Oolite Bulletins

There's already too much consistency, I think, between different locations in the game; I'd prefer a greater range of look and feel across different stations, system types and tech levels. Very much agree with this. <heresy>It's what stopped me playing Elite in the end: systems were just more or le...

Other than that I find Simons take on the classics quite interesting. He's also done two of the best takes on the, rather tricky, Fer-de-Lance (IMO). The Neolite one might be a bit radical but it looks like it would fit the role very well, and his re2dux F-d-L is the one that best captures the feel...

As a matter of fact, I've made an OXP to that effect: [wiki]Stationrotation OXP[/wiki]. And very good it is too :) Of course we don't want a game with all the challenge removed, but I'd argue the proper place for it is combat and trading, not a somewhat peripheral activity like docking. I'm incline...

Firstly, some context for my opinion... I played Elite on the Speccy in the 80s and I remember my early flights struggling towards Zaonce (I bought slaves in those days :twisted: ), feeling the thrill of getting to the station, heading past it towards the planet, only to smash into the front of the ...

Whilst we are talking about other potential Elite ship models I recall a thread featuring a model or OXP somebody produced featuring the ship featured on the front of the box of the original Elite game i.e. the ship shown in my avatar. Could anyone point me in the right direction to find this threa...

there's something really great about these colourful flat shaded polygons! When I first saw this look for versions of Elite, I didn't like it. I thought the simple wireframes were better as they encouraged my imagination more. Maybe it's the higher resolution on modern computers, but those screensh...

Only the main planets use Povray textures. All other planets and moons use DHS textures. No native textures used. Can't remember how it was set up though. That's how I see this project working (i.e. in the manner that you are employing DHS) but with a greater variety of textures. Well, I'm learning...

A real classic look to these and nice textures...

I like the look of that red one at the bottom

Hi JazHaz. So your additional planets all have Oolites native textures? Do you notice any duplication in them from time to time or are they sufficiently, er, 'simple' for it to be a non-issue? BTW I've Checked out DHS and SR and whilst there is some duplication, DHS has more textures, notably the ga...

Thanks Cody.

Sounds like I'd better look again...

Hi Norby! I like your work on the telescope.oxp. I've been wanting something that could show a close up of a target for ages. Thanks! :D I thought that the Deep Horizons textures were reused in System Redux? Am I wrong??? Anyway, I've sourced some other textures that are available under the creative...

Hi folks, I expect this may have been done before but I've been working on combining the textures of System Demux and System Redux for use in conjunction with Povray Planets. Explicitly: PP provides the 'main' planet textures whilst the SR & SD textures are used for additional planets and moons...

I think I only understood half of that (and I might be flattering myself there ) but it still sounds great!

Nice one

According to wiki that system.inhabitants should be system.inhabitantsDescription. I've definitely got some browsing to do on the wiki :| Thanks spara :D Hmm. I of course meant system.info.inhabitants , not system.inhabitants . Sorry about that. You might find the Oolite Javascript reference useful...

Thanks for the compliments! :) If you want to make an OXP that uses aforementioned stations as Zero-G sports arenas, go ahead. Hey, thanks for the oxps :wink: I dropped myself right in it with that one :lol: I'm a beginner at scripting but something fairly unambitios, like just asigning it to syste...