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See also some of the griff ship shader uniforms, particularly those with decals, and ones using 'randomUnitVector' . I too am looking into way of producing variant ships based on one original. Investigate 'randomUnitVector' as a shader uniform . Not sure if 'randomFloat' or 'randomInt' exists but yo...

I can see this being both useful, and a can of worms! Yep - i know, it's in my nature to stir up trouble! Consider if you're researching that you might choose to filter on groups of data, eg: only include in my results ; Elite original material , Elite fictions ; Oolite fictions by author ; Oolite ...

Cody wrote:

I see problems deciding what is and what isn't canon (which is a mutable thing, it seems).

For certain. Would it be useful to federate everything and make it searchable . Such preferences like what the individual considers to be canon could be added as a filter.

It's not as if all the characters involved are tremendously reliable, either ... Perhaps if a self-publish was allowed - the community could vote on the veracity of any given resource. I would vote 'Status Quo' , 'Mutabilis' , 'Incursio' , 'Finis' as veracity 10/10 - since I consider them 'state-of...

If it would be useful to fiction authors and OXP authors - I suggest an effort to produce a searchable index of OOlite canon . The way I imagine it - a graph style structure linking pages/sections of oofiction to Systems / Objects / Individuals / Ships. This is a methodology I have observed writers ...

Quick request on this one. Could a write up a description for Dirien and Betegere in chart 6 for addition to the OXP? !m! Maybe keep the scope to G1 & G2 for now. I have been considering a method of indexing Oolite canon and fiction into something you can drill into to find references to this s...

I'll bite. While personally I have not seen a particularly distracting or annoying banner in signature - I can appreciate those that do find them a little excessive, especially on devices which are not desktop computers. Linking to content would be my preference - avatars should really be sufficient.

Recommend you search for similar posts like 'What OXP to install' . but universally 'Random Ship Names' is recommended. Also be cautioned - add ambiance and visuals before adding things that adjust game mechanics.

In Galaxy 2, check. Thargoid Carrier installed, check. Thargoid Wars installed, check. Galactic Navy installed, check. Thagon Threat, downloaded, installed and working properly, check. :D And that was the last we ever heard from him . Poor beggar - we scream his name across the wide-band in-memoria...

And now that you know how to fish.. since I have just been reading up on those effects , the interesting uniforms you're looking for are , , .

In this OXP submersible has (consciously or not) chosen a different approach: there is only one variant in shipdata.plist, defining the keys for both NPC and player ship. Un-conscious - almost in a coma actually. I've since adjust it into a -template , -player and -npc and placed in -player definit...

Wow. Big thanks and my apologies to Commander McLane , this should teach me not to post after midnight and a few drinks. It has struck me before that in linux the plist parsing seems to be very forgiving of key quoting , dictionary semicolons and dangling commas in arrays. I'll keep up the reading a...

Commander McLane wrote:

Wild guess: have you any OXP installed that manipulates subentities? If the turret is clearly visible on the shipyard, but not when you launch, it must have been removed in-between. Some OXPs could do that.

yup - that was it. Another testing OXP. Right On Commander McLane - thankyou.

If anyone can tell me why the ballturret is only working for system populated ships and not the player... that would be great. That mainly depends on what do you mean by "not working". Sorry - that was poorly explained. The turret appears in the shipyard, and on ships encountered in syste...

Work in progress , experimenting with modelling and shaders for ships. The Glitter ship 'Tetra Yacht' , preferred vessel of the incredibly vain. http://swarm.perlide.org/static/Glitter-beta.oxp.zip If anyone can tell me why the ballturret is only working for system populated ships and not the player...