Oolite Bulletins

Table of Objects named now added to the Wiki Page.

Cholmondely would you mind having a look and seeing if I've missed anything out?

Made a start on a Wiki Page. http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/The_Galactic_Almanac_OXZ On duplications, as the OXZ contains about 250,000 names and there are only about 13,000 stations in the game, they might as well all be used. If there is a duplication, its so easy to change that if anyone spots ...

I think Thargoid had done it with his planatary compass using:- if(this.stellarArray[loopCounter].hasAtmosphere) { this.beacon = system.addVisualEffect("planetaryCompass_planet", this.stellarArray[loopCounter].position); if(this.stellarArray[loopCounter].hasOwnProperty("isGasGiant&quo...

Bit Stuck on the right syntax to add a visual effect to the ASC. The code i've got works in the sense all the planets and moons are added to the ASC in the right position and in the right order, but the visual effect of a planet symbol I'm trying to add doesn't produce any errors, but isn't adding t...

Bit of Destruction testing now I've finished the looping and multi-paging code. By setting the maximum number of planets and moons in System Redux to 100,000 per system, I was able to get it to add 120 planets and moons to the system. All the extra planets in turn caused Extra Stations for Extra Pla...

The Box in the foreground is from BSG. Howerver, I am also playing with HD Backgrounds and HD Backgrounds Image Pack A installed (both on the Manager). The Background Images Pack adds these rather nice transparent images to your display, but plays nicely with BSG and other Sets, so you get different...

I'd forgoten that as I only change the display name, changes made by my OXP are read and implemented by other OXPs. You can therefore (without me having to do anything!) already access the Almanc in flight as an MFD with Spara's Market Enquirer OXP. Random Station names adds the name of the star pla...

I think it is more that PA Grove decided to re-write his Famous Planets descriptions to fit the textures added by Povey Planets for V2. I'm playing with all 8 Povey Planets packs installed and the current Famous Planets. It's a nice touch from PA Grove as if (for example) his text refers to toxic ye...

If you are giving it a bit of a brush up, would you mind adding to Ceesxe, that it is home to the Institute of Extreme Cleverness. Reasons will become apparent.

For realease I'll make it available in flight, but only if you have an ASC. If you are a brand new Jameson, then for free the station you are docked with will share the information it is receieving from its own ASC (which seems the least GalCop can do really before sending you out into the big black...

Hmm. It’s a bit difficult to show how it fits together with screen shots, but at present the Almanac is accessible from the F4 screen. So it’s a one button press to bring it up. I’m not totally sure that it would be possible (without code changes to Oolite itself) to add it to the F7 screen, but whi...

@ Cholmondely Beg : Any chance of incorporating miles & cavezzi as units of measurement? (1 cavezzo = 6 piedi = 2.08641 French metres) Miles and Cavezzi implemented as user selectable units. You can chose from Kilometers, Miles, Cavezzi, OU and Torans. Have I got the conversion right for Cavezzi...

Thargoid's Stellar Serpent might be one to look at. He Spawns the head as one 'mother ship', then the body segments and tail are spawned as 'ships' in the same group as the mother. This allows a nice effect of the Serpent slithering through space rather than flying as each segment moves on its own w...

Under-flying the planetary ring whilst approaching the Retila Main Station in my trusty Asp Explorer. The flares from the local Red Giant Star can be dangerous to the inhabitants (OXPs: Rings, Distant Suns, Solar Flares and Povey Planets).

For release I was just going to call it "The Galactic Almanac" as that is what it does. Other units are easy to add. Oolite always gives the number in meters, so its just one line in script to covert that to any units eg:- if (missionVariables.random_station_names_units == "Kilometres...