| July
2000 After seeing how different the ArcElite models were from the standard BBC ones, I attempted to extract the ship definitions from the emulable ArcElite available from Ian Bell's web site. I got really stuck when trying to retrieve the colour palette information and contacted Clive Gringras the co-author of ArcElite. He was extremely helpful and e-mailed me the ArcElite ship definitions within a few hours. I have built 33 of the main ships and objects and placed them on my second shipyard page here |
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| June
2000 Reduced Javascript by 2K by improving the way the ships are changed by clicking on hyperlinks. Added the model for the Missile. |
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| May
2000 Changes to index page to show a rotating model (for a change) which shrinks, changes design and then expands into full view. Very much inspired by the opening screen from Elite. Can be quite slow first time through the loop. This is a trade-off between a large initial delay or pauses between ship changes. More noticeable over slower modem connections. |
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| April
2000 Minor changes to site navigation, added graphical links and starfield background. |
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| March
2000 Cobra Mk III and Thargoid created as test models. Found the problem with shared vertices as described in the about page. Utility to make vertices non-shared written and tested. All BBC models built, coloured and compressed, site uploaded. Hooray! |
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