Oolite Bulletins

Commander Ragugaki wrote:

Commander McLane wrote:

Out of the five platonic solids we're now only missing the tetrahedron and the cube as station designs. But of course the cube is a little boring, and the tetrahedron quite small as a design.

Griff - You got the time and patience to come up with a tetrahedron?

dertien wrote:

Commander Ragugaki wrote:

[coming up my friend, coming up . A little bit smaller than an Octahedron. I think we have enough variety in the station department. Although there is another platonic solid that is worth considering, but.... Maybe...

TGHC wrote:

dertien wrote:

Commander Ragugaki wrote:

[coming up my friend, coming up . A little bit smaller than an Octahedron. I think we have enough variety in the station department. Although there is another platonic solid that is worth considering, but.... Maybe...

And we all know what shape that is but I daren't mention it, I don't want to be accused of derailing the thread again

dertien wrote:

Griff wrote:

dertien wrote:

That looks really great!

Griff wrote:

ah yes, i saw that thread and the problems you were getting with ships exploding, i'm not sure how you can fix it really, i suppose one way would be to actually place the 'flasher' geometry inside the station out of harms way and then use some code in the vertex shader to actually draw them in place outside the station by adding an offset value to the Z coordinate of each vertex), oolite will think the flashers are still inside the station when it evaluates collisions but the graphics card will draw them outside the station. of course, if you play oolite with shaders disabled or unavailable this won't work

Griff wrote:

http://www.box.net/shared/cu6pl5qdqf
there's no textures included in the oxp so you'll need to have either the all-in-1 oxp or the standalon griff_coriolis oxp installed.
The 'flasher' model needed to be re-centered so there's a new version of that model included in the oxp, the original model had a built in offset to place it against the station wall which would have made it weird to calculate the positioning in this oxp
all the setup for the 'flashers' is done in the shipdata.plist, each flasher is it's own subentity, they are listed in the 'subentities' of the main station

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	subentities = (
			"griff_coriolis_flasher_set_1    0 0 0   1 0 0 0", 
			"griff_coriolis_flasher_set_2    0 0 0   1 0 0 0",
			"griff_coriolis_flasher_set_3    0 0 0   1 0 0 0",
			"griff_coriolis_flasher_set_4    0 0 0   1 0 0 0"
          	      );

then each flasher has it's own entry in the shipdata eg:-

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 :D  :D  :D Awesome work Griff as usual. Much obliged, Sir. Couldn't have made it easier on me uploading all the stuff now and enjoy a new release  :D 
"griff_coriolis_flasher_set_2" = 
	{
	ai_type = "dumbAI.plist";
	model = "griff_coriolis_multi_flashers.dat"; 
	name = "Coriolis Station";
	roles = "griff_coriolis_subent";
	forward_weapon_type = "WEAPON_NONE";
	shaders = 
		{ 
			"griff_station_coriolis_flashers_effects.png" = 
			{ 
				vertex_shader = "griff_station_coriolis_multi_flasher.vertex"; 
				fragment_shader = "griff_station_coriolis_flashers.fragment"; 
				
				textures = ("griff_station_coriolis_flashers_effects.png"); 
				uniforms = 
				{ 
				uTime = "universalTime";
				ZOffset = { type = "float"; value = 300.0; }; // this puts the flasher 300m infront of the station
				}; 
			}; 
		};	
	};

the only bit you need to edit for each flasher is the

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ZOffset = { type = "float"; value = 300.0; }

line, that's the distance the flasher will be drawn infront of the docking bay, a Zoffset value of 0.0 put the flasher back in it's original position flush with the station wall

pagroove wrote:

Its a shame that it isn't compatible with my OXP. I wanted to add it for even more variation

dertien wrote:

Maybe I'll give it a whirl again next week. I am a bit tired of testing the stations mechanics now

TGHC wrote:

dertien wrote:

Maybe I'll give it a whirl again next week. I am a bit tired of testing the stations mechanics now

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