Alpha 33 released

[robn]

The Pioneer development team are pleased to announce the release of Pioneer Alpha 33. This release sees some new eye-candy: eclipses and missile smoke trails. For modders, this release brings a simpler way to define space station docking sequences, supporting stations with over 200 docking ports. Full changelog and builds for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (32 & 64-bit) are available from the homepageNew featuresCzech language support (#2136)Planets now cast shadows (ie, eclipses) on other planets (#1353)Missiles now have smoke trails (#2154)Station waypoints are now defined in the mesh themselves and dealt with in C++, and their docking bays can be grouped together (#2058, #2175)The System View (F3, F6) now shows the player's current orbit (#2084, #2168, #2169, #146, #985)The Sector View (F2) now has options to hide vertical lines and out-of-range system labelsMinor changes and tweaksClean up the Taxi, DeliverPackage and Assassination mission views (#2142, #2151)Tweak Polish translation (#2167)Gas giants now have a thin layer of atmosphere (#1788, #1395)FixesFix hoop station unreliable docking detection (#2153, #2125)Fix ground and "big_crappy" station docking detection (#2197)Fix redscreen from TradeShips module when entering a system with only surface ports (#2172, #2171)Fix object viewer crash (#2187)Fix Lua console to allow continuation of incomplete commands (#2198)Internal changesConverted some remaining GL code to use the renderer interface (#2184)

[Geraldine]

Great news Robn! :girlcrazy:

[Arrakkh]

good!!Some geographic changes in New Hope too.

[Geraldine]

Ooooh nice Arrakkh! :girlcrazy: That shot (along with a host of others you all did) will just sneak in to ModDB. :curtsey: 

[Geraldine]

Phew! Thats the forums round up and ModDB done. Thank you all again for those wonderful images. I wish I could use them all! :curtsey: Also, please have a look at ModDB Robn in case you want to change anything.

[fluffyfreak]

Awesome, and nice updates too Geraldine.I suspect there will be quite a few nice eclipses out there!

[Arrakkh]

Ooooh nice Arrakkh! :girlcrazy: That shot (along with a host of others you all did) will just sneak in to ModDB. :curtsey:yep. thanks for aknowledgement in modDB site

[NeuralKernel]

Hurray! I can scoop Gas Giants again!! Thanks!

[Guest]

Maybe it´s a bit old but I can´t stress enough how useful and great the new orbit feature is! Wow. It is very close to that one in Kerbal.