Oolite Bulletins

Pleb wrote:

JeX wrote:

Seriously, with this speed of OXPs being released, Oolite is soon going to be the most superior spacesims ever.

I thought it already was?

Rorschachhamster wrote:

I'd love to see that. Thought about at least fines for shooting one down... but I'm head over heels into the freighttrains atM...
Do your worst!

ORBIT_PLANET = {
	 UPDATE = ("sendScriptMessage: OrbitSatellite", "setDesiredRangeTo: 500.0", setDestinationFromCoordinates, performFlyToRangeFromDestination, "pauseAI: 1");
	 "ACCEPT_DISTRESS_CALL" = (setTargetToFoundTarget,  "markTargetForOffence: 1");
          ATTACKED = (setTargetToPrimaryAggressor,  "markTargetForOffence: 2"); 
     }; 

Dr.Tripsa wrote:

Turning them into the space equivalent of highway speed cameras turns out to be really easy! Just borrowed and adapted AI from the police interceptor. "markTargetForOffence" takes a bitwize value to OR to the targets legal status, in this way shooting down a sat is "twice" as bad as being the cause of a distress call.

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ORBIT_PLANET = {
	 UPDATE = ("sendScriptMessage: OrbitSatellite", "setDesiredRangeTo: 500.0", setDestinationFromCoordinates, performFlyToRangeFromDestination, "pauseAI: 1");
	 "ACCEPT_DISTRESS_CALL" = (setTargetToFoundTarget,  "markTargetForOffence: 1");
          ATTACKED = (setTargetToPrimaryAggressor,  "markTargetForOffence: 2"); 
     }; 

Edit:
to receive the Distress call you will need to change the scan-class in the shipdata.plist

"scan_class" = "CLASS_POLICE";

this will also make pirates target the sats!

Edit 2:

This will make them mass lock ships, however given how close sats are to the planet this is unlikely to be an issue , the planet will have mass locked them first!

Edit 3. You can actually mix and match these, leaving the scan class of all but the spy sat as is... that way only the spy sat can report on attacks.. spy-ish-ly.. while all can report on being attacked.

Shipbuilder wrote:

Rorschachhamster - I've just downloaded this OXP and am looking forward to seeing these satelites in game.

One thing that may be of interest to you when putting your OXPs together is a free item of software called Optipng which reduces the size of texture files without any loss of quality.

As an example I ran your RShubble texture which is 1.13MB in the OXP and the software managed to reduce it in size to 808k.

Great work by the way.

Hans Olo wrote:

Looks like an awesome OXP! But do they jam the jump drive?

Commander Wilmot wrote:

Might be neat if there was a chance of some patrolling (more like floating in at certain points) the witchspace lane, if you could work out a way to avoid them masslocking, then they could work like police/fire department call boxes that used to be popular before home phones (not like the Tardis (where it serves as a waypoint for policemen to contact the station,) but like the ones on posts that had a direct line to the fire (or police) station for citizens to call in an incident.) If a distress signal is transmitted in sensor range of scanner or maybe if a Thagroid enters sensor range (which is what the planetary ones already do,) then a viper or viper interceptor launches from the main station and heads to the beacon as quick as possible.