Improved Planets

Improved Planets

Craig Macomber 1247453099|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I made some major improvements to how the planet is generated, and also to the camera control. Personally, I think it is pretty good for what is being done to make it, however it is not even close to what I want. I think I should stop playing with it though and start working on other things more.

On that note, I have made great progress the new server. I actually have the architecture working. The scheduler now properly runs tasks that access the database. Pretty basic, but it is a solid start to build upon, and also I can start bringing in major parts of the old server now.

Re: Improved Planets

tbg10101 1247607371|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Looks nice! When do you think we will have a more realistic-looking star? Is there anywhere that we can go to see the new planets in realtime 3D?

Re: Improved Planets

Craig Macomber 1247615002|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Thanks.

You have access to the source repository, so you should be able to view it. We can discuss that on the dev forums. For everyone else, I would like to offer nice packages for mac windows and Linux, but there are some issues. The utility I have for making such packages does not support mac yet (even through panda3D works great on mac). Thus I might have a windows and maybe Linux download on the site soon (weeks?), but not Mac which is pretty lame considering that I'm developing it on a Mac (well, 2 actually). I'm sure there is a way to manually make mac releases, but I'm just not going to worry about that now (any one want to worry about that for me?)

Stars, and stars from planets, really require both atmospheric scattering and high dynamic range lighting. Both of these are quite complicated (but supper awesome looking). It will happen in due time, but for now if anyone wants to provide a star model or a replacement sky sphere, I would be happy to use them. We can discuss format details elsewhere.

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Phenoca 1251055320|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I'm just not going to worry about that now (any one want to worry about that for me?)

I could worry about it. Which utility are you referring to?

Re: Improved Planets

Craig Macomber 1251057116|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I could worry about it. Which utility are you referring to?

First, you will need to actually get the client to run. I can help you with that. Then you need to figure out how to make a redistributable package out of it. PackPanda is built into Panda3D, but only supports Windows and Linux. I don't currently have a linux or windows rig that can run the game, and can't make mac packages.