the same tool for VS would be nice

etheral walker · Post by **etheral walker** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:43 am

just found that:
http://www.truevision3d.com/phpBB2/view ... hp?t=11297

Ryder P. Moses · Post by **Ryder P. Moses** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:16 am

What, a graphical 3D interface for VSNav?

Post by **loki1950** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 12:15 pm

or VSmapper

Enjoy the Choice

etheral walker · Post by **etheral walker** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 1:27 pm

it's basically a star systeme editor. it allows skybox choice, planets placement/sizing and texturing, and orbital configuration (2d orbits for now) Quite a nice tool to design solar systems, in fact^^

Post by **klauss** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 1:45 pm

Well... with enough interest, the SystemExplorer thingy (the test-app for Ogre stuff) could easily evolve into this.

etheral walker · Post by **etheral walker** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:18 pm

yes, such a tool would come really handy, at least far more intuitive than current text editing for systems:/
it reminds me this old lightwaver joke:
http://forums.newtek.com/discus/message ... 1026963476

Post by **klauss** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:55 pm

Hilarious.
I'm saving this.

Silverain · Post by **Silverain** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:14 am

Loved the appendectomy scar.

Ryder P. Moses · Post by **Ryder P. Moses** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 7:03 am

Aww, I like the text interface.

Anyway, given a conversion of values it'd be quite possible to key VS systems into IFoS, which has a text/numerical output. Bit of a pain to do it manually, but there is a visualization setup there at least.

etheral walker · Post by **etheral walker** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:22 am

yes it seems converting the files from this one to VS own format is doable; even if it looks like a pain. but some features would be missing, has placing station or asteroids fields

Ryder P. Moses · Post by **Ryder P. Moses** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 10:41 am

Did asteroid belts even get implemented in the game yet? I haven't seen any.

Post by **klauss** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:03 pm

@ryder: PR has many, many, many of those. So many, it slows down even a Cray computer. That's why the physics engine got reworked, and after that, the next bottleneck was the graphics engine. That's why now the graphics engine is switching to Ogre... in an attempt to make asteroid fields better. Asteroid fields... nasty asteroid fields...

etheral walker · Post by **etheral walker** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 8:57 am

that's why hellcatv implemented instancied meshes, if I remember

Post by **klauss** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 12:19 pm

Actually, what has to be done with asteroid fields, is implement "shader instancing"... a nice technique that could speed up the CPU side 30 times or more, depending on implementation details.