Oolite Bulletins

Tori2.0


Update for Obnoxicorp Inc. Torus stations
http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Torus_station

It's... full of stars!

oooh, pretty.

The stars fixes the main issue with the old version. Since 1.74 the tories did look awful when in the shade of a planet. Now they are even better than before.

That looks really beautiful in-game... and it's big!

Thanks for bringing it up-to-date, Svengali.

woaaah! It's like the Big Apple in Space! Nice work!

I'll have to check that out.

It’s a beautiful station… and of course, I had to try flying through it… and yes, it can be done.
I should probably have incurred a heavy fine of some sort… it would’ve been worth it.

Wow!!!

Murgh has created loads of nice oxps + other content and it would be a shame if we'd lose his creations. The Tori stations were always a problem on my machine and I've tweaked them a while ago, but run into trouble with the multi-texture declarations in the dat-file. The new version uses only one texture per dat-file and should also run a bit better on older machines.

The only remaining headache is that Murgh has used planetinfo.plist to place the stations and this can clash with other station-oxps, but the Tori was released (at least my copy) in Jan.2006 - before most other stations have seen the light - and I haven't changed it. Maybe it's time to think about it, because high tech systems are rare and oxpers tend to use these systems for their own oxps.

Oh, and if we are at it - does anybody know who has made the Transhab-stations?

PS: He - yes, I've tried it too, El Viejo .-)

Svengali wrote:

Oh, and if we are at it - does anybody know who has made the Transhab-stations?

According to our research (see the OXP List on the Wiki--yes yes, shameless plug ) it was done by ADCK.

Oh, btw, very sexy station, that Torus 2.0!

maik wrote:

Svengali wrote:

Oh, and if we are at it - does anybody know who has made the Transhab-stations?

According to our research (see the OXP List on the Wiki--yes yes, shameless plug ) it was done by ADCK.

Really? I can't remember who I think created the Transhab OXP but I thought it was someone else.

Mmmmh, Oosat2 is down atm, so I can't double-check. I hope it's not gone for good.

maik wrote:

Mmmmh, Oosat2 is down atm, so I can't double-check. I hope it's not gone for good.

There are at least two extant copies: The OXP is in my AddOns folder, and the downloaded zip is in my anything-oolite-related-ever-downloaded folder.

If you could take a look in the zip and see if there is a readme which even mentions the author...

maik wrote:

If you could take a look in the zip and see if there is a readme which even mentions the author...

There's not.
I even peeked inside the two plist files it includes. The only clue found there was a reference to Apple Computers. Whether that is an indication it was written on a Mac, I really cannot say.

Need to wait for Oosat2's resurrection then and see if there is any mention of the author. Thanks anyways!

Edit: google has a copy of the transhab entry on oosat2, it actually says the author was Draco-Carlos. I'll update the Wiki. Thanks for the doubt!