Oolite Bulletins

The station looks truly magnificent, great work. I particularly like the biodome on top; it's an interesting detail. The dome strongly reminds me of the giant space gardens from the 1972 science fiction movie "Silent Running." Pure coincidence or homage? thank you :-) it's coincidence - t...

Griff wrote: ↑Wed Apr 30, 2025 9:51 pm

That is just a pure work of art! Amazing stuff KW!

Really awesome to read Cody is still about too,hope he's doing well

thank you

they're supposed to be scissoring/folding arms that hold a big ship in position whilst docked.

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Wed Apr 30, 2025 1:42 am

cbr wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 6:31 pm

Lower diffusemap values, wow, bloody forest on top...

A zero-G cricket pitch, one assumes.

be a bugger if a rogue ball puts a window out

wow, thanks for all the kind comments

i had a poke at the Nuit 2.3 i think it was, when the issue about armadas came up, didn't realise you could dock at the arms etc!

After looking at the mysterious armada thread i felt the original station was looking a bit etch-a-sketch, so here's an update

https://app.box.com/s/gvs4zjexvjgwxowd01tjjrxxddvo9jp1

has a simple populator script, you can change the tech level/govt in it to suit.

cheers
KW

Really... Never noticed this behavior before, distance perhaps. Did a quick look at the Vipers in the default shipdata.plist and they do have the initially_on = no variable set for their Flashers. What then determines when the state of the Flashers changes as there was no condition_script attached ...

firstly, those liveries look awesome. i also think specific liveries would be good, after all each US state has a different scheme or at least badge. secondly - am i hallucination, cos i could swear vipers used to cruise about w/out flashing lights which would then come on if their alert state chang...

'ing epic.

absolutely gorgeous!

damn, every time i come here the screnshots just get better.

:-O

that's one Hell of a screenshot!

wow, that looks a lot better.

whole station could use a facelift/update though.

there was nothing i did in the original OXP that had anything to do w/ escorts :-/

not played it but i must admit i had/have a chip on my shoulder over it. a massive fan of the games since that original release, we were begging for YEARS for Elite IV, they even teased animation tests on the website and mentioned leaving your ship to explore etc. Then, they did nothing. Year after ...