User:Gunney Plym
I played Elite on the BBC Model B many years ago, then on the Electron and a few other computers around at that time. Not many more recent games come close to the fun of Elite with it's combination of trading and combat but the nearest, at least to me, were the I-War games (I-War 2 site).
And then I bumped into Oolite :-)
Currently Used OXP's
Alternative HUD's
- G-HUD Mk2 - See below
Dockable Objects
Ships and Ship Variants
- Aegidian's X-Ships
- Behemoth
- Dark Wheel Cobra
- Isis Interstellar
- Renegade Pirates
- Transports v2.45
- Velocity
Ship Systems
Sound Sets
Other Objects and miscellaneous Eye-Candy
My OXP's (Released)
G-HUD. With thanks to Cmdr. Maegil on the Bulletin Boards this is now upgraded to the Mk2 version which has moved things out from the centre and added a background to the Main Scanner for some extra clarity.
For a larger screenshot click here
My OXP's (under development, but don't hold your breath !)
It is my intention that the below will be released in two parts - the ships and then a mission pack that will utilise them. So far testing is underway to get the ships to behave as I want them. This will probably involve a lot of cribbing from other developers, hopefully they won't mind too much :-)
The idea for the smaller ships came from the 'Renegade Pirates', each renegade having multiple forward weapons. In this series each nacelle, with the exception of the Jaguar, will be a mount point. The inspiration for the larger ships came from having HMS Albion outside my office window !
The downer is that they seem to require a moderately capable graphics card to show smoothly.
The text is reversed as I have found that somewhere in the process of turning these into Oolite ships the texture gets turned around.
Cheetah - Escort Cruiser. Military or Police vessel, similiar to a Cobra III but better armed
Leopard - Light Cruiser. Up spec'ed Cheetah.
Tiger - Heavy Cruiser, Up spec'ed again :-)
Jaguar - Civilian, and the only player vessel in the set. Based around the Leopard but with some systems removed to make room for cargo and with a lower performance.
Goliath Fleet Auxiliary - With it's totally modular cargo handling it is a very flexible vessel. This example is fully loaded with a single cargo pallet and two dry dock, each each pallet is about ten times the volume of the Tiger shown inside the forward dock.
Minotaur Planetary Assault Vessel - Colloquially known as the Planet Killer or simply PK. Remove the cargo capacity of a Goliath and replace with a high power energy weapon. Despite it's nick-name this ship cannot physically destroy a planet but can devastate large areas of the surface, or even dump sufficient energy into the atmosphere to wreck the targets ecosystem. Slow and with restricted manoeuvrability it will always be accompanied by a Support Group of other vessels.
From fore to aft this example carries the twin main beams (with it’s associated baffle and shielding), the main beams power supply, and the ‘Command and Control’ module. The C&C carries a 'Flexible Missile Launcher' which can release a variety of ordinance.
The simple presence of a PK in-system can have a significant influence on local politics !
The modelling and texturing is mostly sorted, now in the process of understanding plists so that they operate as I want them to.
