User:Simon B - Revision history

Cholmondely: Added Arachnid OXP "Wolf" HUD

2024-11-13T07:02:38Z

Added Arachnid OXP "Wolf" HUD

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2024-08-23T15:18:43Z

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Cholmondely: Added comment from 2009

2024-08-23T14:58:35Z

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2024-08-23T08:42:16Z

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Cholmondely: /* Other Work */ Added in more pictures

2024-08-23T08:41:15Z

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2024-08-23T08:35:21Z

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Cholmondely: Tagged as OXP author

2024-05-22T12:55:01Z

Tagged as OXP author

Cholmondely: /* OXP's */ Added YAH defenders retexture

2024-04-30T23:02:02Z

‎OXP's: Added YAH defenders retexture

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2024-02-29T04:06:51Z

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[[File:Neolite sidewinder.jpg|thumb|right|320px|Neolite Sidewinder]]
[[File:Neolite adder.jpg|thumb|right|320px|Neolite Adder]]
[[File:Re2dux.png|thumb|right|320px|Re2dux ships]]
[[File:Behemoth ncc.png|thumb|right|320px|Simon B's Behemoth (in front)]]
[[File:Oolific_Princess.png|thumb|right|320px|Oolific Princess liner]]
Simon B has designed entire flotillae of ships for Oolite.

Simon first joined the community in 2008, living in New Zealand

{{QuoteText|Text=Imagine my delight at finding that Elite is well and thriving as a FOSS project - Free Software no less. But, of course, you don't need to imagine, you've been exactly where I am.

Intros: I am an eldritch old-school hacker living on a clifftop overlooking the Pacific. With me is a wifie and three (count-em) cats.|Source=([http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5161 SimonB])}}

He had the following suggestions for improving Oolite back when he joined:

All right - some ideas I may get around to:

Ships -

UFO - basically a light or bunch of lights that follows a player (or other ship) around annoying the capt since it blocks the jump drive. Possible they could choose to have an escort role though. IFF name is "Unknown Object".

(Note - it is possible to have a ship with no visible model and just a flasher)

Doomsday machine - big and slow, powerful enough to take out a station or a planet.
(Related: have some systems sans stations/planets.) Would also suit a mission - you follow a trail of destroyed stations and rumour... hit it with lots of nukes...

Berserker - another robot death machine, I know we already have thargons. But but but - berserkers are a sci-fi canon...

Military Anaconda - with turrets. The anaconda is big, slow, and not very manouverable. Turrets are only sensible. Armoring them makes sense too... so it takes a lot of hits to take one out.

Systemships available:
By which I mean - no witchdrive.
This could create another path through the early game for players lucky enough to end up in a system with many dockable objects. One could fly a transport between them and an asteroid field.

Missions:

Rich Tourist - you get a tourist as a passenger. They have no fixed destination and stay with the ship as long as the ride is "interesting". They also pay more for very interesting rides. If you have a cool ship, that helps: "Wait'll my friends hear I rode a Flangewort class Pedant!" Your rep also helps.

The planet descriptions go someplace towards that. But if you become a fugitive... engage in some piracy, get in a firefight, go on a mission... visit the graveyard, pulsar, etc.

The neat thing is that this is a way to make things which are otherwise a bit ho-hum more attractive. Suddenly you care that the blue wingnutoids live on a boring little planet, and you need to remember where the nearest hoopy casino is.

Occasionally pops into the bridge ... "can I fire the lasers? ... whoops... my bad... what does this button do?"

Planetfall...
Script - flying too close to a planet in a witchdrive ship is an offense. Police fly up from the world to shoo you off. But what if you have a permit (like those adders with role: shuttle?) Then - fly close enough and you land... perhaps you have to follow a beacon?

Item:
Thargon Wormhole projector
how do thargons get from place to place - especially considering that they can turn up between stars.

Perhaps thargons have controllable wormholes? A captured generator could trigger a wormhole ahead of the ship - B5 style... but players still cannot control the destination. Uses energy like ECM. Perhaps it displaces cargo?

Some carriers when destroyed could leave a wormhole behind as a death action... or the wormhole projector is on a special ship. Even if the device could not be recovered (as a mission?) this would justify how they appear.

<rant>
Collision boxes - did something happen in 1.7? In 1.69 I was able to fly between the spokes/rings of the torus station. It was a good shortcut to get to witchdrive range.
</rant>

== OXP's ==
Simon B's most famous oxp's are his Neolite series and his Re2dux series. Both are mostly retextures but with new ships added to the mix.
*[[Neolite Ships]] is an Oolite ships replacement set. 2012
:Neolite Wolfies were an update of [[Marko Susimetsä]]'s Wolfwood's Variants
*[[Re2dux Ships]] is an Oolite ships replacement set. 2011
*[[Croydon Starsoarer]] adds a ship that is similar to the Asp in specification (2010)
*Oolite Princess is a liner - see [[Brilliant but broken...]] under Dockables

=== Simon B's contributions to other oxp's ===
*[[Old Ships 2010]] was shadered by Simon B
*He also contributed to [[Behemoth]]

=== Later oxp's by others ===
*[[Simon B's Favorites]] is a later collection of sb-faves by Spara & Keeper
*[[Simon B's Ships OXP]] is a later collection of Neolite ships by [[User:CaptSolo|CaptSolo]]
*[[Cougar ST OXP]] was based on a Neolite Companion.oxp ship
*[[Navy Asp]] was partly based on Simon B's work
*[[Random Hits OXP ]] contains some of his work

== Other Work ==
*[http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=69600#69600 Textures in GIMP] (Tutorial, 2009)

== Links ==

*Simon Bridges' re2dux ships collection in [https://app.box.com/s/kcvfxbsqh6 Box]
::taniwha
::oolific.oxp - the ''Oolite Princess'' liner
::re2dux.oxp - his re2dux shipset
::sb-navy - carriers & ancillary ships
::wakapiko-redux
::sb-faves (cobra variants)
::re2dux-vipers
::constrictor
::sbdestroyer-pre2 - naval destroyer
::ubertharg-pre1
::katipo
*Simon Bridges' neolites ships collection in [https://app.box.com/v/neolites Box]
::neotextures
::neolite
::wakatoro
::wakapiko
::typhoon
::galcop
::blade
::arachnid
::neolite-concepts
::neolite-companion - rejigs of ships from the non-BBC Elite games (Bushmaster, Ghavial, Iguana ''etc'')
::neolite-wolfies - SB's rejig of [[Wolfwood Interstellar Technologies|Wolfwood's variants]]

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 *Simon Bridges' re2dux ships collection in [https://app.box.com/s/kcvfxbsqh6 Box]
-::'''taniwha''' - (Maori - powerful water-spirit) - good looking ubership
+::[[Taniwha]] - (Maori - powerful water-spirit) - good looking ubership (older version in his wakatoro collection below which includes a HUD)
 ::'''oolific.oxp''' - the ''Oolite Princess'' liner (unfinished with AIs/scripts copied in from liners OXP)
 ::'''re2dux.oxp''' - his re2dux shipset (retextures for vanilla game shipset + alloys, barrels, iguanas and variants for Cobras, morays & pythons + [[Easter Eggs]])

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 *[[Croydon Starsoarer]] adds a ship that is similar to the Asp in specification (2010) - download link broken
 *Oolite Princess is a liner - see [[Brilliant but broken...]] under Dockables
 === Simon B's contributions to other oxp's ===
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 *[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=69600#69600 Textures in GIMP] (Tutorial, 2009)
-[[File:SimonB's Taniwha.png|thumb|right|300px|Taniwha]]
+[[File:Taniwha NG.png|thumb|right|300px|Taniwha]]
 [[File:SimonB's ÜberTharg.png|thumb|right|300px|UberTharg]]

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	::neolite-companion - rejigs of ships from the non-BBC Elite games (Bushmaster, Ghavial, Iguana ''etc'')		::neolite-companion - rejigs of ships from the non-BBC Elite games (Bushmaster, Ghavial, Iguana ''etc'')
	::neolite-wolfies - SB's rejig of [[Wolfwood Interstellar Technologies\|Wolfwood's variants]]		::neolite-wolfies - SB's rejig of [[Wolfwood Interstellar Technologies\|Wolfwood's variants]]
		+
		+	[[Category:OXP authors]]

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 [[File:Behemoth ncc.png|thumb|right|320px|Simon B's "Behemoth" (in front) - now the Naval Class Carrier]]
 [[File:Oolific_Princess.png|thumb|right|320px|Oolific Princess liner]]
 Simon B has designed entire flotillae of ships for Oolite.

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 [[File:Neolite adder.jpg|thumb|right|320px|Neolite Adder]]
 [[File:Re2dux.png|thumb|right|320px|Re2dux ships]]
-[[File:Behemoth ncc.png|thumb|right|320px|Simon B's Behemoth (in front)]]
+[[File:Behemoth ncc.png|thumb|right|320px|Simon B's "Behemoth" (in front) - now the Naval Class Carrier]]
 [[File:Oolific_Princess.png|thumb|right|320px|Oolific Princess liner]]
 Simon B has designed entire flotillae of ships for Oolite.

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 == Other Work ==
 *[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=69600#69600 Textures in GIMP] (Tutorial, 2009)
 == Links ==

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 *Simon Bridges' re2dux ships collection in [https://app.box.com/s/kcvfxbsqh6 Box]
-::taniwha
+::'''taniwha''' - (Maori - powerful water-spirit) - good looking ubership
-::oolific.oxp - the ''Oolite Princess'' liner
+::'''oolific.oxp''' - the ''Oolite Princess'' liner (unfinished with AIs/scripts copied in from liners OXP)
-::re2dux.oxp - his re2dux shipset
+::'''re2dux.oxp''' - his re2dux shipset (retextures for vanilla game shipset + alloys, barrels, iguanas and variants for Cobras, morays & pythons + [[Easter Eggs]])
-::sb-navy - carriers & ancillary ships
+::'''sb-navy''' - carriers & ancillary ships - contains the Navy Class Carrier in [[Behemoth]]
-::wakapiko-redux
+::'''wakapiko-redux''' - (Maori - to bend/to turn; murder/slaughter/massacre) - suite of 3 ships (Namu, Waka & Weta)
-::sb-faves (cobra variants)
+::'''sb-faves''' - suite of 7 ships (aphid, wolf, salamander & 4 cobra variants - clipper, SAR clipper, cutlass & rapier)
-::re2dux-vipers
+::'''re2dux-vipers''' - suite of 4 ships (pursuit & interceptor, plus cruiser and vigilante)
-::constrictor
+::'''constrictor''' - retexture for vanilla game [[Constrictor (Oolite)|constrictor]]
-::sbdestroyer-pre2 - naval destroyer
+::'''sbdestroyer-pre2''' - naval destroyer - the navy light destroyer in [[Galactic Navy Additions]]
-::ubertharg-pre1
+::[[UberTharg|ubertharg-pre1]] - retexture for vanilla game [[Thargoid Warship (Oolite)|Thargoid Warship]]
-::katipo
+::'''katipo''' -  - (Maori - venomous black spider with red spot on back) - based on Fer-de-Lance, with own HUD
 *Simon Bridges' neolites ships collection in [https://app.box.com/v/neolites Box]
-::neotextures
+::'''neotextures''' - collection of textures, including those for an alien coriolis and alien ships
-::neolite
+::'''neolite - retextures''' for the vanilla game ships
-::wakatoro
+::'''wakatoro''' - (Maori - to extend/stretch/thrust) - suite of 8 new ships (one with designer HUD) also escape capsules, drones & missiles
-::wakapiko
+::'''wakapiko''' - (Maori - to bend/to turn; murder/slaughter/massacre) - suite of 9 new ships
-::typhoon
+::'''typhoon''' - suite of 4 new ships: appaloosa, cougar, coyote & typhoon
-::galcop
+::'''galcop''' - viper retextures, and adds in military & renegade vipers
-::blade
+::'''blade''' - variant of the asp
-::arachnid
+::'''arachnid''' - suite of 3 ships: avondale, katipo & wolf, each with their own HUD
-::neolite-concepts
+::'''neolite-concepts''' - anaconda cruiser with subentities
-::neolite-companion - rejigs of ships from the non-BBC Elite games (Bushmaster, Ghavial, Iguana ''etc'')
+::'''neolite-companion''' - different models for Murgh's [[Old Ships OXP]] - over a dozen ships
-::neolite-wolfies - SB's rejig of [[Wolfwood Interstellar Technologies|Wolfwood's variants]]
+::'''neolite-wolfies''' - based on [[Wolfwood Interstellar Technologies|Wolfwood's Variants (2006)]] - 7 ships, each with their own HUD
 [[Category:OXP authors]]

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 *[[Neolite Ships]] is an Oolite ships replacement set. 2012
 :Neolite Wolfies were an update of [[Marko Susimetsä]]'s Wolfwood's Variants
 *[[Re2dux Ships]] is an Oolite ships replacement set. 2011
-*[[Croydon Starsoarer]] adds a ship that is similar to the Asp in specification (2010)
+*[[Croydon Starsoarer]] adds a ship that is similar to the Asp in specification (2010) - download link broken
 *Oolite Princess is a liner - see [[Brilliant but broken...]] under Dockables
@@ Line 78: / Line 79: @@
 *[[Cougar ST OXP]] was based on a Neolite Companion.oxp ship
 *[[Navy Asp]] was partly based on Simon B's work
-*[[Random Hits OXP ]] contains some of his work
+*[[Random Hits OXP]] contains some of his work
 == Other Work ==

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 {{QuoteText|Text=Imagine my delight at finding that Elite is well and thriving as a FOSS project - Free Software no less. But, of course, you don't need to imagine, you've been exactly where I am.
-Intros: I am an eldritch old-school hacker living on a clifftop overlooking the Pacific. With me is a wifie and three (count-em) cats.|Source=([http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5161 SimonB])}}
+Intros: I am an eldritch old-school hacker living on a clifftop overlooking the Pacific. With me is a wifie and three (count-em) cats.|Source=([https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5161 SimonB])}}
 He had the following suggestions for improving Oolite back when he joined:
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 == Other Work ==
-*[http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=69600#69600 Textures in GIMP] (Tutorial, 2009)
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=69600#69600 Textures in GIMP] (Tutorial, 2009)
 == Links ==