Oolite Bulletins

Kaks wrote:

That's exactly why we recommend everybody use openstep instead of xml.

Can you link to where exactly this recommendation is made, please.

Thanks Thargoid - you are half right, but you put me onto the course to find the right answer. The equivalent of the wiki example is the almost absurdly verbose: <array> <integer>1</integer> <integer>2</integer> <integer>-3</integer> <integer>2</integer> <integer>-3</integer> <integer>-4</integer> <...

I have a ship that has the following in its shipdata.plist entry: <key>name</key> <string>The Painted Lady</string> <key>beacon</key> <string>Painted Lady</string> <key>roles</key> <string>dsr_chp1_paintedlady</string> I also have the following entry in my descriptions.plist: <key>dsr_chp1_paintedla...

Svengali wrote:

It seems Ragged and I are thinking about the same things...

btw: Cool pics, Ragged!

Thx - with static cutscreens and conversation trees, we have achieved 1990s levels of RPG gameplay technology. Onward...

The big thing that makes a difference with Thargoids, IMO, is having fuel injectors. These allow you to quickly remove yourself from harm's way, allow your lasers to cool a bit, get a good overview of the battlefield, maybe fire off some hardheads, and then re-engage when you are ready. Try fighting...

Hmm, on my system at least, it scales up 512x512 images to the full screen height.

See here

https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=118410#118410

This is Missy. She'd look even better if the game didn't scale up her images to the hight of the screen. http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy239/Wayne_Stubbs/oolite-002.png http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy239/Wayne_Stubbs/oolite-003.png http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy239/Wayne_Stubbs/ool...

This is excellent stuff and the sort of thing that should be in the wiki. Thank you

Well, background is in the back of any text, and overlay is displayed over any text.

Well that is what I would have expected, but I cannot replicate this. The text always appears over whatever image I use.

It has certain tactical applications. Hit and run tactics can be effective against slower moving, indivisible targets with superior firepower. Say you have a convoy protected by a couple of warships with fighter escort. Your attackers zoom in, inflict maximum damage in the time available, and then w...

Does anyone know the difference between an 'overlay' image and a 'background' image on a mission screen?

Also, how does the game treat such images - does it try to scale them in any way?

Who was the author of the old-style constores (the boxes with a sign on top), and are the models available for download anywhere? I'd like to (with permission) repurpose them as truckstops.

Excellent solution.

Do you know the formula for calculating mass?

As far as I can work out from the wiki, at the point in the timeline that Oolite is set, Galcop is only one of several political organisations in the known galaxy. There is also the Federation, which includes the Sol system (and from which Galcop secceeded), the Empire and possibly others. At some p...

The 'remove fuel' solution occurred to me, but it will have the unwanted side-effect of preventing fuel-injector use.

Hopefully the new property in 1.75 will do what I want.