Iron Ass OXP
The Iron Ass OXP, or fully styled Iron Ass Heavy Metal Dark Retro OXP, is a ship retexture set expansion package by Murgh, utilising the original Aegidian models. When applied to the game, it will suppress most of the current native Oolite ships in favour of a dark, colourless, metallic monotone and primitive ship set.
Overview
This OXP is a derivative work of which all ship models are the original datFile models of our august founder Aegidian, dating back fto from 2004–2005, with inspiration and *lore* inserts drawn from the text and images from Holdstock’s Elite Space Trader’s Flight Manual “Observer’s Guide to Ships in Service”, and the classic OXPs of Smivs who carried the Oolite retro low poly style (let’s call it RELOPy) to the next level.
This OXP aims at a different direction of “retextured core ships”, and tries to emphasise the tactile aspects of raw, gritty metal and an expression largely stripped of colour, a more primitive set of subentities, to look further back toward the feel of the Elite Manual, and inserting as many textual clues from the source as possible –to the extent of spoon-feeding– so one may be less dependent on the use of the ID scanner.
Certainly not intended as any protest or revolt against the cutting edge progressive high poly work (let’s call it PROHIPy) of Griff and peers (Old Murgh is an avid fan), but sometime when the Ooniverse is populated with exquisitely crafted objects, the more ordinary suffers in comparison.
Those open to a more simple, uniform, anaemic and dystopic Oolite experience may consider running this OXP.
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Acknowledgements
All ships are Aegidian original models from 2004–2005, with only minor additions of protruding engines and weapons nozzles.
The ship sets of Smivs, Smivs' ShipSet and The Classic Ships were very instructive, and his tireless pList legwork in plotting flashers have gratefully appropriated into this OXP.
Download
- Iron Ass vol.1 OXP TBA
License
As a derivative work of the original Aegidian models, this work continues to be licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) To view a copy of this license, go here or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Fransisco, California, 94105, USA.
Hence, one is free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material.
