wow i mean the moon wow It really does look much better now and not the cartoony style it had before

and for the joystick dead zone (knees on the floor and hands together) thank you!! 😀

Now you've all got an awesome camera and a nice Moon I expect to see a lot of awesome screenshots 🙂

Ooooh goody! I will let the Frontier Forum know about this right away. I think this will be a popular release robn, even a certain well known Astronomy magazine here in the UK has contacted me about Pioneer. Brianetta has the details in a PM 😉

And a non-computing mag is about to be introduced to the headache of GPL distribution. (-:

the awesome graphics of this solar system simulator and content free exploration game just got more awesome ill take a few screenshots any news on actual content though ?

Its all in the changelog - that's why I post them.

For the benefit of us 64-bit Linux people: how does one compile the latest version? The command used to be:

...which still works, but

produces the error

By the way, the package libglut3-dev is now obsolete and has been replaced by freeglut3-dev. The Wiki http://pioneerspacesim.net/wiki/index.php?title=Compiling_pioneer doesn't show this yet.

Do git fetch origin or git remote update first. After that, git tag should list the available tags. Then you can checkout.

Alas! The latest alpha isn't there.

Interesting. git branch -a should at least show remotes/origin/alpha19-freeze. It's state is equivalent to the release.

It's also possible that you need to do git fetch origin --tags before the tags show. (this assumes "origin" points to the official pioneerspacesim repository - if you started by cloning it, it does)

To update your tags:

Having said that...

If you have the Git repo checked out, why in all of Space would you want to stick with a tagged release? It's out of date already! Master is almost always stable (and when it isn't, you're less than an hour from a fix, by my records) and has features that others won't get to test until the next alpha release.

Since you've gone to the effort of checking our the repo, why not reap the reward?

Nope, it's not there.

I tried the other suggested commands to update tags, with the same results. (Never mind though; Brianetta's suggestion to use 'git checkout master' works just fine.)

Emajogi, the problem here is that you are tracking robn as upstream, not pioneerspacesim. Rob doesn't have the alpha tags in his repo. His master is bang up to date, though, since he's the merge monkey.

Time to fly back out from Sol again! I'll check out the moon on my way.

Wait a minute. Just found out my savegames work. Legit.

I was supposed to do a savefile bump, but forgot. There's an outside chance you'll get some corruption/weirdness, but you'll probably be fine.

How do I change that?

You need to add the Pioneer spacesim as a new remote.

git remote add Pioneer URL

http://gitref.org/remotes/

You can also change the 'origin' remote to contain the correct address, but I don't recall the command.

Welcome back 🙂 Any new tunes on the horizon for Pioneer? Also on another completely unrelated note, I found out that the crackling I experienced while passing your last track through the audio compressors was likely caused by my terrible soundcard.

Oh, lots and lots!

I'm still, however, no closer to finding a solution to the main stumbling block, which is that everything I write sounds like MIDI. I have no idea what software everyone else in the world is using but, whatever it is, they're not letting me in on the secret.

❓ What software are you using?

These days I still use Reason 5.0, but I combine it with AbletonLive which has VST capability and my Roland Juno-G keyboard, which opens up a lot of doors 🙂

This is a good VST synth, I've had some fun with it:

http://www.store.cakewalk.com/b2cgbp/Pr ... RP1.20-20E

Another VST, this one is quite unique and has a cool long lasting demo 😉

http://soniccharge.com/synplant

They can run through Ableton, or something like this: http://ardour.org/ (free)

Everyone else I know is on a combination of the following software:

Logic, AbletonLive, FruityLoops, REason. With lots of tasty VSTs thrown in too.

Recently I downloaded the MaxMSP trial and let me tell you that thing is absolutely amazing 🙂 Its very expensive though if you get hooked, I don't know what I'll do when my trial runs out :O