Just for Fun, Your Hometown!

[Geraldine]

Time to get this thread back on topic. :spiteful:This is the alpha33 version of the Hometowns addon.It's not a proper Alpha release until Marcel also issues his Hometowns mod. :girlcrazy:Thanks Marcel :girlwink:

[Marcel]

Thanks Geraldine!@ fluffyfreak No I haven't. I'll give it a try when I get home tonight. Maybe I can release a version with them all enabled by default.

[Marcel]

Hey Marcel, have you tried enabling ALL of the hometowns? I'm wondering how it performs these days since we did some city rendering optimisations  I'm sorry to report that it doesn't perform very well. Europe is still a slideshow, although it seems that the frame rate might be a little better.

[fluffyfreak]

Ah well that's a shame, I've grabbed the latest version you've done so I'll try enabling them all locally and then profile it - not anytime soon but I'll get around too it :)There's a lot of things we could do to speed it up depending on where the bottlenecks are. Having LOT more cities on Earth, or any world, is something I'd really like to see happening one day.

[Marcel]

I've grabbed the latest version you've done so I'll try enabling them all locally and then profile it Well, I've already done the enabling part so here it is.[attachment=1829:Hometowns_ShadMars_a33-all.zip]

[Marcel]

Here's the latest version. This brings it up to date with Pioneer201306.21. The usual caveats and instructions apply. Old games saved in the Sol system will not work. A new game or a game saved in another system should work fine. Put the .zip file in your mods folder. Do not unzip it.I changed the name of the file to make it compatible with Scout+. I've included the Moon hi-res heightmap (sorry but I don't remember who made it), the Mars hi-res heightmap by Shadmar, and Tourist's repositioning of Olympus Mons from Genesia that puts it near the crater. It looks like this.[attachment=1990:screenshot-20130619-194054.png]There are instructions on how to enabledisable spaceports in the pages above, so I won't repeat them here. If anyone wants me to add their hometown or is not comfortable editing the files, let me know and I'll make a custom version. [attachment=1991:Spaceports-Hometowns201306.zip]

[walterar]

Good job Marcel. It works very well and is totally compatible with Scout+ :good:

[Marcel]

Thank you. I hope you enjoy living underground in Rosario. ;)I changed the name because Scout+ has a 00_sol.lua inside. The game reads the mods in alphabetical order, so yours was the 00_sol.lua that was used. I think that for compatibility, mods should only contain files that are necessary for the mod to work.Thanks to you, I'm almost ready to launch my Eagle from Eugene and start my career! :biggrin: After I back up everything and install the 'AMD64' :blackeye: version of Ubuntu and start all over again. :you:

[shadmar]

There was a couple of commas missing if you enable all and author cities should have comment using -- in front. Also If you edit one line in the pioneer source and compile, you can have them all enabled with no performance loss. :)In Spacestation.cpp around line 660 or so: /* don't render city if too far away */ if (viewCoords.Length() < 100000.0){ // 100km instead of 1000km

[Guest]

 If you edit one line in the pioneer source and compile, you can have them all enabled with no performance loss. :)In Spacestation.cpp around line 660 or so: /* don't render city if too far away */ if (viewCoords.Length() < 100000.0){ // 100km instead of 1000km That's interesting! :)It would be convenient to have this as a setting in the configuration screen.

[fluffyfreak]

Yes, but it means that you can't see the cities from high altitude or orbit.I have something in mind to get them rendering faster already but it's just another thing on my todo list. Would people prefer this temporary fix? Or to have to toggle-able in the options?

[Guest]

Maybe it could be coupled with the city detail setting? With highest setting you also have cities rendered at 1000km. With lowest 100km and the others between this two extremes. In this way, you don't have to change the settings page layout.Or a simple value to tweak in config.iniMaybe the last one is the simplest to implement, but it would be much more convenient to the user, than modify the code and recompile.

[fluffyfreak]

Actually that change looks ok either way! :)I just took off from LA and by the time the city disappears it's degenerated into sparklies anyway.

[fluffyfreak]

Ok, Pull Request made along with some other optimisations I'd been working on from a month or so ago

[Marcel]

shadmar said;There was a couple of commas missing if you enable all and author cities should have comment using -- in front.Sounds like I need to do some editing. Thanks! BTW, I'm up and running on 64 bit Ubuntu. I just restored my Firefox profile, so I had to check if Space Sim Central was back up. :preved:

[walterar]

This mod is already part of my game beside Scout+ :gamer:

[Geraldine]

Oh dear, wish I had read that first Walterar. Oh well, no harm done. :girlsmile:

[Marcel]

Spaceports_Hometowns201306 appears to be totally compatible with Pioneer201307.72. I'll go and do something else then.

[fluffyfreak]

Have you tried enabling all of the towns and then flying around Earth? I'm interested in seeing how well it handles it  Also, how about starting a "your-hometowns-on-other-planets" mod, like how there's a York in England, and a New York in the USA... weirdly there's an entire little-North-Yorkshire up in Canada, just look around Halifax (the Canadian one), there's Scarborough and loads of other frighteningly famliar names  ...anyway, something like that but for the diaspora of other worlds in the solar system and beyond that have been settled? Just an idea since this one is such a popular mod.

[Marcel]

'Have you tried enabling all of the towns and then flying around Earth? I'm interested in seeing how well it handles it'No I haven't yet. I'm leaving town for a couple of days, so I'll try it when I get back. :biggrin: