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It looks great but it seems more like a military ship.

Thargoid wrote:

The first release of the OXP is still imminent (ie whenever Smivs has time to finish packaging it up) so it may not be too late for this to be dropped into it, if it can be suitably prepared.

The original needed still some work on. Now it all seems correct. I uploaded it as Final Capital.oxp. The ship is to big to dock and needs the bigShip.oxp to add it into the universe.

Feel free to use or add it to the liners. The name should change to something more sensible of cause.

pagroove wrote:

It looks great but it seems more like a military ship.

Paint it pale blue, stick some gold livery on it - it'll be fine!

Thanks Eric. I've now downloaded it and should be able to add it into the Liners OXP. I'll have a look at it in detail when I get time, and see if it needs any more work such as re-skinning.

I've had a good look at the new ship now (currently called Final Capital) and she is a beauty, but really does need to be re-textured to make it a Liner as it does currently look very military.
Re-texturing is going to be quite a job as the model/skin is quite complex, so I'm thinking it might be best just to get the OXP out, and add the new ship at a later date. There is also a non-critical issue with one of the other ships as well which can be sorted out in time, so I might plan a v2.0 release at some time in the future.
This OXP has been in the making for long enough, though, so it's time to set it free, which I will try to do in a few days time once all the 'blurb' (Wiki page etc) are ready.

Feel free to use this: if you need another Liner company (Hi-Res available too)

Release

It's been quite a wait, but we are happy to announce the release of Liners OXP
This is a collaborative work wih input from myself, P A Groove, Thargoid, ADCK and Griff.
There are four types of Liner, and each has several varieties. They will be seen from time to time in-system or in orbit near the main station, and they have escorts ships, shuttles and supply ships. Some are dockable.
This OXP is self-contained and does not require any other OXP to work. This OXP includes the Aurora, and therefore if you have Aurora OXP installed it should be removed.
Wiki page
Download from Smivsonline

Smivs,
Download link in your posting is slightly incorrect. Link in Wiki works fine.
Underscore instead of dash. Just thought you should know.

Ironfist

Thanks. It was wrong for about a minute....trust you to try it then
Hehe, it's fine now.

Thank you Thargoid, P A Groove, Smivs and Griff. Looking forward to seeing these majestic ships in-game.

Hear, hear! I'm also downloading it now.

Ha, barely an hour after release and the bug reports are already coming in
Hardly surprising as I had to 'glue together' material from all contributors, and I'm sure there will be more to come.
Download updated to fix the first bugs anyway (Thanks Eric).

Smivs wrote:

Ha, barely an hour after release and the bug reports are already coming in
Hardly surprising as I had to 'glue together' material from all contributors, and I'm sure there will be more to come.
Download updated to fix the first bugs anyway (Thanks Eric).

Nice to be at work with 200Mb+ Internet when this happens. Dl took 19 seconds.

Smivs wrote:

Download updated to fix the first bugs anyway (Thanks Eric).

It was in the aurora and the downloadable version as single ship has the same bug. I just marked that ship on the wiki as 1.75 compatible with caveats. I doubt if anybody would notice the bug as nobody reported the bug for that oxp under 1.75.

Yes! Good work Smivs, Thargoid and ADCK

A trailer of the Emerald Class can be seen here:

http://youtu.be/sI04ZLqwaU0