Fixes

summary:

Lots of bugs

Fixes

Craig Macomber 1214437427|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

First, I would like to thank all out testers who helped my document the bugs list on the downloads page.

Now that we have a bug list, it is time to fix them. I have patched most of those bugs I think, but some have been harder than others, and many are still left. The planet viewing bug has been particularly annoying. I have known for quite some time that my rendering system was only hacked to get star viewing to work, and it was no done right. In that system, there was no way to get planet viewing to work. To fix this, I just restructured the whole rendering system. Planet viewing now works, but I'm sure I broke many other things. Eventually I will patch up these bugs, and it should work again. When thats done, I will move on to making the planets look nicer, and forcing the background stars to render right (they currently get clipped for being too far away) when zoomed in.

I also got user names to no longer be case sensitive, and at least some non ASCII characters work in them now, but they somehow get converted into other characters when sent to the server. Some more work is needed to fix that.

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Craig Macomber 1214516473|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Here is a picture of the stars, with a single planet at real size. Stars don't vanish when deep zooming, and planet viewing works.

I need to improve the presentation of star brightness and size. All the stars visible are far under a pixel, so they have lost their brightness scaling, and even close stars are still under 1 pixel. I'm going to have to add some glow/flare backdrop for brighter stars, and dim the dimmer one pixel stars. Planets will get something similar, but they will also get special graphics when close enough to show information about them. (I Guess stars will get those too eventually)

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Phenoca 1214704887|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I have some basic 2D-renditions for planets, but they don't orbit.
Are you planning to render basic planet-icons for this?

So in the system-view, are stars "flickering" because they are getting smaller than 1 pixel?

Heh heh heh, I broke the "show colonies" button :)
I hope nobody minds if I show my friends this game; it is not yet playable, but the client is still addicting ;)

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Craig Macomber 1214706609|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

The flickering was caused by something. I think I'll have to leave it at that because there were several things that would have caused it and I'm not sure which one was the issue that happened first. Anyway, it is fixed now I think. So is the show colonies button.

We put it online so people could see it.

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tbg10101 1214774733|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hey guys, I found a wi-fi hotspot here in L.A. so I guess I'll post a little.

Will there be a way to find out which planets you occupy form galaxy view soon? I want to find the system that I have but it's hard to do with 300 stars…

I'll be back at work soon (hopefully).

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Phenoca 1215374306|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

There could be "auras" around each system.
Right now players will be navigating based on their "show colonies" list, and their memories :)
Also, remember that the systems in the galaxy will travel much more slowly in the real game!