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<t>Hey people, For what it's worth (and I haven't been involved since 2011), I agree that Elite/Frontier content should be removed from Pioneer. When I appealed here for contributors in 2010 it was a weakness on my part that I allowed content that may have been derived from Frontier to enter Pioneer ...

<t>Ah don't leave! You have taken the crazy lua scripted model system to heart, and made beautiful models with it!<br/>
potsmoke66 wrote:<br/>
executives are people that walk through a new erected building and express with a broad gesture "all this I have made". that guy was very close to be killed ...

<t>I'm in favour of a player character who can 'walk in the snow and not leave a footprint', as Brianetta has sortof described.It may seem like a weird reason, but I feel that the vastness of the universe is the central thing in Pioneer, and that the player should always feel like a stranger ...

Ah crud. It should be back once DNS propagates (against)

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Cailean556 wrote:<br/>
The man does have a point though... The moon is roughly a quarter the size of earth, and only (hah, ONLY) 380,000km away, give or take, so we should be able to see something. A grey ball at the very least... I guess it's a draw distance thing. In line with that, why ...

<t>I like to think of pioneer as being a 'space adventure game' rather than a space simulator. I think a logo shouldn't say "pioneer space simulator" because people will think it is going to be as dull as microsoft flight simulator or something. Space is awesome and people should expect to have ...

Yes how was the glossy effect achieved? There is no support for anything but plain diffuse in the ground shader so I am assuming the glossy look is just due to the terrain being kindof high contrast colors

<t>A very worthy effort. I would just highlight the wise words of Linus Torvalds, so this endeavour can start on the right foot:"Please, we do NOT fix compiler warnings without understanding the code! That's a sure way to just introduce _new_ bugs, rather than fix old ones. So please, please, please ...

<t>My feeling was that the sector grid had to go, because it was out of keeping with the kindof sphere of stars that the new sector view showed. But some sort of plane for the star depth spikes to sit on would be nice perhaps. It might look better of that plane was limited to a circular area so that ...

The clouds and the reflections on those screenshots are lovely. The crazy rays around the stars look bad though. There is a "no pink nebulae" rule, and I think there should be a "no crazy 2nd coming of jesus sun effects" rule.

So the people seeing the gas giant rings through the planet, what graphics card do you have and what platform are you playing on?

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durandal wrote:<br/>
I opened https://github.com/pioneerspacesim/pioneer/issues/281Are you going to create missing star sounds?Here is current list of all system object type, it would be nice to have sounds for all star types:case TYPE_BROWN_DWARF:case TYPE_STAR_M:case TYPE_STAR_K:case TYPE ...

You can play with lower detail level, but basically the terrain fractals should have a CPU budget. Some of the terrain fractals are probably using way too many octaves of perlin noise. Maybe not all of them are necessary to create the same effect

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robn wrote:<br/>
Our model system is rather heavy at the moment, which is why I'm concerned. It does need fixing, and this may be the thing to push that along. Don't worry, your work is awesome and we shall have it, eventually <E>:)</E><br/>
Is it really so bad, if the model has no dynamic ...

<t>Hi people,I checked the timestamps on a very old snapshot of Pioneer, and it turns out the project was born on the 30th may 2008, so Pioneer is 3 years old on Monday. Those early days were a fornicatory scramble to get everything coded as quickly as possible. I thought I would have a game in 4 ...

Empire-building is for the socially maladjusted. Exploration is better

However, the font says: "Copyright (c) GM, 2002. All rights reserved."Pioneer can only ship with a font that is freely distributable, and preferably public domain, GPL or creative commons licensed.

I really like this new console art!

<t>Dude, that is totally un-physical ;)Keep starfields the same brightness and let HDR do its job<br/>
s2odan wrote:<br/>
Something I've been testing out, it is Starfield changes per system based on system seed, some constellation stars and scaling star intensity by distance to a body that would ...

<t>Dunno. Some time I would guess. I think John is departing somewhat from my 'version 1.0' plan, where we aim for mostly FE2 feature parity plus a few juicy extras. This means there are some deeper changes in the pipeline, like dynamic, evolving universe. Probably the right thing to do.I might have ...