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https://bb.oolite.space/
... and one that doesn't appear on the scanner either. But can be docked with. And can sell you tech level 15 equipment, despite only ever existing in low-tech systems and well away from the space lanes. Maybe it is only visible at all because it is really near the sun and so you see its silhouette, if you get close enough.Thargoid wrote:a blacked-out ship would look very odd in the game, like a floating monolith
SandJ wrote:... and one that doesn't appear on the scanner either. But can be docked with. And can sell you tech level 15 equipment, despite only ever existing in low-tech systems and well away from the space lanes. Maybe it is only visible at all because it is really near the sun and so you see its silhouette, if you get close enough.
Quoted for emphasis.Thargoid wrote:That's what the Emerald is kinda (including the restaurants if you read Drew's work), although there's not a planetarium skin for it (although there could be if you bribe PAGroove with enough Euro).
Aha, within liners.oxp - thank you. It is indeed very similar to what I was thinking of (but with the dark bits along each side of the ship rather than one flank, and dark green rather than brilliant white hull, and with escorts and shuttles rather than on its own and often in orbit rather than continuously cruising, but yes, much the same thing).Commander McLane wrote:Quoted for emphasis.Thargoid wrote:That's what the Emerald is kinda (including the restaurants if you read Drew's work), although there's not a planetarium skin for it (although there could be if you bribe PAGroove with enough Euro).
@ SandJ: reading your description I thought immediately: that's the Emerald he's describing. So it already exists.
Inspired by the Asp - at least, I think that rectangle looks like a window.Commander McLane wrote:Looks nice, but I suppose in-game it would be tiny.
Sorry - I misunderstood you originally... it's dimensions are 16.038 x 4.846 x 17.947 according to the obj2dat comment. I have not actually got this model in game yet - or I might have noticed.Commander McLane wrote:What's its dimensions? Judging from where Wings places the coordinate letters it seems like 18m long and 16m wide. That would be roughly 1/15 the size of an Asp, or barely bigger than a cargo pod (about 5 times as big).
But of course the screen capture from Wings may be deceptive, and my estimation may be completely wrong. It's just because I can see the 'x', 'y' and 'z' outside the ship that I assume it would be tiny in Oolite.
I can absolutely imagine it as an Asp-siced ship (the Asp is 70m long and 60m wide), I just don't know whether it currently is.
Not really, but I have used it, and remembered that it gives you a 20 x 20 grid with the coordinate arrows, and places the axis names next to the arrowheads. Therefore I guessed that your ship's nose is placed pretty close to (0, 0, 10), because the 'Z' is placed just in front of it. With a bigger ship the 'Z' would be invisible somewhere inside its belly. I wasn't sure, however, whether the grid can be scaled to other dimensions.submersible wrote:Sorry - I misunderstood you originally... it's dimensions are 16.038 x 4.846 x 17.947 according to the obj2dat comment. I have not actually got this model in game yet - or I might have noticed.Commander McLane wrote:What's its dimensions? Judging from where Wings places the coordinate letters it seems like 18m long and 16m wide. That would be roughly 1/15 the size of an Asp, or barely bigger than a cargo pod (about 5 times as big).
But of course the screen capture from Wings may be deceptive, and my estimation may be completely wrong. It's just because I can see the 'x', 'y' and 'z' outside the ship that I assume it would be tiny in Oolite.
I can absolutely imagine it as an Asp-siced ship (the Asp is 70m long and 60m wide), I just don't know whether it currently is.
Thanks. That was a pretty good estimate - guess you're a wings3d Elite?
Reminds me of playing Flight Simulator 2 on my C=64 with the Western European Scenery set. It came out after Matthias Rust landed on the red square in Moscow and there was the rumor that the red square existed in this set. So, one evening I started flying the Cessna just by instruments all through the night together with a friend to find the red square. As it was Western European scenery, nothing was modeled in between. Which made for very boring gameplay. But how we felt like explorers and revolutionaries! I just wondered the next morning why my parents had absolutely no understanding for this...Commander McLane wrote:Planets and distances between bodies in space, on the other hand, are much, much smaller than it would seem sensible in order to allow the player to ever interact with anybody. A realistically sized space would be so huge and empty that you would spend most of your time completely on your own on very boring journeys. Both would make for terrible gameplay.
Right on, Commandermaik wrote:
Oh, and it is my 1000th post. Makes me feel somewhat Elite
Piloted by tiny little cats.Commander McLane wrote:But perhaps you knew all that already and wanted to create a tiny ship. In that case I apologize for the umpteenth repetition of already known facts.
