Oolite Bulletins

Perhaps a few different start scenarios that vary in difficulty might be a good way to go, giving an opportunity for different playstyles. Some ideas: Easy: Cobra 1 and 1000cr in a somewhat stable system Normal: Modified Adder and 1000cr in a moderately stable system Hard: Stock Adder with 100cr in ...

So, I got a little distracted and tried to make some new textures for the Commuter, but the UV map I originally made was not exactly easy to work with. Lines were crooked, nothing aligned, everything was a different size- the works. I straightened the UVs and pretty much remade the textures. The res...

Ooh, I like that new paint job! Might be nice to stick some other colors in there alongside the typical Soviet green. I agree, the gloss was way too high. I modified the texture to make the paint flat and put in the numbers you suggested. I also received the intensity of the normal map and corrected...

Thank you! I will definitely try those out and see what works. I guess some slow plasma cannons could be an option... I had no idea that Soviet bus stops were so varied! I imagined they would simply be grey cubes with rusty sheetmetal, but I guess that just because the government was how it was does...

Fantastic as usual! I really like the contrast between the Asp's paint and the station's bare metal.

As I had a little bit of free time, I decided to pick the revamp project up again and begin working on the stations. Nothing is textured yet, but I do have some very early models. Everything went perfectly, with no errors whatsoever. https://i.imgur.com/FqDncjj.png The first I tried was the Astrogul...

Disembodied wrote: ↑

Sun May 03, 2020 1:35 pm

It's increasingly obvious that one or other of us is a sockpuppet account, and I've got a horrible feeling that it might be me …

The new planet textures and city lights are fantastic! I saw it mentioned before, but in my opinion the simplest, clearest way for them to reflect tech level is to shift from dim fire-reddish at low TLs to incandescent-yellow at the middle and LED bluish-white at high TLs. The other suggestions abou...

Progress.

Just curious, by how much are you scaling things? I played with scaling freighters and stations a while ago and found that 2.5 (I think) worked well for the stations, Boas, and the Anaconda while 2 worked for the Python.

Looking forward to seeing the product!

I was doing a test run of a new HUD / kinda just messing around in G3 on my main save. It'd been a while since I had played normally. While flying a passenger contract, I ran in to these blokes: https://i.imgur.com/nweoBoB.png I haven't bothered to count, but seems like that's a whole lot of ships.....

Even closing the distance with a group of pirates usually reduces my shields to zero, then I lose my cargo and start taking damage. I forgot to mention, fuel injectors are the key here. They allow you to close that distance really quickly, and, oddly enough, close quarters fighting is often a more ...

Cody wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 2:22 pm

Yaw? <chortles>

It's actually quite useful, yaw hear?

Welcome aboard, Commander! Combat in Oolite is no walk in the park, even for experienced commanders. The enemies hit hard, are capable pilots and, like you mentioned, tend to spawn in big groups. Some things I have found helpful are: • Equipment. The Advanced Targeting System will help you see where...

While testing a new HUD, I noticed that you can get quite close to the planet if you try hard enough... https://i.imgur.com/YmqF6nx.png The picture isn't very clear, but the laser's end is where it intersects the planet, to give a sense of distance. I got a bit closer than that, even, but didn't get...