Oolite Bulletins

Cody wrote:

aegidian wrote:

If someone would like to send me a collection of the new ships' pictures...

The new core shipset is CaptSolo's shipset, so those pics should suit.

Those pics would be great, if they weren't against a black starfield. It makes getting a decent transparency very tricky.

Sounds like the sort of project I could manage. If someone would like to send me a collection of the new ships' pictures (ideally with an easy to remove background - a solid colour, not a starfield) then I'll do the work and add a new gallery to the available avatars.

For me, the easiest way to produce a normal-map is to make a greyscale height-map first and then use a dedicated tool to convert the height-map to a normal map.

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3907/14638966706_e867ae4dd6_c.jpg Desk a mess! by aegidian , on Flickr Oh dear. Left to right then: Micro$oft headphones and mic, with attached EDtracker , Elite Dangerous pin next to Oolite pin, Thrustmaster HOTAS throttle, BG testing kit, last year's iMac, spare rea...

I wonder if it would be worthwhile (or indeed possible) to give NPCs a set of "docking mode" ship stats? That's probably a good, simple way to handle it. The simplest approach would be to have something like... docking_speed_modifier = 0.5 Alternatively the docking behaviour could be clev...

I should say, I am so proud of the work being done on Oolite ATM. I recall fondly getting the early explosions right, these are better and more beautiful by far.

That's a great idea, it could be incorporated into the HS fuel gauge!

Well, I prefer to pronounce it like the rock 'ooh-light'. But others prefer 'ooh-leet'. Either of those two is good, 'Oh-Olly-Tay' is bad.

And I spose I really ought to listen to some Lave Radio, but I rarely have time when I want to be still and listen.

And perhaps there'll be someone (anyone?) there better qualified than me to talk about Oolite's current development?

So, I've been asked to talk about Oolite for a bit at Lavecon in July. I'd like to say something about how it's continuing to develop, but realise that I've been rather out of the loop. So, what should I say about version 1.80 and what would you like to hear me say about versions 0.0 to 1.6? Or woul...

Smivs wrote:

Well spotted Cody.
An anniversary worth celebrating! <Cracks open a bottle of fine vintage Zaquessoian evil juice>

<quaffs earnestly>

You'll want to check the licenses for the particular ship models you want to use, but generally speaking they are free (as in both beer AND speech) to reuse. Go to it!

At least your hopefully brief stay will give you a chance to just play Oolite, as opposed to tinkering with it.. Get well soon! Ah, sadly this is coming from an android tablet, and I don't think we've managed any GLES ports yet. Thanks for the best wishes, FWIW I'm in getting treatment for generali...

Hi adrubble. The recent unbanning of IPs by my ISP (Namehog.net) may well have a lot to do with the fact that the serrver on which aegidian.org is hosted is also the server for namehog's website and the serverr which died horribly a few days ago when there was a power outage at the servers. If this ...

Apologies for the extended outage. The datacentre where the server on which aegidian.org lives suffered a power outage, and our server got damaged. Unfortunately it was also the server for our ISP's main website and support systems, so I couldn't for a while even find out what the problem was. It al...