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RE: Chocolate flavoured galaxy

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:22 am
by Uruboros
Bellissimo! Sembra Ceres, "Cerere", Lo si può inserire nel sol system PLZ, così si rispetta Frontier..... CIAOOOO!

RE: Chocolate flavoured galaxy

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:05 pm
by s2odan
Cheers :)
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So am I right in thinking you are achieving these improved visuals without needing a gpu upgrade?
Hehe, well if anything it may stress the GPU more, but thats only down to the fact that the terrain geometry is being generated faster. (So there's more of it in a shorter time being thrown at the GPU.)Most of our terrains used to have near to this amount of detail at some point, however the algorithms were too slow, so generating it took forever. So if one of those older terrains were left to generate it would stress the GPU no less than these ones, as total number of triangles are similar.The challenge now will be keeping these fast speeds and producing a convincing terrestrial type planet. So far these have been simple balls of rock with simple colouring.

RE: Chocolate flavoured galaxy

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 12:10 am
by s2odan
Ae and I have come up with this:[attachment=1053:screenshot-20120201-043546.png][attachment=1054:screenshot-20120201-045139.png][attachment=1055:screenshot-20120201-045537.png]Coming to a Pioneer alpha near you :)

RE: Chocolate flavoured galaxy

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 5:43 am
by Brianetta
Might need to move Lunar City to Tranquility Base.

RE: Chocolate flavoured galaxy

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 11:35 am
by Geraldine

"Brianetta" wrote:
Might need to move Lunar City to Tranquility Base.
+1 from me too! <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_e_smile.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> That lunarscape is magnificent desolation. Great work s2odan and Ae! <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_cool.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt='8-)' />

RE: Chocolate flavoured galaxy

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 1:19 pm
by Gfamad
Waou ! I really like this landscape ! You are doing a really good job, thanks.Gfamad

RE: Chocolate flavoured galaxy

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 12:31 am
by Marcel

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Brianetta said:Might need to move Lunar City to Tranquility Base.
Yeah, there's some old junk at the site, but we can clean it up. ;)

RE: Chocolate flavoured galaxy

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 9:45 pm
by s2odan
Cheers. YEah now we have a slightly recognisable moon we can do this :) We'll do the same for Cydonia and Olympus Mons mars bases when we get this Mars heightmap working as well.
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Yeah, there's some old junk at the site, but we can clean it up.
:lol:

RE: Chocolate flavoured galaxy

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 10:50 pm
by Marcel
Actually, this just gave me an idea. Since the Apollo 11 landing site is an historic monument perhaps it could be represented in the game. It would be preserved in a Frontier stye geodesic dome, with all the old junk inside. ;) This would require the ability to add a custom building to a single base of course, and would require a lot of work well above my skill set, but custom buildings for scenery, missions, etc. would be nice.

RE: Chocolate flavoured galaxy

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 4:45 am
by Geraldine
Thats a great idea Marcel. Nasa even has a collection of 3D models of it's famous craft (and other things) that are free to use if anyone would fancy converting them for Pioneer. They are mostly in .3ds format, but some are in .lwo, .fbx, or .obj too. Have a look here http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/3d_resources/models.html

RE: Chocolate flavoured galaxy

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 4:49 am
by WaveMotion
Cool resource, Geraldine! It would be funny to see some of those astronaut guys floating around spaceports or those large parked ships sometime, conducting repairs or such.

RE: Chocolate flavoured galaxy

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 11:55 am
by s2odan
The astonaut guys might want something to wear on their heads when they remove their helmets, for that purpose they might travel to planet hat ;)

RE: Chocolate flavoured galaxy

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 12:27 pm
by s2odan
Another weird pic of whatever this is :)

RE: Chocolate flavoured galaxy

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:39 pm
by Marcel
It looks like a giant space-worm casting! :lol:

RE: Chocolate flavoured galaxy

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 1:18 pm
by Marcel
I downloaded the latest nightly and took a trip around the new Moon using the new sidereal view. Niiiiiiice!!!! :D

RE: Chocolate flavoured galaxy

Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 5:38 am
by Uruboros
(alcuni screenshot con i miei vestiti)....ho ritenuto saggio eliminare le img. non è mia intenzione essere causa di malintesi. Ritengo che tutto il forum sia molto propositivo e motivato, nonchè valido! io credo di saper usare strumenti 2d e 3d discretamente. ma a livello programmazione ed "inglese" ho delle lacune, e me ne rammarico. vorrei davvero essere d'aiuto attivo perchè credo nel progetto. grazie a tutti!