Oolite Bulletins

My (well, this is a quite common) idea is to build a hierarchy of objects. If you know a planet would be displayed as a point you do not even need to try to render objects in the subsystem represented by that planet. Note, when talking about system and subsystem I do not refer to the Oolite term but...

There is no need to render a space station if it is in the subsystem of a planet which is 0.1 AU away. You don't need to render a planet which is 2 AUs away or a solar system in a distance of 2 Parsecs. Once you have culled those objects you can concentrate to your vicinity. Here you use another sca...

Identifying planets by greek letters is easy to implement. You just need to iterate over planets[] and check a planet's distance to the sun. The nearest is alpha, the next beta etc. Oolite knows the Entity class. It has a method owner() which returns the parent object. Wouldn't it be a good idea to ...

"script.js" assigns orbits to planets found in the array "planets". There's a variable in the script which defines the maximum number of planets added by Orbits itself. IIRC I have called it "maxPlanets". If you use System Redux you may want to set it to zero. ADCK, I s...

Hi,

I have already prepared Orbits for the trunk version. This license stuff irritates me and therefore I haven't published Orbits yet.

The current Oolite version gives warnings but it should still work.

The russian FFE MOD has nice graphics. You should watch some youtube videos. I could not detect any errors. FFE's navigation system is outstanding. I miss that in Oolite. If you find the physics too hard but like the planetary systems you may want to try Ad Astra (currently my favourite). This game ...

Hi Thargoid, I get an error message saying: [shipData.load.begin]: Loading ship data... [plist.parse.foundation.failed]: Failed to parse ../AddOns/Pods 1.10.oxp/Config/shipdata.plist as a property list using Foundation. Retrying using homebrew parser. WARNING: the homebrew parser is deprecated and w...

That was my understanding as well. I was talking of the average buy price. There must be an internal representation of the cargo list. For instance: c .av = (c .av * c .amnt + price * amnt) / (c .amnt + amnt); c .amnt += amnt; Hmm. what happens if you sell the item partially? c .amnt -= amnt That mu...

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Cmdr James wrote:

There are other ways to get things, such as scooping cargo, or awarded by scripts (Ore Extracter oxp for example).

You may also have 35t of food, each one from a different place and different price , how would we display that?

The average price would be okay.

In order to keep the distances of witchpoint and orbital station to the main planet stable Orbits moves all but the main planet to their new positions. After that it simulates time dependent movement of the main plain by rotating the other planets and the sun around the main planet in the inverse di...

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Hello JameSpal,

I noticed that as well. Obviously the planet illumination is done before Orbits moves the planets to their new position. I was told by Ahruman that he already knows what the problem is and that he is working on it.

If you wanted to be as realistic as possible, you'd also have change the way the ships handle - Newtonian physics and all that - and then it wouldn't be Oolite/Elite - it would be something else. Maybe as fun in some ways, but not true to the roots. I don't want Newtonian physics! I want Einsteinia...

The question is how would piracy work in a real universe. I'm pretty sure pirates would find a way. You just need to implement it:) For example, first they would hack your computer to get the route you want to fly. Next they would throw a grappling hook (very sophisticated device) which brings your ...