Oolite Bulletins

It looks like a flower to me

Kaks wrote:

Did yours come with xp? I've seen an xp netbook running Oolite with shaders (1gig ram, other hardware basically identical to aspire one and 99% of all netbooks) I think the acer aspire one has got its own custom linux installation, one that might not have the latest linux video drivers at that...

It originally came installed with linpus its the 512mb memory and 8gb ssd. I installed Rons tiny xp on it as i like to play games mostly, i would of dual booted with ubuntu like my main computer if i had a proper sized harddrive on it. As it is the shaders options is greyed out, i must be in the 1% im sure it had the latest drivers installed

pagroove wrote:

It looks like a flower to me

Which might be why it's nicknamed the Rose Gate?

Anyway the design (well texture) has changed a bit, but I'm still not happy with it. Might redo it, or even junk it as I have a third gate design, one that is the generic Galcop gate (the SpiderGate).

Rustybolts wrote:

Kaks wrote:

Did yours come with xp? I've seen an xp netbook running Oolite with shaders (1gig ram, other hardware basically identical to aspire one and 99% of all netbooks) I think the acer aspire one has got its own custom linux installation, one that might not have the latest linux video drivers at that...

It originally came installed with linpus its the 512mb memory and 8gb ssd. I installed Rons tiny xp on it as i like to play games mostly, i would of dual booted with ubuntu like my main computer if i had a proper sized harddrive on it. As it is the shaders options is greyed out, i must be in the 1% im sure it had the latest drivers installed

It turns out I lied. The netbook in question was Samsung N510 which is not identical to all the other netbooks. It uses an Nvidia ION graphic card, which is obviously better than intel's integrated chipset most netbooks use. Sorry for the misleading information. I've had a look on the net, and there's quite a few others with nvidia graphics (they all seem to have ION somewhere in the name) hitting the market as we speak. They all seem to be £300+, though...

Kaks wrote:

Rustybolts wrote:

Kaks wrote:

Did yours come with xp? I've seen an xp netbook running Oolite with shaders (1gig ram, other hardware basically identical to aspire one and 99% of all netbooks) I think the acer aspire one has got its own custom linux installation, one that might not have the latest linux video drivers at that...

It originally came installed with linpus its the 512mb memory and 8gb ssd. I installed Rons tiny xp on it as i like to play games mostly, i would of dual booted with ubuntu like my main computer if i had a proper sized harddrive on it. As it is the shaders options is greyed out, i must be in the 1% im sure it had the latest drivers installed

It turns out I lied. The netbook in question was Samsung N510 which is not identical to all the other netbooks. It uses an Nvidia ION graphic card, which is obviously better than intel's integrated chipset most netbooks use. Sorry for the misleading information. I've had a look on the net, and there's quite a few others with nvidia graphics (they all seem to have ION somewhere in the name) hitting the market as we speak. They all seem to be £300+, though...

kk ty for the heads up i thought i was missing out on something, and have saved me sometime trying to fix this mythical issue.

After all these discussions I needed an artistic medicine and worked on Ceinerxe. After comments from Commander McLane that looked a bit too generic I improved the texture. This is the 3rd day of texturering the same texture. So it's all hand drawn. (yes all those thousands of blocks)

A comparison shot

Looking good.

One guestion: how big is the planet? If its Earth-sized, those structures are HUGE - making the great wall of China look like a row of pebbles in comparison...

Zieman wrote:

Looking good.

One guestion: how big is the planet? If its Earth-sized, those structures are HUGE - making the great wall of China look like a row of pebbles in comparison...

Well they are indeed huge. Think of buildings Corusant style. Or like Xexedi in G1. At least 800 m to 2 km high. Every 'buildling' is a city block on their own.

What you also can see is the extensive transport system. Large tubes with Vacuum trains/ and other transport. Also offering living and office space.

Absolutely gorgeous. Keep them coming!

pagroove wrote:

Well they are indeed huge. Think of buildings Corusant style. Or like Xexedi in G1. At least 800 m to 2 km high. Every 'buildling' is a city block on their own.

City block? Try small country. And not a very small country, but something like Lesotho. 200 km on a side?

Of course, that’s by Earth standards. You could probably park an entire Oolite planet in Lesotho. You’d have to press it down to make it stick to the mountains. :-)

Ahruman wrote:

pagroove wrote:

Well they are indeed huge. Think of buildings Corusant style. Or like Xexedi in G1. At least 800 m to 2 km high. Every 'buildling' is a city block on their own.

City block? Try small country. And not a very small country, but something like Lesotho. 200 km on a side?

Of course, that’s by Earth standards. You could probably park an entire Oolite planet in Lesotho. You’d have to press it down to make it stick to the mountains.

Well a very large city block yeah. 50 x 50 klometers to larger sizes indeed

The Corsair:

@pagroove - well done for going back and making such a huge improvement (and I really liked the old texture!)

@Zieman - Nice - given the winglets tell me this is a partially atmospheric ship and not just a vacuum flyer...

@ Zieman,

Looking good
EDIT: More than good