Oolite Bulletins

Hi Thargoid, I have also experienced the darkness instead of landing image bug, but also that in my other game save, it works fine, nothing to do with which side of the planet I'm on, just that one save works and the other doesn't. I'm guessing there's something in the save-game file affecting this, I'll send you them both so you can see for yourself wether it behaves the same on your system.
Also just as a request, is there anyway to get those images a much higher resolution and have a zoom-in starting from further out?
https://www.box.com/s/tcpbyfenv3otqfs4vu5p (doesn't work)
https://www.box.com/s/npcp7i4q9frtgviyhcg1 (does, but file is oddly large, only just noticed that!)

EDIT: Thanks Thargoid, I'll go report the Troomp spam!

I know it is deliberate that the Planetary Landing Capability isn't fixable by RepairBots, but today the landing capability broke down and my automatic RepairBots attempted to fix it, and later reported that the fix was completed (though it wasn't). A bit confusing, and a waste of one repair shot. I guess this is more of a RepairBots bug...?

I had just picked up a passenger on a DHS moon using spara's in-system taxi. Upon launching, the notification came that the landing capability was damaged and the bots were activated. In the mean time, I docked at the main station and noted that the bot charges were reduced from 10 to 9 but the landing capability was indeed showing in orange with N/A appended. I launched from the station as-is, and after a while, a message that the bots were finished came up, but the landing capability remained orange (not sure if it still had N/A after it at that point).

This is in 1.77 on Windows slightly modified; I recompiled from source code (made a change so that the target reticle text displayed smaller, which isn't adjustable outside of source) but only am using the modified exe. The rest of the install is still the default 1.77. I could try it again with the full 1.77.1 compile build (Feb. 6) as I do have those files and did not save the commander after this happened -- so presumably the landing capability will break again. I also still have the unmodified 1.77 executable, so could try to repeat this on a "stock" 1.77 too.

Just tried it on the stock 1.77 and the same thing happened (modified the cumulative failure chance value in your script to ensure failure), so it's definitely not a build issue. The comms text actually shows the activation before the failure notification, if that helps in tracking down the problem.

Repair system activated
ALERT - Planetary landing modifications require urgent maintenance.
Do not attempt to land again before they are repaired!

then, four minutes later, the

Available ship repair completed - Repair system entering standby mode

Is it possible that this OXP could be altered in such a way that when you make planetfall you are presented with a planetary interface screen (F4) where a custom background image can be inserted per planet? Then from the interface (which is basically the main star port) you could travel to the other destinations on the planet per hovercraft, shuttle, people mover etc at an expense of course?

At the destination you then also would have an interface screen.

When you want to launch you then first have to travel back to the main spaceport from which the orbital boost is performed.
This could have a few advantages:

- Flavor
- A more custom setup per planet instead of random
- Support for BGS like backgrounds which is nice for artists.

For start you could provide the locations that are already in planetfall.
Just an idea.

Thargoid wrote:

Currently no. When you land you actually dock with a temporary station, so end up in the standard station main screen. It's not possible at the moment to switch to the interface (F4) screen by scripting.

But the F4 screen itself could be populated, either by the main OXP or by an add-on one.

Ok, So it is currently not possible to go from 1 interface to the other.

If you are all right with it I will try to make some custom artwork for the current planetfall locations. For an idea for what I'm aiming at see the Screenshots thread with the Xexedi image.

Ok here's a screen for the Interface screen on Teraed.

What I now want to do is to apply this interface screen into BGS if you make a planetfall on the surface of Teraed only.
Is that possible? Can you help me to make a model for an add on to insert those screens?

Nice. Then I'm going to create a few more backgrounds. Right now I have 2.