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One day I may come back and fix this OXP, but probably not anytime soon, Sorry guys, please feel free to use this OXP as a modders resource in the mean time.

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The Behemoths

PAGrooves Behemoth

Military Station Type 1, Escape Pod, Asp.
Viper, lander.

More ships,
sorry about the darkness,
will get better pics.

Military Station Type 2

More pics later!

IMPORTANT NOTICE! Incompatible with the original behemoths.oxp. It will not work properly if you have both installed as the original ones may overwrite the new ones. You can use both, but it's not recomended.
Currently incompatible with neolites-megaships.oxp, will be fixed at a later date.

To get the full effect of this oxp, it's strongly recomended you download Nemoricus' Galactic Navy.

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ADCK's Behemoths V1.2 OXP

Version 1.2 Download Link
Mirror

Based on the original behemoths.oxp by Aegidian, Galctic_Navy.oxp by Nemoricus, and thargoidcarrier.oxp by Selezen.

*Concept and Idea: ADCK,
*New textures and models (those not listed below): ADCK
*Type 1 & 2 models based on models by: Aegidian
*Frigate models based on models by: Nemoricus
*"DamagedThargoid", "DamagedThargon", "medship", "shuttle", "transport", "transporter", "escape-pod", Viper & Asp models: from neolites by Simon B
*Military Station Type 1, Minesweeper, Radar Models: Nemoricus
*Thargoid Carrier model by SELEZEN.
*Asp (Not the neolites.oxp one), Cobra1, Cobra3, Krait, Mamba and Python models based on original models by David Braben and Ian Bells "Elite"
*Shader files: from neolites by Simon B
*Type 1 hi-res retextures: PAGroove

(Includes shaders which require Oolite 1.69 or later)

Find this and more OXP's at: http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/OXP#Table_of_all_OXPs

Wiki Page

Description:
Adds Navy Behemoths and their support to the game, including:
*Two versions of Aegidian's "Type 1" Behemoth, remodelled slightly.
*Two versions of Aegidian's "Type 2" Behemoth, remodelled slightly.
*Two versions of ADCK's "Type 3" Behemoth.
*Two versions of ADCK's "Type 4" Behemoth.
*Two versions of Aegidian's "Type 1" Behemoth, retextured by PAGroove.
*Two versions of Nemoricus's Galactic Navy's Frigate, remodelled slightly.
*New Asp, Cobra1, Cobra3, Krait, Mamba, and Python models and textures, made by ADCK.
*New "Rock Hermit" model and textures, for use in Gal Navy missions and rarely as a base.
*Eight versions of ADCK's Thargoid.
*A new retexture of Selezen's Thargoid Carrier.
*A new thargoid carrier by ADCK.
*A new Military Station by ADCK.
*A new class of ship "Destroyer" with a massive cannon on the front. by ADCK.
*New viper and asp defense ships, "medship", "shuttle", "transport", "transporter" using Simon B's models from neolites.
*All of the above are retextured with shaders.
*Over 100 "named" behemoths, all with their own nameplates.
*Retextured versions of Nemoricus' Military Station Type 1, Minesweeper, Radar. With Shaders.
*Retextured versions of Simon B's Thargoid and Thargon.

Future Plans:

(To be updated)

Installation:
Before installation, be sure to delete any previous versions of behemoths.oxp or adcks_behemoths.oxp.
Extract the adcks_behemoths.oxp into your Addons directory of Oolite. Just to be sure startup Oolite with the SHIFT-key pressed until you see the spinning CobraMKIII.

Law Stuffs:
Please read the 2 readme's in the "Original Readmes" folder for legal information regarding the Type 1 & 2 behemoths, turrets, AI's, plists, and scripts.

Thargoid Carrier model remains property of SELEZEN, refer to thargoid-carrier.oxp documentation for more info.

Military Station Type 1, Minesweeper, Radar models remains property of Nemoricus, refer to galactic-navy.oxp documentation for more info.

The following models: (Original name in brackets)
*Damaged-Thargoid (Thargoid)
*Damaged-Thargon (Thargon)
*Medship (Moray)
*Shuttle (Worm)
*Transport (Anaconda)
*Lander (Transporter)
*Escape-pod
*Viper
*Asp
-and Shader files, remain property of Simon B, refer to neolites.oxp documentation for more info.

The following models:
*Frigate
*Destroyer (and its ammo)
*Military Station Type 2
*Type 3 & 4 behemoths
*Asp (Not the neolites.oxp one)
*Cobra1
*Cobra3
*Krait
*Mamba
*Python
*Rock Hermit
*All Thargoids (excluding 2 from neolites by Simon B, and The original Thargoid Carrier by SELEZEN)
-and all textures in the textures folder (excluding 2 Type 1 retextures by PAGroove)
are works of ADCK and are Public Domain and are yours to do with as you please.

If I have missed crediting anyone, please contact ADCK at "https://bb.oolite.space/index.php" so this list can be updated.

List of all involved directly or inderectly:
*ADCK.
*PAGroove.
*Aegidian. (Behemoths)
*Simon B. (Neolites)
*Selezen. (Thargoid Carrier)
*Nemoricus. (Galactic Navy)
*David Braben and Ian Bell. (Elite)

Old Versions: See above for latest version.

Version 1.1:
Version 1.1 Download Link
Mirror
Version 1.0:
Version 1.0 Download Link
V1.0 Updated texture

By hook or by crook, I'll be first to download this beauty!!

BTW, for those interested, the shipdata.plist is over 25000 lines of XML

It probably could of been alot smaller (perhaps there's some easier way to do it, especially if I had of used openstep instead, anyone who has a program to convert XML to openstep call me ) but that's how I roll hehe

<EDIT> just noticed the effects map for the type4 is missing lights on the nacelle Updated texture fixes this, just replace the texture in the textures dir with the one linked there.
(This texture will also be included in the next version)

Also, everything seems to mork fine with Galactic Navy at the moment.

ADCK wrote:

Also, everything seems to mork fine with Galactic Navy at the moment.

Yes they do seem to work with GalNavy.

Only seen a Type 1 and a Type 2 so far.

Here are some screenshots of the Type 2's. First one is at my local GalNavy Sector Command, and the other two are during a GalNavy mission against the Thargoids. In fact the Behemoth Goliath had just blown up a Thargoid in shot three.

NB: I don't run shaders so they don't look as good as they could do!

Excellent work here ADCK. I planned to say it earlier but Reallife (tm) prevented me from doing it. Do you plan yo also include my Behemoth retexture(s)?

pagroove wrote:

Excellent work here ADCK. I planned to say it earlier but Reallife (tm) prevented me from doing it. Do you plan yo also include my Behemoth retexture(s)?

I was planning to, but since I completely remodeled the type 1 the UV maps no longer line up, and try as I might I can't get the one unfinished texture (the rear one) to look like the rest of your textures, I'll have another go at it though.
Am just about to start work on the Galactic Navy compatibility patch, which will add the new behemoths to gal navy missions, (plus a few new ships including: The new Destroyer Class, a remodeled/retextured Freighter, a military station retexture, a new second military station type, new transporter/medship/shuttle/transport using neolites models, and a minesweeper retexture, all using shaders)
Which will work along side galactic navy but not overwrite it (unless you use an overwrite.plist) And it wont require Galactic Navy (but you obviously wont see the new galactic navy ships unless you have it)

I can also send you my new Tigershark class. Maybe you can convert one into a navy hospital cruiser or a spec-ops class?
I certainly want a few ADCK variants of it.

It's dockable now (see screenshots thread)

https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?t= ... e&start=30
Maybe you can find some inspiration from the Titan concepts in this Thread. Just to grab some ideas from it?

A pic of one of 9 new Thargoid Models I've made, this one is a Thargoid Carrier, capable of holding 8 Thargoid Warships. The pic lost a bit of quality in compression

I've been busy with other things, so am not sure when the next release will be.

Nice.

With all these different imagings of the Thargoids - original, ADCK, Simon B's, Griff x2 - perhaps we could have a super Thargoid Clan war?

After all the game's not player-centric - if the Thargoids happened to have a war that spilled into normal Galcop space...

May have found a bug...?

From my log:
What do you think?

JazHaz wrote:

May have found a bug...?

From my log:

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[shipData.load.begin]: Loading ship data...
  [shipData.merge.failed]: ***** ERROR: one or more shipdata.plist entries have like_ship references that cannot be resolved: intercept-Colossus, navy-Colossus, navy-Colossus-battlegroup, picket-Colossus

What do you think?

Ah yes, I decapital-ised that one, as it was the only one with a capital letter in its dictionary entry, should of forseen it would cause a bug with GalNavy, will fix in next release, if you want to fix it on your own, open the shipdata.plist and replace all instances of the word "colossus" with "Colossus" (with a Capital C)

ADCK wrote:

JazHaz wrote:

May have found a bug...?

Code: Select all

[shipData.load.begin]: Loading ship data...
  [shipData.merge.failed]: ***** ERROR: one or more shipdata.plist entries have like_ship references that cannot be resolved: intercept-Colossus, navy-Colossus, navy-Colossus-battlegroup, picket-Colossus

Ah yes, I decapital-ised that one, as it was the only one with a capital letter in its dictionary entry, should of forseen it would cause a bug with GalNavy, will fix in next release, if you want to fix it on your own, open the shipdata.plist and replace all instances of the word "colossus" with "Colossus" (with a Capital C)

Done.

I did a search and replace. Nice and easy.

Am holding off on releasing v1.1 for a week or two, the shipdata.plist has got to be around 35000 lines of code now, and there's still alot to do, but it's starting to exhaust me so am taking a break from it.

Have created a wiki page for this OXP, as this thread may get buried in the forum in future and may be difficult for newcomers to find.

http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/ADCK%27s_Behemoths