Oolite Bulletins

Thanks all! Regarding the overall appearance and lighting, I would recommend switching to the latest fragment shaders for 1.89 (revision 104f9c0). There have been some corrections made to lighting, plus you get the chance to ramp up the sun radiance, which makes things look much better in my opinion...

Hi Gizmo, thanks for letting me know. Firstly, I'm a bit confused by your message as you mention both github and trunk. Few points here: I haven't put anything on github for a long time, so you might want to check whichever version you're downloading. NSPropertyList.m is not a file that I have chang...

I seem to remember a picture somewhere on these boards showing a cobra 3 in oolite being about the size of a football field... Here it is :P So in standard oolite, issues of scale are made all the more apparent by the fact entities that show up on scanner are typically too big (ships at 300%) and e...

Congrats on your first release! Thanks :) Now that I have a working Linux build (thanks to Commander_X): I really like the way the game play / immersion changes. Thanks again and thanks for your thoughts! However, I'd rather don't reduce the reported distance from STE as, for me, the distances seem...

Quick test build release: Win 64 Test Build There's a few other things in there: 30/20km scanner as seen in some of my pics Target scanner text as suggested by Disembodied Dulled target reticles (I've always found them to be a bit overbearing) Rescale _Plus is enabled by default. If you'd like to tr...

Ah yes, that makes perfect sense.
The oxp doesn't define sun radius and so it defaults to the preset values...

Looks like I'll have to include it as a core change.

Strange, either "Modest" or "Plus" oxp dropped over a self-build (nightly) show that type of sun. That's the size you get without either of the the oxps being active. Could you please check that whichever one you're using is unzipped and placed in the addons folder with an .oxp extension (obvious I...

Commander_X wrote: ↑

Sat May 23, 2020 12:51 am

Quick question -- is the sun expected to have the size like in the another_commander's screenshot below ?

Not in my build.

And at the other end of the scale... Ra this time, again with: float cosThreshold = -1.333333e-6 * atmRadius / 10 + 0.17333333; https://i.postimg.cc/QCW14L7S/oolite-1114.png https://i.postimg.cc/q7kck5fM/oolite-1115.png I could spend ages tweaking this but I think that's a pretty good consistency am...

Awesome! I look forward to playing with this

I think I got this one that looks good for the three sizes I tried: Ra, Lave and Reorte. You can try giving it a go if you want: float cosThreshold = -1.11055807437937e-7 * atmRadius + 0.1511346252; cosThreshold varies from 0.12 (Ra) to 0.08 (Reorte). Note that we are not dividing radius by 10 with...

I think I got this one that looks good for the three sizes I tried: Ra, Lave and Reorte. You can try giving it a go if you want: Thanks. I'll try it at some other planets, likely Diso, Tionisle, Isionor, Leesti and Ontiat. cosThreshold varies from 0.12 (Ra) to 0.08 (Reorte). Note that we are not di...

I'm getting a similar look with:
Seems to work well with different sizes.

OK, so as usual I make no claims for this adjustment to be optimal but so far it seems to be pretty good.
I'll update the main code post on the previous page of this thread.

I have uploaded the spreadsheet I used on https://drive.google.com/file/d/1viE2cr ... sp=sharing Thanks. After trying various things I appear to be close to a solution (things certainly look better at both Lave and Diso). Tired of tweaking for now however, so I'll get back to it later. Meanwhile, h...