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Wow! Where the heck is it?

btw, me toi had a eagle and a hawk as well as a angel interceptor (you know which brand).a fully spiced up millfalc with flashing led's and lights everywhere... to sad that all models have been wrecked due to one of my movings, even i had my "macho" times and i thought it was to childish to preserve it. (i made also the flip flop control myself on a experimental plate, yes this guy can use a soldering iron and knows how logical circuits work, if my messy brain let me. big thanks to pa, he teached me that. never tell your children that what they do is useless, exploding Electrolytic capacitors for fun by wrong polarity could lead to something , a cool stinky special effect for our "moonbase"). but i couldn't know then that there will be a web and a quiet interested (big) sci-fi community who would like that really, in future.

Marcel wrote:
Wow! Where the heck is it?
It is SC 2178-6+1 at -6, 1Its basically two binary systems that are about 800 AU apart and I think I have been there before, Looking at one of my videos it looks a lot like the world where there are 3 sunrises.
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to sad that all models have been wrecked due to one of my movings, even i had my "macho" times and i thought it was to childish to preserve it. (i made also the flip flop control myself on a experimental plate, yes this guy can use a soldering iron and knows how logical circuits work, if my messy brain let me. big thanks to pa, he teached me that. never tell your children that what they do is useless, exploding Electrolytic capacitors for fun by wrong polarity could lead to something
You lost some models? shit man that sucks, sorry to hear that

you can't say lost, i throwed them away, whatever the reason was for (plastic models of course) 20 years ago now.i lost some "virtual" to yes when i had the "self introduced" system crash last spring (i lost a complete hd due to the fact that windows can't separate between a drive c: d: or e: in installation routine, strangewisely it used all three hd's instead only c:, but i should have known, it wasn't the first time i installed XP and this has happened. you select C: XP needs a temporary drive and takes the next best in row. further the real drive letters differ from the ones you see under windows and you have to write down the exact size of the drive you like to use for the install, to make shure it's the right one, what i did last time but can't tell you why this prog. does what it likes with your drives when installing it, it took any else, as i recognized that it will be installed to the wrong drive it was allready to late and i couldn't recover any data from it later on, formatted and overwritten there is no chance. i should have known, safest is to disconnect all drives except the one you like to install to, then the temp folder will be opened on the same drive. further i hate the SATA plugs, theyre cheaper then a handy ac adapter and a constant risk for a malfunction, this is no plug or connection it's a crime when i look at. i stated that once before, once there was standarts for connections, it seems they forgot everything just because of a few cents or ok even better yeah let it fail so they have to buy new ones more often. even when the connection fails and not the drive, does a common user knows this? no. his new drive won't last then longer then the one before, a real good deal. do you think that's ok, i shake my machine just a bit and got a i/o error on the (internal) sata drive. my drive in the A4000 is still working and 15 years old, had seen coffee and orange juice a lot of smoke and other "drive killers", what profit i have from the speed when the drive fails often because of this low end connection? but i forgot, today it's enough to have a diploma of a well reputed univerisity no matter if you are good or not and that's the reason why, this is not my speech, "we will never get a saturn IV on the moon" *) and some about 5 years ago on a similar occasion under ME.but after all the last wasn't so heavy, but the original LDraw models of the shuttle and cobra are lost, anything else could be rebuild from the dx models i posted in the webnah, new things aren't better at all, i have a mustek scsi scanner (took it allready home now), it's a bit heavier rather the new plastic HP one, but still working never exchanged the lamp and result has quality and resolution of the new, if it wasn't "unevadable" to have a new usb scanner i would still use the old (i haven't no space left for a scsi card now, if it can be mounted still, yes some pci slots are still there, good god). i own also a ancient SB32 card, but isa slots are past long time....and you can tell me what you like a one chip soundcard can't sound as good as one using discreet elements, or what you think is the reason some real hq cards still use discreet elements?after all a amp based on a chip will never allow the quality a transitor amp has, there is no control over oscillation (every amp oscillates as well as every oscillator amplifies) or possibility to adjust the signal proper.but yeah, we "need" 5 speakers or more and what the heck ever (there is a swiss sound engineer he's building mono amps and speaker systems and claims to be better then any stereo or surround), but it won't sound better as a true stereo signal. a big surprise to me was the GD concert back in the 90's only two "projectors" but a sound more "surround" rather PinkFloyds enourmeous surround system. see, it's not the mass of channels, in the end it's how you hear what has been produced by the speakers. the ear can be tricked like the eyes to, if you know how (certain sound "colours" you will allways interprete as front or back, no matter which direction they come from).we need better engineers, such that love technic and not the money or fame they can earn.again i will post here our little occurance in the NPP Leibstadt we had."connected" on to this reactor is a generator of a >1GW class only 5 exists around the world.4 years ago this generator had burned because of a plasma that has build up itself in the generator (due to frequency interference, i guess).this plasma burned 20cm holes into 50cm of steel like into butter.the engineers standing around that and shook their haeds having no idea what was happened.they had to call 80 year old greys that had invented and constructed the generator to evaluate the failure and recover it.see, that's what i'm talking about, this class of engineers is nearly dead, they can "feel" when something is wrong, might be the sound or vibration or a inconsistence in the signal and they can tell you where the devil sits.why? because they havn't been teached only in hearings they did it, they have the experience, maybe the burned ELC's like i did as children electrotechnic is a lot of theory, but it's worth nothing without experience, there are to many unknown factors you can't calculate.a generation of engineers that have pet their machines everyday they walked by, not because they loved them so, but "how, you feel today? good? ok!". this gives you the experience that you can tell afterwards just by the sound "this part isn't working well it sounds strange, must be because of...".i was allways that kind, when i walked up the containment passing "my" vents and motors i allways touched them, felt vibration and heat of the bearing (i know you have this heat indicator strips, but they are only helpers, they can't replace what you feel when you felt it often, because they have no mind. apart from that these strips tell you only that it was once overheated but can't tell you the actual condition, overheating can be introduced by a overload with fat until it is burned or rinse. this happens often because service personnel have their service list by time and will pump fat into every nipple, needed or not, until the old fat comes out on the other side of the bearings case. another example, we have nowadays very sensible vibration measurement but it can't feel this little "tick" that appears only suddenly, but you can feel it with your hand and you can interprete it, the sensor not). sometimes when low at duties i walked through the NPP, listened here a bit touched that part a bit, i liked that and at least you have to do something to make time goes by. you havn't much work to do in a NPP so why don't do this at least.but sitting in a office and browsing the web for the next exciting porno, won't get you far...

[attachment=218:2010-09-19_131150[1].jpg][attachment=219:2010-09-19_162011[1].jpg][attachment=220:2010-09-19_161343[1].jpg]Yen Starport SC6526-4+3g (-3.8,2.7)

[attachment=221:2010-09-19_182754[1].jpg][attachment=222:2010-09-19_164840[1].jpg][attachment=223:2010-09-19_210650.jpg]Moon Starport, Greack (-3.3,3.6)

Well, I guess you managed to get out of Hsiao. It looks much more realistic with the set of buildings you used. Almost plausible! I still think it shows the need for a flatten area around the landing pad (only) so that it would appear to be sitting on a pillar of rock rather than floating in midair. What are the landing pads at Moon and Yen like?

A planet close to its sun. If you can find one that's closer let me know XD

Watch your suntan DevonX, looks hot there

s20dan wrote:
Watch your suntan DevonX, looks hot there
Haha i will XD

The Great Wall of Mercury[attachment=255:pioneer-msvc-9 2010-10-26 20-21-51-96.jpg]

Ceol 4,2 with 5 earth like worlds all moons :[attachment=272:pioneer-msvc-9 2010-10-29 07-41-04-39.jpg]You can see the moons in orbit here:[attachment=273:pioneer-msvc-9 2010-10-29 07-40-26-57.jpg]

Hm, that is a terrain engine bug that has existed since I first coded the engine, but I could never pin it down. Still, lets just imagine it is a fault in a tectonic plate or something
s20dan wrote:
The Great Wall of Mercury

tomm wrote:
..lets just imagine it is a fault in a tectonic plate or something
If only

Some cool places that will be in the next alpha:[attachment=281:pioneer-msvc-9 2010-11-04 19-24-52-07.jpg][attachment=282:pioneer-msvc-9 2010-11-04 18-49-41-46.jpg][attachment=283:pioneer-msvc-9 2010-11-01 21-16-54-39.jpg]

*looks at screenshots**dribbles copiously on floor*You guys do realise Alpha releases are like crack cocaine for me, right? And that it's been a painfully long time since the last one, right?RIGHT? (nggghn)No, but seriously, words actually fail me when describing how awesome this game is going to be. I love the terrain improvements so much, am just dying to get my hands on the new release and go for a spin! And may I say, how nice it is to see developers recognising precisely how their product is being appreciated - in this case by all the sight-seeing people are doing - and actively helping to make that more enjoyable? Makes a community feel loved, it does.

Nice words, Stardreamer. Pioneer is, to me also, one of the most exciting projects ever. I've played lots and lots of (space)games and only once in a long while do I find something that's actually worth playing. I like freedom in games and nothing has ever stood higher on my whislist than actually visiting huge 3D worlds without loadingscreens. I've waited years for something worthy to come out and have finally found it in the form of Pioneer. Elite was very good for its time of course but space and especially planets were never more believable than they are in Pioneer.Pioneer ranks high in my personal top ten list of best games ever. If there would be more gameplay, it would probably even be number one. I really hope this game will one day become the ultimate spacesimulator. At least, the planetary engine is already the best I've ever seen (in a playable state) and the scale and atmosphere in this game is immense.Hereby a big thanks from me to Tom for making this game and guys like Potsmoke, s20dan, all other artists for making it better and also everybody else showing interest in Pioneer.

Those desert screenshots look awesome! Can't wait to play the new alpha. I think I'll postpone my video a bit longer so I can include that new terrain.

Can't help but post a few more [attachment=284:pioneer-msvc-9 2010-11-07 05-40-18-59.jpg][attachment=285:pioneer-msvc-9 2010-11-07 05-41-21-75.jpg][attachment=286:pioneer-msvc-9 2010-11-06 02-23-17-22.jpg]Be sure to check out Epsilon Indi B which is just left of SOL. It should be named Arrakis ;)Also, these pics are all taken on an older version which just has the newer planetary updates and a shader bug with my g-card, so all the worlds should look even better in the new alpha with shaders and hdr

s20dan wrote:
Be sure to check out Epsilon Indi B which is just left of SOL. It should be named Arrakis
Yaaay! Arrakis! But no sand worms No worries though, I will just let my imagination believe they are sleeping somewhere underground As for the strange graphical by product you posted S20dan, it kind of reminds me of the Fremmen Bunkers you got in Dune 1