Oolite Bulletins

@griff: so for the effect I'm thinking of, I'd need to multiply the color channels of the diffuse-map with it's alpha channel to get an emission map (so windows glow yellow and engines glow blue etc)? I'll have to watch how these things blend. Actually I'm kinda liking the idea of all pearly lights...

http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/Simon_Bridge/iguana-wmaterials.png ... interesting: notice that the yellow windows appear glow yellow even though the glow color is pearly? Also, the exhaust appears to glow brighter with speed due to the occlusion by the exhaust plume. I should try making th...

That was quick! The Ahruman is everywhere. The Ahruman sees all. We give thanks for the bounty of the Ahruman. <reads> Hmmmm ... looks like everything I've been doing with custom shaders could have been done in the default. I wonder why I didn't do that earlier <checks> oh yeah. I'll have another go...

Simon, if you've decided to go with the idea to just put a glow map in the alpha channel of the diffuse texture you won't need to write any shaders, you can do it all with materials - with the added benefit of the glows also working on computers that's can't usually run the full shaders mode, just ...

Thanks folks ... Griff: hmmm... I didn't put any fiddly stuff in the anaconda... or did you mean the navy version? That one is related to the core anaconda like the griff-boa and griff-krait are to their respectives. There is a serious poly count in there: at least for Oolite (I see that less than 1...

At last - preview OXP available: http://www.box.net/shared/1zunz8ixoe ... this is all the ships that are not vipers. I included an Iguana - I know one of the guns is out of place and the stats are wrong. Actually it flies pretty good on those stats. What-else I've been doing: rworked navy ships http...

OK I fi-nally got around to upoading the new Katapo . This file is zipped only so don't give me any grief about it alright ;) I think the texture could use a bit of work ... if someone wants to put it through a darkness/contrast filter - maybe make the glowing bit more blue or something? Or just red...

Rather than badgering the poor man, why not bloody well go look it up yourself if you're so interested in it. He provided a link to the software. And if you're not that interested, why beleaguer the point? My suspicion is you are trying to lead him by the nose to your favorite pet cause in some vai...

So one could also work the rock hermit and behemoth and other station markets... though I have noticed that I cannot just buy up all the gems at a station, there seems to be some restriction there. Maybe I'll look more closely.

Yeah - a bunch of people I know in Canterbury found out how unstable the ground was :/ ... I have noticed that many people slap a non-commercial notice on their OXPs, and I understand the POV. There are threads about copyright and licensing someplace - link anyone? - so I don't have to repeat that s...

Cool - which free software licence does it use? I'm not sure it says it's free, and there is (like the Wiki) a donations option discretely built in to it's interface. When I am talking about "free software" I do not mean "zero price". I mean that it is licensed to grant specific...

DMCA takedown against a 3D computer model.
http://blog.thingiverse.com/2011/02/18/ ... ty-policy/

... the threat of this sort of stuff is part of why I keep wanting to explore replacing the ship-set.

Cool - which free software licence does it use?

Usefulness to a player is fairly limited ... but this leaves open the possibility of an escort missions OXP designed by some scripting genius. Though I note that with judicious choice of oxps, some systems can get quite busy... so one can still spend hours in-system. Do you still need 1T of cargo sp...

http://www.7-zip.org/ ... from what I can see, The Extractor is proprietary software. 7-zip is GPL, use that instead. I am not strongly motivated to enable non-FOSS software. The risk, of course, is that some people will not be motivated to use my OXPs: I see that as "fair enough". In fact...