Oolite Bulletins

Look who I saw today:

Apparently I wasn't on Santa's Nice List …

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Sun Dec 28, 2025 11:46 am

Welcome back!

How was Xmas?
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Nice, thanks!

For the new year we'll stay in Berlin this time. In our part of the city it's usually rather calm, as far as "calm" can be used for New Year's fireworks.

I tried to install the Sidewinder shader version, and I got this error on Fedora 43: 02:51:25.591 [shader.compile.failure]: ***** ERROR: GLSL fragment shader compilation failed for griff_SpecGloss_Sidewinder_NPC.fragment: >>>>> GLSL log: 0:58(27): error: array constructors forbidden in GLSL 1.10 (GL...

This is cool!

How did you detect the required libraries? How did you test the result? So my original idea (simplified) was to run ldd ./oolite.app/oolite to get all the required libraries that should go into the installer archive. However, even when I did this, on another machine (with Fedora) it complained that...

Unfortunately, I failed with adding all required libraries to the Linux nightly releases, but the only package a user had to install is probably just "gnustep-base", so I think that's reasonable.

Fixed. It was just a permission issue. So now I could see the release to get created, and I downloaded it and was able to run it on my Ubuntu 22. Nice! Do not worry. This is exactly the issue why I could not move on last time. I think the issue is that the binary is compiled against different versi...

Now where in the filesystem would I find the files that need to be zipped up into a release? I played around a bit and managed to make it work (maybe?) with the following updated script: #!/bin/bash # install all the necessary packages sudo apt update sudo apt -y install git gobjc gnustep-devel mak...

folk, please rate and give your opinion about current version (especially interested in criticism of the difference between the original and the dev version of the sections "whatsnew" and "screenshots"): http://dev2.oolite.site Very nice! I like that your new version takes advan...

Can someone elaborate how Oolite got built? If the instructions can be run on Ubuntu as well, I could assist creating a CI/CD pipeline that ensures we always get the latest build automatically. Right now this only applies to the Windows version. This script should build Oolite on a clean Ubuntu ins...

montana05 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 24, 2022 1:40 am

Wait, do you mean this one:
"buydesc" = "Isis Interstellar's enhanced Adder Mark III, better maneuverability and 1 additional pylon and mount in exchange for only 2 t of cargo space.";

Yes, that's what confused me (it's also in the shiplibrary.plist).

After receiving KW's approval this morning, an expanded version of the Adder Mark III is now available on the expansion manager: Very nice! One thing that I noticed was that in the description onf the III-E it says that it only has 2t of cargo space, but in the shipdata.plist it says 5t for the pla...

Works fine for me. I have to say, I find the current gamma correction also a bit too bright, I prefer a value of 1.0/1.3. I think this should be added later as an option in the option menu for easy customization (probably in a future pull request). I already looked into it, but I am not sure what ex...

In this commit , the second render pass (i.e. all these nice effects) is only applied to all the 3D graphics stuff, but not the HUD or GUI. Especially for all the color correcting stuff, it is probably best not doing it on the HUD or GUI, as these are designed to look best as they are rendered prev...

The GalCop Missions OXP has an equipment called "Ejection Damper" which stops cargo from moving. You could look at the code and it should probably be possible to adjust it, such that you don't need to buy/activate equipment for this to work, and to maybe just give an upper bound to the vel...