Fuel Station OXP

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Wed May 13, 2009 10:39 am

ClymAngus wrote:
Smaller, sleeker better gun accuracy. You know all the things that titted people off with the original.

Not quite all, as it still sounds too uber for my tastes (flying the original takes a lot of the fun out of the game, it's too powerful) and the pitch/roll on the original is unrealistically fast and doesn't sound to have been amended.

Also I'd doubt changing the model size will make any difference, as it's the turrets that caused the problem (a de-turreted Caddy has no problem with the fuel station at all). Also given the reports of a turret added to other ship models causing the same problem, and the fact that the fuel station is significantly larger internally than the original Caduceus model size anyway would support that...

ClymAngus · Post by **ClymAngus** » Wed May 13, 2009 1:39 pm

cyborg Bio-ships they're a little bit "Fleshy" for some peoples tastes. Uber? Well possibly; but when compared to cold metal ships, semi-sentient bio-ships often are I'm afraid.

I'll have to pop the turrets and give one a go.

Nemoricus · Post by **Nemoricus** » Sun May 24, 2009 3:57 am

I've been playing with Fuel Stations on for some time now and it seems that it's causing other station types to not show up.

Specifically, I haven't seen either variety of Commie factory station, the Dictator Factory station or any Con Store station in some time.

Is there a problem with the OXPs, or am I either not visiting the right places or just have a horrible case of bad luck right now?

Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Sun May 24, 2009 4:35 am

Just bad luck and visiting the wrong places, I think.. they're all showing up for me..

Nemoricus · Post by **Nemoricus** » Sun May 24, 2009 4:55 am

Diagnosis: One horrible case of bad luck. It would seem that I kept visiting low population worlds. Visiting a system with adequate population, and there they are.

So, no problem exists. Thank you.

Nemoricus · Post by **Nemoricus** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 2:04 pm

Even though the images can't be uploaded to the wiki, I have taken a few screenshots that you might be able to use.

Approaching a Fuel Satellite

Refueling at a Fuel Station

Departing a Fuel Station

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 2:14 pm

Pretty pictures...

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 8:45 pm

With grateful thanks for his work on this, allow me to introduce the update v1.12 of Fuel Station by me and Eric Walch.

New additions are NPC traders now use the station too (Eric's cool addition), plus it should now also be compatable with 1.73 trunk.

Download from the same URL as normal (here).

Editted to add - also on v1.73 the stations now use a new fuel pump icon on the advanced space compass. Although I must admit I forget who added that to trunk and made the icon

If anyone can remind me I'll add a proper credit here and to the readme.

Rustybolts · Post by **Rustybolts** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 8:50 pm

Nice one!

Post by **Eric Walch** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:18 am

Thargoid wrote:
New additions are NPC traders now use the station too (Eric's cool addition),

The most important part of this was already written by Aegidian and in Oolite since 1.65. Special AI commands for flying through rings. He even put a working AI for this goal inside Oolite. But for unknown reason nobody used that code until recently.

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Thu Aug 27, 2009 8:51 pm

OK, I've now updated the OXP to V1.2, with the following changes:

* Compatibility with V1.73 for both fuel stations and satellites.
* Updated the NPC AI to check the player is not near the station before attempting to use it.

Download from the URL in the first post of this thread, or from the links below.

Cmdr Wyvern · Post by **Cmdr Wyvern** » Sat Aug 29, 2009 9:06 pm

I regret to report that fuel stations went back to being useless to turreted ships.
At dead slow speeds, the ship bounces backwards as soon as the nose of the ship reaches the center of the station, and there's an unhealthy drop in front shields, almost like the ship collided with a solid object. Does the station have an invisible wall in the middle?

Fuel satellites work as advertised on the tin, no problem.

Tested on 1.73-rev.2319 and latest version of fuel stations with a Kirin, Xarik, Dragon M, and Neocaduceus Omega.

Post by **another_commander** » Sat Aug 29, 2009 9:14 pm

Funny, because no code related to collision detection has been touched since the fix to octree code was applied.

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Sat Aug 29, 2009 9:14 pm

The only compatibility change for 1.73 on the OXP side was for setOrientation/orientation and setPosition/position (the only other tweak being the NPC AI change mentioned).

Editted to add - on my rev 2312 install and an original Caddy I seem to be having crashes again. I think I've still got a 1.12 version of fuel station around, so let me revert to that tomorrow and see if it's an OXP problem. But equally I didn't change anything in that which would be relevant I don't think.

Post by **Kaks** » Sat Aug 29, 2009 9:23 pm

Thargoid wrote:
Editted to add - also on v1.73 the stations now use a new fuel pump icon on the advanced space compass. Although I must admit I forget who added that to trunk and made the icon If anyone can remind me I'll add a proper credit here and to the readme.

_ds_, aka Darren Salt!