Annoying bug - ghosts back from the dead

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:44 am

Jakob Kramer wrote:
An idea: Is it possible to make the visibility of ships etc. editable? That is, make a slider or something that enables players to set just how visible the ships, exhaust etc. should appear? This would be sort of a "gamma correction within the game".

Possible, yes, but not likely to happen in 1.69 or 1.70.

Arexack_Heretic · Post by **Arexack_Heretic** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:12 pm

With a simple OXP tweak in the planetinfo, it is possible to set the ambient light higher.

So would visibility enhancement IYO consist of scaling shipsizes?
(while somehow increasing laser offset/deviation to correct for lowered tohit difficulty)

Jakob Kramer · Post by **Jakob Kramer** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 3:02 pm

I'm not sure whether this question was aimed at me, but I don't think scaling the ships will do the trick. Right now I'm almost on top of the ships before they become visible enough for me to notice them. A guess is a distance of approx. 5-10 km.

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 4:04 pm

Are you using a CRT monitor or an LCD flatscreen, there is a significant difference.

Jakob Kramer · Post by **Jakob Kramer** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:43 am

I'm using CRT, so the brightness should be OK.

I am on the other hand sitting in a room with a rather large window, so the light from this window competes with the light from the screen. I tested this yesterday evening, and when it's dark (or at least not as bright) outside the ships etc. are much more visible (even without gamma correction).

In some ways this is actually good - I'm not tempted to play Oolite during the day... when I'm really supposed to be working

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:14 am

Being an old codger now and having to use glasses all the time, I have found that the LCD screen is far superior for brightness and visibility colour etc. particularly during the daytime. When I used to use a CRT monitor I had to turn the room lights off and virtually use the keyboard by "feel" to be able to play, that was untill I acquired a USB LED on a bendy rod that I could use to illuminate the keyboard and not affect the screen.

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:11 pm

Or get yourself a MacBook Pro with illuminated keyboard. That helps a lot!

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:15 pm

Hey! you got a light Mac!