Oolite Bulletins

Charlie wrote:

Um... The Mac version of Oolite: It will run on OSx86..?

Dunno. Never heard of “OSx86”. Oolite for Mac OS X, however, is a universal binary which should run on any Mac system with Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.

@Uncle Reno:
Thanks

@Ahruman:
Sorry, me using too much shorthand:
OSX for x86 ie: Intel(ish)
Universal binary: PPC & x86 - good.., very good...

FWIW:
Thanks again to the devs etc for all their efforts.
I'm glad to see the two (main?) branches seem to be keeping pace.

They aren’t branches any longer; the Mac and Windows versions are built from the same code.

Ahruman, i just tried oolite & the shady cobra & krait .oxps on a pc in work and it looked OK, in fact, it looked fantastic, no blueness in the textures at all, so it's a problem with my PC, probably the graphics card and it's drivers.
Works pc has an NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 graphics card and i've got an ATI Radeon9500pro, i wonder if this is something to with ATI's supposed half-assed openGL driver support and try a few earlier versions of the driver later this evening

It could be a driver problem. Or it could be Oolite or the shader relying on undefined behaviour (I’m also using a GeForce FX 5200).

Damn! Something pretty wierd happens on the ATI 9600XL card, too - which is what my G5 has...

...each of the Kraits is different the upper surfaces on the last 2 are that distinct blue - it's 'almost' beautiful, if that were the intention...!! but the under surfaces are grey... , the first Krait is a paler grey-green on the upper surfaces... ... are they meant to look like that...?

I haven't played with the card settings, I'm currently running it with the Performance = 3, FSAA (Super) =4x, and Anisotropic Filtering = 2x - which is what I've used for some time with Oolite.

They should look like this (after adding “#define OOLITE_LIGHT_0_FIX” at the top of each shader ofr testing purposes):

I’m reasonably sure this is my fault, not ATis, I just don’t know where the problem is. We need someone to learn to hack shaders on ATi hardware, or to buy me a machine with the problem. ;-)

this is looking some pretty exciting stuff. is anyone gonna do a helpful little FAQ/requirements/tutes thing about what kit/version we need and how to set up/test this glowy stuff?

Otherwise a nice looking ship, but I cannot really see it as Krait...

well, i've downloaded the rendermonkey shader building program from ATI http://ati.amd.com/developer/rendermonkey/index.html (windows only)...a bit stuck now though, anyone here know how to use it?
it looks like it might be just the ticket for importing ships and adding the glow maps etc, i think it then writes out the shader code hopefully in an oolite friendly form, if i can get some progress on it i'll post here

RenderMonkey can apparently be used for GLSL, which is what is needed.

Lumina looks potentially interesting, and is cross-platform (Linux and Windows, should be possible to make for OS X). It’s also scriptable - with JavaScript. There’s a thing, eh?

OK. On closer examination, Kraits 1 &2 are rendering OK, but 3 & 4 produce the bright blue glow...

@Star Gazer: is it the same as Griff is getting? A screen shot may be helpful.

@ ahruman - I've got some pictures using Snapz, can I email them to you? - I have no way to host them at the moment.
hold on... should I have done this...?

after adding “#define OOLITE_LIGHT_0_FIX” at the top of each shader

...where?

all four kraits have a blue tint on my system so it's interesting that two of them - the two without the maps to add the glowing lights on the hull are rendering OK on your system.
incidently does adding “#define OOLITE_LIGHT_0_FIX” at the top of each shader brighten up the light used to draw the ships on the start screen? i'm just asking as it might be useful to check the specular maps. i'm testing them in game at the moment using ships with a dumbAI to get them rotating so i can see the specularity effect move across the hull, but testing them on the demo screen would be better