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BBS News and a new ship These are a few small things i have been working on to add a bit of extra content to the game. They are still very much a work in progress and will need a lot of fine tuning and fixing but i felt that they are at a stage that others may be interested. BBS News Galactic News NetworkThis is just a way to get some interesting background story's in to the game, at the moment there are around 40 story's including some about trading so they are worth reading. The scripts for this are filled with comments for others to add more story's or alter the way that it works.There are spelling mistakes and i will get round to sorting them soon. to instal unzip into the modules folder of your pioneer data folder. New Ship Deep Space MinerA very slow and heavy beast of a ship, made 100 years ago for the rich mining industrialists the Deep Space Miner failed to gain popularity as a self sufficient mining vessel because pirates saw them as easy pickings. Despite all this they can still be found on the market.Built in 3DS Max using the new model system Hi res textures (just copy them over the ones that come in the main download for the ship) Source files (contains the 3DS Max scene file used for the mesh's and the Photoshop files used for the textures(layer 0 is the UV template)) If any one comes up with any story's or updates to these please let me know so i can update them here. All of my work here is free to use and change as you like but please try to give credit where its due.

Nice work!

Excellent work Fish!

Beautiful ship! And I like the BBS News idea. Downloading... :prankster:

Wow that looks great

thanks for the comments guys the ship floating problem has been fixed with the new pioneer release have a good new year all

have a good new year allIt's 3201 already?

well i can tell its a new year now i only ever feel this bad on new years day ughhhstill not sure what year it is but i can tell its definitely a new one

Took it for a spin in the local neighbourhood : [attachment=1643:screenshot-20130101-225830.png][attachment=1644:screenshot-20130101-230913.png][attachment=1645:screenshot-20130101-231713.png][attachment=1646:screenshot-20130101-232016.png] 

Looks awesome. Really fits the game mood.

thanks for the pics i realy liked the second one . is this using your new shaders and things? and im glad to see the reduced texture size hasn't reduced the quality of the ship. by the way if people want the higher res textures (2048x2048 pix size) let me know and ill post them somewhere.

Updated the Deep Space Miner: Attached nav light pointsCreated new LOD mesh for the hullAttached label nodesFixed the collision mesh to include open landing gear (fixes floating above or sinking in to the landing pad)

It's a neat ship, I would like to have it in the game after you are done with it. For your next model, I would recommend using lighter/whiter textures so the ship is more visible. It also allows us to better add colour variations. 

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by the way if people want the higher res textures (2048x2048 pix size) let me know and ill post them somewhere.by the way if people want the higher res textures (2048x2048 pix size) let me know and ill post them somewhere.

Yes, you should always post the high-res originals so they are not lost The original .max files too.

Hi all, I have not been around for a while due to various issues that happens when life throws its weight around but I am back around now and must say that I love the look of this ship. And if this is an example of the new model system then I am very excited and impressed. On a little side note, I have not had a lot of chance to play the new a30 version yet but with my new laptop that now has more power than an astmmatic hamster and the new a30, Pioneer has never looked so good.I have a lot of catching up do....

flashing/animated lights are not ready yet what i meant by "Attached nav light points" is that the empty nodes are in place and ready for when we can use flashing lights

Updated the DSMiner:new LOD meshpacked in to a .zip folder for easy use with the pioneer mod system And a quick peek at the up and coming Lathen Siege Barge (be warned it still has a lot of textures missing or incomplete) 

loving that barge fish. To me it looks like someone drove a B5 earth destroyer right up the backside of a tie interceptor.

@Vuzz, did you get your Star Wars afternoon? The way Disney are going you'll be able to have a Star Wars Day. @fish, is there and ETA on the barge?

well i was hoping to have it done already(or at least in a state ready for others to play with) but started a few other models so it got put back a bit as it stands it needs new textures and a few LOD meshes added to it befor its ready

started other models too. nice. I may get my flying box done by the end of the year lol