Oolite Bulletins

The hard work - as well as the tough part of the learning curve, has been completed. The OXP has been updated and is ready for your enjoyment. http://www.hbclinux.net.nz/oolite/screenshot.png Todo: convert the shipdata.plist to open-step format. I should work in that from now on. The Config file in ...

Hi Simon, when attempting to download ships from your interesting Oolite resources homepage, the "Typhoon class Ships" and the "Viper III" links were broken. I would like to see them, though. Just reporting. Interesting stuff 8) L Yikes - OK, fixed now. Enjoy. I was laid low by ...

Downloaded the new 1.72. Confirmed bug. Its because the player now needs to be refered to as "player.ship" in JS. To fix you'd have to S&R all the Script files. Search for "== player" and replace with "== player.ship" I'll make the change for a V1.3BETA in a few da...

Ta nicely Griff, that's what I need - I think I may have enough information to actually make the most of the tutorials and examples now. hmmm... SpecularRGB = { type = vector; value = "0.5 0.7 1.0";} turns into: <key>SpecularRGB</key> <dict> <key>type</key> <string>vector</string> <key>val...

I'm munching my way through Griff's shader examples - paying attention to the specular effects. @Griff: did you ever try reflecting something other than white? I am assuming that the lack of replies on changing the colour of the specular component means that this is non-trivial? [edit]Sorry guys - d...

I forgot to apply the shaders to the sub-entities didn't I?! :oops: The engines arn't on the main model - so naturally, they didn't show up. Now the effects are going - thank you good people. Next to turn to the specular effect. Please? Meantime, I'll work on updating that oxp to reflect all the fee...

Thanks littlebear - it may have done it. Re engines - perhaps there is a scale factor in the fragment shader? Examining... // Blue, intensity proportional to level. vec4 EngineGlow(float level) float engineAlpha = effectMap.r; //... engineAlpha is the amount of red in the effect map. vec4 engineEffe...

Hah - partial success: Took the shaders section, and folder, from shady cobras, turned into the following XML and got the blue glow. No engine or laser glow. Still want the red specular. <key>shaders</key> <dict> <key>katipo.png</key> <dict> <key>fragment_shader</key> <string>ahruman_charlie_updated...

Still no luck figuring the syntax... maybe
<key>katipo.png</key>

should be
<string>katipo.png</string>

as that is the texture being replaced by the shaders?

Nah - has no effect - there's obviously a key concept I'm missing.

Considering the interest, a (sticky) copyright thread may be useful. Your ideas about derived works are similar to FSF ones. If you don't use any of the source code, then it ain't a derived work. Note - in software, rewriting a program using our own code is allowed (or whither GNU). The DN case woul...

Simon, there is no 1.72-release of Oolite yet. The current version is 1.71.2. What you have built yourself is the current trunk, which one day (in a different shape from what you have built yourself, because it is worked upon daily and probably by the hour) If only… We-ell, if you would like it cha...

http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/plisteditpro/ ... sadly it is not Free Software . No use to me. I'll have to crank up the old mark 1 eyeball (trouble is, it's coupled to a v0.9.1 brain). I have seen a bunch of utilities for gnu/linux which edit plists, but they all convert binary to XML. O course, ano...

All right - do I have to hunt down through threads to locate the changes?

Still no luck with those shaders - I know I missed something simple. It's reminding me of the hours trying to figure out why the arachnid-wolf didn't come with legs - only to find I'd misspelled the name. Had a go subverting the shady cobra too ... now did I convert the open format to XML correctly?

Yes - I understand - I've just spent a fortnight in the company of Richard Stallman trust me on this: I know ;) (I'm also something of an FSF rep to NZ.) I just remember seeing something about submitted OXPs needing to be GPLv2 ... oh well. A quick hunt didn't turn up the reference so I'll let it go...