Oolite Bulletins

did the Frontier games do an early version of this polygon subdivision for the planets or am i remembering incorrectly? it could have just been early texture mapping going wonky and different levels of detail models popping in suddenly when approaching a planet that make me think it was subdividing...

maybe fewer stars as you approach the edge of a galactic map?

Just looked at your maps (beginning to think about implementing this via OXPConfig, as mentioned above) and I must admit I don't like your distribution of academies. I can understand the way of doing it with the mathematical trick, but in most of the galaxies they are not very well spread out, with...

Not sure what

ewr123 wrote:

tech lvl 1 system

means but there are summaries of Tech levels
http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Oolite ... t/Galaxy_1
and doing a find on

TL: 1,

will probably find tech level = 1 systems of interest.

an echo of the German Democratic Republic? :D I'm not trying to rewrite or destroy other canon, I just wanted it to be more fun for the player: they could take their latest ship to a nearby academy to try out Thargoid & Co's hard work, rather than have to get to Lave itself. I thought 8 academie...

Hello Thargoid great OXP. I took the liberty of adding more academies, 8 in each galaxy, so that players can take their latest iron ass to a nearby academy. I have not adjusted OXP wiki site entries but did create an Academies page on the wiki to supply some back-story for your consideration Wiki en...

I did an excellent kill and a jump or two later I used the galactic hyperdrive for Gal 4. Upon arrival in Gal 4 I was immediately greeted by a few revenge marks waiting for me at the witchpoint. I was wiped out. Start again, engaged galactic hyperdrive, arrived, same marks waiting again. Maybe reven...

This is due to the random number generator which for the Elite seed choice leaves Galaxy 4 with missing government types. Other seed choices could have left Elite's set of 8 galaxies with even more missing government types, and/or unaesthetic system clustering. So we can enjoy Galaxy 4's 'features' ...

Well, it seems to be staying up so I'm going to be brave and unsticky this thread... Its working perfect now. Thanks for it. It works at least as fast as before. Just one thing is not working. Probably unintentional but on trying to upload a file I still get: The upload directory (.....) is not wri...

thanks for the inputs. Will get around to incorporating them when more time. Hope to include more models and improved textures next time as well.

The information shown is distance, type of main life form, degree of agricultural or industrial development, with industrial and technological level displayed on a scale of 1-12. This is interesting as Oolite goes from 1 to 15, with the possibility of OXPs going beyond that. When did this change an...

Hello my first OXP (bits stolen from Eric Walch and Thargoid) available here: http://www.box.net/shared/exyinqm9me will post to wiki one day when wiki working properly one day. Bits from README: CloudCity OXP by DrBeeb. Some eye-candy showing Cloud cities at each main planet (eventually) destined fo...

Busy running debugger for other reasons and noticed these when the Griff Krait came up and I had shot bits off of it. Dont know if they need to be dealt with? ------------- Exception: Error: Vector3D.distanceTo: Could not construct vector from parameters ([object Player]) -- expected Vector, Entity ...

yep I have wondered the same thing in the past. It would also explain why ships fly around ~ 3 times slower than the original BBC game. The only question left is whether a space station is supposed to be 1km in size, I think it is, but then that makes docking too easy?

Well as I was adding the Multabilis system Zadies why not begin with this system? I have not read Multabilis nor installed Famous Planets, so my version of the Zadies system will be probably be completely different depending on how the seeds grind away. I only really tuned things to give Lave one m...