Oolite Bulletins

Here's my analysis so far: Autocrosshairs starts a FCB (Frame Callback) whenever the player acquires a target, and stops it if the players loses a target. When ...

... then? Or have newer ones been added? If you're alluding to timers and frame callbacks , then yes, two. I'd think of them rather as triggers than animations. So on specific ...

Jens explaining frame callbacks: https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?t=8941 Thanks for this! So there ... then? Or have newer ones been added? I'll have to have a look at Thargoid's Frame Callback: Animation Demo - when I added it to the wiki I had no idea what it was about.

It's a frame callback not ending on ship.died(), Thy eminence, when I google "frame callback" I find nothing that ...

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2024 7:11 pm

It's a frame callback not ending on ship.died(),

Thy eminence,

when I google "frame callback" I find nothing that seems to explain what it is.


Any chance of explaining to this dumb pilot... and also why it is important?

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Sun Jul 28, 2024 6:15 am

2014.09.25. v1.6
* Scanner settings compatible with Auto Crosshairs OXP and plist-changer huds.

Using a frame callback to hammer some settings on every single frame update, just to prevent anyone else from changing them, is a strange understanding of "compatible".

... other cross-hair switching OXPs. 1.0.1 (May 20th, 2013) Bug fix: stop frame callback if equipment is damaged. 1.0 (May 20th, 2013) First published. HUDSelector Change ...

It's a frame callback not ending on ship.died(), I will bet one dollar.

hiran wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2024 2:07 pm

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2024 9:55 am

(I would not start a frame callback at startUp, but wait for startUpComplete.)

Noted. I will change it and see what happens. (where is the :tumbs_up: smilie?)

So that one worked. The new code is now online.

... (delta) { if (this.pushdata!=true) return; (I would not start a frame callback at startUp, but wait for startUpComplete.) Noted. I will change it and see what happens. ...

... (delta) { if (this.pushdata!=true) return; (I would not start a frame callback at startUp, but wait for startUpComplete.)

... feelings aside, what you describe should be easy to do in an OXP with a frame callback. So I'm chiming in to say, the fact that it hasn't been done (publicly) suggests there's ...

... with it becomes impossibly complex, unless you "cheat" with a frame callback to reposition the docking ship in a way which simulates the appropriate lateral thrust. ...

... this.author = "Thargoid, with bits from Eric Walch, Frame and Svengali"; this.copyright = "Creative Commons Attribution ... [102,0] ], title:"Do not pass GO, do not collect 200cr", callback:this.name, callbackf:"$jailRelease" }; worldScripts.Cabal_Common_Briefing.startBriefing(obj); ...

... before the switch to the in-station GUI and the last frame callback disengages ILS and doesn't update the ship orientation for the station orientation ...