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BBC Elite Universe Editor

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The Elite Universe Editor allows you to create your own playable universes in classic BBC Micro Elite. You can run it on the BBC Micro with 6502 Second Processor, on the BBC Master, on modern emulators, or right here in your web browser.
Link here!
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And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
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That website's great.
It's also got the original model details for all of the ships.

I converted one of them by hand from the hexadecimal but it's a bit fiddley with internal triangles such as 'windows' and 'engines'.
If there was a nifty little program for converting them to .dat/.obj...
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Redspear wrote: Tue Nov 01, 2022 8:40 pm
That website's great.
Yeah!
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Redspear wrote: Tue Nov 01, 2022 8:40 pm
That website's great.
It's also got the original model details for all of the ships.

I converted one of them by hand from the hexadecimal but it's a bit fiddley with internal triangles such as 'windows' and 'engines'.
If there was a nifty little program for converting them to .dat/.obj...
That, Sir Redspear, sounds like a titanic act of labour to this dumb pilot...
Comments wanted:
Missing OXPs? What do you think is missing?
Lore: The economics of ship building How many built for Aronar?
Lore: The Space Traders Flight Training Manual: Cowell & MgRath Do you agree with Redspear?
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Cholmondely wrote: Wed Nov 02, 2022 8:43 am
That, Sir Redspear, sounds like a titanic act of labour to this dumb pilot...
Well, I wouldn't recommend it for fun.
I probably should have chosen an easier one than the orbital shuttle but as a proof of concept it may be useful.

The fer de lance, asp, mk iii and moray may yet all display as once intended (..by me at least, even if no one else out there).
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