Oolite Bulletins

Ganelon wrote:

With altitude, if it's an actual altitude that the bar graph shows, numerical would be more useful.

Ganelon wrote:

I'm not sure I understand the concept of meaningful units in this case.

Ganelon wrote:

I'm not sure I understand the concept of meaningful units in this case. Would it matter if they were meters or cubits or fractions of a planetary radius, so long as when they hit zero it is a collision?

Commander McLane wrote:

The best—and completely unit-independent—indicator for hitting zero would be a shrinking bar that would reach length zero on collision, wouldn't it?

Commander McLane wrote:

Thargoid wrote:

You might want to add a check and bail-out for interstellar space, or at least a check that there is a planetary body found in the scan (as I guess some OXPs like Achenar will add planets in IS) or else it'll cough up log errors if called after a misjump.

Good point!

Here's the amended code:

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this.$altitudeOverClosestCelestialBody = function()
{
    function $isCelestialBody(entity)
    {
        return entity.isSun || entity.isPlanet
    }
     var closestCelestialBody = system.filteredEntities(this, $isCelestialBody, player.ship)[0];
     if (!closestCelestialBody) return undefined;
     var altitude = player.ship.position.distanceTo(closestCelestialBody) - closestCelestialBody.radius;
     return altitude
}

Now the result of the function will be undefined if there is no sun or planet. You can check for this case with

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if(!this.$altitudeOverClosestCelestialBody())

CommonSenseOTB wrote:

Ahruman and Eric Walch, I am also concerned to display gauges that properly reflect the need for clarity while maintaining the immersion and hiding any unit/scale problems. What is the value displayed at the altitude bar gauge and how is it arrived at?

CommonSenseOTB wrote:

Ahruman and Eric Walch, I am also concerned to display gauges that properly reflect the need for clarity while maintaining the immersion and hiding any unit/scale problems. What is the value displayed at the altitude bar gauge and how is it arrived at?

player.ship.position.distanceTo(system.mainPlanet)-system.mainPlanet.radius

CommonSenseOTB wrote:

Keep those comments coming and put your 2 cents worth into the pile while it is still early.

"Commander, a work shuttle doing routine maintenance on navigation satellites developed a fuel leak. They are somewhere near surface to station lane and are currently at a 120 KM orbit, but that orbit is decaying rapidly. We need you to find them and refill their tank from yours so they can get home safely. Please hurry, Commander.. They don't have much time."

An unidentified satellite was reported by a trader in a low orbit of 160 KM, near the Sun to planet spacelane. The photos taken indicate that the object may be of alien origin. It should be presumed to be armed and dangerous. You will be rewarded for locating and destroying it, but a more substantial reward could be given if you can disable it and deliver it to the station more or less intact. Good hunting, Commander.

Commander McLane wrote:

In my tests in two different systems with both planet and sun it was full at about 40000 meters

#define PLAYER_DIAL_MAX_ALTITUDE		40000.0