Oolite Bulletins

Screet wrote:

...which reminds me to ask whether there is something like the C++ type map in Objective C.

Kind of!

Have a look at this stuff! NSMutableDictionaries are much slower than NSDictionaries, but do offer a lot of extra flexibility. Usually the clever thing to do is to build the dictionary using a mutable one at load time, then copy the mutable dictionary to a non-mutable NSDictionary for general use throughout the program.

After you've had a look at the apple documentation, have a look at how the equipment and missiles are handled inside ShipEntity, there's a lot of stuff that will suddenly make a lot more sense!

When a ship spawns, its script is sent a shipSpawned() message. As of r2852, this is now followed by a world script shipSpawned(ship) message (unless the ship’s own handler killed the ship).

Note that the player ship’s script will receive the latter type of shipSpawned, not the former.

Commander McLane wrote:

If you want it to be most effective for docking with a normal station, you should try out "dock-flat.dat". But be warned, it is so effective that it actually looks a little boring.

BTW: I am currently using "buoy.dat" for fun.

I found the buoy one a little scary - like being caught in a tractor-beam.
I thought dock-flat looked so fantastic I wonder if it should become the new default for docking at a station; and leave the ring one for the hyperspace jumps.

For fun, I created an eight-sided ring but couldn't figure how to get it to use the texture intended to make it look like Classic Elite, here they are
model dat for 8-sided tunnel:
http://www.box.net/shared/j20iucqlz5

and crude attempt at texture:
http://www.box.net/shared/3uoaycnobg

uploaded new versions of above to remove outward-pointing normals, which halves the number of faces and solves a z-fighting problem.

Another idea to add visual variety is to use the rock-hermit docking hexagonal slot .dat as the default when docking at a rock hermit.

Recently, some odd images have been appearing in my Oolite folder.



(Note: one of these is actually a clever forgery.)

Ahruman wrote:

Recently, some odd images have been appearing in my Oolite folder.



(Note: one of these is actually a clever forgery.)

its been so long...

https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.ph ... rs+planets


Cool...

Ahruman wrote:

Recently, some odd images have been appearing in my Oolite folder.



(Note: one of these is actually a clever forgery.)

Wow, this is very cool! are they being generated by Oolite? more importantly, is there a prize for guessing the forgery? i'm going to pick the normalmap.
K_W's joke in that shader for planets thread still makes me

Griff wrote:

more importantly, is there a prize for guessing the forgery? i'm going to pick the normalmap.

Nope. (Hint: The filenames speak the truth).

another_commander wrote:

Griff wrote:

more importantly, is there a prize for guessing the forgery? i'm going to pick the normalmap.

Nope. (Hint: The filenames speak the truth).

Turning your monitor umop ap!sdn might also help.

CheeseRedux wrote:

Turning your monitor umop ap!sdn might also help.

I don't know what this means, it looks like you were halfway through typing out the sentence then you got startled by a sudden wasp attack edit: ah i see it now!

i forgot to check the filenames for the competition, i wonder what i could have won
[bullseye mode] a speedboat! [/bullseye mode]

CheeseRedux wrote:

Turning your monitor umop ap!sdn might also help.

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Oh my God, I was wrong!
It was Earth all along!

I know you probably hear this question a lot, buuuut...
Do you have a rough idea of when 1.74 will come out? Not necessarily as stable, but as a test-release.
It's not that I'll answer "but I want it NOW!" anyway I want to record some commented game footage (in the style of a Let's Play), and if 1.74 is already that far that it will come out in February or earlier, I'll wait until then. If it's more far away - or ready "when it's done" - I'll start recording with 1.73.4.
Thanks

I guess we'll have to go with "when it's done". There is still plenty of work to do and, due to the number of changes / new features, there will probably have to be a fairly long testing period prior to release. We generally avoid making timing estimates or setting deadlines to ourselves.

Okay, thanks for the info!
I'd compile the newest trunk every time if I'd be able, but somehow I can't get anything compiled anymore since I use 10.6 / XCode 3.2.1, let alone Oolite
I'll record with 1.73.4, then