SVN builds for Windows?

pifactorial · Post by **pifactorial** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:20 pm

I was wondering if there's anywhere I can download a relatively recent SVN build for Windows - or, if not, whether anybody would be willing to post one? I don't have the resources to compile a Windows build on my own, but I'm curious to check out the changes since the last stable version.

Post by **loki1950** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:55 pm

pifactorial just pull data4.x and music there is a fiarly new binary incuded check the wiki for the how-to http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/wiki/ ... ws_Clients lots of new things if 0.4.3 is what you are using

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pifactorial · Post by **pifactorial** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:55 pm

Thanks a lot! (though kind of buggy still, eh?)

Is there any point in checking out data5.x?

Post by **loki1950** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:21 pm

not that buggy it's very playable just ckeck the svn log that you get with TortoiseSVN after every update the comments give you an idea of what to expect in-game

as for data5.x it's still just the Ogre framework not the game it's self. have fun

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pifactorial · Post by **pifactorial** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:01 am

Just to note - I know time compression is a deprecated feature, but it causes the game to crash if turned on too high.

Post by **loki1950** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 2:25 pm

yeah that it does been that way for a long time.

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Tseng · Post by **Tseng** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 1:31 am

Yeah, but if you need to turn it above setting 19, I'd have to ask what your doing.......

EDIT: actually, the one thing I thought of as a reason to jack up the compression was interstellar travel without jump nodes, which I have attempted, and failed when I turned it up to time compression setting 23.
As a side note, it seems SPEC drive stops functioning after a certain point, and there's no real good way to point yourself in the right direction because you can't target stars outside your current system.

Post by **loki1950** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 2:13 am

more than likely trying to get around a planet to a base or jump point in orbit

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Tseng · Post by **Tseng** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 2:35 am

That may be a reason to use time compression, but even on setting 19 traveling at 500m/s it would be too fast and the controls and fps are too jerky to do anything, however you CAN stop on a dime using it, something the game kinda lacks, actual BRAKES. The lack of having brakes is what makes flying large capital class ships unberable, but that's a subject for another topic.

Post by **loki1950** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 2:12 pm

no such thing as brakes in space retro-fireing engines do that job but still take lots of time.

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Tseng · Post by **Tseng** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 7:35 am

No, there is no such thing as brakes in space CURRENTLY and retro rockets take a long time CURRENTLY, but they do have brakes in other sci-fi uhm.... media I suppose would be the correct word.... Whether or not this is true in the vega strike universe is up to it's content writers, however in other universes such as star trek, star wars, etc. the technology is known as "inertial dampeners".

But again, this is a topic for another area of the forums.

mortaneous · Post by **mortaneous** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:57 pm

Eh... Inertial Dampeners wouldn't act as brakes, but they could enhance the effect of retros...assuming that the motive force was not also subject to inertial damping. They'd also make impacts less catastrophic if they were powerful enough and equipped on both colliding objects. Really it should just reduce your "effective mass", which gives the ship a greater thrust/mass ratio, making all manuvering quicker... more acceleration per unit of thrust regardless of direction.

Even ignoring that, the current retro model seems to use dynamically diminishing thrust as velocity approaches 0...makes that last few hundred m/s take absolutely forever in capships.

Tseng · Post by **Tseng** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 1:55 am

Yeah, I was wondering what that whole deal with "once your kahan starts moving it can't stop" was.

Post by **loki1950** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 2:14 am

turn off the comp controled deceleration by useing "Shelton Slide" for that last bit

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