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Elite IV?

Who needs it.

Captain Hesperus

Maybe it is possible to have the revised police viper change signals as its AI status changes? Flashing blue lights when they move to intercept a fugitive or something.... Or was that what you meant anyway?

-Oz

ovvldc wrote:

Maybe it is possible to have the revised police viper change signals as its AI status changes? Flashing blue lights when they move to intercept a fugitive or something....

I believe this is what is already happening with police ships. According to the policeInterceptAI, the first thing they do is switch on lights.

another_commander wrote:

Here are some more. The next two are featuring DreamTeam models:
Adder exiting atmosphere, heading to Coriolis:


Coriolis station launching defense Viper:


And last but not least, Qutiri, one of the most beautiful planets in the Ooniverse:

brilliant

another_commander wrote:

I believe this is what is already happening with police ships. According to the policeInterceptAI, the first thing they do is switch on lights.

I see. Maybe I am too much of a law-abiding trader...

Best wishes,
Oscar

Wow, the viper looks really cool and the Adder (specially the cockpit windows) looks awesome.

**want more**

Nice. Although the moon in the background looks too much like Earth's moon for my taste.

@captKev : goddamn, that's a glorious screenshot. looks like i'm missing a few OXPs, must admit to have been long gone from playing Oolite for a while, sidetracked into doing a mission for Delta Force Black Hawk Down.

which oxps are those items from?

@Killer Wolf, version 1.71 of Oolite with griff_shady_station, Rusty Ships, System Redux and Fighter HUD.

Here's an alternative version to my earlier screenshot. The sun and the planet make for a completely different lighting.


Here the earlier one again for comparison:

@ all,

Wow great!
Keep them coming!

Nope, the alternative is fundamentally wrong.

You can't have liquid oceans and that amount of sunlight without a creating a very active atmosphere - but there are no clouds on the planet.

Well, that's an issue of System_Redux. The clouds of the clouded planet are simply in the texture itself. The Mars-like planet with oceans has no clouds.

Which brings up the question why (all!) the System_Redux planets don't have the usual Oolite-clouds? Answer: because System_Redux doesn't actually use the addPlanet-method, but the addMoons-method, which supresses the cloud-layer. Therefore they can't have clouds, if the textures themselves don't have them.

EDIT: Which still leaves the question why there is some kind of atmosphere around the planets (which shouldn't be there for objects that are added with the addMoon-method). Anyway, the absence of a cloud layer may also be due to the setting of percent_cloud to 0.0 in the universal-entry of the planetinfo.plist in System_Redux (although I'm not sure whether that is even supposed to work, if it's not a key of the planet-entry).

So that would be a "lack of realism"-complaint to the authors of System_Redux.

Anything can in the Oolite Ooniverse.