Oolite Bulletins

Thargoid wrote:

Somehow I don't even want to think about docking with something that's rotating around an axis other than Z ;)

Z is whatever you want it to be. You can put the dock at whatever angle you like, but it’s considered good form to make that the axis of rotation. ;-)

Griff wrote:

That default Material that Oolite surfaces the rock hermit with (because the model is missing it's texture info) is pretty cool

Is it? Dang. The intention was to make a material so horrible that no-one would be trying to get that appearance, hence making it obvious that something’s wrong.

(It’s specified on material-defaults.plist, BTW.)

Untill Dizzy re-emerges from hyperspace here's a link to a folder with a split archive zip thing for the all in 1 oxp with all the newer stuff in (everything up to the constrictor, not the hermit which is still living neglected and forlorn in my Oolite Workstuff Work in progress folder)
http://www.box.net/shared/z925ssjfum
you'll need to download all 4 parts, i used 7-zip to make it, the files seem to have weird file extensions, zip.001, zip.002 etc? so you might have to point your zip extracting program of choice to the next part as it does it stuff chewing through the archives, um am i rambling?, i'm rambling aren't!?

You're a star! Thanks Griff

Wicked!

Nice 1 Griff!

excellent!

Are the dodo and icosa in this new set, or do I still need the separate oxp?

Griff douze points. Griff twelve points.

A little nitpicking here.

The new Griff Krait (the wierd bird of prey looking one) isnt included in with the the new all in 1 and on a seperate note can you buy it and if not what can i do so i can buy it.

2) The constrictor ship, i know its damn rare but ive flown about for hours and not seen it for sale anywhere, what can i do to increase the chances of it being slood, what valures do i have to fiddle with to increase those chances.

Thanks.

PS: i love the Griff ships, mate you can design every ship in every OXP going your work is the best. (What package do you use to make em)

The odd looking 'krait' was actually made before i started the normal mapped shipset, i got as far as doing the krait and a weird boa (the turrety one) then Ramon posted up a few screenshots of an Anaconda remake he was working on and i realised that the direction these 2 ships were going in was just plain wrong and i was going to copy his ideas instead as best i could (Oi Ramon, where's the Asp then? c'mon chop chop ), so the odd krait and boa bascally got abandoned and won't be included in this shipset.

The Constrictor is only going to appear once when it is its time to do so, i suppose you could edit it's role setting in the shipdata.plist to add something like pirate(0.01) to make it a rare appearing pirate that you'll occasionally run into whilst playing but this will totally break a really really cool moment in the game.

I'm one of these posh types lording it over everyone with Adobe Photoshop for the texture painting and swanning about with Newtek's Lightwave for the modeling part (with the occasional import/export into wings3D for edge bevelling and other stuff not supported in Lightwave)

Just to confirm what Griff was saying, the Constrictor will only appear during the Constrictor mission. You will never see it for sale. There is Smiv's Contractor OXP ship available however, which is based on the Constrictor.

The turrety Boa and Krait are available separately from Griff's Normalmapped ships. See his wiki page, here.

Seeing as it’s ‘ask Griff’ time… which is the latest Dodo and Ico oxp? The one I have has no Ico stations.

I haven't got around to making dodo's and icos for this shipset yet, i did make a dodo station model a while back which CaptKev textured and shadered beautifully in his oxp here https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.ph ... t+kev+dodo

also PAGroove has retextured & shadered my coriolis & dodo models in his stations shipset oxp (which also includeds a shadered ico station) http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/P.A._G ... ations_OXP , very awesome stuff - grab his superhub oxp too if your in the mood for shadered station goodness

I'll probably ditch the current coriolis from this shipset and have another bash at it, i'm not sure those bevelled edges work that well and the texture is a bit blocky and low res, we'll see how the hermit turns out first though, i've overlapped a lot of the pipe work uv's in the tunnel over each other to save texture space, hopefully the normal mapping won't go wonky and i can apply the same technique to the stations

Thanks Griff... the CaptKev Dodo is the version I have now.
We need an Ico!

JazHaz wrote:

Just to confirm what Griff was saying, the Constrictor will only appear during the Constrictor mission. You will never see it for sale. There is Smiv's Contractor OXP ship available however, which is based on the Constrictor.

The turrety Boa and Krait are available separately from Griff's Normalmapped ships. See his wiki page, here.

Ive already got the Griff Krait/Boa/Constrictor. I think my question needs directing at the Griff-Illicit Unlock thread.

Griff wrote:

The Constrictor is only going to appear once when it is its time to do so, i suppose you could edit it's role setting in the shipdata.plist to add something like pirate(0.01) to make it a rare appearing pirate that you'll occasionally run into whilst playing but this will totally break a really really cool moment in the game.

It will also bugger up the Constrictor mission (in a similar way that the RS/OSE version of it did) if it appears and gets shot. The Contractor method is safer as it doesn't have the trunk Constrictor's mission-related scripting attached to it.