Oolite Bulletins

pagroove wrote:

Well I'ts not very realistic but it would give some meaning to locations 'in the field'. For now the planetary option and the repairs are a bit expensive in comparison with the benefits from it. But I agree. There are some good mission writers out here who could generate some great missions.

The "in the field" locations were designed to be "useless". They don't appear that often (it's only 2% chance iirc for the built-in ones) and are just there to provide a little variety. It's to keep the realism, that it's not always going to be possible to trade or equip everywhere you land.

The whole idea of planetfall was to make the planets something a little more than just something to remember not to crash into. All of the built-in locations have their own commodities.plist, so you can get (sometimes) better deals on stuff there than at the main station, and equally some locations have better tech level than their systems.

Plus as you say it's written to be expandable, so OXP mission writers can use it as a base location for offering or staging missions.

Eric Walch wrote:

The JS command runMissionScreen does try to clear the image immediately after showing. Maybe it does not clear memory when an image is at display.
Anyhow, in the past it was always necessary to clean the screen first before showing a mission screen. runMissionScreen does that by itself by passing a null picture when none is defined. In legacy the script must always do that itself.

Thanks for the info. I put a little catch-code into the taxi mission to ensure that if the scripted launch/mission background image bug is triggered then the script resets the background to null. I might add that code into the main script too at the next revision. But at the moment it's called via the runMissionScreen command, so should work as you describe anyway.

Small update to the script, now at version 1.1.2. Two reasons:

• Bugfix to stop the planet scanning in interstellar space. With thanks to Eric for the catch.
• Little addition to the code, with a new variable worldScripts.PlanetFall.planetFallOverride, which if set to true will only allow external OXP locations, removing all the others.

The new variable is designed so that PlanetFall can be an effective host for locations for other OXPs and missions without the default locations getting in the way. Just don't forget to reset it to false once you're done with it please OXP and mission writers!

Download full v1.1.2 of Planetfall.

Alternatively for those with 1.1x, you can just patch it with this script file (use it to replace the existing one in the config folder of the 1.1x OXP).

Oh and the link in the wiki will of course now not work for downloading, as it's read-only at the moment and I can't change it.[/color]

Thats a nice add on in the code Thargoid!

I did not progress on making more locations a.t.m. but I will. I did however made a nice Zadies texture for the next FP pack. Locations pack will be seperate.

Hi Thargoid,

Planetfall is great! I'm running Oolite 1.72.2 and the latest Planetfall oxp. As I understand the oxp, the Taxi mission allows for a local taxi-ride to a local body based on what is in a given planetary system. I am not running the System Redux oxp, however I've docked at the station orbiting Learorce in Galaxy One. I accepted a Taxi fare to travel to Learorce Minor. There is no Learorce Minor- or could the script be interpreting another oxp's station as the Minor locale?

Bug?
Dunno.

Can't really take the fare anywhere, or am I just daft - yeah, likely the latter, but... .

Will provide list of oxps if needed.

OK, I think I've found the problem. In the taxi script is a line: The planetCount == 0 is wrong, it should be == 1 (as there is always the main planet in the system, so the count should never be zero).

Anyway, you can either change the 0 to 1 in your script, or alternatively download the updated version (PlanetFall Taxi v1.0.1) from my webspace.

Nice to see you still supporting this OXP. I will try to make some additional locations once Famous Planets is done.

The link on the wiki is broken and links to the older version. I wanted to edit it, but got this error message: You need to be logged in to edit pages.

So I tried to create an account and:

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Great job Thargoid.
Sorry about my absence . It seems that this RL disease is contagious and since lately I was in a very close proximity with Doc Nil …….

I think I've discovered a nasty typo in script.js. You forgot to put {} in line 126 and 251.

Same goes for v1.12 and v1.2

Chaky wrote:

I think I've discovered a nasty typo in script.js. You forgot to put {} in line 126 and 251.

No, it is correct. Without {} after the else only one statement after else is executed. In this case the if statement in line 127. But that single if statement itself runs until line 251.