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Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2010 9:55 pm**

Had a look at the textures.
The fine print on one of them reads:

TransHab
a DRACOrp Industries
                    product

Ring any bells?

Edit: fixed spelling.

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:01 pm**

Ha, found it, it was written by Draco_Caeles, see page 2 of this thread, 6 posts down, for confirmation.

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:03 pm**

CheeseRedux wrote:
Had a look a the textures.
The fine print on one of them reads:
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TransHab
a DRACOrp Industries
                    product
Ring any bells`?

Draco_Caeles probably. Thanks a lot .-)

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:08 pm**

Uncle Reno wrote:
Ha, found it, it was written by Draco_Caeles, see page 2 of this thread, 6 posts down, for confirmation.

Good find! As this is more in line with already existing authors in the OXP List than Draco-Carlos as stated on Oosat2 I take this one.

Posted: **Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:40 pm**

Uncle Reno wrote:
Ha, found it, it was written by Draco_Caeles, see page 2 of this thread, 6 posts down, for confirmation.

Cool! He, good that you are still (or again) around.-)

Posted: **Fri Oct 15, 2010 6:23 am**

Svengali wrote:
Uncle Reno wrote:
Ha, found it, it was written by Draco_Caeles, see page 2 of this thread, 6 posts down, for confirmation.
Cool! He, good that you are still (or again) around.-)

Thanks, at least there is some use left in this old spam assassin.....

Posted: **Fri Oct 15, 2010 6:32 am**

Svengali wrote:
Murgh has created loads of nice oxps + other content

he sure did, IMO some real classics

Posted: **Fri Oct 15, 2010 7:18 am**

From what i know torus station was made by selezen not Murgh. But i am not 100% sure

Posted: **Fri Oct 15, 2010 7:44 am**

Ark wrote:
From what i know torus station was made by selezen not Murgh. But i am not 100% sure

Oosat1 says it's murgh.

Posted: **Fri Oct 15, 2010 8:13 am**

maik wrote:
Ark wrote:
From what i know torus station was made by selezen not Murgh. But i am not 100% sure
Oosat1 says it's murgh.

The read me enclosed with the oxp says:

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Oolite OXP
tori. a work in progress.
murgh
jan2006

has:
torus components to assemble 4 slightly different-looking versions, single and double, diamond and trumpet combos.


last:
shrunk imagesizes.
slowed down rotation

I noticed that Svengali also fixed the problem that the old station suddenly became visible at a certain distance, like decloaking.

That was because the main-entity was only the central rod in the original. And Oolite assumes that when the main-entity is to small to be visible, the whole ship/station is not drawn.

Posted: **Sat Oct 16, 2010 1:20 am**

The Torus station… is its rotation rate the same as a normal station? On manual docking it appears normal, but on launching, my ship seems to be rotating a lot slower than usual. I can’t be sure, but that’s the impression I get.

Posted: **Sat Oct 16, 2010 10:58 am**

It should be the same rate, at least in the original torus OXP, because back then the rotation rate was more-or-less hardcoded.

However, that could have changed in the new release.

Posted: **Sat Oct 16, 2010 11:40 am**

Commander McLane wrote:
However, that could have changed in the new release.

Nope. When you look at the readme from january 2006, in my last message (see above) , you see that murgh explicit did mention that he lowered the rotation a bit. So it already was possible back than. The only difference than was that you only could set a default rotation for all stations in a system. Since 1.74.2 we can do it individually per station.

Posted: **Sat Oct 16, 2010 12:25 pm**

Eric Walch wrote:
Since 1.74.2 we can do it individually per station.

Which happened now .-) Thanks, Eric, for this reminder .-)

Posted: **Sat Oct 16, 2010 2:22 pm**

If I read that right, Torus v2.01 rotates at a slower, more stately speed, which suits it well... thanks Svengali.

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