Oolite Bulletins

I bought a copy of Gran Turismo 4 (since it was only 15 quid) so that's taking up most of the spare time i would be putting to use on this...

the various laser types have varying range and damage (I think it's on the wiki somewhere although i only remember seeing it in the source code for Elite:TNK). They don't 'reload' - basically they overheat and you have to wait for them to cool down. That rate is fixed and can't be modified. The rech...

i agree with you pagroove

You're right - i could (should) use the same seed to define the texture. Makes sense if we're going to use the results of that seed to determine the colour, sea level etc.

sorry, i see what you mean.

It's worthy of being it's own topic and then it should catch the eye of someone with the source code handy so they can tell us.

sorry - some confusion over the meaning of the word seed here. In the texture generator the seed can by any 32bit integer (so there are 4 billion of them). Oolite's seed for generating galaxies and planets is entirely separate. I think the oolite it chooses a pair of numbers ot start from then uses ...

I can post the code somewhere if anybody wants to play with it. Basically it fills a 2x2 grid with random numbers and then uses bicubic interpolation to smooth that out onto an array of heights of the size we want to generate eg 256x256. Then it repeats with a 4x4 grid but scales the numbers (to 70%...

That seems a fair summary. It should be possible to have both at once though - procedural generation as a default but any planet could be overidden by an OXP. The procedural texture is generated from a 'seed' number and a load of parameters. The seed basically determins the altitude of the land accr...

yup - oceans can be any colour you like

Cheers captKev - it looks much better wrapped round a planet! :) I'll do a higher resolution one as it's a bit artificial looking around the equator. Lestradae - it's generated by a little C# program I wrote. It should be easy enough to port to objective C (which oolite uses) as the languages aren't...

Cheers Capt Kev, there's one of the latest iteration on flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/24657513@N04/2372277120/

Could someone try wrapping one of the procedurally generated textures onto a planet just so we can see how it looks please?

They're 512x256 at the moment - would 1024x512 be needed?

Or can I just download this new OXP and change one of the texture files?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24657513@N04/2372277120/ version 5 of my texture generator images are now sharper (so they don't look melted) it's 3 times faster to generate (so 400ms when not in debug mode) adds snow capped mountains better equatorial palette extra random variation in the vegetation t...

Have you never seen Finnish rally drivers driving in the snow? definite case of fear glands being removed!

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