No Shaders alternate or extra ships and accessories

About

Griff Industries has released some awesome shipmodels which use normalmapping and shader effects to produce some of the best looking ships available in Oolite. In 2012 Captain Solo started to convert the Oolite core ships as Griff's No Shaders shipset for computers without a shader capable graphics card. With Oolite v1.80 these ships are now used as default ships.

The OXPs/OXZs here began as a pet project to provide some of Griff's other extra, alternate or some missing vessels and accessories as a nice addition to the new v1.80 default shipsset, too.

After the first miserable tries to understand how these textures are to be recomposed "Captain Solo" was so kind to help to sort things out, gave detailed instructions how to convert/combine the original marvelous textures, so they work out on low-end machines like mine. Additionally just a few things to add the engine glows and such were changed in the process.

So most credits have to go to Captain Solo who helped me tremendously how to compose Griff's awesome textures to no shadered ones, and of course to Griff for his great ship designs. The rest of the work was merely some GIMP work and some simple shipdata/shipyard editing.

Important Notice

The OXPs/OXZs require Oolite v1.80+. If you want to use the OXZ bundles, please deinstall any individual OXPs of these ships.

Galleries

Click on thumbnails to view full size images(to be done)

Griff's

Missing core ships

Ships from Griff's normalmapped core shipset, currently missing in default Oolite v1.80

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  Cobra Mk. III, scuffed variant

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  Fer-de-Lance, old variant

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  Gecko, no sharkteeth decals

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  Python, player flyable

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  Thargoid Warship, organic variant

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  Thargoid Robot Fighter, oganic variant

Alternate core ships

Ships from Griff's normalmapped core shipset in different variations and models.

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  Cobra Mk. I, clean and scuffed variant

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  Cobra Mk. III, clean and scuffed variant

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  Fer-de-Lance

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  Mamba

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  Viper (NPC-only)

Extra ships

Griff's normalmapped ships originating from different other Elite games (ArcElite /Amiga Elite/Frontier)

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  Griffin Mk.2

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  Gnat

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  Wolf Mk. 2, dark and light variant

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  Ophidian

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  Remake of the 'Bug' ship from Elite 2, scuffed and clean variant

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  Hognose (NPC-only)

Accessories

Rocks and barrels...

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  Cargopods

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  Asteroids, boulders and splinters

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Other (Coming soon)

Z_Groovy/Dertien's extra ships and Griff repaints

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  Z_Groovy Viper Raider (next up)

Ingame shots

some screenshots of no shader ships and accessories

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  Ophidian cruising past some asteroids

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  An alternate Cobra Mk.III and a Griffin Mk.II in a convoy to Isinor

License

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/.

Changelog

• 09-20-2014 released Cobra Mk3, Wolf Mk2 and Griffin Mk1
• 09-21-2014 released Cobra Mk1, Ophidian. Updated Cobra Mk3 clean texture
• 09-23-2014 released Gnat, Mamba, Fer-De-Lance, Bug. Updated Cobra Mk3, Cobra Mk1, Ophidian.
• 09-26-2014 released Hognose, Viper. Updated Cobra Mk1, Bug
• 10-01-2014 released asteroids2014, cargopods2014. Updated: Viper
• 10-05-2014 released old Fer-de-Lance, default scuffed Cobra Mk3. Updated asteroids, python. Restructured first posting
• 10-09-2014 released organic Thargoids and Tharglet
• 10-10-2014 released normal Gecko
• 10-12-2014 missingcoreships and accessories as OXZs available.
• 10-15-2014 updated alternate ship OXPs to new roles where applicable, now also as OXZs available.
• 10-17-2014 updated extra ship OXPs to new roles where applicable, now also as OXZs available.

Resources

• Discussion and announcements on "The friendliest board this side of Riedquat™[1]
• Texture conversion resources (alternate Cobra Mk3)[2]

Download and Installation

• download as individual OXPs[3] - (unzip, put xyz.oxp into your Oolite AddOns folder, e.g. on Linux: ~/.Oolite/AddOns)

• download as OXZs (for manual installation):

Missing core ships OXZ (downloaded 2596 times)
Alternate core ships OXZ (downloaded 2609 times)
Extra ships OXZ (downloaded 199 times)
Accessories OXZ (downloaded 3081 times)
Accessories replace OXZ (downloaded 1588 times)

Info: the OXZs are also avaiable via the ingame expansion manager.