Oolite Bulletins

A first evaluation revealed this: I scanned 682 expansions in total and simply counted how many times I would find a path inside. This report is stripping off all paths with less than 4 occurrences. What can be seen from here is that a lot of OXPs actually use similar paths - even where it would not...

This sounds like heavy lifting. However if that piece of work were written down onto a roadmap, with enough hints what to look for and a way to verify successful operation I think it could be done by people interested and having knowledge in JavaScript and Objective-C integration but no need to unde...

Dark the other side is...

Yoda! Shut up and eat your toast!

Thank you a_c and c_x. :-) This explains a lot. So I created code that checks the List of OXPs (I hope to have collected the same URL the Expansion Manager uses), downloads them and reads their manifest. With that information I was able to create an overview page, but not a list of all ships or equi...

Hiran, as we discussed in our PM's, I plan on pruning the optional optionals on the Oolite Equipment page ( http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Oolite_Equipment . Are there any that you added that you think (or does anyone else think) should be kept (as examplars of something different/unique on the e...

So that extension is what I thought it would be. I was even able to purchase it, then I was not able to activate/use it. It may be a hen/egg problem... Definitely is! You need a HUD.oxp loaded which supports MFDs (I presume that the Vanilla game HUD doesn't), and you need to understand the use of t...

Hiran, I'd argue that all this is in Cim's excellent Ship's Manual . Only two problems with it: (i) it has a low profile and I doubt many people realise it exists/download it/look at it. (ii) you have to pay for the MFD version so that you can read it in flight during the long journeys from the wit...

Is it safe to say "only an OXP that has an XXX event handler actually adds a XXX feature to the game?" Or how could the contents of some OXP safely be categorized/understood? No. An OXP can contain graphics, sounds, new models, new textures, planetary system configuration changes, charact...

Is it safe to say "only an OXP that has an XXX event handler actually adds a XXX feature to the game?"
Or how could the contents of some OXP safely be categorized/understood?

It sounds feasible that there is an event handling system in place. This sounds like a publish/subscribe mechanism to me. How does that work? Would Oolite run a script from the OXP so it has a chance to register to events it is interested in? Or does Oolite always send all events and the OXP choose...

Thank you for that response. I will have a look at the doxygen stuff first, but I doubt I would really have to read the source code. If that is the case then it should be worth documenting the API so OXP developers know what they can rely on without needing to know the Oolite internals. And likewise...

So the next release (once again) will focus on graphic improvements. While this is certainly important how about some advancement in game functions as well ? I am pretty sure I am wasting my energy with this post but a wider market, for example, or even the including of some popular OXP's to the co...

fraterchaos wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2017 12:00 am

pleiadian wrote: ↑Thu Dec 14, 2017 7:30 pm

No. Just no. This is its own universe.

then why do we have "Star Destroyers"?????

...and I always wanted to know what would happen if storm troopers met a security team from the Enterprise.
The first shoot a lot but never hit, and the others always die first.

So what might help here could be a leadership team (don't know how many members it should have) that could setup strategies/policies/... and nudge other contributors to actually follow those strategies. With that every snippet of time and effort could help achieve the big picture. If there were a to...

Hello there. I am interested a bit more in how Oolite actually interacts with expansion packs. So far I understand the Expansion Manager can download a list of OXZs, the user chooses which to install and they get downloaded and dropped in the ManagedAddons folder. But then something needs to happen,...