Oolite Bulletins

Disembodied wrote:

This is very speculative, but what if there was a way to make intra-system hyperspace jumps? Costing small amounts of fuel, perhaps. If each stellar system was modelled to have multiple planets in their own orbits (and here is where it all gets even more speculative), perhaps an intra-system jump could be made, electron-like, from one "orbital shell" to the next, inwards or outwards. Each intra-system jump (witchhops? witchskips?) would require plotting, a countdown, etc., and would take you to a new witchpoint near to the next planet in or out - roughly as near as the main system WP is to the main planet.

cim wrote:

(Ultimately the problem is that getting from Oolite 1.80 to Oolite with bigger systems and any form of redone fast travel is likely extremely tricky to do safely)

Zireael wrote:

Step-by-step First make the travel speed depend on distances (it shouldn't affect the current situation because the size of the system and distances involved wouldn't be changed) and then bigger systems could be made

Zireael wrote:

Easier to implement than varying the display.

cim wrote:

spara wrote:

That would probably cause some sort of fish-eye effect though, but it would work.

I'm not quite sure what you're suggesting - any chance of a diagram?

spara wrote:

I'm talking about an optical effect using concave lens.

mossfoot wrote:

as you get farther from a planet the Torus speed would scale upward (to a set maximum multiplier) - so if you're Torussing from planet to star (or planet to planet), you'd get faster and faster, peak, and then slower and slower as you close in on the sun, back down the minimum again until you're mass locked?

I'm guessing this is a mathematical nightmare, but I just thought I'd throw it out there

Norby wrote:

Here is your physics:

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actualTorusMultiplier = baseTorusMultiplier + (maxTorusMultiplier - baseTorusMultiplier) * min( 1, min(playerDistanceFromPlanet - 2 * planetRadius,  playerDistanceFromSun - 2 * sunRadius) / (sunDistanceFromPlanet / 2) );

-start at baseTorusMultiplier when you leave the masslock of planet,
-increasing until halfway to the sun up to the maxTorusMultiplier,
-fall down to the base value before the sun,
-limited to the max value if far from both the sun and planet.
Isn't a very long code.

mossfoot wrote:

So if I was to use something like "realistic stars" oxp to set the suns further away, I could use that to speed up the process of getting there so it wasn't insanely long?

this.$FarPlanets_NearestMass = function() {
	var d = 100000000000000000000.0; //10^20m for sure
	var psp = player.ship.position;
	var nm = null;
	var p = system.planets;
	var len = p.length;
	for( var i = 0; i < len; i++ ) { //find the smallest distance
		var s = psp.distanceTo( p[i].position );
		if( d > s ) {
			d = s;
			nm = p[i];
		}
	}
	return( nm );
}