Oolite Bulletins

Zbond-Zbond wrote:

very beautiful to look at :D I bought one immediately

Flies great but getting the following spvtzs on my (computer) display:

1 dark black texture = (in flight) external view shows a black silhouette blocking out the stars, with 3 blue exhaust plumes
= (in shipyard) the ship is available for purchase but no "demo ship" can be seen spinning; I assume it's there, but black on black and so invisible

2 no folder to open when loading game = at start up when asked "Load Previous Commander?" (from the saved games list), although a list of all the saved Commanders does appear, with an Oolite icon next to each one, and the Commander with the BoaClipper is on that list, there is no folder or Oolite icon next to the latter Commander and that game will not load UNLESS starting up in FullScreen mode. Then the list of saved games appears as usual, but there is no spinning BoaClipper displayed (same as in shipyard, abpve); the Commander does load however. note - there is no big question mark spinning, as is the case if a Commander's OXP ship is not in the AddOns folder, there is just a black background (probably with a black BoaClipper superimposed)

This excellent stealth variant is very cool & sinister etc., but probably not what was intended.

Don't know if npc ships also invisible, haven't encountered one yet..
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update - the normal (i.e. not full screen) mode start-up has now materialised a folder/Oolite icon next to the Commander's name & starts ok

Smivs wrote:

Thanks Commadore Walsh,
Yes I'd missed that one. I've just corrected this and re-uploaded the .zip (again!). Sorry to be a pain, but if you could download it again and check it's OK for me I would be really grateful.
Regards,
Smivs.

Zbond-Zbond wrote:

..following all that ok :)

In the Config folder (in the re-downloaded oxp) there are 2 shipyard.plist's as follows:

shipyard.plist
shipyard.plist~

The 1st one now ends

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	</dict>
</plist>

but the 2nd one just ends

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	</dict>

(although I'd bought my Clipper running the earlier oxp with little difficulty)

I've removed shipyard.plist~ from the Config folder to no ill effect, but the colour of the BoaClipper seems to be related to this:

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materials = 
		{ 
			"boa2_redux.png" = { diffuse_map = "boaclipper.png"; };  
		};

Altering this to either:

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materials = "boaclipper.png";

or:

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materials = "boa2_redux.png";

..results in the native Boa2 livery

Haven't tried any other permutations yet and RealLife™ is making its usual unrealistic demands so I emerge from this pit and will resume later :|

materials = 
		{ 
			"boa2_redux.png" = { diffuse_map = "boaclipper.png"; };  
		};

Zbond-Zbond wrote:

:arrow: RL™ as nauseating as ever - but I did get a cheque from the speed camera department :lol:

By now my BoaClipper is looking reaal coool in its proper colours IT'S SO XLNT I COULD PIMP TREES who said that? .........where was I, oh yes, the difficulty seems to be that the .png file needs to be reduced to 25% in all dimensions; when I did that everything worked fine :D

BUT I had already stripped down the (various) files in the Oolite folder and substituted a lot of stuff so will now have to remember what I did and undo it and see if it works then.

It will.

And after I'd put the BoaClipper (bits of) into the main Oolite game folder I needed to remove the texture file from the BoaClipper OXP folder (otherwise there'd've been several of them kicking around) -- anyway, it's working perfectly now and I'm seeing how much of the fairly complicated procedure can be reversed & it still works but that mightn"t be today..

Fantastic ship: I love it :mrgreen:

Zbond-Zbond wrote:

the difficulty seems to be that the .png file needs to be reduced to 25% in all dimensions; when I did that everything worked fine

Smivs wrote:

Your graphics problem is baffling, but if you are using the current correct version of the OXP it should work. The

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materials = 
		{ 
			"boa2_redux.png" = { diffuse_map = "boaclipper.png"; };  
		};

is the texture part of the script. I'm not an expert at this, and drew on several other OXP's to help me script this and as I understand it, it is telling the computer to use the original boa graphics (the model and texture) and then overlay the new texture on top of this. The 'boaclipper.png' is the texture for this OXP and should be in the 'Textures' folder.