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by Commander_X
Thu Oct 24, 2024 4:32 am
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7485
Views: 1837967

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

[...] I asked for examples of stories with black holes performing some function between the narrative extremes of being just a passing reference and being a main focus of the protagonist's actions. I'm asking for stories with gratuitous inclusion of black holes, that could be easily written out, bu...
by Commander_X
Fri Oct 11, 2024 3:57 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7485
Views: 1837967

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Bringing in (from the previous dead attempt, heh) Mass Effect quickly: in Mass Effect 2, in the opening scene, commander Sheppard dies as a result of an attack on his* ship, and a very appealing cinematic. His remains are recovered, and he is resurrected by Cerberus. * I designate a male commander h...
by Commander_X
Mon Sep 16, 2024 2:42 pm
Forum: Oolite-Mac
Topic: Attempting to get 1.91 built on Mac
Replies: 104
Views: 15555

Re: Attempting to get 1.91 built on Mac

Bogatyr wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2024 6:49 am
[...] For those who do this, what works for you?
OSX-KVM is what I found quite straightforward to use (Slackware 15.0 on a Ryzen 7 here).
by Commander_X
Tue Sep 03, 2024 4:02 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7485
Views: 1837967

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

In Mass Effect 3 , there is a mission called Priority: Citadel (getting assigned right after the genophage cure mission). During the mission, the Citadel (galactic center of government) is under attack by Cerberus forces. A target of the attack is taking out the Citadel Council, which the hero (comm...
by Commander_X
Fri Jul 12, 2024 3:44 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7485
Views: 1837967

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

<lowest hanging fruit> Stargate SG1, season 6 episode 5, Nightwalkers. The short description is that the small town of Steveston, Oregon, United States, is implanted with cloned Goa'uld, which turn out to still keep their "ancestral memories", and start driving their hosts to build a spac...
by Commander_X
Fri Jun 28, 2024 2:19 am
Forum: Oolite-Mac
Topic: Attempting to get 1.91 built on Mac
Replies: 104
Views: 15555

Re: Attempting to get 1.91 built on Mac

[...] ....-MacBook-Air ~ % cd /..../Desktop/Oolite/Oolite_1.91_ExperimentalBuild/Oolite.app ....-MacBook-Air Oolite.app % ls -al total 0 drwxr-xr-x@ 3 .... staff 96 27 Jun 20:25 . drwxr-xr-x@ 5 .... staff 160 27 Jun 20:44 .. drwxrwxr-x@ 8 .... staff 256 27 Jun 20:30 Contents ....-MacBook-Air Oolite...
by Commander_X
Thu Jun 27, 2024 3:08 am
Forum: Oolite-Mac
Topic: Attempting to get 1.91 built on Mac
Replies: 104
Views: 15555

Re: Attempting to get 1.91 built on Mac

Cholmondely wrote: Wed Jun 26, 2024 7:19 pm
[...]
Also - I've no great idea as to how much memory our wiki uses - or how it impacts on Winston's putting his hand in his pocket each month to pay for it all...
Apologies if the appellative I used caused offense, let me state that none was intended.
by Commander_X
Wed Jun 26, 2024 4:00 pm
Forum: Oolite-Mac
Topic: Attempting to get 1.91 built on Mac
Replies: 104
Views: 15555

Re: Attempting to get 1.91 built on Mac

[...] You could upload your binaries somewhere though, so Mac users could attempt a test run on actual Apple hardware instead of emulated. I am actually wondering that our wiki master didn't already offer :-D The other way for OSX-KVM users to attempt getting a better OpenGL support for testing, wo...
by Commander_X
Sat Jun 01, 2024 5:03 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Tumbleweed Watch
Replies: 32
Views: 33166

Re: Tumbleweed Watch

Heh, you might want to ask "Is There Anybody Out There"
And the answer, of course, would be that some might be enjoying "The Sound of Silence", while some enjoy "The Sound Of Silence" ;)
by Commander_X
Tue May 14, 2024 5:56 pm
Forum: Testing and Bug reports
Topic: Issue with moving exhausts
Replies: 17
Views: 2072

Re: Issue with moving exhausts

The thing that "rotated camera" might affect is the "billboard" texture presentation (i.e. objects always oriented to face the camera). I'd expect z-order not to be affected by camera rotation. I am not sure though this is how the the exhaust is rendered (that is, if using billbo...
by Commander_X
Tue May 14, 2024 2:59 pm
Forum: Testing and Bug reports
Topic: Issue with moving exhausts
Replies: 17
Views: 2072

Re: Issue with moving exhausts

From the picture posted by a_c it doesn't seem to be a "z-order OpenGL issue", at least not the one that involved the need to render objects in a specific order, to properly handle transparency (if I remember correctly). The missing exhaust trails seem to be intersected and occluded by the...
by Commander_X
Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:58 pm
Forum: Expansion Pack
Topic: [Beta] Release of Telescope 2.0
Replies: 138
Views: 79326

Re: [Beta] Release of Telescope 2.0

[...] How does OoliteStarter know a command needs to be run, and which one? Have we ensured there is a suitable Python version installed? AFAIK Oolite does not have any dependency on Python other than the Telescope expansion. If I remember correctly, OoliteStarter is a Java app. Bundling jython cou...
by Commander_X
Sat Apr 20, 2024 5:15 am
Forum: Expansion Pack
Topic: [WIP] new GUI for debug console
Replies: 103
Views: 21595

Re: [WIP] new GUI for debug console

Couple of things that might also help here: find . -name \*.pyc | xargs rm (that is, get rid of any cache that might interfere). [...] I have the mscorefonts, so have Courier_New in four flavours. $ find /usr/share/fonts | grep -i courier /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Courier_New.ttf /usr/...
by Commander_X
Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:52 pm
Forum: Expansion Pack
Topic: [WIP] new GUI for debug console
Replies: 103
Views: 21595

Re: [WIP] new GUI for debug console

[...] $ sed -n 2770p DebugConsole.py self.updateFontBox(self.fontList.index(face)) grep -ri courier * in the OoliteDebugConsole2 directory returns blank. The absence of 'Courier' in the .py file seems to happen because it's being picked from a plist file in the Debug OXP. E.g. in my instance, in Co...
by Commander_X
Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:01 pm
Forum: Expansion Pack
Topic: [WIP] new GUI for debug console
Replies: 103
Views: 21595

Re: [WIP] new GUI for debug console

For the python 2, due to the [...] File "DebugConsole.py", line 2829, in initClientSettings self.setFontFace(value, plist=True, skipUpdate='font-size' in settingsKeys) File "DebugConsole.py", line 2770, in setFontFace self.updateFontBox(self.fontList.index(face)) exceptions.Value...