Oolite Bulletins

RyanHoots wrote:

... I'm in G5, if it helps, but I don't think it should matter.

Yes - it matters , Povray Planets does textures for each planet in G1 - only.

Of course - the other galaxies are simply another evening of rendering away.

Did some testing but are you really sure it is compatible with Famous Planets? If I install it the OXP still replaces the textures for the FP-planets. Both in the F7 screen and when you jump there. On a positive note. I like the textures. But on my machines (PC and Mac) it doesn't seem compatible. ...

Using 7Zip (my extractor program), I see there's both duplicate names for both Textures and Povray_Planets_v0.18.oxp -- 1 is the folder the other is a file. License.txt and padre.yml are both 0-byte files. Very strange - thanks for the report. I will investigate the packaging process and update. So...

Announcing Povray Planets beta available for download now http://swarm.perlide.org/static/Povray_Planets_v0.18_2011_12_10.zip Update: some reports of broken zip behaviour uncovered some issues with the packaging process - these have now been fixed. Some early screenshots http://swarm.perlide.org/sta...

Well, it's only a beta at this stage, so I'm sure that compatibility with other oxps will come later, together with other planet types, and a coverage of all galaxies... :) The galaxy coverage part is pretty simple in fact - point spreadsheet at script... burn some cpu and out pop the textures. Man...

Announcing Povray Planets beta available for download now in low resolution http://swarm.perlide.org/static/gal1/Povray_Planets_v0.14_2011-11-29.zip - ~30Mb Update Higher resolution also now available - http://swarm.perlide.org/static/gal1/Povray_Planets_v0.14_2011-11-29_big.zip ~ 90Mb Browse some e...

JazHaz wrote:

It might be worth thinking about adding your textures to one of the existing planet texturers?

This is good advice - i might discuss with the Deep Horizons project , that OXP looks very tasty. Especially for a 'BETA'

Hmm, what do you want to happen when both your planets and System Redux are loaded together? And Famous {lanets? And Deep Horizon? What about System Demux? For the time being I would think that PovrayPlanets would just get-out-of-the-way in deference to more mature OXPs - only manipulating the plan...

Hello all, I am a long time fan of elite and have greatly enjoyed recently playing Oolite with some of the Griff and Famous Planets OXP's. I would like to gather some advice about my idea to algorithmically generate textures for all planet/galaxy combinations - based on each planet's random seed. I ...