Oolite Bulletins

Hi folks,

I've been around for a little while now, and I'm really enjoying it. The things that's being created in here in the last few months have been fantastic. Keep up the good work!

One thing I have noticed recently, what with a the new ships and OXP updates, is that the sound sets seem to be out of sync with the witchspace countdown displayed on the screen. I haven't tried all the sets myself, but is an update a possible way to fix this (integer variable?) problem?


G.

This used to happen in the "old" days especially when YAH was installed - the game would stutter but the sound would continue to stream - leading to the oddity you describe - have you noticed any lags or freezes on your system during the countdown?

Not in the countdown no, but during the launch, the tunnel vid seq somtimes streams before the audio. (or the other way around) which probably means the next system is being calculated out before display. I hope I'm making some kinda sense here.

Hi, gogz69, you don't by any chance happen to fly a ship that has <key>hyperspace_motor_spin_time</key> set to something else than 15 in its shipdata?

Since Oolite 1.72 it is possible to adjust the witchjump countdown time to any interval, instead of the previous 15 seconds (which is still the default if no hyperspace_motor_spin_time is set). So if your countdown ends already after 10 or 12 seconds, it may be that the sound effect is played too late.

This would have to be fixed in the code, though.

Could the sound code not be modified to either play the countdown starting X seconds in? or funnier - play it faster or slower depending on whether the time was greater or less than 15 seconds - so you could have either Pinky and Perky or Barry White doing your countdown...

or if spin motor time isn't 5 just don't play the countdown audio....

I think a more practical solution would be to add a time parameter to the playerStartedJumpCountdown() and let chatty sound sets handle the countdown with timers and such.

Yes but like like the thought of pinky and perky doing my countdown if I can jump in 10s and not 15...

DaddyHoggy wrote:

Pinky and Perky or Barry White

Hmm...




Audio countdown Vogon style...

''Alright..., here we go!''

''I don't like this.''

''WoaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAOOOOoooooo!!!''

Good guess work there C.McL.
That was indeed the problem I was having. (now fixed)
It seems however, that our Supreme Grand Admiral has got this one nailed when it comes to using new ships with a deviation from the set 15 sec spin up time with the added parameter.

Cheers Ahruman.



G.

gogz69 wrote:

Audio countdown Vogon style...

''Alright..., here we go!''

''I don't like this.''

''WoaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAOOOOoooooo!!!''

A Vogon Witchjump takes about 15 days.
15 seconds to fire up the jump engine, the rest of the time to fill out and process the paperwork.

Cmdr Wyvern wrote:

gogz69 wrote:

Audio countdown Vogon style...

''Alright..., here we go!''

''I don't like this.''

''WoaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAOOOOoooooo!!!''

A Vogon Witchjump takes about 15 days.
15 seconds to fire up the jump engine, the rest of the time to fill out and process the paperwork.

Kind of makes me wonder how they could be so fast in destroying the earth...

Well, the papers were available on Alpha Centauri for the last 90 years...