Oolite Bulletins

I can't argue that Flatpak and chums aren't convenient. They truly are. I don't like them for a bunch of reasons, including bloat and detachment from the package manager, but they are convenient. For Oolite I can see that such an approach (static bloat) is saner than attempting to get lots of distro...

Obviously if the set of libraries distributed with the game is stale and they cannot be used in recent distros anymore... They're not even the versions used by Oolite any more :lol: It's just by chance that recent distros have tended to have mostly the same versions. Most of us had to intentionally...

I would really prefer to investigate the possibility of remaining linked with 1.20.1, as controversial as it may sound for the Linux guys. While libgnustep-base.so.1.20 is bundled with Oolite, that's not what it appears to be built against, so when you upgrade from a system with 1.28 to one with 1....

pinfo2csv, csv2pinfo.. I guess this particular case does lend itself easily as long as one doesn't want to involve the top two blocks.

This thread is turning up some goodies. Good shout hiran, I'd forgotten about propertree... I used it a little while back. Great tool. Fine for editing, but not programmable to do what's been asked for here IIRC. Awk.. I love the example above from Commander_X, and I'll bookmark it as a good example...

Did someone just ask for a user-friendly tool and receive replies including the word "regexes"? Fair! A user friendly tool can be built using command line tools. The command line tools themselves are often not immediately friendly. Here's a crude tool to double sun distances on economy=0 ...

Planet info. Plist is a bit of a beast. 8 galaxies with 200+ planets each and not all of the data is writable by scripting. So does anyone know of a suitable tool that could make the kind of changes that could be explained in a sentence without laboriously editing each individual planet? For exampl...

I read through Cas Tell’s thread. Does it all mean that one needs different versions of Oolite for different versions of Ubuntu? I don't know what thread you're referring to. Very broadly speaking, one should not need a specific Oolite version for a particular linux distribution or version. The way...

Here is another clue for the puzzle: About half a year after it's release, I upgraded to Ubuntu 24 LTS. What can I say, the problem we had seen in Ubuntu 23 persists. $ ./oolite ./oolite.app/oolite: error while loading shared libraries: libgnustep-base.so.1.28: cannot open shared object file: No su...

Challenge accepted. Have a look: https://youtu.be/fQq0Fun1Ty8 Note that the low-res image appearing for a few frames at the end of the effect is a compression artifact and it looks fine in-game. Also, this is a new effect - not the one shown in the previous screenshot. Nice work! Could it be done w...

And the information we need should be present in the HUD scripts, should it not? I'd have thought so. That's a rabbit hole I've yet to stumble into. My assumption is that MFD data are limited length text updates, perhaps with a fixed title, but otherwise working within a fixed number of characters,...

But, vis-a-vis your comment on the MFDs above, I usually have 12. I find the excess of information more "realistic" and thus immersive. With my ghastly combat skills the occlusion of the panoramic view makes little difference to my game. But I am hoping that Mr Flibble's work on MQTT will...

Yup, the latest version of the wormhole got into github master a couple of hours ago. Ah! Misunderstanding my side. This is the wormholes left by NPCs, rather than the wormhole effect of the player jumping. Is there anything that could be done to smooth the latter? I usually find it's lumpy mid war...

Note that the latest revision of the effect is not on github yet. :lol: The github pages say things like "Enhanced the wormhole effect. Also typo fix." and "Brightened up and further enhanced the appearance of the wormhole eff…", which might (did) lead one to think that the worm...

Is this change for Windows only, or might it be getting blocked by BGS?