Oolite Bulletins

Announcing Povray Planets beta available for download now http://swarm.perlide.org/static/Povray_ ... _12_10.zip Update: some reports of broken zip behaviour uncovered some issues with the packaging process - these have now been fixed.

Some early screenshots




Oolite 1.74 or greater required as this OXP uses cube maps for all planet textures. These are provided at 256x1536 - higher resolution textures easily available if desired. This OXP attempts to be faithful to the procedural nature of Elite in that all textures are generated based on seed values (currently I use planet name as the seed).

There are three planet types in this release; gas giants (banded ,turbulent with storm eye ala jupiter), barren rocky, Continental (the traditional blue marble)

This OXP will attempt to play nicely with Famous Planets 2 and NOT clobber the textures of FP2 planets.

Have fun in your fully textured galaxy.

Very nice! I like ambience OXP´s. Good work, Submersible!

Hope you will ad more of that marvelous textures in the final release.

submersible, there is an issue: when extracting/unzipping the file, near the end of the process, it starts asking for passwords to unlock files, similar to what happened with Trident Down a while back. I'm on a windows XP OS.

I'm afraid I also had a problem extracting this. .zip downloaded to desktop and extracted to desktop. I got this command line output error message

error: cannot delete old /home/smivses/Desktop/Povray_Planets_v0.18_2011_12_10/Povray_Planets_v0.18_2011_12_10/Povray_Planets_v0.18.oxp/Textures
Is a directory
error: cannot delete old /home/smivses/Desktop/Povray_Planets_v0.18_2011_12_10/Povray_Planets_v0.18_2011_12_10/Povray_Planets_v0.18.oxp
Is a directory

O/S Ubuntu Maverick.

Using 7Zip (my extractor program), I see there's both duplicate names for both Textures and Povray_Planets_v0.18.oxp -- 1 is the folder the other is a file.
License.txt and padre.yml are both 0-byte files.

Switeck wrote:

Using 7Zip (my extractor program), I see there's both duplicate names for both Textures and Povray_Planets_v0.18.oxp -- 1 is the folder the other is a file.
License.txt and padre.yml are both 0-byte files.

Very strange - thanks for the report. I will investigate the packaging process and update. Sorry for the trouble.

Looks great. Gonna try it!. Also very nice you made it compatible.

Did some testing but are you really sure it is compatible with Famous Planets? If I install it the OXP still replaces the textures for the FP-planets. Both in the F7 screen and when you jump there.

On a positive note. I like the textures. But on my machines (PC and Mac) it doesn't seem compatible. Or did I download a wrong version?

pagroove wrote:

Did some testing but are you really sure it is compatible with Famous Planets? If I install it the OXP still replaces the textures for the FP-planets. Both in the F7 screen and when you jump there.

On a positive note. I like the textures. But on my machines (PC and Mac) it doesn't seem compatible. Or did I download a wrong version?

I think in fact I have been working against the wrong version of FP. The Povray Planets startUp is sensitive to the presence of 'Famous Planets 2 Launch Script' which appears to be an older version.

Updating now for 2.5.1 - Perhaps a 0.2 release before Christmas.

Thank you for trying it out.

Strange. I don't have Famous Planets, but this OXP not working for me. No signs of errors in the log. I'm in G5, if it helps, but I don't think it should matter.

Here are the OXPs I do have:

Basic-debug.oxp
Console_HUD.oxp
Genesis_v1.0_RH-edits.oxp
Green Gecko v1.0 SA.oxp
kestros-mk4.oxp
konekoindustries.oxp
KonekoKobra.oxp
koneko-uber-cat.oxp
more-core-player-ships-2011-12-20.oxp
Povray_Planets_v0.18.oxp
takinaclass-and-massasauga.oxp
taylormiller.oxp
TobyMacStartupMusic.oxp

I know, a lot of them are test versions of OXPs I'm working on, or special OXPs I can't release (such as the uber cat).

RyanHoots wrote:

... I'm in G5, if it helps, but I don't think it should matter.

Yes - it matters , Povray Planets does textures for each planet in G1 - only.

Of course - the other galaxies are simply another evening of rendering away.

submersible wrote:

pagroove wrote:

Did some testing but are you really sure it is compatible with Famous Planets? If I install it the OXP still replaces the textures for the FP-planets. Both in the F7 screen and when you jump there.

On a positive note. I like the textures. But on my machines (PC and Mac) it doesn't seem compatible. Or did I download a wrong version?

I think in fact I have been working against the wrong version of FP. The Povray Planets startUp is sensitive to the presence of 'Famous Planets 2 Launch Script' which appears to be an older version.

Updating now for 2.5.1 - Perhaps a 0.2 release before Christmas.

Thank you for trying it out.

Take it easy. I will try then new version then