Screenshots

[cbr]

shipbuilders clean lines really captures its spirit...

[tsoj]

Look who I saw today:

Apparently I wasn't on Santa's Nice List …

[phkb]

Apparently I wasn't on Santa's Nice List …

[cbr]

made u a little star...

[Old Murgh]

made u a little star...

That looks like a proper death star.

[Cholmondely]

How goes it? ...are you still playing the game? And if so, where are you and what are you up to?

I haven't played Oolite now for many years, but I still have a soft spot for the game, and might eventually come back to it. In the meantime it's good to keep up with what's going on. And there have been some incredible screenshots on show.

So which screenshots do you like?

And, by the way, how was your New Year?

[Cholmondely]

Look who I saw today:

Apparently I wasn't on Santa's Nice List …

Tsoj... I can't see any of these. All I can see is "Content is not viewable in your region".

[MrFlibble]

Tsoj... I can't see any of these. All I can see is "Content is not viewable in your region".

Imgur simply blocked the UK rather than attempt to comply with the Online Safety Act. As of Sep 30th 2025, any embedded imgur piccies will not be visible in the UK, including all those already in place.
https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/article ... ed-Kingdom
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo

Other embeddable image upload sites are available

To recover these images and re-upload them to a compatible site would involve either not being in the UK, or using a VPN with a non-UK endpoint. It would be a massive undertaking to do this manually across the whole BB.

I can imagine a possible automated fix. Spider the whole BB for imgur links, download the images to a (read only) directory on the BB server, and amend the links accordingly. Renaming would have to be done to avoid clashes, but that could be a simple "number for name", incrementing per file.

Spidering the BB remotely would be be painfully slow due to Cloudflare throttling, else I'd skim it now to see how many embeds are affected. Anyway, amending the links is a job for someone with admin access to the BB.

[cbr]

While playing with the spec gloss map of the asteroid they kept too light for my liking even when using low/dark values.

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    var rocktype = 1;
    var diff = textures[rocktype] + ".png";
    var norm = textures[rocktype] + "_normal.png";
    var spec = textures[rocktype] + "_specular.png";

    if (this._debug) log(this.name, "using " + diff + " for rock texture (" + num + " rh's in system)");
    // set the materials for the rh
    this.ship.setMaterials({"griff_spacebar_rock.png":{
        diffuse_map:diff,
        normal_map:norm,
        specular_map:spec,
        gloss:0.8,
        specular_color:[0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 1.0]}

The 'culprit' in this case the specular color (The colour to use for specular reflection over the entire model when specular_map is not used.)
when removing this ( ....//specular etc) I get:



So the specular color is still apllied even when it shouldnt while a specular map is present?

...

[cbr]

Got a new breed it seems

[Old Murgh]

Got a new breed it seems

Heh. There's no telling how old they can get.

But will people get tricked into buying them if they're bearded and wrinkly?

[another_commander]

Murgh's new trumble offer, ingame:

[another_commander]

Well, turns out the above pic revealed an issue we had with overlays, which were apparently not getting properly gamma corrected. This is why the trumble box appears so dark in the previous shot compared to the source image. This has now been fixed - albeit in a rather hackish way and the corrected screenshot is here:



Unfortunately I had to scale the image back down to 512x512 because it worked as an overlay but not as a standard background and Xenon UI turns these mission images to overlays so it was not immediately evident. Sorry Murgh!
Fixed the mission script to scale properly and restored the 2048x2048 image. The screen above is the final one with the high res trumblebox.

[Cholmondely]

Unfortunately I had to scale the image back down to 512x512 because it worked as an overlay but not as a standard background and Xenon UI turns these mission images to overlays so it was not immediately evident. Sorry Murgh!
Fixed the mission script to scale properly and restored the 2048x2048 image. The screen above is the final one with the high res trumblebox.

As Murgh said elsewhere - your determination to ensure that things are properly worked out is most impressive. Thank you for your dedication and for your hard work.

[Old Murgh]

Unfortunately I had to scale the image back down to 512x512 because it worked as an overlay but not as a standard background and Xenon UI turns these mission images to overlays so it was not immediately evident. Sorry Murgh!
Fixed the mission script to scale properly and restored the 2048x2048 image. The screen above is the final one with the high res trumblebox.

Twists and turns and surprisingly action-filled.
I was thinking surely the first pic had to do with individual gamma settings, but hey grim! and the UVlamp-look is sort of neat -of course they use fluorescent inks..
But in the end, high standards benchmarks prevail! Very well done.