Oolite Bulletins

Distant Suns OXP ver. 0.5.1
Date: December 15th, 2012
Author: Wildeblood

Distant Suns is an OXP for Oolite 1.76 which aims to improve the game experience by increasing the variety of the stellar systems. In unmodified Oolite you soon notice that every star system looks much like every other - there is little, if any, variation of the stars. Distant Suns tweaks the appearance of every star individually. Every star has its colour set. Cooler red stars have their habitable planets close by and are easy to skim for fuel. Super-luminous blue-white stars are far removed from their habitable zone and sun-skimming is impractical. Many stars are named. Information about stars is provided on the system data (F7) screen, and may also be revealed by other OXPs such as Destination ETA.

To use, simply place the Distant Suns OXP into your "AddOns" folder. This is a bundle OXP, it contains the following OXPs inside:-

Distant Suns of Chart 1 OXP, version: 0.7
Distant Suns of Chart 2 OXP, version: 0.2.1
Distant Suns of Chart 3 OXP, version: 0.2
Distant Suns of Chart 4 OXP, version: 0.2
Distant Suns of Chart 5 OXP, version: 0.2
Distant Suns of Chart 6 OXP, version: 0.2
Distant Suns of Chart 7 OXP, version: 0.2
Distant Suns of Chart 8 OXP, version: 0.2
Distant Suns Debugger OXP, version: 1.0.3 (Off by default, re-name to use.)


Change Log:

0.5.1 (December 15th, 2012) All 2048 stars now individually styled, except for naming.
0.5 (December 14th, 2012) 2046 of 2048 stars now individually styled, except for naming.
0.4 (December 9th, 2012) Added debugger script to Bundle OXP.
0.3 (December 7th, 2012) Bundle OXP including basic templates of charts 2-8.
0.2 (November 16th, 2012) Galaxy 1 only. Includes star information on F7 system data screen.
0.1 (November 13th, 2012) Galaxy 1 only. Proof of concept, bundled with Destination ETA OXP.

Diziet Sma wrote:

Would it clash with Sensible Suns, do you think? Or remove the need for that OXP?

El Viejo wrote:

Are you renaming planets too, then?

Wildeblood wrote:

"Anarlaqu" is still spelt wrongly in your Oolite.

Disembodied wrote:

Is there any scope (maybe in 1.77?) for altering the colours of the stars on the F6 chart to match?

El Viejo wrote:

One other query: this would override my zero-corona settings, yes? If I can disable that function, I'll try the OXP.

El Viejo wrote:

Are you renaming planets too, then?

El Viejo wrote:

I'd prefer this OXP if the stars were not named, to be honest - just the star classification would do for me.

		if (colourText && sunName) mission.addMessageText("The planet " + name + " orbits the " + colourText + " " + sunName + ".");
		else if (colourText) mission.addMessageText("The planet " + name + " orbits a " + colourText + ".");
		else if (sunName) mission.addMessageText("The planet " + name + " orbits the star " + sunName + ".");

	//	if (colourText && sunName) mission.addMessageText("The planet " + name + " orbits the " + colourText + " " + sunName + ".");
	//	else
             if (colourText) mission.addMessageText("The planet " + name + " orbits a " + colourText + ".");
	//	else if (sunName) mission.addMessageText("The planet " + name + " orbits the star " + sunName + ".");