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[Potsmoke66]

it's somekind of a special scene he used, objects simply act like in the game, but "input" is predefinied, so the ships (all objects) act allways the same."camera" would have to be predefinied to and moved by "storyboard".but i think robn is thinking about such allready (to make such a "live" intro).one could (but it would mean a horrible work) export scenes to .obj and rebuild them in blender to create a movie, this would allow at least to place the camera where you like.but if you don't like to get to close to the original intro, it should be possible in a more simple way (play a scene and record it, later cut all into one).the basic LRC won't be a big thing to build (stupid brick with city blocks on it).

[robn]

Thinking, though its a fair way off. One item fairly low on my list is a mechanism for scripts to define a path through space for a ship to follow. Setting up movies (cutscenes!) would be a natural extension of this. A little extra stuff would be needed to put the camera on a similar path, but I don't think that would be a lot of extra work.Don't hold your breath waiting

[Geraldine]

Of course, there is more important things to do in the meantime, but later on when the game is in it's "polishing phase", at least some kind of intro would be nice, if not an exact re-creation, them something even better.

[leighhobson89]

I have tried 7, 8, and version 9 of Piuoneer, but in all cases when I boot the executable, my display driver crashes, but it is only for this program and no other I have used. Im running windows 7, any help?

[SeanN]

Another question,Is Saturn missing its rings? I read in earlier posts that certain video cards (ATI) were having trouble displaying the rings but didn't know if it was my drivers (Nvidia) or something that was being worked on.

[Geraldine]

There is an issue with Saturn's rings and possibly more issues with other planets. I can get them to display although there is still some graphical errors

[Guest]

SeanN wrote:
Another question,Is Saturn missing its rings? I read in earlier posts that certain video cards (ATI) were having trouble displaying the rings but didn't know if it was my drivers (Nvidia) or something that was being worked on.
I just did a test on my iMac (with an ATI card) and I don't have Saturns rings.

[robn]

Also ATI here, and also no rings, though my gut feeling (having not checked the code) says its not to do with graphics card and more to do with the system/terrain seed which is changing with pretty much every build at the moment.We will need to do something to make sure the rings are always there for Saturn. I've logged an issue so it doesn't get forgotten: https://github.com/pioneerspacesim/pioneer/issues/18

[Geraldine]

I should have pointed out that I am using an Nvidia card with the latest drivers on Windows XP. Pioneer screen shot showed the Alpha 9 version not a nightly build.

[Marcel]

I can see the rings in alpha 9 with my Radeon 9550. Ring shadows don't display and when I got near the rings sections of them would disappear. That sort of thing happened in FE2 as well, so I assumed it's not a bug, it's a feature!

[ollobrain]

its a lcoalisation feature

[leighhobson89]

I posted once, but nothing. I am really interested in playing this game and have tried 3 or four of the more recent versions, and none of them boot, it says simulating evolution of universe, it goes up to 15billion years and then the screen goes black like its loading, but then windows comes back up and i get a message saying "pioneer-msvc-9.0_release has stopped working" followed by another pop up on the task bar basically saying my graphics driver stopped responding but now has recovered, and after, the program just terminates.I have tried all compatibility modes, and just so you know I am using windows 7. Help cos i want to play this game!! I have a standard computer with no extras, just a HP Laptop, with 2Gb Ram, 120Gb HD, Dual Core Processor running at 2.4Ghz or there abouts.Yours hopefully.

[Geraldine]

Hi leighhobson89Firstly welcome to the SSC As to your laptop spec, it should be enough, certainly it is more powerful than my crappy PC. Have up updated your graphics drivers recently? I had some weird crashes and updating the drivers fixed it on my Nvidia based heap of crap. It might be a Windows 7 issue or perhaps you might have something else running in the background. Wish I could be of more help but I use XP

[robn]

leighhobson89 wrote:
I posted once, but nothing. I am really interested in playing this game and have tried 3 or four of the more recent versions, and none of them boot, it says simulating evolution of universe, it goes up to 15billion years and then the screen goes black like its loading, but then windows comes back up and i get a message saying "pioneer-msvc-9.0_release has stopped working" followed by another pop up on the task bar basically saying my graphics driver stopped responding but now has recovered, and after, the program just terminates.
If updating your graphics drivers don't help, you might like to try a development build. They're available at http://twitter.com/pioneerspacesim.If a dev build works where alpha 9 didn't, we'd be interested to know (since they're built in a different way).

[Potsmoke66]

could it be simply hardware related, you only have a "softs" grafic chip, no real grafic card, don't you?

[SeanN]

Just another quick question: Is anyone unable to view screenshots with the latest build?I'm using Windows Vista 32 sp2, Nvidia 9600, and the dev build fe6f6a5. I use ctrl-prtsc to take a screenshot but when I try to look at the picture later, no program (paint, explorer, quicktime or photo viewer seems to be able to read the .png file. I tested a few other .png files from the viper's textures and they open fine so it seems like it's just the generated screenshot .png's.

[Luomu]

SeanN wrote:
Just another quick question: Is anyone unable to view screenshots with the latest build?I'm using Windows Vista 32 sp2, Nvidia 9600, and the dev build fe6f6a5. I use ctrl-prtsc to take a screenshot but when I try to look at the picture later, no program (paint, explorer, quicktime or photo viewer seems to be able to read the .png file. I tested a few other .png files from the viper's textures and they open fine so it seems like it's just the generated screenshot .png's.

Does HDR on/off make a difference?

[SeanN]

Luomu wrote:


SeanN wrote:
Just another quick question: Is anyone unable to view screenshots with the latest build?I'm using Windows Vista 32 sp2, Nvidia 9600, and the dev build fe6f6a5. I use ctrl-prtsc to take a screenshot but when I try to look at the picture later, no program (paint, explorer, quicktime or photo viewer seems to be able to read the .png file. I tested a few other .png files from the viper's textures and they open fine so it seems like it's just the generated screenshot .png's.

Does HDR on/off make a difference?
No. I tried two shots each, HDR on and off. All four files gave the message: "not a valid bitmap or file not supported".

[Luomu]

SeanN wrote:


Luomu wrote:


SeanN wrote:
No. I tried two shots each, HDR on and off. All four files gave the message: "not a valid bitmap or file not supported".





All righto, I added it to our issue tracker: https://github.com/pioneerspacesim/pioneer/issues/166Let's see if we get more reports.

[SeanN]

Luomu wrote:


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All righto, I added it to our issue tracker: https://github.com/pioneerspacesim/pioneer/issues/166Let's see if we get more reports.


Thanks, Luomu.