Couple of new models to go along with Shadmar's work on mining.

 

Mining Pod;

 

This is the basic vessel operated by mining corporations, it's a high capacity manned mining ship designed to operate under all conditions. Normally they operate in small groups with the help of small mining support vessels.

 

 

 

 

 

Mining Drone;

 

Designed to execute small scale independent mining operations, these drones can be launched from any ship equipped with a standard drone bay, and are able to operate autonomously for limited periods of time.

 

 

 

Hi,

I have played the game and reached my first visit to the planet Yarent. From then on, I was getting series & series of game crashes like those:

 

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Precursors.exe caused an EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in module vital.dll at 0023:55041852, t_staticmesh::WindowToLocalOrigin()+0018 byte(s)

Registers:
EAX=0018B974  EBX=0018B870  ECX=00004809  EDX=0018B7BC  ESI=00004809
EDI=0018B9D4  EBP=0018B904  ESP=0018B76C  EIP=55041852  FLG=00210206
CS=0023   DS=002B  SS=002B  ES=002B   FS=0053  GS=002B

Call stack:

(...)

-------------------------------------

 

The cause was:

When running the game, Precursors will write cache files into User\Documents\Precursors\CACHE

These files are updated as soon as you quit the game and may corrupt with new saves after re-installation or moving new content in the SAVE folder.

 

The solution:

If for whatever reason you want to backup your save files, be sure to backup the WHOLE Precursors folder in Documents, and not only the SAVE folder.

If you encounter game crashes like above and you cannot play further after loading a Quicksave or normal Save, do the following:

 

- Load your corrupt Quiicksave or normal Save

- Quick save the game immediately before it crashes with F9

- Quit Precursors

- Delete all the files in the CACHE folder

 

After that, load your newly saved game and there should be no crashes anymore.

 

XenonS

After fixing my savegames (see other thread), I went to a planet, and guess what: The Chase Tutorial came up!

 

The Chase Mode works

 

XenonS

Yes it another StarWars Battlefront game although this time it's being done by Dice, little bit about on it RPS  http://www.rockpaper...rs-battlefront/

 

 

 

Kickstarter for tradewars http://www.kickstart...y-mmog?ref=live something strange going on here as they have 24 backer and $33K and still 26 days to go?.

 

 

Might be something about in the vid as I did not watch it.

Hi!

 

My name is Gustav Beije and I must say Paragon really looks like a lovely project and i have been following it with high interest the last couple of weeks. I love pioneer but can't stand the incoherent art style and Paragon seems to fix that. 

I would love to join the development team on this project because it exactly the kind of game i would like to help making.

I am a 3d artist so I threw together a ship yesterday so you can see my style. If like it I would love to join and then I could spend more serious time on my ships to make them look better.

 

So yesterday I was wondering around Game looking at their very small selection of PC games when I notice that they now have the Ouya on pre-oder.

http://www.ouya.tv/discover/

 

Any-one thinking of getting one, no good for me as it's a download only console, see that their is a couple of space games in the games list including a version of vendetta.

Left my two mining drones in a 400m altiude above demois, and they had a simple directive.

 

1. Drop to surface, start mining.

2. When cargo is full, go to low orbit, dump cargo.

3. Deorbit

4. Start mining

5. Repeat

 

Used water for ore in this test, deploying 2 drones :

 

 

10 minutes later :

 

 

Hmm, I got no cargoscoop 

 

 

And a little problem, my "ore" deorbits crashing into the moon, and bounces off into space..

Looks like there is a small group of CCP programmer working in there spare time on this http://community.eve...e-eve-universe/

 

 

 

CCP have said they don't have any plans to integrate into Eve.

Hey Guys,

 

OSX binary builds are now back! 

 

In the past I was manually creating an app bundle, which made it all pretty, but was very brittle (as it relied on a custom XCode project that broke when new files were added to the project)

 

Since the goal is to now automated the binary build process, I've had remove the XCode dependancy and build with autotools (i.e. ./configure && make).

 

As a result, the package is a little different than previous binaries. I've done away with an app bundle (just for the moment) and just have a simple folder structure. Simply extract the archive and run the pioneer script at the base of the package.

 

If any OSX users could do some testing to make sure I've captured all the dependancies and some feedback on this new setup then that would be great! (I've tested on 10.7.x and 10.8.x - 10.6.x has NOT been tested )

 

(weblinks to the download should be updated shortly)

 

Cheers,

Philbywhizz.

Hello Precursors fans,

 

There has been some confusion about how to correctly install the English release of the game which, without taking the steps below,  may show grafical issues for players using an ATI grafic card, sound lacking and considerable drops in framerate. Also the initial release is plenty of gameplay bugs which almost all have been solved by Wesp5 with his latest Unofficial Patch 1.7 (containing all his previous patches).

 

I've made an extensive stress test, starting with the ENGLISH RELEASE 1.0 of the game that is provided by Gamersgate or other providers and after making all the changes below. The following shoud give the best and most enjoyable results.

 

The exact install steps are:

 

- Install English Release (Gamergate, etc) which HAS to be modified as below, or some missions will be broken and there will be sound, grafics and other issues;

 

- Patch to the Official Russian 1.1 patch ONLY IF YOU HAVE THE RUSSIAN DVD VERSION. Do NOT use this patch with the English Release 1.0 !

The install menu is all in Russian, but don't mind, just go through the install of the patch; chose the game install directory and you will find a cyrillic folder in the game dir after install; copy all the files into the main dir and delete the cyrillic folder afterwards.

http://www.patches-s...ursors.php#tp16

 

-  Because the 1.1 patch has a special copy protection not included with the releases of Gamergate etc, you will have to fix the game with this download (follow the instructions inside):

https://www.dropbox....recursors.rar?m

 

-  Now, apply Wesp5 's newest Patch (which contains all previous patches and LOTS of improvements, especially English translations and issue fixing; read the changelog and docs)

http://www.patches-s...ursors.php#tp16

 

- You must now add the Russian Sound Files (unless you start with a russian version of course); don't skip this, because otherwise all sound effects (weapon sounds, speeches, environment sounds) will vanish at some point; the download is huge (1,4 GB) but necessary.

https://www.dropbox....und files.rar?m (use this for a single rar file or the 2 below which are split in 2 parts)

http://www.moddb.com...n-voices-part-1

http://www.moddb.com...n-voices-part-2

 

- If you have applied the Russian 1.1 patch before, you will have to fix the copy protection as explained in the TRIVIUM package (see step above).

 

- The "Film Grain Fix" is already contained in Wesp5 's Unofficial Patch 1.7 (see step above, and thus must not be installed).

 

Results and in-game settings:

 

After these steps, there should be no more sound or grafical issues whatsoever: The mission dialogs will be in Russian, but with English translations (subtitles). All Cutscenes will instead be in English (installed from Wesp5's patch).

Be sure to shut down your anti-virus before launching the game, and be sure to go offline before!

 

In-game settings (in the game's menu):

After all these steps above, the Sound is set to "Headphones" which you probably should change to "Stereo" or "Surround". Try out the best setting for you.

The grafic setting is set to "High" which should be fine with most today's computer systems (2013). If you have a high-end system, feel free to change it to the last "Very High".

 

Tip:

To better control your vehicles (buggy, etc.), change the A and D key to the secondary keys Left_Arrow, Right_Arow.

 

 

Have fun with this multi-facette game!

XenonS

Hi all, I've done a bit of searching in this forum with no success...please forgive me if this question has been answered elsewhere.

I've got a Windows 8 box with a fresh install of Visual Studio 2012. Following the compile Pioneer instructions, I'm getting an error.

I've downloaded the pioneer and pioneer-thirdparty git repositories (both repositories are in sibling folders), and opened the pioneer\win32\vs2012\pioneer.sln project in Visual Studio, then hit F7 to build.

1 IntelliSense: cannot open source file "GL/glu.h" c:\Users\adrian\Documents\GitHub\pioneer-thirdparty\win32\include\GL\glew.h 1180 1 text
Error 2 error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'GL/glu.h': No such file or directory c:\users\adrian\documents\github\pioneer-thirdparty\win32\include\gl\glew.h 1180 1 graphics
Error 3 error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'GL/glu.h': No such file or directory c:\users\adrian\documents\github\pioneer-thirdparty\win32\include\gl\glew.h 1180 1 text
Error 4 error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'GL/glu.h': No such file or directory c:\users\adrian\documents\github\pioneer-thirdparty\win32\include\gl\glew.h 1180 1 gui
Error 5 error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'GL/glu.h': No such file or directory c:\users\adrian\documents\github\pioneer-thirdparty\win32\include\gl\glew.h 1180 1 collider
Error 6 error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'GL/glu.h': No such file or directory c:\users\adrian\documents\github\pioneer-thirdparty\win32\include\gl\glew.h 1180 1 galaxy
Error 7 error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'GL/glu.h': No such file or directory c:\users\adrian\documents\github\pioneer-thirdparty\win32\include\gl\glew.h 1180 1 terrain
Error 8 error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'GL/glu.h': No such file or directory c:\users\adrian\documents\github\pioneer-thirdparty\win32\include\gl\glew.h 1180 1 scenegraph
Error 9 error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'GL/glu.h': No such file or directory c:\users\adrian\documents\github\pioneer-thirdparty\win32\include\gl\glew.h 1180 1 ui
Error 10 error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'GL/glu.h': No such file or directory c:\users\adrian\documents\github\pioneer-thirdparty\win32\include\gl\glew.h 1180 1 gameui

So...doing a bit of googling to find out how to include the GL folder, I think I've determined that there's actually a problem with the pioneer.sln file itself.

If I look at the Solution Explorer at the pioneer node, there's an error message:
pioneer (load failed)
The project requires user input. Reload the project for more information.

However, when I reload the project, I get the same error.

Any suggestions from the hive mind?

Cheers.