Oolite Bulletins

Diogenese Senna wrote:

Using it now - and .....

ooooo, very pretty !!!

Lestradae wrote:

I just noticed that since 0.5.6., my "Additional Planets" seem to be gone.

Hadn't visited one yet, but with 0.5.5. they showed up via another oxp that shows the in-system planets via the F4 screen in stations (forgot the name). They were recognizable due to the crazy distances they had to everything else.

Alas, in 0.5.6., no such luck. I am using trunk 1.79.

Astrobe wrote:

Those new textures look really nice. I wish there was full-featured lanes for each extra planets so I could go to the planet that looks better .

Astrobe wrote:

I started out with a couple of packs installed only and I noticed that the game defaulted often to the standard textures. Could it be possible to default to a random texture that's in the pack instead?

DGill wrote:

It would be good if some of the additional planets had rings

Redspear wrote:

I agree that it looks great, bit on the slow side though or have you... (gasp! ) tinkered with it?

Redspear wrote:

Hmmm... The only change between 0.5.5 and 0.5.6 was that I chaged the locations of the textures folder.
If you find the name of that other oxp then I'd be happy to investigate (could it be Norby's 'Far Planets' ...) It should work in 1.79 although I haven't tested it in the very latest version yet. In the meantime, version 0.5.6 doesn't add any special features, so if it works with 0.5.5 then stay with that. Sorry

Do you have a folder named 'Textures' within your AddOns main folder (not within a specific oxp folder) by any chance? I expect you know this (so please forgive me if I'm stating the obvious) but the textures from the packs should be put into the textures folder within the Additional Planets oxp.

DGill wrote:

It would be good if some of the additional planets had rings

this.startUp = this.shipWillExitWitchspace = function() {
		// only a few ring systems per galaxy.
		// the largest planets have rings
		if (system.isInterstellarSpace || system.sun.hasGoneNova) {
				return;
		}
		/*
		if (system.info.radius < 6850) {
				return;
		}
		this._addRing();
		*/
		var len=system.planets.length;
		log("Rings", system.name + " has " + len + " planets");
		for(var i=0; i<len; i++)
		{
			var planet=system.planets[i];
			log("Rings", "One ring added to " + planet.name);
			var ring= system.addVisualEffect("systemfeatures-rings", planet);
			ring.orientation=planet.orientation;
			ring.orientation = ring.orientation.rotate(ring.orientation.vectorRight(),Math.PI/2);
			ring.planet=planet;
		}
}

this._updatePosition = function() {
		if (player.ship.position) {
				this.visualEffect.shaderVector2 = player.ship.position;
				// move very slightly towards player to deal with depth-buffer issues
				// this.visualEffect.position = system.mainPlanet.position.subtract(system.mainPlanet.position.subtract(player.ship.position).direction());
				var planet=this.visualEffect.planet;
				this.visualEffect.position = planet.position.subtract(planet.position.subtract(player.ship.position).direction());
		} else {
				removeFrameCallback(this.$fcb);
		}
}

Astrobe wrote:

I don't understand what I do wrong

Lestradae wrote:

I think the F4-showing-planets oxp is Norby's.

Astrobe wrote:

DGill wrote:

It would be good if some of the additional planets had rings

Probably more of a job for system features ring OXP. It only deals with main planets right now. I'm trying to make it decorate all planets but it doesn't work; only the main planet gets a ring (which makes two if it has one already!). I don't understand what I do wrong, and there's no errors in the log.

The strange thing is that the traces report less planets than I see.

cim wrote:

Astrobe wrote:

I don't understand what I do wrong

Most likely? Whatever code is adding the extra planets has been selected to run after Rings in the OXP loading order. So, when you check for the planets in the Rings script, they aren't there yet.|/quote]

- set the ring orientation differently for secondary planets. You'll get some very strange lighting effects otherwise. The original script can use a shortcut because the position of the sun relative to the initial orientation of the main planet is always the same: that certainly won't be true for a secondary planet.

Pleb wrote:

I thought I'd give this OXP a try but it is not working for me!

I have installed all the texture packs (Redux, Demux, Free Bitmaps and Others) and the main OXP, but I get no planets or moons and the following errors in the log:

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20:52:16.459 [files.notFound]: ----- WARNING: Could not find texture file "planetD17.png".
20:52:37.629 [script.error.addPlanet.keyNotFound]: ***** ERROR: could not find an entry in planetinfo.plist for 'moonB29'
20:52:37.639 [script.javaScript.exception.unexpectedType]: ***** JavaScript exception (Additional Planets 0.5.5): TypeError: moon is null
20:52:37.639 [script.javaScript.exception.unexpectedType]:       ../AddOns/Additional_Planets_0.5.6.oxp/Config/script.js, line 169.

Am I doing something wrong?