User:Svengali

Who is who

Cmdr.Svengali was born at a practically forgotten world at the outer rim of Galaxy 3 and absolved his flight training in a pimped Adder, build of spare parts and combined with more tape than anything else. After a few restless years he settled with a standard Cobra, cruising the eight.

GalCop has an eye on him, but it seems that his usual business of trading in narcotics and slaves and occasional acts of piracy are not enough to get him on the list of the most wanted fugitives. All in all a lightminded and rotten soul.

From the last interrogation protocoll, Soamaxe.

O: 'You say you didn't know about the legality of trading in Dephrac Crystals?'
S: 'No, Sir. And how should I? These crystals were available, so I bought them. Nobody asked me for a license.'
O: 'These crystals are highly unstable and are a controlled good for hundreds of decades. Everybody knows it.'
S: 'Not me, Sir. And I also don't know that this chip is 1000 Credits worth...'
_End of protocoll

He's known to be friendly to cats though .-)

The only thing Cmdr.Svengali is really worried about, it seems, is the growing number of clashes and cheats out there.

In color

Schnickschnack for everybody

Collection of OXPs made by Svengali, some of them together with other members of the BulletinBoard.

• BGS - together with Pagroove. Background images, sounds and music.
• buoyRepair - together with Eric Walch and maybe the best one in this collection :-)
• Cabal_Common_Library - a collection of snippets used in my other OXPs. Together with Cmd.Cheyd and PhantorGorth.
• HyperRadio - musicplayer, expandable via musicpacks. A quick guide Hyperradio_Howto_Musicpacks for own stations.
• OXPConfig - a configuration tool for Oxps.
• Snoopers - the galactic news network (together with DaddyHoggy, Disembodied and Drew Wagar).
• Vector - the Lamboorghini Mura and some ...erm... missions.
• Localhero - mission campaign - currently a little bit the lost son :-) Will be merged with Vector if I'm in the right mood...
• Cabal_Common_MaterialsFinder - a helper tool to find the right settings for materials entries in shipdata.plist.
• Keyconfig - a helper tool for the keyconfig.plist.

If you have a problem with one of them, please drop me a note at the Bulletin Board.

OXP Todos

• 8Bit Apocalypse

+ Combine Farstar Murderer, Grass Snake, Remorse of Conscience, Renegade Viper.

+ Further texture optimization.

• BGS

+ Added script_info key bgs_tunnel_off.

+ Added system marks functionality (economy, government and techlevel) directly on LongRangeChart.

• Cabal_Common_Library

Comms

+ Split single key handling to n and b.

Functions

+ Faster arrSortByProperty, strCompareVersion, strTrim, strRandom, arrShuffle.

+ Removed scale x in finding connected systems (change in Oolite).

+ Fixed arrDiff.

+ Added getType().

+ Added arrFlat().

+ Added objClone().

+ Added objFindKeyValue().

+ Added findSystemsPredicate().

+ Added moreInfo.ecos.

+ Added moreInfo.govs.

+ Added moreInfo.tecs.

+ Added instance for convenience.

Keyboard

+ Added initialChoices key and screenID.

Overlays

+ Added decals to inflight overlays.

+ Added countdown overlay (h:m:s). Slow!

OXPStrength

+ Removed cleaning.

SpecialMarkets

- Turn into a black market script.

+ Created demo for overlays.

+ New CCL_PhraseGen generator script.

- Content for CCL_PhraseGen.

+ Further texture optimization.

• OXPConfig

+ Added initialChoices key and screenID.

+ Reduced code.

+ Added 8Bit Apocalypse pack to enable/disable specific ships.

+ Further texture optimization.

• Snoopers

+ Released

• Vector

+ Added sunburn-waver shader effect.

- Adapted changes for SpecialMarkets in CCL.

+ Further texture optimization.

• Start diving in shader performance thingummies (instructions, registers, ALU and throughput)

Wiki stuff

• EliteWiki:Village Pump

Have a nice one.
Svengali