Oolite Bulletins

nice video. i mite see a problem with the mite...... thrust line is not on centre of mass line so unless the engine is more mass than the rest of the ship or its made out of ultra dense handvavium, that sucker is just gonna spin... lol Go on ruin it for me :roll: More seriously this thought had cro...

...I'm making these models for my own personal attempt at an Elite style game (think Star Citizen with a budget roughly $66 million less :wink:) where the sizes of ships are a lot smaller ... Ah, I see :) To help you see even better :wink: I've just created the following video ... http://i375.photo...

I don't think there is a Mite, but I have to ask, have you seen the discussions on scale? That Mite looks tiny if the pilot is anything to go by. It's probably a tenth as big as a cargo container I'd guess, and would therefore be all but un-seeable in-game. I certainly have seen the discussions on ...

After a bit of a long break (thank you a nice and long bout of the flu!) I've updated the OXZ file for the Tiger Ray based on the feedback given by everyone. Above all the ship should be less common in each role. The link is the same as before ... here . In addition I've started working on a few new...

thanks all for the replies . i didnt want to upset the OXP author . i really like the Tiger Ray as a ship and i do want to keep it but i think personally tech lvl 3 worlds is a bit low for a nice bit of kit like this.... and maybe reduce the chance a bit to make it not so prevalent. right now its a...

Nice work! So you decided the size of a Krait, 4 energy banks and 540 as speed which is faster than a Viper Interceptor . Size ... well it was meant to be a smaller ship. 4 energy banks ... to be honest I will agree with everything you say ;) Speed ... now that was intentional ... the whole design ...

Okay ... after clearing the cache, resetting my computer and reformatting my brain the Tiger Ray (formerly known as the Manta) is up and running in the game ... http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo195/JonAlma/TigerRay2.jpg I will set up a proper wiki page as soon as I have access, but please feel w...

As an alternative to the above, in case you are making lots of changes continuously that would require Shift to be used often, you can also set this key inside your .GNUstepDefaults file: "always-flush-cache" = YES; which will make Oolite refresh its cache every time it loads, of course a...

I'm having a weird problem ... at least weird for me ... when updating the OXP I am following the current process ... Exit Oolite Modify for instance the shipdate.plist file Start up Oolite again Might not be the most efficient way, but that's not the problem - what is happening is that the modifica...

Looks nice - a quick heads-up though on the name. There is already a Manta and also a Manta Ray ship in various OXPs. Not a problem ... the Manta becomes a Tiger Ray ... it even has the Tiger's Orange Stripes ;) That way I should hopefully avoid creating problems when mixing in this OXP with others...

So after a bit of playing around a first sighting of a Manta ... http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo195/JonAlma/OoliteManta1.jpg Well second actually ... the first was of a police Manta rushing out of a space station to attack me where it immediately went into a loop ... and smashed into the side ...

Ships are powered with non-Newtonian drives, cargopods aren't. Your ship's engines grip the fabric of spacetime, dragging it in the front and squirting it out the back, resulting in the wakes of disturbed spacetime that you see emerging from the nacelles (well, actually you're seeing Cherenkov radi...

Might be a good idea to have a look at this bit of fiction. Well, perhaps 'bit' is not quite the right word :) https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=16729 About 2/3 the way through the story, Malacandra introduces the 'Claymore' - fighter escort role - with a para-military, anti-pirate s...

Okay ... I'm getting serious about the OXP now ... I've created a version of the model specifically for Oolite and have started scaling it up to fit the game (the postage stamp is more football pitch sized) ... this is a comparison against a Cobra III ... http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo195/Jon...

Brave colour choice IMO but it works. Normally the colouring would be be mainly various shades of grey. The starting point for something a bit different was actually the Griffin Mk II - Griff's models were a real inspiration and I just really liked the added colour ... Then it was just a case of ta...