Oolite Bulletins

Hello everyone. Thought I'd just say hi. Been an Elite nut since ooh must be about 1985-86 - whenever Elite came out on the Spectrum. It became an obsession for about a year and then I had to wait until Frontier came out. I even bought an Amiga 500 just to play it!

Have been playing the Fd3d Russian remod of FFE for the last 3 months and now I've found Oolite... Brings back a lot of good memories and I guess I can kiss goodbye to another few months.

Anyway, like I said, just a hello.

Welcome to the friendliest board this side of Riedquat, Commander Thumper!

Glad to have you aboard.

I only recently started playing Elite and its derivatives myself, and I must that Oolite is probably the most impressive of these. Not for its core gameplay, which is pretty decent, but for all of the OXPs that you can put in to add-on to that core.

If you want a list, any of us would be happy to suggest some.

My advice?

Go for Your Ad Here first, just for the eyecandy. Galactic Navy and Random Hits are good mission OXPs. Most of the OXPs can be acquired here.

If you want to use Galactic Navy, make sure to grab the fixes in this thread.

Other than that, welcome again and make yourself right at home.

The OXPs! I'm addicted. I've already got too many methinks, but thanks for the suggestion. One area that has me in a bit of a quandary is what HUD do people like? I Have the normal setup. Is there another that is the 'one' to go for?

Take a look here and decide what you like for yourself. That's half the fun about Oolite.

I personally use the default, as I can't decide on a HUD that I like.

I don't mind admitting that I feel like a kid in a sweet shop. Hopefully all this will keep me busy until elite 4 rears its wonderous head (although, I'm not holding my breath on that).

Welcome to the Forums!

Commander Thumper wrote:

One area that has me in a bit of a quandary is what HUD do people like? I Have the normal setup. Is there another that is the 'one' to go for?

Some ships (don't ask me which ones!) come with their own custom HUDs

Personally, I found aspects of different HUDs that I liked, but none that did it all for me... One thing that was important for me though, was that the HUD should have some transparency, so as to not hide anything from view. This would be the only criticism I have about the DeepSpaceHUD, in fact. Apart from that, I like it a lot. In the end, I modified the one I liked most (Fighter HUD Mk.II) to include the one feature I felt was missing (the crosshairs from DeepSpaceHUD) and while I was at it, made the fontsize for the clock a little bigger for easy readability.

So that you can see my HUD, here's a screenshot from the 1.73 trunk (development build) showing a normalmapped Griff Cobra MkIII coming into my portside gunsights..

I hear medusa.hud is very good.....

ClymAngus wrote:

I hear medusa.hud is very good.....

That IS nice... where's the combined dive/climb/roll indicator? <evil grin>

Welcome.

Thanks - I'm currently giving the medusa a test run.

Welcome to this great game!!!!!

And be careful of shooting asteroids...

B

I am seriously enjoying this brilliant game! Not since I was a young, fumbling, mumbling teenager has sleep been so short and waking hours spent thinking so much of trade runs, pirates and lack of credits!

Thanks to all you wonderful people who have put this together.
I have also been enjoying the fiction, too and from the Wiki page on Status Quo theme tune it reads -
If you wish to use this in place of the standard Oolite theme tune, simply replace the file within the Oolite subdirectory.

By this I take it to mean to replace the file in the music folder under resources section of the directory. Well, I did this and obviously not correctly 'cos it doesn't work (Not that there is anything wrong with the main tune - just like a change now and again, and was looking to replace the Blue Danube with a more orchestral version)

Any advice?

Hiya - Welcome to the Forum.

A million crazy new adventures await you in Oolite!

Wigster.

Commander Thumper wrote:

I have also been enjoying the fiction, too and from the Wiki page on Status Quo theme tune it reads -
If you wish to use this in place of the standard Oolite theme tune, simply replace the file within the Oolite subdirectory.

By this I take it to mean to replace the file in the music folder under resources section of the directory. Well, I did this and obviously not correctly 'cos it doesn't work (Not that there is anything wrong with the main tune - just like a change now and again, and was looking to replace the Blue Danube with a more orchestral version)

Any advice?

The filenames for OoliteTheme.ogg and BlueDanube.ogg are hard-coded into the game, so to do what you want, you need to rename the original music file that you want to replace, to something like Orig_OoliteTheme.ogg and then rename the downloaded Oolite.ogg to OoliteTheme.ogg if you want to change the games opening theme music.

To replace the docking music with an orchestral version, you need to encode the music of your choice in ogg-vorbis format, and give it the name BlueDanube.ogg. (as well as renaming the original to avoid conflicts, of course)

Before we could help you with the ogg encoding, we'd need to know if you use a Mac, WinPC or Linux as your OS of choice...

Thanks for that. I actually did a search of the forum and found exactly that info. All done now.
Cheers.