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Thanks but that thread effectively repeats my previous (almost rhetorical) question rather than answers it. I'm definitely puzzled by this but my knowledge of OpenGL is not as good as my knowledge of DirectX and I cannot answer it without some poking around into websites about the OpenGL graphics pi...

If you are talking about z-depth and rendering the polygons furthest away before rendering polygons closer, as far as I can recall that is standard in both openGL and DirectX and has been for a while. If you are saying that at the moment oolite does not do this despite being based on openGL, then I'...

Because I'm more familiar with DirectX gfx than the OpenGL platform I thought I'd ask whether it's relatively easy to alphablend in OpenGL and whether there are commands that easily implement this in Oolite? My reason for asking is that it struck me that no-one has as yet, as far as I can see, imple...

It's not the tigers. I removed various of the piratical OXPs and I must have removed the correct one as I'm no longer plagued by them. :-) I've spent some time this week learning how the plist files work. I've also spent some reading into some of the source files. It's very interesting to see anothe...

Thanks for all the helpful comments. I've downloaded Notepad++ and I'm already impressed with this - a nice editor. I've also downloaded the gnu compiler and have begun having a nose through some of the source (I chose not to use the helpful pre-packaged development environment as for various length...

Hello I'm a newcomer to Oolite but an old hand with Elite. Back in the 1980s I had Elite on my Acorn Electron and subsequently on my Amiga 500. Many is the long hour I spent playing them. I tried Frontier and FFE but found them both disappointing due to the obsession with newtonian physics instead o...