Oolite Bulletins

Working on a non lights baked in version. Removed the lights on the Chameleon. Looks indeed better now.

Reworked Salamander. Note the lizard

These ships look marvellous!

After all the complaints about baked in lights I cleaned all the textures.
Now I can send them to ADCK for Shaders. I sense a new version coming up.

BTW Monitor 2 is reworked. Check the Baumresearch Turbo-vents on top of it.

JazHaz wrote:

pagroove wrote:

As a bonus I added The Monitor 2. A modernized version of the Monitor Classic. With a little more speed, pitch and roll.

Have also created a ship page for the Monitor 2. Can you confirm that all you changed from the original Monitor was the speed, pitch and roll?

I copied the ship data table from the original Monitor, however some of the stats are "Unknown"...?

http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Monitor_2

Yes,

confirm. Still thinking a bout some other fine tuning. Maybe speed up to .23 LM at the expense of 5 t cargo space. and a passenger berth as a standard?

Searching information on the oldships is not easy. I can't find how to run elite-a with an emulator. I wanted to do that to just see whats in the ship encyclopedia because I want the descriptions on the Wiki pages to be as 'realistic as possible'. Comparing the WIKI from Elite Classic I found out that the in service date for the Monitor is 3112. That makes it a new ship. If you compare this with a Fer de Lance (in service date 3100 and much newer than a Pytjon (in service 2700) and a BOA (3017)

Question then remains. Why would Zorgon Petterson design a pretty slow hauler in 3112 when the older Phyton an BOA had better specs?

Anyone has a nice background story on this? I myself therefore came with a Monitor 2. Which is more modern.

pagroove wrote:

Searching information on the oldships is not easy. I can't find how to run elite-a with an emulator. I wanted to do that to just see whats in the ship encyclopedia because I want the descriptions on the Wiki pages to be as 'realistic as possible'. Comparing the WIKI from Elite Classic I found out that the in service date for the Monitor is 3112. That makes it a new ship. If you compare this with a Fer de Lance (in service date 3100 and much newer than a Pytjon (in service 2700) and a BOA (3017)

Question then remains. Why would Zorgon Petterson design a pretty slow hauler in 3112 when the older Phyton an BOA had better specs?

Anyone has a nice background story on this? I myself therefore came with a Monitor 2. Which is more modern.

Why do car manufactures design cars with smaller engines, more box-like and strange specs. Cost and government regulation are probably the two main reasons. Other reasons could be access to raw materials.

Probably becuase it's cheaper and more fuel efficient?

Currently ADCK is remodeling these ships for even more detail and shaders so stay tuned:)

Currently done the Bushmaster, Cat and 2 Chameleon textures, at the current rate am doing about one ship a day.

My current fav is the chameleon, I went a bit overboard on that texture, probably the best texture I've ever worked on.

<EDIT> scrapped one of the chameleon textures, looked too similar to the other.

Uploading PAG oldships V2.0 as I type this, am only sending the link to PAGroove for now, as it's his project and I'd prefer him to either say the following before release:

"Good Work" and give me a pat on the head.
OR
"Bad ADCK... very bad!" at which point I'll go cry in a corner and set fire to an orphanage.

Version 2.0 is the shader version, at a whopping 70 Mb it contains:
Altered "cleaned" textures that have little graphical baddies removed.
Detail added to the textures.
-(some are almost unrecognisable from PAG's)
Baked-in lights completely removed.
A new Ghavial alt texture.
Normal/Illumination maps added.
-(I took the lights out so I could put them back in )
Models altered to use new UV Maps.
Ship entries altered to remove conflicts.

Wow, ADCK, that sounds really nice. Looks like you're going to get patted on the head

JJP wrote:

Wow, ADCK, that sounds really nice. Looks like you're going to get patted on the head

He sure is! I'm now testing it. It looks gorgeous!

Is there a download link anywhere for these old ships 2.0?

Chaky wrote:

Is there a download link anywhere for these old ships 2.0?

No, as said above, not yet. Be patient!