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Prompted by a pic recently posted by Pinback, this is from an experimental wip OXP:That central section revolves nicely, just as in B5! If I attack it, it kills me in two seconds flat!

Omega class. Very nice

Cody wrote:
Prompted by a pic recently posted by Pinback, this is from an experimental wip OXP:That central section revolves nicely, just as in B5! If I attack it, it kills me in two seconds flat!
Magic especially getting the central section to rotate. Will we be seeing a new oxp. Has there ever been any total conversion for Oolite.

PINBACK wrote:
Magic especially getting the central section to rotate.
Ain't it just! That ship is part of a grand mission OXP that hopefully will get finished and be released... one fine day! Not my work, I hasten to add. I’m just a test pilot (the Chuck Yaeger of the Ooniverse... heh!), and I get to play with some very tasty stuff, some of which never makes general release. Taking part in fleet actions in interstellar space with a ship like that on your side is rather good fun (the player gets a very tasty ship to fly as a reward), and if the OXP is ever completed, it will be a cracker!I don’t think there has ever been a total conversion of Oolite, although there are several shipset OXPs from other universes. Not really my thing though, as I prefer a consistent Elite-style universe for gameplay.

Another classic sci-fi ship has joined the game... the Firefly from Serenity.

Love that show. I won't be using it in my game. ( I prefer my Ooliverse to reflect the Elite setting only.) Still, its absolutely brilliant that Staer9 made it for Oolite.

Crikey! It's been ages since I posted a pic!This fugitive was having a right old tussle with a couple of GalCop Vipers when I came along, and doing quite well:Then a bounty-hunter in a Fer-de-Lance started on him as well, and the poor sod got confused and froze for a second:I might've intervened - either put him out of his misery, or splashed the Vipers and Ferdie for him!

Here is my latest hud creation, NumericHUDv3.oxpLeaving the stationNumericHUDv3 #1 by CommonSenseOTB, on FlickrPicking a fightNumericHUDv3 #2 by CommonSenseOTB, on FlickrDogfightingNumericHUDv3 #3 by CommonSenseOTB, on FlickrThe real improvement in NumericHUDv3 comes from keeping the normal readouts just barely visible and not distracting while making them glow/pulse a bright color to draw your attention to the gauges that need to be monitored closely. This concept works quite nicely, particularily during combat when your attention is focused on killing or being killed rather than the gauges and NumericHUDv3 is now quite close to what I had originally envisioned for a numeric hud display when I first set out to make version 1 over 10 months ago. In the near future there will be improvements due to new oxp capabilities.Check it out here:http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9977&p=169236#p168996

Cody wrote:

Hey there Commander Cody!Like my screenshots? I thought it was about time I stop by for meets and greets and show off some of the latest new stuff from oolite.Cheers!

commonsenseotb wrote:
Hey there Commander Cody!
Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen

Oops! I must've slipped into another universe!The Random Ship Names OXP is responsible... it gives a huge variety of names to all NPCs. Such a 'cultured' OXP!

The 'Psycho Saucer' as I call it... a giant Thargoid warship over 6km across with awesome firepower, caught in the act of warping-out, hence the shimmering colours - and yes, you get to take it on... somehow!From a mission OXP called Xeptatl's Sword.

The local GalCop Viper jocks at Zaquesso didn't take too kindly to me flying a Colonial Viper on their patch:From a soon-to-be released OXP created by Shipbuilder - it's a wild ride!

Ooooh that Xeptatl's Sword oxp looks great!

Geraldine wrote:
that Xeptatl's Sword oxp looks great!
If you fly one of the core ships (rather than an uber-ship), Xeptatl's Sword will test you.I had some input in its development, and we tried to make it a bit fiendish in places... heh!

Well, it wouldn't be an Elite game if it was fair! The unfairness of it at times is one of the best features of the Elite series and any re-make should include that too. Small fishies should stay away from big sharks! :lol:Anyways snagged it off the dev's site, but will need to put some serious time into Oolite as my commander is broke and flying a piece of junk at the moment Know any place I could pick up a decent Sidewinder?

Geraldine wrote:
Well, it wouldn't be an Elite game if it was fair!
That is the essence of a great game - the player should never become invincible. The game should always be able to surprise the player, and give them a right royal slappin' occasionly. Too many glossy, slick commercial games miss these points, to their detriment.Forget the Sidewinder - get yourself a Cobra III, the finest all-round starship in the Eight!

Cobbies are good ships, no arguments there, but Sidies are special to me, in FE2 I took one from one end of a galaxy to the other, it was my "retirement" ship after a long military career in the Fed Navy The scrapes I got involved in with that little ship still make me smile

Geraldine wrote:
The scrapes I got involved in with that little ship still make me smile
Aye, one does become attached to certain ships. My first Oolite Cobra III, Clear Air Turbulence, was a fine ship and like Commander Cody, the name dates back to the BBC days. When it was time to change to Rolling Thunder, I gave the CAT a real good send-off - I drove her hard straight into a sun, ejected at the very last second, and watched her burn from the escape pod! Immersed? Moi? I should bloody-well say so!Talking about Clear Air Turbulence, this is the album cover I took the name from. I love the artwork of Chris Foss - all those sci-fi covers he created, with fantastical spaceships. Brilliant! I wonder if Iain Banks also liked that album - he obviously liked the name?

Thats a nice Album cover Cody. Its a shame very few bands bother with their album cover art work these days. Lack of imagination perhaps, like most of the new music these days <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_rolleyes.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':roll:' />Oh, and my Sidie is called The J Miner's Revenge <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_e_smile.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />