Oolite Bulletins

Hi Rxke, good to have you with us again!

I am fighting an endless war against broken OXP's and, no offense meant, nobody would know before that the light model change like that. My personal opinion is that you expect every developer of a OXP ( a lot not available anymore) to update their work to the new model. Bluntly speaking, it's not g...

We could consider updating the core shipset to be what it really should be, with proper normal, specular and gloss maps, in which case we would require artists' help and would be moving a bit further away from the low-end systems support. That's understood, and not likely to happen. A pity, but so ...

Oh, and one more thing: One of the biggest issues we've always had with any light model is the total lack of shadows (not talking about the unlit parts of things, I'm talking about shadows cast by stuff on other stuff). IF we could have this, you would see a huge improvement in pretty much everything.

I'd argue that the need for things to look 'right' at short distances trumps that of visibility at long distances (which is not a problem I had). I certainly agree to that, I got various scanners to check long distance but on short distance the ship should look well. Agreed, but to this I'd argue t...

Ah - that would fit with my general impression that Griff's ships don't look as good as they did. Oh well, a-tinkering I shall go! Careful there, Griff's ships have their own shaders and are not affected by changes in the core game's ones. They may profit a bit from reducing the ambient level though.

[...]with lights down. Just checked this OXP and in 1.9x it does the opposite of what it claims: it raises the ambient light to 0.25, when the current default is 0.1. Apart from that, the radiance of the light source in 1.9x has been upped five times compared to previous versions. This is mainly be...

Something about nav buoys in sunlight that doesn't look right to me, and GPU usage shoots right up to 75%. Not noticed either problem before my break. This in 1.91 (and it looks the same in 1.90) with lights down. https://i.postimg.cc/64TNwzth/Nav-Buoy-1.png Buoys in the core game don't have a norm...

The error occurs also on the inferior machines. More of an issue of the Revered Master being totally thick, I guess. I will reupload with a manifest once I get the chance.

script.js should stay where it is. The game knows what to do with it.

Righty-ho! Bugs only! And only Bugs! Is this a morbid manifestation of the mentality of a computer programmer, by any chance? Now that you mention it, I guess it is indeed. At least a subconscious one. Will this happen to me too if I keep on tweaking ... will I end up giving my ever-suffering Arami...

Goodness! Where did that come from? I've yet to see anything like it. That's from a test OXP I had made some years ago when overlays were introduced in the UI. This one just scans the inhabitants description and if it finds the string "insect", it displays the insect overlay. Found here in case any...

Cholmondely wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 19, 2021 7:52 pm

3) are there any pictures anywhere of Thargoids or Oresrians?

Probably not, but we do seem to have pics from related insectoid species within Galcop.

LaveIsEarth has them and I believe the BPlanets WIP pack has them as well. Can't think of others right now.

Another old-timer returns. Yay! Good to have you here again, commander.