Oolite Bulletins

:shock: So are we supposed to be scared of these? Fierce Harmless Fat Insects. Fierce Harmless Frogs. :D Maybe the frog is harmless to us, humanoids, but I think that the Fat Insects have another opinion about it...... Maybe they are only fierce if you cross them, but are generally good natured? :D...

Ok, I had a - instead of a _ in the likeship in shipdata.plist, so there were no NPC Orions... Corrected, link in first post or here for your convenience.

It's really awesome but just makes so little sense with having so many weak spots. Maybe you can come up with an in game explanation for why these types of freighters suddenly became popular? That's not hard.. the same explanation as for IRL freight-trains. Dirt-cheap bulk haulage. For example, sup...

Wow!
I love that! I want to get a picture of my commander, too...
On further consideration... would it be hard to let you put your own photos into such a tool? A simple template for where the nose/beak/snout and eyes should be etc. .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9LsuNWjRaAo Even an Anaconda can only compare with a very small freight-train. The other Oolite ships aren't even in the running. Hah! Good point! And I couldn't watch the whole video because I had to go to catch my train... 5 min in. :shoc...

I just thought... wouldn't it be possible to spawn a wrecked stardestroyer on destruction of the original one with the properties of a q-bomb? That way the q-bomb wouldn't be diplaced as it is the stardestroyer :?: EDIT: And even if it is displaced by the shockwave, you would see the stardestroyer d...

Huh! Some very good ideas, here. :D I don't know if I can get some of them to work with my limited grasp of scripting, but... :P I will look into it. :roll: (Dark side, indeed!) I'm not quite sure about the realigning after one out of the middle has been shot, as the train is in full flee mode at th...

Well, there would be some problems with ships of a different size - very small, and you just see it from afar, very big and some or all of the viewpoints would be in the ship.

Oh, and for B/W Oolite you just need to adjust your monitor...

Ahh.. good.. so I'm not going crazy.. thanks for explaining things, Commander. :lol: 8) (however, I do still think some of my troubles were caused by having the Sniper Camera still in my AddOns. Could have sworn I'd deleted it already.. ah well.) And now that the SC has been deleted, I can confirm ...

What standard external views? The problem is that you haven't included any external views at all . External views are defined in the custom_views dict in shipdata. Your shipdata don't contain a custom_views dict, therefore there are none until you include that dict. Given the dimensions of the ship...

Somebody else has any ideas/problems/wishes? Please please please add some external views to the next version. Half the fun is being able to admire a ship from the outside. Hmm, I had no proplems with the standard external views. I just uploaded the new version without any custom ones... :oops: As ...

As for the challenge, I think I was already doing it, but no one told me before now that a 3D Model of the Comet was already in existence. If that model can be downloaded, and used in the game, I see no use in my continuing, other than to satisfy my own creative appetite. That is probably what I wi...

Thank you. :oops: And especially thanks to Diziet Sma for the photos I have forgotten to do. :oops: :oops: I'm planning to add a new download shortly with a monochrome version. :mrgreen: After looking at the series again, I think I will delete the biggest flasher up on top, as well. (And the readme ...

The Orion is ready.

Ok, here it is: http://rorschachhamster.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/orion.jpg?w=799 I had it flying, but I forgot to make a screenshot, and by the time I remembered, I had deleted the savegame already... :oops: Read more about it here in the wish ship thread . Download it from my box account . With ...