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If there are no comments on this, I think I will be committing the proposed change in a couple of days or so. Milo, please check your PMs.

Ideally, I would modify the core line above as follows: if (scannedEntity != self && [scannedEntity canCollide] && (![scannedEntity isShip] || ![self collisionExceptedFor:(ShipEntity *) scannedEntity])) // ignore ships that have been designated as collision exceptions (OXPs can do this) That would ...

Quick heads-up: In order to maintain consistency with both the existing code references and current standards regarding MB vs MiB meaning, commit 91ad883 has been made. It just makes sure that all references to runtime size are in MiB. As a result, the .GNUstepDefaults key to use is changed to jsrun...

I am very reluctant altering the defaults of the Javascript engine, because it may have side effects that are not immediately obvious. It is also uncertain what effect it may have on performance on other system configurations. Most of the JS stuff we have today was written by Jens a long time ago an...

I have sent commit c7a7f0f to the repository. It should take care of the out of memory issue. As stated in the commit message: Use the key 'JSRunTime_size_mb' in .GNUstepDefaults. The value of this key is the requested size of the JS runtime in megabytes. If the key is missing, then the default valu...

The idiosyncrasy of the core game letting you keep all equipment after using the escape pod is by design. It was what the old Elite did. If this needs to be bypassed for any reason, I would prefer if it were done purely by OXP and not core changes.

Welcome to our new players, hope you enjoy the game. PS Oh, one more thing I forgot to ask - when I recently dowloaded the game - I mentioned that the last version of it is from 2018! 2 years from now.. did the development of a game stop? No, it has just slowed down, the development team is not that...

Note that shininess is not used in the current rendering engine. It makes no difference whether it exists in shipdata or not. It will be used only if the old rendering or the new Blinn-Phong code are used and they are both currently disabled in the shaders.

Fixed in commit 837d5cd.

If I can get the right makefiles for Spidermonkey from my dev environment, I'll upload them somewhere but I won't be able to provide any assistance with them; I don't remember what I did back then and why. Here are the files needed to compile Spidermonkey on Windows using Oolite's dev environment. ...

Fixed in commit 8f3921 . It was an integer division issue. If fuel (an unsigned integer value) was 38 and distance was 3.2LY, then dividing 38/10 gives 3 in integer arithmetic and the second condition was becoming true, triggering the warning. Fixed by changing the 10 to 10.0f, promoting the operati...

Building the Spidermonkey DLL for Oolite on Windows has easily been one of the hardest tasks I've had to do since I got involved in the project. Back then when I compiled it with the set of features we needed for the game, MinGW was not a Spidermonkey target and I had to convert the MSVC project fil...

However, it should be slightly more efficient to pass in vectors directly since that case is handled first, followed by the array check and then the entity check. I don't know how much impact it would have but perhaps it is worth incorporating the changes I made? As surprising as this may sound, th...

Although a position vector is required for the entity to which the distanceTo is applied, the argument of the distanceTo function can be a vector, an array or an entity. In the last case it uses the entity's position as argument. Check out OOJSVector.m, JSObjectGetVector function; there is a comment...