Yodacon Ship Pack

The ships

Every ship is a 36-frame sprite — frame 00 nose-up, 10° clockwise per frame — plus the plugin's target, shipyard, comm and thumbnail pictures. Three sets: the original for Escape Velocity, the larger, re-rendered fleet for EV Override, and two ships Paul rendered for konex.

Use it in your project

No build step, no npm. Pick a way to reach the files; the library finds the rest relative to itself.

<script type="module" src="vendor/yodacon-ship-pack/lib/yodacon-ship-pack.js"></script>

<script type="module" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/yodacon/yodacon-ship-pack@v2.0.0/lib/yodacon-ship-pack.js"></script>

<script type="module" src="https://yodacon.org/ship-pack/lib/yodacon-ship-pack.js"></script>

<yodacon-ship ship="yodacon" spin></yodacon-ship>
<yodacon-ship ship="dart" edition="override" heading="90" scale="1"></yodacon-ship>

import { loadShip, drawShip } from "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/yodacon/yodacon-ship-pack@v2.0.0/lib/yodacon-ship-pack.js";

const ship = await loadShip("conex", "yodacon");
drawShip(ctx, ship, headingDeg, x, y, 2);   // centred, pixelated

Examples — one ship, one framework, one page each

• Plain DOM + CSS sprite — background-position, no canvas
• Canvas 2D game loop — ~80 lines with drawShip
• The <yodacon-ship> element — every ship spinning, attribute playground
• three.js 0.160.0 — textured plane and billboard sprite, with the UV math
• Phaser 3.80.1 — spritesheet, Arcade physics, pixelArt: true
• PixiJS 8.6.6 — one texture per frame, ticker flight
• The demo game · Library API reference · Examples index

Download

Need only one edition? conex/ (1997) and override/ (1998) are each self-contained: ships, weapon, pictures and the original readme. Copy the one you want, with LICENSE.

The original archives

• 792_ConEx12.sit.hqx — ConEx 1.2, BinHex as Ambrosia served it; unpacked: ConEx 1.2.sit
• 2437_ConExOverride.sit.hqx — ConEx Override 1.0; unpacked: ConEx Override1.0.0.sit

Checksums of every file are in manifest.json and sources/README.md.

Clone or fork

git clone --branch v2.0.0 https://github.com/yodacon/yodacon-ship-pack

git submodule add https://github.com/yodacon/yodacon-ship-pack vendor/yodacon-ship-pack

https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/yodacon/yodacon-ship-pack@v2.0.0/lib/yodacon-ship-pack.js
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/yodacon/yodacon-ship-pack@v2.0.0/conex/ships/yodacon/sheet-alpha.png
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/yodacon/yodacon-ship-pack@v2.0.0/catalog.json

cd yodacon-ship-pack && python3 -m http.server 8000
# → http://localhost:8000/  and  http://localhost:8000/demo/

GPL-2.0, in plain words

Ships from the Yodacon Ship Pack by Paul Richeson (ConEx, 1997), GPL-2.0-or-later — https://github.com/yodacon/yodacon-ship-pack

Where they came from

1. 1997ConEx 1.2 — Paul Richeson's plugin for Ambrosia Software's Escape Velocity: ten ships for the government of Consolidated Express.
2. 1998ConEx Override 1.0 — the fleet rebuilt for EV Override: larger sprites, and a new hull, the Callisto.
3. 1998ConEx GL — Joshua Bussdieker's first standalone ConEx, in C and OpenGL, kept in a private repository before konex. No code survives in public.
4. 2005konex — Joshua Bussdieker's C++/OpenGL remake, which took Override's ten hulls as its cast, plus Advisor and Citrus, two more ships rendered by Paul Richeson.
5. 2026Gonex — a Go/Ebitengine port of konex that restores ConEx's own game.
6. 2026This pack — built by Yodacon (yodacon.org).

The originals, rehosted

• sources/ev/792_ConEx12.sit.hqx — ConEx 1.2
• sources/ev/793_ConEx12u.sit.hqx — the 1.1 → 1.2 updater
• sources/evo/2437_ConExOverride.sit.hqx — ConEx Override 1.0

Back-references

• Cythera Guides — Ambrosia EV add-ons archive
• Cythera Guides — Ambrosia EV Override add-ons archive
• Ambrosia's own download of ConEx 1.2 (Wayback, 13 Apr 2013) — byte-identical to the rehosted copy
• Ambrosia's EV add-on library (Wayback, 31 May 2000; capture)
• Ambrosia's EV Override add-ons (Wayback, 2002)
• Ambrosia's FTP server (Wayback, 5 Dec 1998; capture)

Escape Velocity is Ambrosia Software's. The pack contains only Paul Richeson's work; Ambrosia's logo, which the plugins carried, is left out.

How they were made

From the ConEx 1.2 readme — The stuff I used to make this plugin, in order from most important to least important:

Infini-D

to design the ships

EV-Edit

to make everything except missions

Schmelta-V

to make missions

ResEdit

to renumber resources and fix what EV-Edit broke

GraphicConverter

to convert all images to PICT and make the target graphics

Make spïn

to gather the 36 individual PICT files into sprites and masks

an Iomega Zip drive

to store all the files

the Escape Velocity Data file

for its TMPL resources, so ResEdit could edit

Escape Velocity

to test

DOCMaker

for the readme

Bryce 2

for the landing screens

The original readmes: ConEx 1.2 · ConEx Override 1.0.

In 2026 they were extracted with the pack's own pure-Python tools (tools/: BinHex, StuffIt 5 Arsenic and classic method 13, resource forks, QuickDraw PICT).

Who's flying them

#1 Gonex — the Go port of konex with the ConEx trade game restored — flies 13 / 13 designs: the 1997 originals and konex's cast, which is ConEx Override's art plus Advisor and Citrus.

The leaderboard counts distinct ship designs out of thirteen: the ten 1997 hulls, the Callisto, Advisor and Citrus (the 1/4 Defender reuses the Defender's art).

• The full leaderboard (USED-IN.md)
• List your project — see CONTRIBUTING.md