Oolite Bulletins

Stromboli wrote:

As of now, it's nameless, but it should end up fulfilling the role of a relatively cheap, slow, but rugged cargo hauler. Not exactly the sharpest ship on the block, but it works.

Looks just like the dropship from Space above and beyond

Captain Hesperus wrote:

0235 wrote:

wow, i like a good cargo ship, and is a communist too, thats great. why does everyone alway think Russia whn they think Communism, wasn China, North Korea and Vietnam Communist?

Still are.
People think Communism = Russia because of the Cold War that existed between Russia and her allies and NATO from the 1940s to the 1990s.

Captain Hesperus

it really depends, here in Asia we usually associate communism more with China (since immigrants from China are aplenty). in fact, some of the less learned Asians (a.k.a. bimbos/jocks) actually only know that China is communist but know nothing about Russia and that communism had its first successful large-scale implementation there - strange but true!

Stromboli wrote:

As of now, it's nameless, but it should end up fulfilling the role of a relatively cheap, slow, but rugged cargo hauler. Not exactly the sharpest ship on the block, but it works.

Along similar lines, may I offer a tease of the upcoming expansion of Aquatics, and properly introduce the HammerHead Hauler Carrier, sporting the beautiful texturing of PAGroove and the sublime shading of Griff (although not in this pic, cos it's off my non-shader laptop). And not forgetting invaluable assistance from Eric of course in coding it.

An action shot, of it offloading to restock the station at Leesti.

Here it is WITH shaders

Cmdr James wrote:

Stromboli wrote:

As of now, it's nameless, but it should end up fulfilling the role of a relatively cheap, slow, but rugged cargo hauler. Not exactly the sharpest ship on the block, but it works.

Looks just like the dropship from Space above and beyond

Now there was a great show, which meant for certain it was going to get canned - which it duly did!

pagroove wrote:

Here it is WITH shaders

This is just what I wanted all those moons ago when I started the "Not enough Large Haulers" thread.

Bravo! I'm a happy chappy!

I did some random surfing and found the Foundation 3D website. They have meshes and textures that might be of use to some of the modellers here. I don't know if these are easily converted, but it might be less work to adapt some than making meshes from scratch.

I wonder how that Halo ring would look in OOlite..

Best wishes,
Oscar

Bravo guys!

All I do for moddeling is steal somone elses model from one of the free model sites online, texture it with my poor texturing abilities, code it, realise I cannot code things, get really annoyed with the computer, steal the code from someone elses OXP, spend ages trying to get the exhausts to be in the right place, test it, find out that the plist file has decided to corrupt itself, then delete everything.

however at the moment I have almost finnished one ship.... it shall be called the `Staer9 Wraith`

screenshot coming soon.

Been experimenting with Wings 3D for about a month now. Learned something new today. From a cube came this:

Yeah, it's simple and boring but a big step for me. Made use of Plane Cut, Move, and Weld. From some views I see discrepancies veteran modelers will notice right away.

Yeah, that's got a nice tough, chunky look to it.

It is rather chunky.

I like that ship, Solo... are there hints of the Copperhead about it?

El Viejo wrote:

I like that ship, Solo... are there hints of the Copperhead about it?

Wow! The quick answer is no. Is that the stealth ship from arch Elite? Does anyone know what it looks like?

I'm a beginner. I got lucky with that model but it needs a lot more work, but glad you like it.