Oolite Bulletins

cbr wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:38 pm

When the beacon is reached, close the shutters...

...But not over the HUD. Looks like the pilot's helmet has shutters

Here I've matched up a red-hued version of the cloud image to the planet's air color. It does look better when they match. By 1:30 in the video, there's a strong sense that the player is no longer in space I think: approx 30 seconds in - apparent darkening of some areas of the texture approx 50 sec...

Proto wiki page up:

 Pilot Licence

cbr wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 7:49 pm

So what your looking for is nice way to go from reaching the approach point and entering the (land)station

I think so yes. So landing/docking sequence begins at say 1km rather than at 1m.

1) The license for a car is quite different for that for a tractor or a for a juggernaut. Ability to drive the one might well not confer a legal ability to drive the other. Agreed. The player is however always the pilot and essentially nearly always doing the same things: docking, equiping, loading...

I’ve been thinking about how to make visuals work. The video where I approach at a shallower angle, the transition to the clouds image actually felt fairly natural, I think because the change in sky colour was also visible as you descend closer towards the ground. Does it have to be the case that t...

v1.1 https://wiki.alioth.net/img_auth.php/5/ ... icense.oxz

Music credits: Geoffrey Burch

EDIT: updated to 1.1 to address missing file and minor corrections

I watched both videos. And got also confused why the marker would move over the planet surface. In the beginning it is not aligned with the ship's nose, so it cannot be the trajectory. Later it behaves like a trajectory. But when does the behaviour change? And why? Could it be because the texture i...

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 5:13 pm

Might it make sense to slow down the planet rotation as part of Planetfall 2.0?

There's rotation_speed_factor in planetinfo.plist.

If used as a universal setting then it could be done easily enough but then how much is too much likely depends on the player.

(a) will work in the 2.5 seconds of time the animation has to play It's so little time but yeah, for an oxp that's what you've got to work with barring mission screen involvement I suppose. Also (again, not your fault), the speedy planet rotation really doesn't help. As an aside nice to see what yo...

Ever since the founding of the Elite Federation, a pilot's combat rating has granted a certain prestige or scorn depending upon their official designation. This was being recognised by the Galactic Navy as well as by other, more nefarious organisations eager to lure capable combateers into their se...

Hi user, I can't think of an earlier one... I believe Elite A was originally called Elite III (before the emergenco of Frontier and its sequels), so another question might be what was Elite II? Elite Plus? Elite A was certainly the first fan 'remake' I ever heard of that wasn't just a conversion to ...

arquebus wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:33 am

I like this a lot!

It's coming along...

Thargoid wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 8:27 pm

I'm pleased to see this old OXP/OXZ is still going

Good to see you on these boards again, even if only a flying visit.

Combine this with Market Quantity randomness and The Player may not be able to fill their Cargo Hold in that specific system. So maybe there IS a market BUT it's prices match the main station. Player then has access to more of whatever they're buying but without an in-system exploit?... Bit harder ...