Good work assasination missions are a good content addition

Yay! Now I have something to play at work during lunchtime! I think it's already safe to say "GOOD JOB GUYS!" even though I'm still downloading. Previous releases have already shown the Pioneer dev team's dedication to the project, excellent skills and eye for detail so I expect the same for alpha 15. Each new alpha release makes this game better and better.

B.T.W., I really like those new city buildings. I hope the creator will continue his fantastic job.

This game just gets more and more amazing 🙂

Hi Guys,

Just a quick note to announce that the OSX build of alpha15 is also up on the download page.

Cheers,

Philbywhizz.

Great news guys! I can see what a massive amount of work you put into this alpha 😯

Well done! 😎

Cool beans! I'll try it out soon. Thanks to the devs for all the hard work.

Just loaded up the new release,

The new buildings look absolutely fantastic, like stepping into a world of futurama, the start location looks great with the snow textures on the ground here and there and an awesome mountain to the right of the start pad, plus liking the fact that I see other ships nearby which I dont think i noticed in the past version (? not sure on this), looking forward to playing this one, also looking forward to seeing the textures in stars, that sounds pretty interesting (are there any sunspots?) , many thanks!

so any thoughts on where to from here

Your house! For free beer! 😀

Any screenshots from this new release?

some nice touches, the cities look amazing - some great work eveyone

i did notice that the sun had a diamond shape rather than a sphere - whats that nursery rhyme about a diamond in the sky?? - oh yeah twinle twinkle little star - well i have added a pic so you can see what i mean - also the stars seem to 'eat' my ship - must be my settings - ill have a play with them later and see if i can get a more rounded sun and less greedy Epsillon Eradani

there were problems with the suns at great distances, as they didn't show up very well or in some cases not at all, so a halo effect was readded to help counter this, still the suns do look great once you get clsose to them mind

Cheers Matthew - that could be it - its no big deal really and yeah it is nice to see the stars having a granualted textured surface, its all looking very good indeed 😀

If you can see the texture of that star's surface, there's no way you should be able to see anything as comparatively dim as those background stars.

Yes, but we're not looking at the scene directly. We're either looking at a viewscreen or there's some type of canopy or visor that processes the image to improve visibility and protects your eyes. And the outside view is computer generated, so there! 😛

Btw, Sol looks round on my computer.

gotta be my settings then - ill have a look when i get a moment - it is round when i get closer 😉

be nice to see some sun spots now and then - rotating ?? - do the stars rotate in Pioneer? - i've never considered that 😳 - but with a blank texture how would we know

ill have to jet off to Sol again and have a look - should be able to tell now with textures

That's one icky side-effect of our current HDR implementation. The postprocess glow is extended bast the normal high-contrast edge. That doesn't make sense, but its the best way I can explain it. HDR needs a lot of work - its great when it does the right thing, but terrible when it doesn't. Try it with a brown dwarf for another example.

robn or anybody else,

i could need a comprehensive list of the new arguments used for models, that would really help, since i didn't find such on the wiki.

actually i'm asking myself if get_arg_material() still works, i will have (again) check a existing model for that.

Did the existing model work in a contextual tense sense

definately i must have lost sense, no 😉

Ahh, here's the post I couldn't find. I answered it here: viewtopic.php?p=23355#p23355

🙂

Good work on the new Alpha, cool cities! will need a bit more variety and some form of floor covering, but that's already being discussed in other threads. I'm noticing a slight "problem" with delivery missions, the time available is very short. Except for in-system deliveries I haven't found a delivery mission I could complete with the starting eagle (and no, I have not only picked the "fast delivery" missions). Is that by design? If ship capabilities now become a factor for completing delivery missions (which would make sense), it would a be a good idea to not only have distance but also eta or travel time displayed in the galaxy map (or at least a pointer at how to calculate eta, but I think such stuff should be provided by the interface directly where possible).

I suggested just such a thing on Git Hub in a feature request for an advanced navigational aid to help budding traders and couriers.

Journey time isn't constant. The same journey could take a radically different amount of time. Here are some of the factors, without changing the ship at all:

[*:c666flp5]Your jump will take less time if you have a more powerful hyperdrive.

[*:c666flp5]Your jump will take more time if you are carrying cargo.

[*:c666flp5]Your flight across the destination solar system will take longer if your jump arrival is a long way from the destination starport.

[*:c666flp5]Your flight across the destination solar system will take longer if you are carrying cargo.

[*:c666flp5]Your flight across the destination solar system will take longer if you have a heavier hyperdrive.

So, it's a little more involved than, "It will take this long." You can make your journey times shorter by going light. An Eagle with a class 2 military drive, carrying only one tonne of fuel and no cargo, jettisoning the radioactives as soon as you've jumped, will probably get the best our of that ship, but then a class 1 military drive might actually make the jump quicker by simply being less massive, for jumps of a certain length. There's also a great deal of chance involved in where you enter the system relative to your destination.