Oolite Bulletins

pagroove wrote:

Great screenshots! Nice ship Shipbuilder

Indeed, even on my anemic hardware. Fortunately, that situation is soon to be remedied.

El Viejo wrote:

As a quid pro quo, could you answer this query, JH?

I'd forgotten about that. Plus I've not downloaded trunk (or even had time to play Oolite) recently.

Chasing the Sidewinder

Chasing the Cobra

Got explosions?

Beautiful!

Just...just...wow...

When my wife's eyes are closed, I will henceforth be gazing lovingly into another_commander's screenshots...

I know I've said this before, and that others disagree with me, but I think Oolite's graphics are as good as commercial offerings now. The lasers and exhausts have just managed to up the game again. Well done that man.

Oh yes! As my 11yo would say "Epic!"

Selezen wrote:

I know I've said this before, and that others disagree with me, but I think Oolite's graphics are as good as commercial offerings now. The lasers and exhausts have just managed to up the game again. Well done that man.

I agree completely. The only thing it "needs" if we want to attract modern audiences is to make the external views slightly more "alive" by making the ship model move around a little during rolls, yaws etc. Also the ability to rotate the view with the simple use of mouse (instead of predetermined angles through the V key) would be a step forward to the eye-candy-land.

gorgeous, I want that engine exhaust

jacksy wrote:

gorgeous, I want that engine exhaust

You have two choices..

You can wait for 1.78 to be released.. which will probably happen some time in the next couple of years.. (the devs are very cagey about dates)

Or you can download the current trunk (development) 1.77.xxxx "nightly build".

Note that although currently working pretty well, it's a constant work in progress, and not guaranteed to actually work properly (or at all) at any given time.

It installs alongside your normal release version, and has its own AddOns folder, settings, etc. Since you're using Windows, see here for more information, including a download link.
https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=6852

Diziet Sma wrote:

jacksy wrote:

gorgeous, I want that engine exhaust

You have two choices..

You can wait for 1.78 to be released.. which will probably happen some time in the next couple of years.. (the devs are very cagey about dates)

Or you can download the current trunk (development) 1.77.xxxx "nightly build".

Note that although currently working pretty well, it's a constant work in progress, and not guaranteed to actually work properly (or at all) at any given time.

It installs alongside your normal release version, and has its own AddOns folder, settings, etc. Since you're using Windows, see here for more information, including a download link.
https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=6852

well I got to try this will there be a 64b version for windows at some point?

jacksy wrote:

... will there be a 64b version for windows at some point?

Not likely in the near future, if I read the runes correctly... but you never know!

El Viejo wrote:

jacksy wrote:

... will there be a 64b version for windows at some point?

Not likely in the near future, if I read the runes correctly... but you never know!

cheers

pagroove wrote:

Great screenshots! Nice ship Shipbuilder

Thanks Pagroove

Thargoid wrote:

Eh? The new exhausts will be in 1.77 (subject to nothing extraordinarily bad being found in them or some other reason why they may need to be ripped out), which should be out reasonably soon I would guess. Certainly before the next couple of years.

Maybe I'm labouring under a misunderstanding.. I was under the impression that the Oolite devs had decided to adopt the Linux Kernel system of odd-numbers being the development branch, and even-numbers being releases..

In other words, when it's ready for mainstream, 1.77.xxxx will be released as 1.78, and the new trunk will be 1.79.xxxx

(the "within a couple of years" was partly a joke, partly to not create undue expectations about a release, and partly a nod to the old MNSR days)

For jacksy and other newcomers, MNSR is "Mythical Next Stable Release", a term which came into use during the long years between the stable 1.65 release and the next stable release, 1.76.