Oolite Bulletins

Disembodied wrote:

A cosmetic thing, really, but I was wondering if there could be a brief delay in activating the viewscreens on arrival in a new system. A couple of times, on arrival I've managed to take a quick look out the rear view and have seen e.g. a Convenience Store arriving: it appears in a little ring of light as if it's just witched in itself. Is it possible to install a very brief delay, so that everything that's supposed to be in the system arrives before the player sees it? Maybe disguise it with a bit of static or distortion or something on the viewscreen? It's not a major problem, but it does look a bit odd seeing a station pop into existence ...

another_commander wrote:

Ehm... yeah... see, this is an after-effect of the hyperspace sequence. The entities are already there and they don't pop into existence, it's just that you are seeing something similar to the dark spots/shapes appearing when you close your eyes after having stared at bright light for a while. This has been reported by pilots on various occasions in the past and it is all explained in detail in the article "An Analysis of Residual and Temporal Effects of Hyperspace Transit", published in the GalCop Scientific Journal vol.2, Pages 24-30, University of Lave Publications, 3109.

Kaks wrote:

else offset=[0,0,0].subtract(offset);

Kaks wrote:

Totally untested, but this:

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system.addShipsNoRings = function (role,count,position,radius) {
   if (count-0 < 1) count = 1;
   var offset =new Vector3D(0,50000,0);
   var ships=system.addShips(role, count, offset,radius);
   if (position) offset=position.subtract(offset);
   else offset=offset.multiply(-1);
   var i=0;
   while (i++<ships.length){
      ships[i].position=ships[i].position.add(offset);
   }
   return ships;
}

should do the trick... barring the odd logic mistake or two!
Edit: thanks Ahruman!
...and still waiting for brave testers to verify whether this works or not!

offset=position.subtract(offset);

position = new Vector3D(position)

Eric Walch wrote:

Than using system.addShipsNoRings(role,count,position,radius) adds the ships without rings and nicely returning the ship array

Switeck wrote:

Eric Walch wrote:

Than using system.addShipsNoRings(role,count,position,radius) adds the ships without rings and nicely returning the ship array

You going to use this command for the constore in Your Ad Here OXP?

this.addShipsNoRings = function (role,count,position,radius) { 
   if (count-0 < 1) count = 1; 
   var offset =new Vector3D(0,50000,0); 
   var ships=system.addShips(role, count, offset, radius); 
   if (position) offset= new Vector3D(position).subtract(offset); 
   else offset=offset.multiply(-1); 
   var i=0; 
   while (i < ships.length) 
   { 
      ships[i].position=ships[i].position.add(offset); 
      if (ships[i].escorts) 
      { 
        var j=0; 
        while (j < ships[i].escorts.length) 
        { 
            ships[i].escorts[j].position=ships[i].escorts[j].position.add(offset); 
            j++ 
        } 
      } 
      i++; 
   } 
   return ships; 
}