Oolite Bulletins

How about the laser pulses? They look like just a 2D monochrome filled triangle, complete with aliasing. They'd look better with some kind of diffusion effect.

They’re actually four triangles. :-)

I have a detailed plan to improve them, but it won’t be until after the next stable release.

heres another thats been dicussed before:

*Suns

(surface, not corona, corona looks awesome.)

wades wrote:

How about the laser pulses? They look like just a 2D monochrome filled triangle, complete with aliasing

yes, cool aren't they!

Ahruman wrote:

I have a detailed plan to improve them..

availability of any colour at all would be good, instead of the machine second guessing my choice and overwriting

The one thing that really looks 8-bit to me, something we all come across many times each session: the concentric circles when you dock at a Station / Rock Hermit / anywhere.

Having got the planets and ships looking so good this really stands out as something from another era.

Ahruman wrote:

I have a detailed plan to improve them, but it won’t be until after the next stable release.

I think the appropriate aphorism is 'woot'.

the concentric circles when you dock at a Station / Rock Hermit / anywhere.

Seconded.

Cheers,

Drew.

As we all know, you can replace them with any of the other models in the game by c&p'ing the desired dat-file into your AddOns-folder (e.g. "buoy.dat"), and renaming it to "ring.dat".

Try it out, if you're not easily scared.

so, instead of ring.dat, can the game not just gen 1 of them and we could replace it w/ a textured docking tunnel w/ a door at the end?

Isn't the same model used for witchjump? In that case, docking doors would look even weirder.

Sarin wrote:

Isn't the same model used for witchjump? In that case, docking doors would look even weirder.

I think this is only true for current 1.73.4, in the trunk different dats can be defined for docking/launching and wormhole.