Oolite Bulletins

Yes, you can use local vars, functions, etc. All JavaScript language features are available.

Local vars won't hold their value between two different invocations of the script.

We can unload the textures and I did have code to try and do that for the planet textures, but my lack of Obj-C knowledge bit me and I couldn't make a simple LRU cache work! Pretty embarrasing. If we pre-generate all textures for all planets we'll end up with 2048 images on disk which will take a lo...

I have posted a Win32 installer for the latest code from the "javascript" branch. Get it from the Oolite-PC site: https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2999 This has the basic JavaScript scripting ability, which should be able to reproduce any existing OXP's main scri...

I've transferred the equipment work to the javascript branch, because it could turn into a huge job and I don't want to wreck the trunk. I have managed to colour-code each item on the status screen now with orange if it is up to 75% damaged, and red if it is worse than that. Same goes for the equip ...

libnoise can make planets look every bit as good as that, including all the way down to the surface. But it is too slow to do that in-game. The basic idea for well textured planets is simple - the planet just asks for its texture when it is being initialised, and something generates it. The "so...

That's excellent Sung. Thankyou very much for helping Oolite look really cool.

You, Griff, and a few others can make a huge difference Oolite with these new textures and ships.

There is an "else" so you can make a "not" with that. See http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Script.plist . Something like this to make something happen everywhere but Lave: <key>conditions</key> <dict> <array> <string>planet_number equal 7</string> <string>galaxy_number equal 0</s...

*And to be able to have the player's ship stored while he flies a borrowed ship for racing or military missions. *And to check and set variables for the state of repair for the hull and installed equipment. While looking at the first of these (for the capture ships feature I was doing) I decided to...

Giles posted the wings files for the basic set of ships at http://capnhack.com/hosting/oolite/Oolite/OoSat.html.

Various people have requested texures for the suns. I am playing around with this, on and off. Here is a sample rendering of a sun texture . There is no atmosphere and no sunspots yet. As LB hinted near the beginning of the thread they could be done similarly to how the clouds are done. Nor is the s...

Hey, you are still here :) Good to hear from you again.

Try the switchLightsOn AI command. See http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/OXP_howto_AI. If you've defined the lights the same way as on the vipers it will probably work.

Giles and Ahruman had a few conversations in the theads about this that went over everyone else's heads. I think the shader work was meant to do some of this stuff. But shaders can only be guaranteed on the Mac - for instance I have no hardware capable of running Giles shader code. There might be ot...

Made some progress tonight. Now the sequence of events is: 1. Find yourself an abandoned ship. 2. Fire the REMORA at it. 3. If the REMORA hits it sends a signal to the GalCop station to launch a pilot boat to carry a pilot out to fetch the wreck. 4. The pilot boat comes out and "drops off a pil...

It could be something to do with the docking ports facing backwards. I think the behemoths have this feature so maybe a look at how they are put together would provide enlightenment.