Strange happenings in Lave.

Gareth3377 · Post by **Gareth3377** » Thu May 15, 2008 6:09 pm

A weird bug methinks. Upon entering Lave I encounter a planet, only, it's not a planet, but a planet shaped object made up of letters and numbers. Very strange.

Am currently running 1.71.2 on Win Vista (Quad core 2.4, 8800GTS, 2gb) I have all OXPs installed. I suspect it's system redux causing the problem.

Or is it the appearance of Raxxla?

Just thought I'd let you all know.

Cheers.

FSOneblin · Post by **FSOneblin** » Thu May 15, 2008 6:30 pm

Who, weird. Take a picture for me. Once I did a misjump, and I went to a place with a sun, and some planets, that might be raxxla. Oh, darn, I might get wanted for claiming to have found raxxla.

Don't panic, FSOneblin

Gareth3377 · Post by **Gareth3377** » Thu May 15, 2008 6:34 pm

Forgive my thickness, but how do I post an image?

FSOneblin · Post by **FSOneblin** » Thu May 15, 2008 6:53 pm

Gareth3377 wrote:
Forgive my thickness, but how do I post an image?

thats ok, dear dude. You go to http://www.imageshack.us/ and click upload an image, select the image, and copy the fourm link, then post it here.

Don't panic, FSOneblin

Gareth3377 · Post by **Gareth3377** » Thu May 15, 2008 7:05 pm

Ok, here we go (mistakes and errors on standby...)

Blimey - it worked, but it's a wee bit small.

Hold on...

FSOneblin · Post by **FSOneblin** » Thu May 15, 2008 7:08 pm

Gareth3377 wrote:
Ok, here we go (mistakes and errors on standby...)

Hmm... still can't see it, maby some one who is better with computers will help you.

Don't panic, FSOneblin

Gareth3377 · Post by **Gareth3377** » Thu May 15, 2008 7:10 pm

That should give a better image when you click on the picture

FSOneblin · Post by **FSOneblin** » Thu May 15, 2008 8:06 pm

hmm... Weird. This looks like a job for...

The people who made the oxp! And not me, But I'm learning scripting, so I might help someone in the near future.

Don't panic, FSOneblin

Post by **Kaks** » Thu May 15, 2008 8:46 pm

Does the 'letters & numbers' planet still appear with just lave.oxp inside the AddOns folder?

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Thu May 15, 2008 8:51 pm

Did you by any chance resize the window or switch to/from full-screen mode at any time? (A most heinous crime…)

ovvldc · Post by **ovvldc** » Thu May 15, 2008 9:01 pm

Oh dear, the numerologists are going to have a field day with this...

Frame · Post by **Frame** » Thu May 15, 2008 9:18 pm

What you are seeing is what ahruman is trying to find out, and he is correct in his asumption...

i had the same odd effect once...

The Letters and Numbers on the planets, are Oolites Character set... these are stored in an image file, and will upon resize window and change vidio mode from full screen to window via the f11 button or the in-game menu, cause that effect... It is usually allways the same texture that gets replaced, which is why you can reproduce the effect...

If you switch to external view(Default for this is "V" key), you will notice that your ships texture have very likely changed too or it just looks like its not projected correctly on the model... and again it is usually the exact same projection or change, each time you have resized the window or gone from full screen to window, or vice verca...

in my case, I use Vista Ultimate, the Planet texture get replaced by some black texture and therefore looks like it has dissapeared.. i can make out a black disc with no static stars or nebulas behind it....

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Thu May 15, 2008 11:22 pm

Assuming my suspicion is correct, this should no longer be a problem once planets transition to the “new” texture code used by everything else since 1.68 or so.

elite · Post by **elite** » Fri May 16, 2008 9:36 am

I see your screen shows the writing: 'Try and keep a low profile in this system'

What oxp is that from, never seen that before.

Post by **Kaks** » Fri May 16, 2008 10:27 am

Hotrods!

And that message makes me think he's met the Tiger Gang at least a couple of times already!