Oolite Bulletins

RyanHoots wrote:

My first good model:

I think I like 3D modeling.

DaddyHoggy wrote:

RyanHoots wrote:

My first good model:

I think I like 3D modeling.

Very good - get some nice lighting glows and a normal map in a texture on that - adding some details that can't be there in the model and she'll be a cracker. Nacelles are more of the refit (movie generation) rather than the TV show original.

Are there some odd surface normal issues in the two triangular polygons running from the corner of the nacelle to the deflector dish?

DaddyHoggy wrote:

Actually - I meant the facets themselves - if they're normals are out by as much as they look based on how they're lit in your viewer they'll look odd when lit in Oolite too (I've had this in my models too)

Cmdr. Maegil wrote:

I have a kind of a ridiculous request:

I need a singularity.

Not an event horizon like in a black hole, but something smaller than a dot, or a pixel, or a quark - what I really want is an immaterial 1D model...

...but then again, there's the difference between the ideal and the possible, meaning that I'd be content with the the smallest-sized, least obstructive entity possible (preferably invisible). Can someone please help?

void main(void) { discard; }

Commander Trigg wrote:

I've finally managed to get my head around Wings 3d enough to design my first ship.
It's a lot more basic than the ones I've seen posted, but I like to think it has a certain simplistic charm.

All I need to do now is work out how to colour it in and then figure out how to write a ship oxp to put it in. Not much then!

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cim wrote:

Cmdr. Maegil wrote:

I have a kind of a ridiculous request:

I need a singularity.

Not an event horizon like in a black hole, but something smaller than a dot, or a pixel, or a quark - what I really want is an immaterial 1D model...

...but then again, there's the difference between the ideal and the possible, meaning that I'd be content with the the smallest-sized, least obstructive entity possible (preferably invisible). Can someone please help?

Visually invisible can be done with shaders. Use a file containing only

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void main(void) { discard; }

as your fragment shader.

Give it an all-black texture on a tetrahedron a cm across and it'll be pretty difficult to spot with shaders off, too. Cargo pods are several metres long and difficult to spot except really close up, so anything smaller will be functionally invisible most of the time. Anything running into it will plough through it like it isn't there (destroying it in the process unless you give it a ship script that cancels scrape damage, in which case you should also give it a ridiculously large thrust value in shipdata.plist or the collision will send it flying out of the system)

I have a kind of a ridiculous request:

I need a singularity.

Not an event horizon like in a black hole, but something smaller than a dot, or a pixel, or a quark - what I really want is an immaterial 1D model...

...but then again, there's the difference between the ideal and the possible, meaning that I'd be content with the the smallest-sized, least obstructive entity possible (preferably invisible). Can someone please help?

Cmdr. Maegil wrote:

I need a singularity.

a beacon entity is spawned for new escape pods that are launched which tracks the location of the associated pod. The beacon entity is a tiny, low mass entity that is not displayed on the IFF scanner, is too small to be visible to the player and too low in mass to cause damage in the event of a collision. If the beacon entity is inadvertently destroyed it is replaced. The pod itself is given custom scanner colours.

SandJ wrote:

Cmdr. Maegil wrote:

I need a singularity.

Doesn't Cap'n Murphy's Escape Pod Locator's beacon do something similar to what you want?