Oolite Bulletins

The search paths are hard-coded at present because it wasn't important enough to me to figure out a way to do it that works on both Win32 and Linux.

Very cool. Well done that man :)

Things are crazy around here and I have passed your changes onto Ahruman.

Thanks for taking the time to play with the Oolite code - it badly needs some new devs.

Additionally, Oolite will use the default key defined in the source code if the key isn't redefined in keyconfig.plist.

So you can't disable any functions, just map them to keys that are hard to press if you don't want them.

There were a couple of things added back when I was thinking about an OXP. They have code support so should work, but nothing uses them at this point.

Oolite would certainly benefit from integration with a game framework or scene manager - quite a bit of its code is taken up with these functions. But all of the ones I've seen (including the two above) are C++ which means they're basically incompatible with Oolite. Theoretically Oolite should be ab...

LB's idea is a good one if Sung's textures ever did become the defaults. Until then you can use these textures without overwriting the originals. Just create a Textures folder under AddOns (where your oxp directories all live) and put Sung's textures in there. Anything the game would normally load f...

My vote would be for using Snug's textures in the next release, and fixing up whichever OXPs have a problem to accomodate the new textures.

Fixing a few OXPs is a small price to pay for finally having Oolite look like it should.

Well, it might work. I just looked at the wiki and it has: spawn: <role> <number> // adds a number of ships matching <role> near the ship // that's the target of this script (as script_actions or death_actions) The player's ship is the target of most scripts, and certainly all script.plist ones. I'm...

To work like the old-school Elite the OXP would have to generate the ships in the immediate vicinity of the player's ship, otherwise the system will just fill up with AI ships doing nothing useful.

The trick is getting a version of GCC running that has the Objective-C support built in. Most of them don't.

If the DC linux one doesn't then you'll need to compile a new version of GCC, presumably cross-compiled.

In as far as you can talk about "realism" when discussing a sci-fi game, I think the trade lane concept is mostly good. Why would a pirate be out in the middle of nowhere, when all traders enter the system at a defined point and head either towards the main GalCop station or the star? As f...

If you're putting your hand up, here is what you need to do to get started:

1. Get linux running.
2. Ensure OpenGL works.
3. Get a version of GCC going that supports Obj-C.
4. Build GNUstep.

If you get that far, the rest should be easy.

I'm not a programmer. So i will ask you if it is possible to change the enviroment. Like Stars, Galaxies, ingame Tables and Soundfiles. Is someone working on parts of it? If not, can we talk over the possibillities to make Oolite smarter? There are a bunch of "custom sound events" you can...

What do I need to do to remove the DTD errors? is this what dajt was working on? Somebody point me to the rigth thread download and I'll do as you recommend. The screen res thing - it's always done that - don't know why I also noticed the error in Missionaries - I meant to ask Doc about it but I ke...

at line: 20 column: 9 ... Extra content at the end of the document 2007-02-05 23:24:51.000 oolite.exe[4004] File NSDictionary.m: 592. In [GSDictionary -initWithContentsOfFile:] Contents of file 'AddOns/Missionaries.oxp/Config/script.plist' does not contain a dictionary First thing I'd do would be t...