Oolite Bulletins

For future reference, my todo list would be this: Environment mapping. We already have a class in the source related to this (OOEnvironmentCubeMap.h/m) but it is not currently used and I am not entirely sure what more is needed to make it work. It would enable various degrees of reflections of the e...

You are asking for an explanation of how everything works basically. That's a bit of a tall order, but there are a few pointers: Check in the source for Core/MiniZip. That's what is used for decompression of the oxzs and it is a bare bones (de)packager based on the standard zlib. Check out Core/Reso...

Moved to discussion because it has everything to do with Oolite and nothing to do with Outworld.

When the main part of today's core was created there were project leads involved, of course. It's more or less as Cody said. The only detail I believe was slightly different is that I do not recall an official handover between Jens and cim. cim happened to be the guy with the right skills, ideas and...

montana05 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 12:47 pm It looks good to me, but the final decision will be with a_c and Malik.

Guys, the wiki content has never been controlled in any way by the developers (excluding minor changes here and there when inaccuracies or factual errors are noted). Feel free to do what needs to be done to improve it.

On the other hand I am tearing my hair on the manifest.plist data format. See http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Manifest.plist#Custom_Format - inside a dictionary, do we have quoted or unquoted values? - inside a dictionary, do we have quoted or unquoted keys? - do we allow/need colons or/and equals...

Oh, wow. Thank you for digging that far. So what I did is definitely within the specs. :oops: Can I also ask why the destroyer offers me to fly (without torus) with 300, sometimes even 600 [units?] when it is documented to fly .2 LMs? Is this changed by addons I may have, or by experience or...? Th...

So what is speed? I'd assume this refers to the .2 LM the Imperial Star Destroyer can run. That would explain that I can accelerate up to 200 [units?] in normal mode. Multiply by 32 and I get 6400 [units?]. But I was able to accelerate 110690 and counting. Let's see what Mr. Code has to say about t...

Torus drive is programmed to exceed 32x speed when there are no stellar bodies or obstacles within a certain ditance of the player. You can accelerate to crazy speeds if you let it go for a good while.

You can record video of the game with the Windows Gamebar shortcut keys. <Windows>+<Alt>+R starts the recording, the same combination stops it. The video gets saved in C:\Users\<YourUserName>\Videos\Captures, with a filename like 'Oolite v1.89 - Jul 23 2020 2020-07-29 19-35-26.mp4'. What I imageine ...

This happened: 22:52:04.609 [exception]: ***** Exception during [update:entity] in [Universe update:] : NSInternalInconsistencyException : NSIncrementExtraRefCount() asked to increment too far ***** Something triggered a GNUstep exception. This is almost certainly an indication of a game code bug, b...

Hiran's first question (how to dock his ISD) leads on to one of mine: All the dockables I've so far seen feature interior docking - one presumes that this was another nifty wheeze by B&B to save memory: exterior docking (where one docks a la Cherryh novels to the outside of the space station) m...

But what is ISD? And how do I identify them? Sorry I went a bit wild with the acronyms there. It just means Imperial Star Destroyer, the name of the OXP and you don't need to identify it. ;-) Glad you got it working. Now you can start putting OXZs one by one back into the ManagedAddOns folder until...

Things we can do to troubleshoot: 1. Check your Latest.log file for any unusual messages or errors originating from the ISD scripts. 2. Empty your OXP folder and have only ISD installed. Is the issue still there? 3. Which version of the OXP are you actually using? I did all the above with version 1....

I just tried targeting the station ('r') while piloting a Star Destroyer and saw a shuttle launching from my Destroyer. I waited a bit and observed it docking with the station, at which point the game presented me with the docking tunnel sequence and I was in and able to use all station menus normal...