Oolite Bulletins

Thanks guys, all sorted. I think my mistake stemmed from the fact that the WIKI refers to the name which I took to be the name entry within the definition rather than the name of the definition. Interesting how it appeared to work with the hythen though, both with the demo screen and in-game proper.

Just downloaded and looked at Thargoids rack (oo-er ) and come to the same conclusion.

I'll make the changes and see what happens.

Snippet of shipdata in case anybody case see my mistake. "PdG_LeopardBase" = { accuracy = 8; aft_eject_position = "0.0 0.0 -30.5"; ai_type = "route1traderAI.plist"; bounty = 0; cargo_type = "CARGO_NOT_CARGO"; energy_recharge_rate = 5; exhaust = ("45.0 -8....

Most odd indeed. I've several instances in the shipdata.plists. If I use the hythen then all is shiney but if I underscore then I get the below in the stderr.txt file 2008-11-03 13:28:38.525 oolite.exe[3016] [universe.getShip.unknown]: Attempt to create ship of type "LeopardBase", but no s...

My bad.

I had indeed used all-lower in the plist files, but I forgot when posting the above.

Original post corrected.

Not sure is this is new, searching for ' like_ship ' brought back too many responses to check them all. In another thread I've been pointed towards the ' like_ship ' statement in order to simplify my shipdata.plist file. Especially when defining several versions of the same vessel. I have found that...

Hijacked is such an emotive term, I only borrowed a small corner of it

Pimp my hauler, sounds interesting.

I'll put up my Titan and Goliath's up as victims if it would help.

LittleBear wrote:

Hint: They don't like to get too warm! Now where might you be able to heat up your craft to an uncomfortable temperature?

Obligatory 'Don't forget the BBQ sauce statement'

TGHC wrote:

I'd like a yacht.

Ha, bloody, ha

PS. I just love these forums, alway friendly and more than likely to make me smile.

The method I've used to produce off center firing points is to create a very small sub-entity and mount a laser on that. The technique was originally nicked from the Imperial Courier model but also used by several others. By using the small sub-entity it doesn't have to be a consideration when desig...

It's amazing what you can get if you ask.

I still have my slide-rule. I also used to have a cylindrical slide rule which worked exactly as a standard rule but the log scales wound up in a spiral. I donated it to my then school, which I now regret as I've never seen a similar one since. It also extended out to a fair degree (think telescope ...

Agreed, but this would have little to no visible effect, as far as a game like Oolite is concerned. The planet would still exist, there would be no explosion, even no change in texture, if we are talking about the built-in textures. Everything would be exactly the same before and after. Okay, you c...

Thanks for the compliments, makes me all warm and fuzzy :D I think one of these babies should be slooooow... maybe 0.1, something like that Absolutely, you wouldn't want to be stuck behind one of these on a country lane :) I'm keeping the performance at a highly level for testing but it will handle ...