Oolite Bulletins

Does anyone have any ideas for a good keymapping for playing with an Xbox One controller, either with a "joystick-to-keyboard" or with the game's own facilities?

Has anyone ever effectively used the tactic of ejecting cargo or other items while traveling towards a target at high speed, then turning away, flinging the ejected item at the target?

The "map" option in the BBS doesn't seem to work in version 1.84 (at least for me) -- it's supposed to display the galactic/local chart, right? it seems to just display a blank mission screen with the name/location/etc of the hit listed at the bottom.

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I've been listening to a lot of AURORA and Lana Del Rey lately. Chairlift's album Something is quite a gem, too.

Can somebody tell me what the bare minimum is for a game-recognizable ship OXP? Please use Openstep.

What about a tree-menu type system, like they use for chats in a lot of FPS games? Z, X, C, and V are free keys. For example, you could type Z,Z,Z, and then V to confirm and perform one operation, and then press Z,X,X and V to perform another. Maybe you could type 1-2 characters of a command and pre...

(which could allow for the possibility for allegiance change, if the map could be made dynamic). I made up plans for a sort of idea/disease/gene/etc simulator in Oolite in my thread here: https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=18271#p250570 Maube that could help simulate an "alleiganc...

It appears that the link to the Oolite testing console application at http://developer.berlios.de/project/sho ... e_id=18953 is broken. Does anyone have an alternative download?

What does cargo_type = "CARGO_THARGOID" in shipdata.plist do exactly?

Is it possible to change the model of a sub-entity/change the sub-entity while the game is running? I'm trying to make a ship that changes its shape when it goes on injectors, and I want to know if I can do what I described before I continue work on my model so that I don't have to go back and attac...

I keep hearing about it, and I need it to convert my models, but nothing says where to find it... WHERE DO I FIND OBJTODATTEX.PY ?

How could one store a set amount of data for each system, and read/write as well as store that data for later use? For example, I want to save the amount of entities in each system for later reference. Would I have to store the data in the system description space? Could I keep this data in a script...

All you need is a reference to the ship that is sending the comms (what I've called 'NPCShip' in that sample), and the message to send. That will be the trickier part, I suspect - working out which ship is going to send what message, making sure they don't repeat themselves, making the messages var...

I think a tree-menu system a la a lot of FPSs could work here, considering the Z, X, C, and V keys are free, using Z, X, and C keys to navigate the menu and the V key to send/cancel. For example, you could type Z,C,X,V and transmit "Cease fire!", or type Z,C,Z,V and transmit "Get 'em!...