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Bulk Freighter which breaks up into containersGriff wrote: ↑Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:19 pmHi Ramirez
the station can be found here http://app.box.net/shared/j6zrjibym9 inside the busy_ports.oxp, there's some other gubbins in there too, a freight-train-like ship and i think some small cargo-ferrying robots but there's not a lot of stuff going on with them though, they just float about in space waiting for some AI's, if there's anything you like in there and you have a plan to bring them into the game then that'd be great!
http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Griff_ ... rgo_LoaderCholmondely wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 6:53 pmAnd...
Did anybody ever do anything with Griff's cargo-loading robots?
Griff wrote: ↑Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:19 pmHi Ramirez
the station can be found here http://app.box.net/shared/j6zrjibym9 inside the busy_ports.oxp, there's some other gubbins in there too, a freight-train-like ship and i think some small cargo-ferrying robots but there's not a lot of stuff going on with them though, they just float about in space waiting for some AI's, if there's anything you like in there and you have a plan to bring them into the game then that'd be great!
Gosh! Thanks for that...montana05 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 11:28 pmhttp://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Griff_ ... rgo_LoaderCholmondely wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 6:53 pmAnd...
Did anybody ever do anything with Griff's cargo-loading robots?
Griff wrote: ↑Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:19 pmHi Ramirez
the station can be found here http://app.box.net/shared/j6zrjibym9 inside the busy_ports.oxp, there's some other gubbins in there too, a freight-train-like ship and i think some small cargo-ferrying robots but there's not a lot of stuff going on with them though, they just float about in space waiting for some AI's, if there's anything you like in there and you have a plan to bring them into the game then that'd be great!
http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Imperial_Freighter
Or about this one:Cholmondely wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 5:50 pmDoes anyone have any ideas about this one?
https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3421 Mafia.oxp (2007, beta version, download link broken).
I do like this ship, it got some kind of appeal. Remake in progress.
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exhaust =
(
"6.5 1.85 -1.71 0.9 1.2 8.0",
"-6.2 1.85 -1.71 0.9 1.2 8.0",
"30.87 5.31 -10.78 0.1 0.1 2.0",
"-31.51 5.32 -10.78 0.1 0.1 2.0",
);
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roles = "escort pirat hunter";
I've copied this into the OXP howto texture page and the very first snippet into the OXP howto model pageanother_commander wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 11:35 am
Some lighting and material tips here:
1. Decide what your ship should look like early on. Decide on the type of materials you need for each single part of it. Don't just go with it thinking that you just need to "dress it up" with a texture. If you do, it will most likely end up looking like the texture is a piece of color paper wrapped around a model.
2. Materials are divided into two major categories: metals and dielectrics (i.e. non-metals). Here are some basic guidelines for each:
Metals:
- Specular: Usually white or some shade of gray, values usually in the range of 0.65 - 0.75. Metals can have tinted specular too, e.g. gold, copper. You define this tint in the specular map or with specular_color.
- Gloss: Up to the artist. Experiment until you see something you like.
- Diffuse: Pure metals always have black diffuse color.
Dielectrics:
- Specular: Very low. Usually around (0.04, 0.04, 0.04). Dielcetrics never have tinted specular, unless you are trying to create impossible materials. Things like water have even less specular. For example, the specular value used for the ocean specular reflections in the Lave is Earth OXP is 0.02. Some materials may have slightly different specular values, but normally they are low and materials with specular at around 0.4-0.5 are extremely rare to non-existent. If you are unsure what value to use for your material and you know it is a dielectric, use 0.04.
- Gloss: Depends. Normally on the artist and the appearance they want to achieve. Plastic for example usually has high gloss values but it is not a rule, just a guideline.
- Diffuse: Whatever color your material is. Important - DO NOT include lighting information in a diffuse map - it will look totally off when viewed from the wrong angles. Just put the color of the material there and let the shaders decide on how the lighting will look.
3.The type of material you want to use is not what your object of interest is made of, but what it is on the surface that will reflect the light. Practical example: If your ship is made of titanium and has a coat of paint all over it, the material you want to try to reproduce is paint (which is dielectric) and not titanium.
4. Re normal maps - Try to make details that have a purpose on them. The Arachnid above has a normal map with lots of details, but they are just fluff without purpose. Griff's ships have details on the normal map that seem to outline objects that "do something". The Serpent class above also.
5. Generally speaking, you will get much better results if you use spec and gloss maps rather than numeric values for spec and gloss in the material definition. The reason is that you can describe much better the variations of materials over your surface. You can also describe variations within the same material (e.g. a shiny ship that has a part of a wing that's rusty or dusty - this can be achieved only by texture).
6. Gloss is where an artist has completely free reign. While the other properties are more or less governed by physics, gloss is whatever you want it to be. That is your chance to be truly creative.
Hello. I got your message and of course you may feel totally free to update any of the old OXPs or otherwise make use of the old scraps if they can still hold appeal. It would be very cool for me if something from so long ago could even in a small part manage to survive through the ages, along with the simple and brilliant concept of Oolite.Cholmondely wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 5:54 pmI've uncovered a "Murgh" who is a Wikipedia Wine editor, and spent years in Norway and the Netherlands. This Murgh also edited the Wikipedia Oolite page on a number of occasions, adding a wealth of information about .oxp's and what they do to the game...
I've added a note on his Wikipedia user: page asking if he can grant us a blanket license for his oxp's. He last logged in there some 6 months ago.
