Oolite Bulletins

Perhaps the easiest way for them to co-exist is to create an addition version of Griff's replacement metapackage. I'll take a look at it. Even cooler would be, if there was an updated version of Griff's package for the new lightning system, but that's a job for some shader wizard out there.

Cody wrote: ↑Mon May 10, 2021 4:12 am

<chortles> Hermit's Bane! That needs to be a Griff hermit, methinks!

In my Spicy Hermits, there are abandoned hermits out there. Piñatas, if you wish, since they can be monetized by destroying them. Maybe this is what has happened.

Can't seem to get your rather splendid maps to show on my AppleMac. And any chance of larger copies of them for the new Geography page on the wiki? Wiki already has them in some form somewhere. The original pdf-versions can be found here: https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6053 (Is the...

montana05 wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 2:51 pm

spara wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 2:30 pm

Neutral allows pirates and other scum to loiter around or something. That can't be tolerated in the Truump empire.

Scum attracts scum, you can see that currently in RL with the greedy, offensive punks (GOP) in the US.

"Chaotic" might be the correct alignment here.

ai_type: I'm changing this to the more recent js-based core AI. If I were more ambitious, I might want to write my own AI to better fit the Sothis. I'm not, so this will do. While for standard AI's .js is working fine for a customized one I still would recommend .plist. Why ? Much better documented...

And the final touches. I'm changing the sothis definition in shipdata-overrides.plist to this: "sothis_station" = { market_capacity = 63; market_definition = ( { "type" = "class"; "name" = "oolite-business"; "price_multiplier" = 1.2; "...

Excellent. For future reference and to anyone interested here are Griff's old all-in-one files from pre-oxz era. https://app.box.com/s/raw152biz9vom7i3c535bhqeiiq0subn These are the last ones we used before they were oxzified. I still remember :D. There was one resource oxp and a choice between repl...

I'm fairly sure I found them from Wayback Machine. I was able to download the good old shipset_1.23 package which seems to include the variations. Needs a bit work to extract them from the package, but should not be a problem. I'll get back with this.

I'm pretty sure something i did in the shader ruined the effects for these, or i came up with something else i might have thought was better, i dunno, i went through a phase of endlessly tinkering with stuff and just ended my making everything drabber and greyer, let me have a look through my oolit...

It looks like when Griff oxzified the ships, the special versions were discarded. And not just discarded, they are not in the box repository either. A bit of a shame, variation is always variation. If someone happens to find versions of those, including the organic one, they could (and should) be re...

Thanks cim for correcting me once again. The code gets simpler in each iteration :D. One more time, the populator: system.setPopulator("sothis_tc", { callback: function(pos) { system.addShips("sothis", 1, pos, 0); }.bind(this), location: "PLANET_ORBIT", locationSeed: 50...

Opinion on retextures. Griff's shady ships are good for variation vs Base Shipset Normal and Specular/Gloss Maps showcase the latest graphical additions. Personally I prefer Griff's shady ships. It's tremendously difficult to find consensus on what would be a good starter set :D. Norby tried that wi...

So quaternions are the square roots of the cube roots of -1? Is that it? Quaternions in this context are an extension to 3d vectors, which allows one to express orientation in 3D-space. Aboutish. What about the listing on the Ship's Library (at game start-up)/ View Ship Specifications (on the docke...

Sorry to disappoint, but this oxp only prevents the destroyed to be respawned before set time. Construction versions of the stations could be added, if wanted. I had an idea of some sort of generic "work in process" -placeholder, like a construction site or something, but never got around ...

Or maybe, just maybe, it should be made obvious that after installing you better install some fancy oxps to get you started with that "my game" feeling. It's all about perspective and with these resources I find it quite futile to try to make a good looking game to compete with all those f...