Oolite Bulletins

I've got nothing here that I haven't tried to say before but then my ramblings aren't always understood it seems so my apologies as I try one more time... Making something look better is always nice but more important is (usually) what it actually does. So I mean no disrespect to Thargoid in saying ...

https://i.postimg.cc/SxcgYJQD/25pc.png https://i.postimg.cc/MGxd7qvx/50pc.png https://i.postimg.cc/8CHww96v/75pc.png https://i.postimg.cc/HsqSLQmr/90pc.png You get the idea... The tint layer (dark blue in this case) could even be related to sky colour if there were sufficient ease/time in productio...

Imagine any cityport/outpost image overlayed with a dark, partially transparent layer a la BGS (maybe a bit more transparent than that). What you might then get us more of a 'feeling' of a port with the detail being rather more hazy. Is it underwater or not for example... are those domes or rocks......

I'm not a big fan of AI, but I have to say it can really work well for the task of creating images Yeah, they tend to have a certain 'look' but the images are certainly fit for purpose I'd say. Two things I like about them in particular that are perhaps with noting: distance - they mostly resemble ...

I'd forgotten we have another tool to use. We can add backgrounds to the arrival report screen... All we need to do is find (or create) some good looking images to use for each of the possible landing points (city, leisure complex, factory, prison, military base, etc) Exactly my point and precisely...

v 1.2 https://wiki.alioth.net/img_auth.php/5/56/Oolite.oxp.redspear.pilot_license.oxz player starts with a beam laser as per adder of elite manual The player is still disadvantaged by being slower, having only one energy bank and poor recharge rate but... The beam laser is quite an upgrade and also...

It might be a case of too many cooks here (and I mean no disrespect to anyone), so I'll probably shut up (relatively... for a bit...) after this. With the closing doors effect, I don't get a sense of landing, rather I get a sense of being swallowed up by some larger entity or even of a quirky 'game ...

cbr wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:38 pm

When the beacon is reached, close the shutters...

...But not over the HUD. Looks like the pilot's helmet has shutters

Here I've matched up a red-hued version of the cloud image to the planet's air color. It does look better when they match. By 1:30 in the video, there's a strong sense that the player is no longer in space I think: approx 30 seconds in - apparent darkening of some areas of the texture approx 50 sec...

Proto wiki page up:

 Pilot Licence

cbr wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 7:49 pm

So what your looking for is nice way to go from reaching the approach point and entering the (land)station

I think so yes. So landing/docking sequence begins at say 1km rather than at 1m.

1) The license for a car is quite different for that for a tractor or a for a juggernaut. Ability to drive the one might well not confer a legal ability to drive the other. Agreed. The player is however always the pilot and essentially nearly always doing the same things: docking, equiping, loading...

I’ve been thinking about how to make visuals work. The video where I approach at a shallower angle, the transition to the clouds image actually felt fairly natural, I think because the change in sky colour was also visible as you descend closer towards the ground. Does it have to be the case that t...

v1.1 https://wiki.alioth.net/img_auth.php/5/ ... icense.oxz

Music credits: Geoffrey Burch

EDIT: updated to 1.1 to address missing file and minor corrections

I watched both videos. And got also confused why the marker would move over the planet surface. In the beginning it is not aligned with the ship's nose, so it cannot be the trajectory. Later it behaves like a trajectory. But when does the behaviour change? And why? Could it be because the texture i...