Oolite Bulletins

Oh! Very cool.

Thanks.

Ragged wrote:

This is Missy. She'd look even better if the game didn't scale up her images to the hight of the screen.

She could do with a stint at the NovaNice'n'Easy Tanning Salon, but I would.

Darkbee wrote:

Gimp is a bit overkill to resize an image.

Yeah… but GIMP is fun (and free). You can end up doing all sorts of stuff with it… like custom decals.

OneoftheLost wrote:

Feeling a lack of love for the screenshot thread,

Ha… any excuse to post a pic. How about a nice eclipse:

Who needs excuses? Nice eclipse
Hands up, I did pose this one a bit.
The Boa Clipper Bilbo Maru having just dropped out of hyperspace, passing a Space Bar with the planet in the distance.



(OXPs :- Boa II Clipper Class, Random Hits, System Redux (Capt Kev)

Nice shots .-)

El Viejo wrote:

Yeah… but GIMP is fun (and free). You can end up doing all sorts of stuff with it… like custom decals.

Don't get me wrong, I like Gimp. I never used to though, it's taken me a while to learn to "love" Gimp. My search for a simple image editor that supports transparency and layers has taken years, trying out (and rejecting) Gimp several times along the way. I loved Paint Shop Pro but didn't love it enough to pay for it. I also used Serif PhotoPlus along the way, another commercial program, but didn't like the proprietary format it saved in (which I couldn't use in anything else). Eventually, I gave up since I now try to run open source software where possible (I don't even buy many commercial games anymore; thank Aegidian for Oolite!), and so Gimp it is!

I am a big fan of Gimp...it's an excellent piece of software and is incredibly versatile. To be honest I'm not a trained artist or graphic designer, and I've never used Photoshop or any proprietary image software.
All my graphics have been produced using the Gimp. A good example of what it can do are the diffuse-map and emissions-map for my Contractor OXP (below).

This damn ‘game’… first it awakened the long-dormant elite combateer in me, then it tempted me into the world of the forum, and showed me the delights of the oxp. For a while, it turned me into a GPU driver update fanatic, then it persuaded me to start editing plists and js scripts, not to mention enticing me into writing ‘fiction’. Then it somehow inveigled me into learning to use the Gimp, when all I’d ever used before was Paint.

Ahh… what a game!

El Viejo wrote:

... when all I’d ever used before was Paint.

Same here, and to think, I used to think Paint was awesome. Gimp came as a bit of a shock at first, it seemed horribly complicated and not even intuitive, but after playing around with it for a while I really like it.
And of course its best feature of all is the price. Zero.

I think it's time to open up a separate Image Editor Love thread.

Paint is an absolute disgrace btw.

Ah, GIMP. The best piece of unusable software I own! Honestly, I can't get the hang of the floating windows. They are apparently adding an MDI style option to the next version, so I'm holding out for that. I recently downloaded GimPhoto, which is a Photoshop-style interface for GIMP, and I need to try it. It's built on an older version of GIMP though.

At the moment I have Paint.Net for my small tasks (like resizing and reformatting) but my primary paint tool of choice is Inkscape. I find it SOOOO easy to use. Everything I create currently comes from Inkscape.

I do miss PSP though. I have PSP XI at work and still keep my hand in, but I prefer Inkscape even to that!

Photoshop for me. I have CS4 currently, and have the ISO's for CS5 Master Suite. I just need a... NM, won't discuss that here.

Oolite is the only opportunity I take to be a pirate these days.

One of the ships that are to big for oolite standard docks it the imperial courier. I just found one stuck at the port of a hermit:
(click for full size)
In current trunk the IC will no longer get launched by a hermit and the docking computer will refuse to dock the IC. Manual docking is still possible but makes quite a bit of a noise. And the the correct functioning of the side mounted engines can not be guaranteed after such a tight docking.