Oolite Bulletins

With so many excellent ship designers coming on-line lately, I'm going to bold (if not right out rude when suggesting others do the work) and suggest that a team is formed who can update and modernise the ships in some of the older flavour OXP's. Dr Nil's Commies comes to mind, and he for one has given permission to do so here. Would be great to se Art Deco style space stations and Ships. (The Chronicle's Of Riddick comes to mind). Good or bad idea?

Nice ship. Looks like it would be quite a hauler. What role do you envision for it?

Gimi wrote:

With so many excellent ship designers coming on-line lately, I'm going to bold (if not right out rude when suggesting others do the work) and suggest that a team is formed who can update and modernise the ships in some of the older flavour OXP's. Dr Nil's Commies comes to mind, and he for one has given permission to do so here. Would be great to se Art Deco style space stations and Ships. (The Chronicle's Of Riddick comes to mind). Good or bad idea?

I like that idea I have myself a redesign of the dragon on the drawing boards at the moment, utilising ablative sub-entities. First seen in the "halo" build for the kirin.

I think it would be cool to better honour some of the more spartan designs (nothing wrong with spartan) with at least a detailed texture. Tricky though, one doesn't want to tread on anyone's toes.

ClymAngus wrote:

Gimi wrote:

With so many excellent ship designers coming on-line lately, I'm going to bold (if not right out rude when suggesting others do the work) and suggest that a team is formed who can update and modernise the ships in some of the older flavour OXP's. Dr Nil's Commies comes to mind, and he for one has given permission to do so here. Would be great to se Art Deco style space stations and Ships. (The Chronicle's Of Riddick comes to mind). Good or bad idea?

I like that idea I have myself a redesign of the dragon on the drawing boards at the moment, utilising ablative sub-entities. First seen in the "halo" build for the kirin.

I think it would be cool to better honour some of the more spartan designs (nothing wrong with spartan) with at least a detailed texture. Tricky though, one doesn't want to tread on anyone's toes.

I mentioned Commies because Dr Nil himself mentions the need for better models. It might be a good one to start with, as he has encouraged it.

Gimi wrote:

With so many excellent ship designers coming on-line lately, I'm going to bold (if not right out rude when suggesting others do the work) and suggest that a team is formed who can update and modernise the ships in some of the older flavour OXP's. Dr Nil's Commies comes to mind, and he for one has given permission to do so here. Would be great to se Art Deco style space stations and Ships. (The Chronicle's Of Riddick comes to mind). Good or bad idea?

Funny - in the last days I was working on a helper tool to find the right settings for the shipdata materials keys, because creating them is often a tedious task and I wanted a tool that works directly in the game. Some pieces are not done yet (most of the texture specifiers, e.g anisotropy), but the main thing is already working. The tool writes the settings to Latest.log and this can be simply copied to shipdata.plist. Additionally a test launch mode creates this entity in front of the station and applies the settings with a custom AI and script. The pics are showing the starting point and after applying the settings.

Svengali,

That looks brilliant.

Ironfist

Svengali wrote:

Gimi wrote:

With so many excellent ship designers coming on-line lately, I'm going to bold (if not right out rude when suggesting others do the work) and suggest that a team is formed who can update and modernise the ships in some of the older flavour OXP's. Dr Nil's Commies comes to mind, and he for one has given permission to do so here. Would be great to se Art Deco style space stations and Ships. (The Chronicle's Of Riddick comes to mind). Good or bad idea?

Funny - in the last days I was working on a helper tool to find the right settings for the shipdata materials keys, because creating them is often a tedious task and I wanted a tool that works directly in the game. Some pieces are not done yet (most of the texture specifiers, e.g anisotropy), but the main thing is already working. The tool writes the settings to Latest.log and this can be simply copied to shipdata.plist. Additionally a test launch mode creates this entity in front of the station and applies the settings with a custom AI and script. The pics are showing the starting point and after applying the settings.

Will look forward to seeing that Svengali, good job!

Awesome idea, Svengali, well done!

Skorpion Fighter





This is a mission NPC ship which will be on your side, but if you make a mistake to attack her, you won't even have time to use your escape pod.

Okti,

That looks like a very interesting ship.

Ironfist

Ironfist wrote:

That looks like a very interesting ship.

Oh, it's a very 'interesting' ship alright... don't mess with the KSF, as they say!

It does look very cool, like a heavy fighter or a gunship... what it does not resemble is a scorpion, though.

Cmdr. Maegil wrote:

It does look very cool, like a heavy fighter or a gunship... what it does not resemble is a scorpion, though.

How does a Cobra Mark III resemble a cobra? Ships don't have to resemble their namesake...

El Viejo wrote:

Ironfist wrote:

That looks like a very interesting ship.

Oh, it's a very 'interesting' ship alright... don't mess with the KSF, as they say!

The KSF! Now where have I heard that before... Hmm....

Cmdr. Maegil wrote:

It does look very cool, like a heavy fighter or a gunship... what it does not resemble is a scorpion, though.

But it doesn't have to look like one to act like one though and this does have a surprise. And like the animal... Do Not Disturb!

From the look I think it will have a real nasty STING!