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GizmoR wrote:<br/>
is a problem with the source files,I can not compile the program under MSVC2010.the problem is with the file CustomSystem.cpp.I can compile version 8 without any problem.<br/>
None of the current developers use MSVC2010 so it's not maintained. The MSVC2008 project should ...

Oh damn, that's what I was trying to remember for the alpha9 to-do list.

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ollobrain wrote:<br/>
jaj22 good work on the autopilot are there any situations where the player will still die while docking on autopilot ?<br/>
Well, at least one of the orbital station models has the wrong bounding radius so the autopilot won't dodge it properly. Other than that there ...

Well, I just spent two weeks rewriting the autopilot so there should be a lot less random death now.Not that I give a damn about the player. I just did it so that AIs can navigate and dock at 10000x

<t>In my experiments I found that cross section areas made a substantial difference to space combat. A small cross section is a huge advantage in low-evasion cases. In high-evasion cases, it's strongly beneficial to evade in the direction of your next-smallest cross section - sideways for most ship ...

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unavowed wrote:<br/>
Simplex noise is faster than the standard Perlin noise:<br/>
Pioneer uses simplex.<br/>
freegamer wrote:<br/>
Ideas:- rendering detail direct to textures- working out polygon detail on only the most visible features (sharp edges, ridges)<br/>
Neither of these help ...

<t>This will be out of date shortly after I write it, but the combat AI currently in my repo never turns away. It'll also maintain a separation of around 500m because I turned off some skill-based inaccuracy to debug the evasion code. The shooting code there is deliberately inaccurate, based on the ...

I have the same glitch on XP 32-bit. It's probably caused by that part of the screen not being written in that view, so you get whatever garbage is in the recycled back buffers. Depending on the low-level buffering scheme your card/drivers use, you may or may not see it.

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Feenicks wrote:<br/>
Was there a significant change to the thrust mechanics, and if so is it correct now?<br/>
I think there was a general increase in hull mass in Alpha 8 to make the acceleration less variable with cargo and equipment mass. However, unless you deliberately make the AI line ...

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Shingen wrote:<br/>
* The mouse flight is still dodgy. There is still no dead zone and there is a drift for every movement of the mouse, which makes precision flight at high speeds a complete terror. <br/>
I changed mouse control to a displacement system for the AI test because I found the ...

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ollobrain wrote:<br/>
the autopilot is still cauinsg crashes into stations and planets<br/>
I think I found this bug, or at least one of them. The FlyTo function attempts to fly you to a position closest to the current location of the player. If you're currently on the opposite side from ...

Yeah, the guns are nerfed temporarily for testing purposes because you died too quickly against the evil AI.

<t>The changes in my repository are very incomplete AI and combat interface test code at the moment. I strongly recommend that you don't try to merge it into anything yet.The current AI combat function (use the test location) is a human-style pure evasion pattern using 66% maximum thrust. With a bit ...