Oolite Bulletins

Any chance/way that jump sequence could be made into an OXP for the main game?
Just the visuals, although the steering through witchspace too would be excellent.

Nice screenies, Cody! Is the first using Perlin 3D planets? And where does this jump sequence come from?

Yes, P3D planets - and Song of the Labyrinth, a scenario.

Thanks, that scenario looks seriously cool! I will take a look at it

Yup, welcome to the club
4 engines look so great on it, way better than 2!
You might need to put some effort on the decals though ...

Commander_X wrote:

Yup, welcome to the club
4 engines look so great on it, way better than 2!

Yes, I absolutely love this alternative model by Griff. Actually, I will start working on a SuperCobra and on a Cobra Mk. IV OXPs using it as basis, but these screenies are Griff's vanilla model. Let's see how that goes

You might need to put some effort on the decals though ...

Hmm, I don't know how to change the decals on his models, I simply used Ship Respray to change the model and all options had the same decals.

Changing the decals on the player ship is easy - no idea about the NPCs though.

Cody wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2017 11:50 am

Changing the decals on the player ship is easy

So please don't keep that as a secret, spill the beans over here!

gsagostinho wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2017 11:29 am

... I will start working on a SuperCobra...

CaptSolo made a nice and shiny version of the good old SuperCobra for the RandomHits oxp. You might want to check that too.

spara wrote:

CaptSolo made a nice and shiny version of the good old SuperCobra for the RandomHits oxp. You might want to check that too.

Oh, did he? I had the impression that the latest Random Hits still used the very low poly model. I will take a look at that before moving any further then, thanks for the heads up spara!

gsagostinho wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2017 11:59 am

spara wrote:

CaptSolo made a nice and shiny version of the good old SuperCobra for the RandomHits oxp. You might want to check that too.

Oh, did he? I had the impression that the latest Random Hits still used the very low poly model. I will take a look at that before moving any further then, thanks for the heads up spara!

Yep. It's based on CaptSolo's Cobra 3XT model and it's not available as a separate oxp.

spara wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2017 12:09 pm

Yep. It's based on CaptSolo's Cobra 3XT model and it's not available as a separate oxp.

Great to know then. That was exactly my first idea, to use the III-XT model as basis. I then thought of using Griff's Alt Cobra III due to the fact that it also has four exhausts like the low-poly SuperCobra, making it very recognizeable from far away. But so if CaptSolo already has an up-to-date model for the SuperCobra, then I will just move on to something else.

gsagostinho wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2017 11:52 am

Cody wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2017 11:50 am

Changing the decals on the player ship is easy

So please don't keep that as a secret, spill the beans over here!

Creating your own decals is the hard part (for someone with zero gfx skills like me, anyway). For the 4-decal player Cobra you'll need to create/find/pirate four images (each 256x256) and make them into a 1024x256 strip. Then name it and replace the default player decal .png - easy! <chortles>