Oolite Bulletins

In the Windows 1.68 version, there has been a change in the default paths in which the game is looking for resources. 1.65 was reading resource files from oolite.app\Contents\Resources, while 1.68 is reading from oolite.app\Resources. This means that, if you try to install on top of v1.65 you will p...

In addition to being able to figure out the minimum number of jumps required to travel to any place, you get the names of all the planets that you need to make stops at plus the overall galaxy connectivity diagram overlayed. Also, you can immediately tell if a destination is actually reachable, as n...

The delay at dock is most likely the game doing a cache pruning (someone please correct me if this is not true). The more OXPs installed, the longer it should take to perfrom it. 1.67 was not using this cache mechanism, so you would not notice this.

cmdr drayton's original idea has now been re-implemented. The required changes to the code have been already sent to Ahruman. Damaged equipment will appear on screen with N/A (Not Available) appended at the end of the description. Like this: http://xs414.xs.to/xs414/07153/oolite-_damaged_eqpt.png.xs...

Maybe the energy bomb is broken only in the Mac version? I just fired an energy bomb outside a station - bad move - and it worked as expected (my subsequent instant termination by Vipers also worked as expected). Running Win32 current SVN snapshot, US keyboard layout.

I believe the new ship models, although great looking and all, should be initally left as OXP additions. Once they are released and we see them in game, have a feel of what they actually are like and what impact they have on the game's performance, then we could move them to the standard resource fo...

I found something interesting. Taken straight from the headers of gnustep-base 1.13.1, NSString.h, just above the fileSystemRepresentation declaration: * NB. On mingw32 systems the filesystem representation of a path is a 16-bit unicode character string, so you should only pass the value returned by...

And here is the output of the test case: Ouch!

Success! UTF8String does the trick. Script loads and executes flawlessly. Thanks Ahruman. For the record, I am using GNUstep-base version 1.13.0.

Updated to latest svn (btw, ten commits in less than a day? Man, that's what I call productivity :-)). Tried your check, but unfortunately this is what I get: 2007-04-01 18:05:34.000 oolite.exe[6648] [temp.jsload]: Loading JS from "oolite.app/Resources/Config/script.js", fileSystemRepresen...

How exactly would one go about installing the example script posted above? I tried following the wiki instructions, i.e. copying the script code into a file called script.js, which I put in the Config directory, but when I run the latest SVN snapshot, I get this error message: 2007-04-01 16:50:38.00...

Check this out to find out how these descriptions are generated. Look at paragraphs 13 and 14.

http://www.frontier.co.uk/games/elite/faq.html

Logic has no place here

The option is already there, but is somewhat hidden, at least for the PC version. You need to edit your RunOolite.bat as follows (never mind the paths shown here, these should correspond to your installation folders): @echo off set GNUSTEP_PATH_HANDLING=windows set GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT=D:\oosvn\trunk\...

Yes, it is easy to get trapped in witchspace. However, you may want to install the Behemoth OXP. After installing it, you will see that, sometimes, when you end up in witchspace, you will find yourself in the middle of an ongoing battle between Thargoids and GalCop. If you manage to dock with one of...

another_commander, i can't locate that file in my Oolite folders so i guess it's a pre-compile file.. If so, can you compile that entry and attach the file / endresult here so i can use it please? Well, as you see from Ahruman's response, this did not work out as expected. It does on my system, but...