Oolite Bulletins

Altmap was highly experimental - in part, a testbed for when I was developing the scenario code at all, in part a place to test wacky ideas like NPC torus or a new equipment model - and crucially, not remotely finished. So the answer to "why does it do that" is probably "I don't know,...

locationSeed: (256*galaxyNumber)+(1+system.ID), In practice you can simplify this a bit, too, and just do "locationSeed: {some number unique to Sothis}" - as the position of any particular locationSeed relative to the three primary objects is already randomised within the Oolite core on a...

Looking at the code for generating the Sothis position, I don't see anything obviously non-deterministic in that ... unless between save and load something else changed the main station or main planet positions, of course. Maybe check the savefile to see where it expects the Sothis to be, and then c...

This looks like an issue with New Cargoes. Tested with Kiota stations and the behavior is the same. Most likely the Speciality Cargo screen is set up on docking and it disappears over save. Any idea, cim? At a guess - since I didn't really touch New Cargoes after the secondary saving was implemente...

1) Is there any difference if the market code is inside or outside the brackets with the rest of the Sothis description? I tried both tweaks, and there seemed no difference, but is this really so? It should definitely need to be inside the brackets. If it doesn't make any difference, then it's poss...

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 4:34 pm

Admittedly I never managed to play for too long before being turned inside-out when my witchspace journeys reached an excruciating finale...

The idea was you'd need to refit a bit - carry more energy cells and fuel for mapping some hyperspace routes, then switch to scanners to survey the systems.

That depends how the moon is implemented - is it a very small planet, or a very large space station? Depending on what you want to do with it, it could be either.

http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/OXP_howto might be helpful - with the exception of manifest.plist (and the deprecated requires.plist and info.plist) all PLists must go in the Config subfolder of the OXP. That page has a full list of which plists are supported for OXP use, mostly documented ... as w...

Ha, I planned way more than that :) I just never got round to it. The longer-term idea was that your home base would only have a limited amount of hyperspace fuel - large, but not infinite. You'd then need to locate and mine particular materials from asteroids which could be synthesised into fuel ba...

PDF link fixed - sorry, forgot to update that one when moving hosting.

Planets already have LOD on the model - switch to wireframe display mode and view them close up and far away - but there would be serious limitations on continuing that approach any further than it already has been.

I didn't study the code enough to answer this question myself... so I guess what I'm wondering is, if Oolite's core could be modified to have real-world sizes? Or is that thought just stardust? Yes and no. The engine does support larger planets and stars - I put together an OXP a while ago which us...

pleiadian wrote: ↑Mon Nov 20, 2017 3:16 pm

How does Oolite calculate the distance between two systems?

The bit you're missing is the int dist on the sqrt function (Line 173)

So you do the sqrt and you get ~9.8975

This then gets cast to an integer, which rounds it down to 9. And then, 0.4 * 9 = 3.6 LY

The underlying problem is that the police ship sees a Hognose attacking the player, but doesn't know if that's because the player attacked the Hognose first when the police were out of scanner range - so they intervene on the side of the one they like more. In this particular case, theoretically, it...

UK_Eliter wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2017 4:21 pm

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