Animated ships?

wackyman465 · Post by **wackyman465** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 6:17 pm

I've said this before, but what is we had the ability to have opening cargo doors/missile bays/other? We already have moving subentities (IC engines, condor rings), what if we could have others? You could script the cargo to come out the door, and have it open when you used the eject cargo key... Just an idea.

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 8:39 pm

Not before the next stable release. (Actually, you can animate a ship using vertex shaders, but it’s fiddly and limited. Griff’s done cannons with recoil this way in a couple of OXPs.)

wackyman465 · Post by **wackyman465** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 9:48 pm

So you say this will be available in the next stable release, which will be when?
(A "stable version" of 1.70, or 1.73?)

Post by **Cmdr James** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 10:20 pm

No, he does not say in the next stable version, he says "not before next stable".

I expect this means it isnt likely to be implemented any time soon.

wackyman465 · Post by **wackyman465** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 10:21 pm

Not before the next stable version = in next stable version or later - not sooner.

Screet · Post by **Screet** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 12:06 am

Cmdr James wrote:
No, he does not say in the next stable version, he says "not before next stable".

I expect this means it isnt likely to be implemented any time soon.

I noticed that he did not call it mythical anymore...is there something upcoming or did he not want to destroy all hopes?

SCNR

Screet, believing that oolite already is a hell lot of fun!

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 12:10 am

By “Not before next stable”, I mean I don’t intend to start working on it now.

I also don’t expect to start working on it ever.

As for the mythicality of the next stable release, I’m hoping to have it ready this summer. There’s a (moderately optimistic) schedule hidden in some thread somewhere.