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Cody wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 6:19 pm

Re GalTech ships: I've emailed Shipbuilder, so hopefully he may respond.

dybal wrote: ↑Thu Aug 27, 2020 2:14 am

Cody wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 6:19 pm

Re GalTech ships: I've emailed Shipbuilder, so hopefully he may respond.

Please, if he ever responds, ask him about revoking the extra clauses in the license: they don't allow modification beyond changing the plists format, and the ships are using CARGO_RANDOM instead of CARGO_NOT_CARGO, so the populator thinks they are cargo pods....

montana05 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 09, 2020 1:00 pm

Btw, I might be wrong but I think CARGO_RANDOM is working for ships as well, not only cargo pods. Serpent Class Cruiser got some missing scripts causing error messages once in awhile.

10:07:22.713 [script.javaScript.exception.ooliteDefined]: ***** JavaScript exception (oolite-populator 1.91): Error: Ship.setCargoType: Invalid arguments ("PIRATE_GOODS") -- expected Can only be used on cargo pod carriers, not cargo pods (serpent-pirate).
10:07:22.713 [script.javaScript.exception.ooliteDefined]:       /home/dybal/pessoal/oolite/GNUstep/Applications/Oolite-trunk/oolite.app/Resources/Scripts/oolite-populator.js, line 1716.

This will return false if an unrecognised commodity type is used, and will throw an exception if used on a cargo pod rather than a cargo carrier. Using it on a ship like an Asp without a cargo hold is valid but pointless.

montana05 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 09, 2020 1:00 pm

Sorry, I had an accident and wasn't able to use a keyboard efficiently for a while. However, here some more recovered OXP's:

Fireball
Arachnid Mark 1
The Assassins Guild

all of them available in my archive. So From GalTech Colonial Viper Mark 1 is the last one missing.
EDIT:
Another recovered OXP: Medical Anaconda - uploaded as well

Star Wars, author unknown (though there are references to a siggy in the models)...

https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1939

Uhhhm, LB. I just tried to download Assassins.oxp from your siggy but all I get is 'Access denied You are not authorised to access this page.'. I was logged onto Oosat-ETO at the time.


Help?

Captain Hesperus
"This is the sort of problem they invented Hardheads for..."

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Thu Sep 10, 2020 4:47 pm

Star Wars, author unknown (though there are references to a siggy in the models)...

https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1939

If I understand the above thread correctly, Azzameen did the early work.

dybal wrote: ↑Thu Sep 10, 2020 1:20 pm

This will return false if an unrecognised commodity type is used, and will throw an exception if used on a cargo pod rather than a cargo carrier. Using it on a ship like an Asp without a cargo hold is valid but pointless.

That's why I inferred the ship (dataKey serpent-pirate) is being considered a cargo pod.

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Thu Sep 10, 2020 4:47 pm

If I understand the above thread correctly, Azzameen did the early work.

dybal wrote: ↑Thu Sep 10, 2020 4:22 pm

I PMed LittleBear about Assassins OXP, since while the readme explicitly allows you to re-use anything from it, it asks that names are changed (the intent being clearly to avoid conflicts if it and the derived works are both installed), so strictly speaking it doesn't allow someone to add to (like adding a manifest) or modify the Assassins OXP without renaming everything.

All Medical Anacondas are fitted with planetary landing capability and a single forward pulse laser for asteroid protection.

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 8:17 pm

All Medical Anacondas are fitted with planetary landing capability and a single forward pulse laser for asteroid protection.

The wiki entry makes these wonderful ships sound very, very saintly.

But whom are they protecting the asteroids from? Rabid jelly babies?