Oolite Bulletins

Please don't mess with the theme - it has a lovely menacing feel to it.

Or, if you do, give me the option to switch it back on!

Disembodied wrote:

Dr. Nil wrote:

Great job Disembodied! That wraps up set E.

Cheers, Doc! Here's one to kick off the next 50...



PS: If anyone thinks that all lobsters look alike, it means you're a racist.

lobstist, don't you mean?

Any frustum culling in this release, Ahruman?

(I guess "no", but I thought I'd ask anyway...)

Yes. The frame rate is up a bit but it is still unplayable, even when "overclocking" (I think it should be called "rightclocking" in this application) to 900Mhz. There are some improvements in 1.70 that may help... so I'm waiting for that. In the meantime, it's Speccy Elite for m...

If you think about it, equipping a cargo cannister with an automatic attack system, a laser and an engine is a pretty neat idea. It would be like a Tharglet. I mean, it's obviously a bug but if this were a real world that sort of thing would make sense. I'd be hacking bombs into my cannisters if I c...

Wolfwood wrote:

Hehe, I know that - I'm also a member of that community

Ah...well, I'm a moderator on eeeuser, so you can take a guess at my username...

Are you in possession of an eee, and are you trying oolite on it?

Wolfwood, we (in the eee community at eeeuser.com, not the Royal "we", ha ha) are still coming to grips with the potential of the little eee. Don't give up hope yet... I haven't!

There's probably a ".ooliterc" file in the home directory - will check it.

Also, I have on order a 2G memory card, so I hope that will improve matters for the better.

I'll let you know.

Thanks!

JonB

Thanks for that, Ahruman. I imagine you're extremely busy. I'm still experimenting with the Oolite install myself. It just locked my little system up, ha ha! Never mind.

I don't think adding little used command line switches is a bad idea. Even Windows can use them. As to design decision(s), I'm not trying to make any, just asking for a very useful feature that isn't in there already (AFAIK). This is the "Suggestion Box", isn't it? No need to shoot me down...

Take a look at this thread: https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?t=4071 It's turned into a wish list, so I'm posting a question here. I would like to see more rendering configuration options (other than "Reduced Detail") that would allow Oolite to run on slower machines. I think it would ...

jonnycuba wrote:

You can't mess with the og Oolite theme tune! It's classy... I'd like to hear your interpretation of the theme for Oolite though.

Amen to that. I like the sense of threat it implies. Shame you only hear it the once, though. And it needs more bars.

You can't mean to say that Oolite is performing some graphics processing on objects that aren't on screen? Or have I got the wrong end of the Pulse Laser? I've tried using the reduced detail option, by the way, but it doesn't make any difference. The funny thing is, I cannot detect any difference in...

Caution: This may crash your system. You could try renicing the game. ie increase the priority it runs at. Obviously other stuff will slow down and if you overdo it all sorts of problems could crop up. First thing to try is running glxgears. See what frame rate you get. For comparison, on an Athlon...

Hello Commanders I'm trying to run Oolite on the Asus eee PC, but it's a bit slow. For example, when docking, the view of the Coriolis station gets 4 fps. I want to strip out some of the more advanced graphics features in order to be able to play it on the eee. Any suggestions as to how I might do t...