Oolite Bulletins

Sorry for thread necromancy, but this solution is worth a sticky.

Calibrating joysticks in linux is non obvious and is not helped that SDL by default ignores your calibration (without setting SDL_JOYSTICK_DEVICE to /dev/input/jsX).

Finally got oolite to compile. Patch against 0.76.1 here http://cyberiantiger.org/oolite/oolite-joystick.patch It's a bit rough in places, Objective C isn't my primary, secondary or tertiary programming language :) Edit: I need to fix tab damage, forgot to change my editor settings to match your tab...

Hi, It's been awhile since I've played oolite, but I've managed to aquire a joystick (Microsoft sidewinder precision pro / gameport). I'm having an issue that the game ignores the joystick if it is deflected < 5%. (STICK_DEADZONE in ./src/Core/OOJoystickManager.h:105-109) 0 Ignoring the fact that th...

When I made the Tiger originally I seem to remember experimenting with the missile launch position to get it as close to the ship as possible, as this was some time ago and the collision detection has been improved since then, it's not surprising there has been a bit of bitrot.

I’m having a hard time reconciling “cheetah” and “specialised in cargo hauling” here. :-) Basically imagine what happens if you stripped down a Boa Cruiser to nothing but minimal manuvering thrusters and a rear laser, then went about strapping 8 massive engines onto the back. It's called a Cheetah ...

There's a python based obj2dat converter in trunk/tools/meshConverters/ so as long as you can export to obj, you're safe - unless you really enjoy rewriting a converter... :) I managed to get it working this time around, I use blender 3d for my modeling, the converter script can't quite handle the ...

Might make a sequel to the Tiger. the Cheetah. Instead of an all around uber ship I was planning to make it specialised in cargo hauling, so more carrying capacity, faster but much less agile. Of course I was planning to remove the ability to have any weapon on the front / side mountings, and leave ...

Yep! :-) (Oh, and when Firefox 3 comes out, there’ll be various bits of fun in upgrading to the new version…) To be honest my first instinct with regards JavaScript is "why?", what's up with Lua or Python (both of which are used in many commercial games as scripting languages, and both pr...

Alright, progress. Compile SpiderMonkey: cd deps/Cross-platform-deps/SpiderMonkey/js/src/ make -f Makefile.ref rm Linux_All_DBG.OBJ/libjs.so cd ~- Note: you need to delete the shared object to force it to be statically linked, if you dynamically link it on running oolite you'll get an error about a ...

I fixed the make file, here's the diff, my "fix" is a hack and is probably not portable to macos (or heaven forbid win32). It would be better to change the includes to #include <mozjs/jsapi.h> in the oolite source, then the extra include directory would not be needed on linux. I don't know...

Warning: Writing from memory, what follows is best to be doublechecked for correcteness. Anyway: For Linux you must use Makefile.in to build. Is this what you were using? The file called makefile in the SpiderMonkey folder is Windows specific. The jsautocfg.h is created as part of the build process...

I'm currently stuck on the most basic of things anyway - checkout subversion and compile from the source code, seems to be failing because of a missing include in spidermonkey (jsautocfg.h) using the debian install scripts. Can't break things if I can't compile it :) I have a question if any coders ...

Your approach sounds more complex than mine. I was just thinking of the easiest way to get it started and sidestepping a load of potential problems, for example: - There's also the issue of someone turning up in an uber ship and being far too powerful - The other players not having the OXP for that...

Are you thinking it'll be a case of: start oolite select multiplayer exit witchspace to find it full of other people I guess you do it out of system so there's no station and give everyone a cobra 3, a beam laser and no fuel? cool :) edit - that's not how the list command works on this board then.....

I don't have enough free time for this, but I'll do my best to write a multi player patch for the game. I'm not planning on adding any new features to the game in the process, I'm just going to take the physics engine split it into a client and server version, and write the appropriate networking co...