Guide to Ambience OXPs - Revision history

Cholmondely: /* Tweaking relationships between planet & F7 description */ Added Vaxon's Darker Planets.oxp

2021-11-24T13:05:10Z

‎Tweaking relationships between planet & F7 description: Added Vaxon's Darker Planets.oxp

2021-11-06T19:41:20Z

‎Goodies!: Added more on Black Holes

2021-11-02T10:09:58Z

‎Links: Added another

2021-11-02T10:06:36Z

‎Planetary OXP comparisons: Added another row

2021-11-02T09:44:28Z

‎Planets (descriptions, extra planets, moons and extra textures): Added LittleBear's cocktail

2021-10-12T18:56:35Z

‎Stellar OXP comparisons: More updates

2021-10-12T17:33:07Z

‎Stellar OXP comparisons: Updated

2021-10-11T15:32:26Z

‎Goodies!: Another link (regarding Black Holes)

2021-10-10T18:20:50Z

‎Suns (distances and varieties): Updated Links

2021-08-28T20:47:53Z

‎Skies: Added DarkSoul Nebulae

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 === Tweaking relationships between planet & F7 description ===
 * [http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=20179 Planet Forests and Oceans] (2019) ensures [[Vanilla game]] planets & F7 descriptions match!
-* [[Famous Planets OXP|Famous Planets]] gives the F7 description (and even some theme music!) for the Povray Planets OXPs - see below.
+* [[Famous Planets OXP|Famous Planets]] gives the F7 description (and once, even theme music!) for the Povray Planets OXPs - see below.
 === Tweaking of the [[Vanilla game]]'s one moonless planet for each sun model. ===

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 *Sun Spots - [[System Features: Sunspots]]
-As regards Black Holes, Charlie of [[Benulobiweed Inc.|Benolubiweed]] fame [http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3321 worked on one] back in 2006/7. Sadly, if you look in his [https://app.box.com/s/b2tic3tjsk Black Hole folder], you will find a Black Hole (and sadly, it seems to have swallowed him, too)!
+As regards '''Black Holes''', Charlie of [[Benulobiweed Inc.|Benolubiweed]] fame [http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3321 worked on one] back in 2006/7. Sadly, if you look in his [https://app.box.com/s/b2tic3tjsk Black Hole folder], you will find a Black Hole (and sadly, it seems to have swallowed him, too)! There are also one or two ideas here: [http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12041 Are there any Black Holes OXPs?] (2012).
 == Links ==

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 * [[Distance (Oolite)]]
 * [[Rescaling experiment]]
 === More radical rejigging ===

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 |-align="center"
 ! Functionability
-| Broken? || Broken? || Unfinished || Old || Recent || Up-to-date || Up-to-date
+| Broken? || Broken? || Old <br> ''Unfinished'' || Old || Recent || Up-to-date <br> ''Unfinished'' || Up-to-date
 |-align="center"
 ! Details all of Galaxy 1
-| Yes || No || No || Yes || No || No || Yes
+| Yes || Yes || Yes? || Yes || Yes || Not yet || Yes
 |-align="center"
-! More than one planet?
+! Retextures main planet?
-| Yes || Yes || Yes || ? || Yes || No || Yes
+| No || Yes || Yes || Yes || No || Yes || Yes
 |-align="center"
 ! Moons?
-| Yes || Yes || Yes || ? || Yes || No || Yes
+| Yes || Yes || Yes || No? || Yes || No || Yes
 |-align="center"

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 * [[Planetary Systems]] & [[Moons]] in the [[Strangers World]] suite - maps out every System's main planet, rest is randomised (most recent versions 2020).
-=== Graphics improvements ===
+=== Cocktails ===
 [[User:Another commander|Another commander]], our most active developer, has been improving the rendering of planets continually with every version since 1.84 (in 2016):
 *1.90 (2020) - Extended graphics capabilities for custom planets, improved and configurable planet atmosphere, filmic tone mapping

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 |-align="center"
 ! Changes show up on F6 chart stars
-| No || No || No || Yes? || Yes? || Yes? || Yes?
+| No || No || No || Yes? || Yes || Yes || Yes
 |-align="center"
 ! Star class listed
-| No || No || No || No || F7 page || No || MFD
+| No || No || No || No || F7 page || F7 page || MFD
 |-align="center"
 |}

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 |-style="background:yellow; color:black"
 ! width=15%"| !! width="10%"| FarSun !! width="10%"| Sensible Sun !! width="10%"| KeeperSky !! width="10%"| Realistic Stars !!  width="10%"| Distant Suns !! width="10%"| Distant Stars !! width="10%"| Strangers World
 |-align="center"
 ! Functionability
-| Broken? || Broken? || Broken? || Old || Old || Up-to-date || Up-to-date
+| v.1.73+ || v.1.65+ || v.1.82+ || v.1.80+ || v.1.80+ || v.1.84+ || v.1.82+
 |-align="center"
 ! Increases distance to sun
-| Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes
+| Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes || Varies it || Yes || Yes
 |-align="center"
 ! Changes colour of sun
-| No? || No? || No? || ? || ? || Yes || Yes
+| No || No || No || Yes || Yes || Yes || Yes
 |-align="center"
 ! Changes size of sun
-| No? || No? || No? || ? || ? || ? || Yes
+| No || No || No || No || Yes? || No? || Yes
 |-align="center"
 ! Affects solar flares
-| No? || No? || No? || ? || ? || ? || Yes
+| No || No || No || No || No || Yes || Yes
 |-align="center"
-| No? || No? || No? || ? || ? || ? || ?
+| No || No || No || No || F7 page || No || MFD
 |-align="center"
 |}

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 *Kaks [[Far Sun OXP|Far Sun]] Simple (March 2008) Just the one .oxp
 *Wildeblood’s [[Sensible Sun]] before 2011
-*Keeper1st’s [http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=18257 KeeperSky] (Ron O’Dell) inspired by Frontier/FFE (before 2016)
+*[[KeeperSky]] (realistic: adjustible star density, dandruff & star distance) inspired by Frontier/FFE (before 2016)
 *Knotty’s [[Realistic Stars]] (Richard Knott; July 2012)
 :Affects look of galaxy, star colour, corona size and distances. Constant size for sun coronas. (RealisticStars & Realistic Stars SSC seem identical)

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 == Skies ==
 There are several OXPs which affect the skies and/or the nebulae:
 *[[Darkspace]] removes the nebulae from the sky and limits the number of stars visible. It's based on the same concept as clearskies.oxp by johnsmith (broken). Useful for old computers whose graphic chips are feeling their age!
 *[http://deephorizonindustries.com/Lights_Down.html Deep Horizon's Lights Down OXP] lowers ambient light within the system to give a more natural feel to planets and ships. It also increases the background star-count, and increases the intensity of the nebulae that appear in the background to give a more cinematic feel.