to make look good but this looks very promising

Thanks Redspear
Well, I got this textured in the end - without realising it, i managed to hit a couple of nasty polygon shading errors after trippling the object some of which i wasn't able to fix after seeing the object in game, so the top side has a couple of nasty looking patches as it starts to turn into shadow

screenshot from the oolite load commander page (doesn't show the shading errors):


OXP and modding resources here...
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

...everything is in the Cobrak_Mk1 sub folder, hope i've got the sharing settings right in google drive

You just need the griff_HP_CobraMK1_Oolite_Materials_V01.zip download to see the ship in game, extract the griff_HP_CobraMK1_Materials_V0.1.oxp subfolder from the download and put it in your Oolite AddOns folder.
Uninstall the oxp by deleting that folder from your AddOns

Very nice ship! Here are some sreenshots to show its various incarnations off:

Standard:


Alternative:


Miner:


I really dig the metallic plate materials and the cockpit glass on those. You seem to have totally mastered spec-gloss maps, Griff.

That cockpit really suits this model IMHO.
Love the spacing betwen the plates

Looks like cbr's next patient has arrived

Freaking awesome !

Thanks guys, it definately helps with the spec gloss settings that the texture maps 'substance painter' generates work straight out the box in Oolite, plus it handles all the spec gloss stuff,so i'm just moving some sliders around

I've uploaded a v0.2 to the same folder, I wanted to fix the shading errors on those two top panels either side of the "cockpit panel", i hadn't realied the polygons were so twisted, it really showed up when i turned the whole model into triangles for exporting into Oolite, here's what i mean and have hopefully fixed - the dark shadowy triangles and lines across those two top white panels:

Another masterpiece by the maestro

Had a go at a Gecko, oxp and modding resources in the same folder as the others
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... uFRRw3NxB7

struggled a lot with this one was hoping i'd be getting better but this was a real battle to model, loads of false starts - think there's a better design for a gecko out there, might come back to this one
OXP is very WIP, textures are still massive and havent been resized from being exported out of substance, oxp has a player flyable version but the shipyard.plist prices and restrictions are just made up!
Couldn't get a decent shot of it in game without the textures looking all blurry? might have something set wrong in my game, so hope it's ok to post one from the 3d app