Wanted: new screenshots

[Geraldine]

'robn' wrote:
We're kinda proud of this <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_e_smile.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />
Great Robn, that going to be the Download Icon, many thanks! Now I can start updating ModDB (was sleeping there <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//girl_smile.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':girlsmile:' />) And NeuralKernal? I cant seem to access your image.

[NeuralKernel]

Weird... it seemed to be working fine earlier...Lets see...[url]https://docs.google....Tk5VMzlfSEYtWGc[/url] the directory should already be publicly shared... here's a link to where I'll just keep synching up with neat things I see flying around <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_e_smile.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />[url]https://docs.google....GJndnQ1d1E/edit[/url] rest of the shots in there are from a mix of older versions (and where I'll put mods and other prototypes), but the Alpha28 directory will be from a stock install.

[Geraldine]

Niiiiice NeuralKernal! Not seen a really good shot of the Sirius Interdictor in ages (I love that ship), selecting two for the upload, many thanks! <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//curtsey.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':curtsey:' />

[Loki999]

Had to login to google to see those. Almost couldn't remember, but then i remembered xkcd.... haha... nobody will ever guess my password now!Anyway, here are pics from Alpha 27 and 28.As usual, only mod is Millennium Falcon... hell, i love that ship.

[Geraldine]

Ooooh, love that Canyon shot! <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//girl_crazy.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':girlcrazy:' />

[Guest]

Rigg's World (in LHS 288, 0,0,-2) and his glowing sea <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//prankster.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':prankster:' />[url]http://ompldr.org/vZzd0Yg[/url]

[Geraldine]

As usual Tichy, you never fail to impress! <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//girl_crazy.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':girlcrazy:' /> Selecting two for upload. Many,many thanks people!Question for the devs, Can you guys tell me what ever happened to this.....Can it, will it ever end up in an Alpha? A mod even?If I could post THAT on ModDB (especially with all this interest generally in Eliteness going around) I think it would cause a wee storm! <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//girl_crazy.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':girlcrazy:' />

[NeuralKernel]

I will add my enthusiastic support for Megastructures like Ringworlds (A Culture Orbital of some kind has been my Desktop Wallpaper for years, desktop, laptop and handheld!) and also put my vote in for Space Elevators![url]http://techli.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/6a00d8341bf7f753ef0105349ba70a970c-800wi.jpg[/url]

[Loki999]

Nice screenies Tichy. Suggest taking more on daylight side or on the boundary though. Those taken on dark side are too dark. Rigg's world looks like a nice place to visit.

[fluffyfreak]

'Geraldine' wrote:
As usual Tichy, you never fail to impress! <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//girl_crazy.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':girlcrazy:' /> Selecting two for upload. Many,many thanks people!Question for the devs, Can you guys tell me what ever happened to this.....Can it, will it ever end up in an Alpha? A mod even?If I could post THAT on ModDB (especially with all this interest generally in Eliteness going around) I think it would cause a wee storm! <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//girl_crazy.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':girlcrazy:' />
Yes, I can since I wrote it, it's still sat in my GitHub repository waiting for a lot of different things to happen but I'll try to list the big bad ones here:
It needs a complete rewrite - I got it to work with small O's but it still needs a lot of love.
The terrain generation is too slow and the geometry uses too much memory currently - an Orbital uses 10's to 100's of times more memory than a world and 1 small Orbital uses over 2GiB ram easily.
Collision issues - they were numerous and part of the need for a rewrite.
Atmosphere rendering - I had to simply rip it out whilst I worked on all of the above, it would have to work very differently to that used on planets.
There were more but that's the basic list. Some stuff has made it back from that branch into the game though, some terrain rendering optimisation made it and a few other tweaks. I tried out some alternate collision methods using the mesh rather than sampling the height generation system for example which I could redo one day.It's not forgotten but instead is waiting on other things to happen.Andy

[Guest]

'Loki999' wrote:
Nice screenies Tichy. Suggest taking more on daylight side or on the boundary though. Those taken on dark side are too dark. Rigg's world looks like a nice place to visit.
You are right. Screenshots taken at sunrise or sunset are much more impressive. In these, it was my choice to take them almost in darkness, to show the effect of the green sea (actually, it's a lake) and the atmosphere colours together <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//prankster.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':prankster:' />Continuing the exploration of LHS 288 <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//gamer4.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':gaming:' /> Leaving Rigg's World[url]http://ompldr.org/vZzd1cg[/url] errrr LHS 288c... a desert planet... <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//biggrin.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':biggrin:' />[url]http://ompldr.org/vZzd1dw[/url] in another life... before being killer by gravity... <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//unsure.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':unsure:' /> I had a platform neighbor.[url]http://ompldr.org/vZzd1eA[/url]

[fluffyfreak]

Just a note that even if I did manage to resurrect that code the game wouldn't be littered with Orbitals. They'd be rare, damned rare, and very far out from Earth probably.That at least was the concensus when I was hacking on it originally. Megastructures like that would take 1000's of years each for humanity to build, especially given that size of our spacestations in 3200!!! <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_e_biggrin.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' />

[Brianetta]

That would be incredible, fluffyfreak. If, somewhere in the galaxy, there might be an Orbital... or perhaps more than one, in disparate locations. Assuming the location was chosen by the RNG, then even the devs wouldn't know exactly how many, or where - just the odds of it being in the next star system you visit.That would keep the explorers happy for years. The first player to discover one would go down in history.

[fluffyfreak]

@Brianetta,It will be, at the moment though if you try to run that old branch and make the orbital the size that it "should" be for ~1g & ~24hours day/night cycle you end up with something ~6 million kilometres across which soars past 2GiB ram usage the moment it should become visible <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//wink3.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />Needs some work but I now have a todo list and will get to it eventually <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_e_smile.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

[Geraldine]

Thanks for the update Andy on the "Ring Thing". I do so hope you manage to get it up and working one day <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//girl_sigh.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':girlsigh:' />

[NeuralKernel]

How about Mass Drivers (orbital launch scale), Space Elevators... rotovators, skyhooks... Dyson Swarms?A Culture Orbital would be rare in the Pioneer 'verse but there are plenty of Starfaring Megastructures that would be quite common.

[Brianetta]

'NeuralKernel' wrote:
How about Mass Drivers (orbital launch scale), Space Elevators... rotovators, skyhooks... Dyson Swarms?
Sure, just submit your pull request when it's done. (-:

[fluffyfreak]

@NeuralKernel,Put simply... because they're f**king hard to write <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//wink3.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />The orbital code was written over a year ago and mostly it just highlighted a lot of problems that I'm only now getting around to fixing.Besides which a lot of what you listed are more modelling assets. You could model all of them in 3dsMAX/Blender/etc and then they'd be static objects in the game. Orbitals require something a bit different <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//wink3.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />Anyway we've gone off topic so I won't reply further to this line of questioning - thread is for Screenshots of Alpha 28 only - if you want to ask me something about this stuff we should start a new thread <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_e_smile.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

[Loki999]

These were taken on my crappy machine, so graphics not so hot. Have some better ones stored on my other computer and will upload once my wife gets off it!!! <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//angry2.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />I like this one, light and shadow.Argon atmosphere gives the sky a pink tint. Yes yes, its My Little Pony world!And this one, well, i just like the name of the system and the fact that its unexplored. <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//biggrin.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':biggrin:' />

[Marcel]

Hehe I found a system named Iowa. Isn't that where Captain Kirk is from?[attachment=1483:screenshot-20121111-161345.png]