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by poidol » Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:00 am
greetings ooliters,
i just spent last two days checking out the elite type offerings for linux and after much installing, building and playing oolite comes out the best
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i'm running 1.71 on fc8 (installed from .package file) on amd64 with GeForce FX 5200.
when in game play or checking info on any planet the rendering is off. i see a bunch of transparent polygons instead of the nice solid planets i see in screen shots.
i tried 1.65 and had same. building oolite is a pain on fedora cos the gnustep stuff isn't in repos and i've seen lots of posts about issues with it.
any ideas appreciated.
TTFN.
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by poidol » Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:03 am
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by ClymAngus » Thu Sep 04, 2008 2:57 pm
Thats cool! Wrong, but way cool!
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by Thargoid » Thu Sep 04, 2008 3:11 pm
Just what I was thinking, looks rather funky...
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by JohnnyBoy » Thu Sep 04, 2008 4:42 pm
We'll call this planet "Ikea".... because it looks like it's made of chipboard
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by JensAyton » Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:58 pm
I believe previous occurrences of this bug have been fixed by installing up-to-date hardware drivers.
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by DaddyHoggy » Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:50 pm
Welcome to the boards poidol.
I've got Ubuntu rather than Fedora but I found my graphic issues where solved by using the nvidia restricted drivers.
Nvidia's webpage is actually very useful and comprehensive for us minority Linux users.
Selezen wrote: Apparently I was having a DaddyHoggy moment.
Oolite Life is now revealed
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by poidol » Fri Sep 05, 2008 3:10 pm
i'm upgrading my box at the mo to get latest nvidia drivers. in the meantime i'm playing glfrontier - i love that star-map
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by poidol » Sat Sep 06, 2008 11:43 am
thanks for the feedback ooliters. all is good now, the planets look great.
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by DaddyHoggy » Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:38 am
Splendid - more acceptable but somehow - less "cool"
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by Commander McLane » Mon Sep 29, 2008 8:01 am
Sorry for the late reply (was away for a couple of weeks).
Why don't you try
System_Redux.oxp ? It's definitely an optical improvement, as far as planets are concerned.