Oolite Bulletins

JazHaz wrote:

Those engine glows look cool. Rather hot I mean.

Well, the blue bits will be hotter than the red bits...

JazHaz wrote:

What I meant, is it an Oolite nebulae?

Almost certainly not. There are quite a few algorithms out there for generating nebula procedurally and/or sources of licensing very hi-res images of real nebula.

EDIT: Ninja'd by Cim...

Nice comparison, nice screen shots and nice explanation. And you're right, it's a surface detailing issue that means they don't look/feel as big as they are - Griff's stations help a lot, it's lighting I think that when you get up close just don't give you that sense of scale...

He seems keen on receiving suitably appropriate side on hi-res screen shots of appropriate ships so perhaps he could be sent some for E(Oo)lite? Probably just ships though, since our space stations aren't actually big enough... (they look OK in game obviously) but I try not to think about what's sup...

Look what I found! http://www.gog.com/game/total_anihilati ... ander_pack

It works with Windows 7 and comes with the music the original game came with too!

Happy, Happy, Happy!

Cody wrote:

JazHaz wrote:

What does everyone think?

I think I ain't too impressed - especially with the nebula!

Show me what it looks like from the darkside, with glowing pools of lava radiating red/orange light into space...

I loved this in its earlier incarnations - it's nice that he's keeping it up to date.

Thought: (May have been answered elsewhere) If Oolite engine makes a dockable station a main station if the native main station is removed then would it be possible to make an OXP that keeps track of all dockable entities in a particular system, then, when a player approaches any in-system station t...

Looking really good! Although I think the increased chatter might make HUDs that reduce message texts and/or display them to one side more popular. what's with all the (sometimes very) long ship names? The really, really long name – We Haven't Met Yet But You're a Great Fan of Mine - is from a list...

It's taken a few months, and twenty pages of discussion but the new NPC AI, population and behaviour is now part of master. Here's a short video with some of the new stuff, as a pack of hunters launch from Leesti station. That really is looking quite brilliant. I haven't played in ages - what's wit...

4, 12 and 16 are my own personal favourites - and you can blame the Pratchett influence for the Lawyer/Vampire thing!

Glad you found some to take your fancy.

Ha! Thank-you for your honesty - I really liked C too! Turns out I entered 16 times! Here they all are for your delectation... (I have my favourite and it's not the one that got short-listed!) The comp ran from September 8th to 26th - I learned about it on the 14th. *** FLF13 16. When they told me m...

The comp ran via Twitter for two weeks prior to last night's 2-hour short-listing and voting. It had to be a complete story, themed (loosely) on "Soul" - the tweet had to contain the hashtag #flf13, which, with a space as a separator, left 133 characters to write the story. Flash Lit Ficti...

Thank-you guys.

Yes, I too think there will be a next time!

They deliberately keep the voting to a very short time frame to stop, I guess, vote harvesting. (Although I clearly had a very good go!)

Alas, they actually closed the comp at 10:15pm UK time, I'm not sure why the page is still accepting votes - but it's nice to know I would have won eventually!

Thank-you for voting for me though DS!