Oolite Bulletins

After installing a plethora of eye-candy for the game, the explosion and fire effects seem a little out of place. They're not eyesores, but... A little bland, perhaps?
See here. Highly detailed ships spewing out red-yellow orbs... Naah, me want purdy!

I tried to search for an OXP that would affect these effects, but didn't find anything...

Anyone willing to try and make one?

Griff's griff_alloys_and_wreckage.oxp improves the after-effects of explosions.

Cody wrote:

Griff's griff_alloys_and_wreckage.oxp improves the after-effects of explosions.

Already have that... I meant the orbs that shoot out while the ship is heavily damaged.
Something like this<3

Custom Shields OXP is making the very best out of the explosions.

Thermonuklear wrote:

Cody wrote:

Griff's griff_alloys_and_wreckage.oxp improves the after-effects of explosions.

Already have that... I meant the orbs that shoot out while the ship is heavily damaged.
Something like this<3

That's the one thing I like about Freespace more than Oolite - but then there are many reasons why Oolite is still wayyy better than Freespace

The explosion fx with custom shields and other oxp's are quite good IMO. But I think a new Q-bomb fx (shaders) could look great.

Commander McLane wrote:

Custom Shields OXP is making the very best out of the explosions.

Excellent!

CommRLock78 wrote:

That's the one thing I like about Freespace more than Oolite - but then there are many reasons why Oolite is still wayyy better than Freespace

I've had dreams about Oolite running on FS2 engine... *drool*

I've just put up a new version of the alloys & wreckage oxp, it's a small update that just adds some new entries for the default ship-set ship names in the shipdata-overrrides.plist in the oxp, without this you don't get the extra sparks & wreckage when using the griff replacement oxp

Thermonuklear wrote:

I've had dreams about Oolite running on FS2 engine... *drool*

Gibbon made a small preview vid of some of the Oolite oxp ships running in freelancer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtH5B2S03cw
i don't think it got past the prototype stage but it look like he put quite a bit of time into it sorting out textures and effects maps, collision boxes etc

Gosh. I love this forum! In just a few hours I've gotten a lot of helpful answers... Thank you!

CommRLock78 wrote:

That's the one thing I like about Freespace more than Oolite - but then there are many reasons why Oolite is still wayyy better than Freespace

Absolutely personal opinion here: I think that explosions the way they are portrayed in Oolite are closer to what explosions in space would look like compared to the more earthlike - although very impressive indeed - explosions of Freespace 2.

another_commander wrote:

Absolutely personal opinion here: I think that explosions the way they are portrayed in Oolite are closer to what explosions in space would look like compared to the more earthlike - although very impressive indeed - explosions of Freespace 2.

Cinematic explosions are definitely not for everyone! I've just grown with cheesy Sci-Fi...

Griff wrote:

I've just put up a new version of the alloys & wreckage oxp, it's a small update that just adds some new entries for the default ship-set ship names in the shipdata-overrrides.plist in the oxp, without this you don't get the extra sparks & wreckage when using the griff replacement oxp

Wooooah! Looks just great. And framerate still stands at minimum of 55fps..! Yess.

Griff wrote:

Gibbon made a small preview vid of some of the Oolite oxp ships running in freelancer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtH5B2S03cw
i don't think it got past the prototype stage but it look like he put quite a bit of time into it sorting out textures and effects maps, collision boxes etc

Too bad this mod never got published I used to play Freelancer a lot... Lots of fun if you can live with the controls.