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Must be possible though as when you fly near a planet into its atmosphere space turns blue then white so must be possible but couldn't find code that made this happen.Haven't tried it to confim it works, but moving thePleb wrote:I have still not yet been able to decypher why the Thargoid Laser will not cause any damage when using it on a player ship, there is nothing in the code to suggest why this is happening either. I have copared the firemainweapon code between PlayerEntity.m and ShipEntity.m and there is nothing in there either to suggest this. Even the firedirectshot code in ShipEntity.m looks fine so I am at a total loss to explain this.
case WEAPON_THARGOID_LASER: at line 4136, -fireMainWeapon method in PlayerEntity.m about four lines up, right after the case WEAPON_MILITARY_LASER: should allow it to execute the fireLaserShotInDirection: method, which contains the code for dealing weapon damage.The sky color is set in various places, but I think (again, haven't cross-checked, could be wrong) that the first place to look at for setting the sky color when in space (i.e. 99% of the time) should be in Universe.m, method -setUpSpace, around line 913:I also tried playing around with an idea pagroove had about making aqua space - but I could not figure out how I would make space blue! So no Frontier/FFE space backgrounds any time soon...
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[self setSkyColorRed:0.0f
green:0.0f
blue:0.0f
alpha:0.0f];I already tried this, actually was the first thing I did! For some reason, it will fire a shot at a targeted ship, but will not register that the shot in fact hit the ship. Without a target though, the laser will increase the weapon temperature but not be drawn on the screen. Thank you though for suggesting this, I'm glad you thought the same thing I did!another_commander wrote:Haven't tried it to confim it works, but moving thecase WEAPON_THARGOID_LASER:at line 4136, -fireMainWeapon method in PlayerEntity.m about four lines up, right after thecase WEAPON_MILITARY_LASER:should allow it to execute thefireLaserShotInDirection:method, which contains the code for dealing weapon damage.
I tried messing with this as well, but again the sky remains black. It must be, as you said, referenced in a few places and I would obviously need to find all references to the sky being defined as black. Seems we have the same ideas! Shame, I wanted to post a screenshot of an Imperial Courier in blue space in the screenshots thread to see if anyone got the reference.another_commander wrote:The sky color is set in various places, but I think (again, haven't cross-checked, could be wrong) that the first place to look at for setting the sky color when in space (i.e. 99% of the time) should be in Universe.m, method -setUpSpace, around line 913:Hope this helps.Code: Select all
[self setSkyColorRed:0.0f green:0.0f blue:0.0f alpha:0.0f];
Read the source, Luke! Haha thanks for that Switeck.Switeck wrote:General food-for-thought about the value of "nosing around in" the source code:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/0 ... -luke.html
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3769446
The specific atmosphere colors are set in.. planetEntity. I think this updating makes that it keeps black.Pleb wrote:I also tried playing around with an idea pagroove had about making aqua space - but I could not figure out how I would make space blue!
.....Must be possible though as when you fly near a planet into its atmosphere space turns blue then white so must be possible but couldn't find code that made this happen.
Ah thanks for that Eric! To be honest I've hardly looked in the trunk as when I first started playing with the source I encountered a bug so I started using the 1.76.1 code. Perhaps I would be better exploring the trunk code instead in order to keep up with more recent developments.Eric Walch wrote:The specific atmosphere colors are set in.. planetEntity. I think this updating makes that it keeps black.
In trunk with the new planets (OOplanetEntity.m), the sky is only blue on the sunside of the planet. When traveling to the dark side, you even get a twilight zone.
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skyClearColor[0] = 0.0;
skyClearColor[1] = 0.0;
skyClearColor[2] = 0.0; // changed this to 0.2 for below screenie
skyClearColor[3] = 0.0;
The Source is Power. Once you gain access to it, there is nothing that cannot be done, given sufficient time and persistence.Pleb wrote:[...] this would require a serious reworking of the current code and I'm not even sure it would be possible.
Haha this is true, would be good if I could figure it out. I can now create new plist files and get the code to reference them in the game, so I know I could write a plist with data entries for weapons its just how to go about it all... I'm still in the process of perfecting loading different save games at the start of the game so maybe when I've cracked that the weapons will seem a lot easier. I can get the game to load a specified start game at the beginning, essentially overriding the start game settings by loading a saved game in a specified folder. Now I need to figure out a way of presenting a list of other start games to the player. One idea I had was to replicate the Load Commander GUI, but I would prefer it if this looked a bit different. Still its coming along, when I have something presentable I will share with all!another_commander wrote:The Source is Power. Once you gain access to it, there is nothing that cannot be done, given sufficient time and persistence.
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a = 10
f = 15
crazy programming voodo
You ought to see some of my code. I managed to code an IRC client in LPCGriff wrote:Good luck with your code experiments Pleb! I must admit i do love reading through these 'Oolite DVD commentary' threads that pop up every now and again when the devs discuss some new programming stuff and you get lots of posts filled withCode: Select all
a = 10 f = 15 crazy programming voodo