Oolite Bulletins

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...which really is the only sensible thing it could do, isn't it? I mean, "none" is none, nothing, nada, nix. And where you set a weapon explicitely to " NO weapon", you wouldn't expect anything to fire, would you? :) I agree, but one of the above messages stated his ship fired ...

I'll have to vanish for a bit... meantime, here's where I'm at:



Put them together ...

... something like this perhaps?

Nice style - outside the scope of the neolite project. There are a lot of very good ideas, I cannot cover them all by my lonesome. However, that does not mean that someone else cannot try to make an oxp explicitly for neolite. It should be possible to add a large liner set on fixed runs through the ...

Griff wrote:

Here's the recoiling turret shader

Thanks - that looks like I may be able to use it.
Fortunately, the guns are not normalmapped - no point.

I would be surprised, but I can't say I've ever tried it. But my expectation would be a WEAPON_NONE would also have a fire rate and a recharge rate of zero, and those you can't change... case WEAPON_NONE : weapon_energy = 0.0; // indicating no weapon! weapon_recharge_rate = 0.20; // maximum rate we...

If we further take this turret and re-add the assigned weaponry, then essentially it is trying to do two things at once and perform two different jobs. This results in the problems you saw with offsetting etc. I would strongly suspect. Nah - the weird stuff happened even with properly defined turre...

Isn't there a better place for this discussion? Already stated - these ships are not available to players by default. Since player custom OXPs are possible, the prospect of an arms race depends on the individual. All the ships are easy to destroy with q-bombs.... so want to add a q-bomb supressor (n...

Well, the frigate is not a player ship. Alone, one will provide a decent challenge for an experienced player, but it is killable. It's main disadvantage is it's pitch rate - so it it hard to bring the main guns to bear on a fast-moving target. Keep moving, keep your distance, you should be fine. OTO...

That is correct, there are 10 turrets and 5 lasers. So this version has a longer strike range and fewer more powerful attacks. It's also smaller - about 1.5x anaconda size. In keeping with the frigate role , it has longer range scanners and a jammer filter. Shows up in the navy fleet, and as escort ...

http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/Simon_Bridge/navy-frigate1.png I figured a bit of color would help. This attempts to look like the megaship hull colour. Bit I'm trying others. http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/Simon_Bridge/th_navy-frigate2.png ... linkt to a full screenshot of a navy ...

You have explained that initialise-turret is what makes a model orient its z-axis to a target, and arms it with a plasma cannon. No, it turns a subentity into a turret (= something that fires plasma balls at its mother's current target, provided this target is in firing range and at a sufficient an...

Progress report: I have all three megaship types and the navy frigates working. I am at the stage of tweaking the frigate normalmap... started to make dumb mistakes again so it's time for bed. An early look: caution - not final. http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/Simon_Bridge/Screenshot-OoliteV...

Anyway, regular thargoids are no problem - perhaps they need a rescript to run away from behemoths in these situations? I thought thargoids had their fear glands surgically removed... Oscar Then they may be brave enough to run away ;) The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats with...