Oolite Bulletins

I think a smuggler's hold could only be purchased in locations that fall outside Galcop's notice - perhaps rock hermits, or space bars, those sorts of places. If it's damaged, and you repair it at a normal station, your bounty goes up - the presence of a smuggler's hold must mean you are smuggling. ...

Everyone chime in and shoot this down if required (or point me to an existing OXP if it's already been done - I only had a brief look before posting), but I was thinking about creating an OXP that simulates a smuggling hold on your ship. The idea would be you could move contraband into the smuggling...

I've just uploaded galaxy 3 to the New Galaxy guide, using a variety of sources to run an automated script. There's still some work to do: lanes and regions are not listed, and no OXP links have been made. But the majority of the work is done. The only thing I can't get right is the little circle th...

Thanks, cim!

What's the correct way of calculating the distance in LY between two systems? I know I can do this using Javascript, but if I were doing it outside the system, using two sets of co-ordinates, the standard geometric function SQRT((X2-X1)^2 + (Y2-Y1)^2) doesn't seem to match the actual distances in ga...

<slaps forehead> Of course. I should've realised that! I'll have to head back to Lave for some remedial astro-navigation training.

Minor bug report, for a very rare edge case: In G5, if you're in either Divees or Tezabi, and your target system is the other system (Divees or Tezabi), the Hyperdrive status will always say "No target system set". I think both these systems have the same co-ordinates which is probably cau...

Thanks for the suggestions everyone! Just going to grab another cookie and go under the hood again!

What determines the order OXP's are loaded on a Mac, if not alphabetical?

I've been getting under the hood of Oolite recently (I kind of feel like Han Solo and the Millenium Falcon!), creating a new set of interface screen backgrounds to make a new, fresh look. I was originally just putting the images into the BGS images folder, but that means that each time a new version...

I've been playing around with HUD's recently. I love beatnik's Coluber HUD - I like the easy to read layout, and it's style is fresh and modern. What I don't like about it is that, when docked, it's too big. A lot of the mission screens end up dropping into the HUD, which looks ugly. Really, there's...

V1.4 of the CommsLogMFD has been release. Details in the first post. Update via the expansion manager, or via the links in the first post.
Thanks to marte for finding the bugs!

Norby, I'm seeing this error in the latest.log file: 14:50:02.419 [script.javaScript.exception.notFunction]: ***** JavaScript exception (combat_MFD 1.9): TypeError: p.setCustomHUDDial is not a function 14:50:02.419 [script.javaScript.exception.notFunction]: C:\Oolite/oolite.app/GNUstep/Library/Appli...

I can take over Flight Log if it's still available. Sign me up!

Norby, can I make a suggestion? In each instance on "mission.runScreen" you add exitScreen:"GUI_SCREEN_INTERFACES", so the user returns to the F4 screen when the exit (which is where they would have started from). At the moment, when you exit you return to the F5 screen. Anyway, ...