Oolite Bulletins

All fanstastic work! I wish I had something that spectacular for Obelite (the WebGPU Port)

After lots of encouragement and support in the WebGL topic, I have decided to begin porting my efforts to WebGPU. I will also be setting up a domain name and dedicated server to handle some of the back-end logic. Front end code will be pure ES6+ JS and back-end will be in pure Node.js. Data, by and ...

Well, I am back after several months of working virtually every hour for a gaming studio that taught me a lot. When I put Obelite on hold, I was running into some planet generation issues, and some WebGL rendering oddness that was puzzling. WebGPU looked like a good solution, for some of these issue...

Sorry my day job has become a day, night and weekend job!! I hope that will end in a week or two more and I can get back to this.

I'll install waterfox and play with it a little, but because it's a non-mainstream browser, chances are it's behind the curve on W3C compliance. I'm targeting the "big four" Chrome, Edge, Safari, and Firefox, because: 1. They have the funding to stay standards compliant and have all the la...

The commodities yaml is tiny compared to a ship mesh, and should load quickly (and in one go).

What system had you selected?
What browser/version were you using when you experienced the issue?
Are you able to F12 to open the debugger, go to 'console' and see if an error message is present?

Thanks! Just made another update. The star chart should be fixed on Firefox. Shame on them for disabling the offscreen canvas by default! I had to polyfill, which I said I wasn't going to do. Ah well, never say never. Station docks are now aligned, and the stations rotate more authentically. Wonderi...

..stations not quite there, but much better!

Thanks for testing, Cholmondley, Mostly, I am testing on Chrome until I am further along and have proven the browser is capable of the performance needed for flight mode + combat. For Safari, idky the same link would come up blank, unless there's a JS error somewhere. if you get time, try https://0b...

I was finally able to make some headway - got the commodities screen working. https://0bone.github.io/obelite/src/screenshots/commodities.png For the time being, you can get to it (for any system) from the Galactic Chart: https://0bone.github.io/obelite/src/screenshots/goto-commodities.png As always...

Very encouraging! Timer: the ZX80, I remember it fondly. Ah, for the days of the 8-bit micro! One of the reasons I'm looking at the web approach is because it's cross-platform right away. Once I'd fixed my WebGL buffers, my Obelite POC ran on my Windows PC (Ege, FF, Chrome), on my new Mac, and my An...

Thanks, Timer. I was wondering if it might get more interest if we had a top-level "WebGL Tech Refresh" board, or something like that? I can't say its a "port" - because some features will behave differently, commensurate with technology changes in the past decade, but hopefully,...

It is next to impossible to get domain ownership transferred because of the security implications.

I see that Oolite.net is available. If we register that, how much effort/code has to be changed?

Finally, I was able to get an arguably passable planet texture generator to work! https://0bone.github.io/obelite/src/screenshots/planet-summary.png Oolite purists might be a little perturbed, but I wanted to dabble in procedural terrain generation, as well as gain the speed benefits of rendering th...