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We have a stated design intent that cargo loading (and ship modification, etc.) should involve a period of simulated time passing as cargo is moved onto/off the ship (or the ship's equipment is modified by mechanics); i.e. these tasks should not be the 1-click instantaneous state change they current...

Putting a link here for future reference: https://github.com/kurtkuehnert/planetary_terrain_renderer The accompanying Master's thesis makes the case that the cubic spherical projection we use is the best of a bad lot, and proposes an extension to use the algebraic sigmoid function with the sigma par...

I have a WIP branch that implements (a version of) point cloud rendering for the galaxy map. We really need an HDR pipeline (and changes to sector generation structure) for it to be effective, but it was the primary reason for refactoring the renderer to allow explicitly specifying vertex format bin...

An 11s increase in build time for a 3rd-party library is an acceptable (though far from ideal) tradeoff. I was expecting significantly worse given their file count. Consider this an official blessing to integrate OpenAL as a backend.

mfep, welcome! I definitely appreciate the desire to improve Pioneer's sound system, as it's probably the single most primitive subsystem in the entire game (with particle effects being a very close second contender). > Not all libraries mentioned here offer HRTF support, and I would rule those out,...

A few corrections / informational notices: - On the main Introduction page: assignments to global variables without explicitly accessing _G are not visible to other scripts. Pioneer gives each Lua file a separate "environment" (the Lua _ENV variable) which "shadows" the actual gl...

Displaying an image on screen is technically feasible - see the PiImage helper in data/pigui/libs/image.lua. The hard part is "drawing the rest of the owl", integrating that capability into a mod which adds new UI to display the image in, listens to game events and triggers the correct ima...

Btw, wiki code examples and such will sooner or later become obsolete. Why, what? You mean the move to markdown? The modder/developer-facing side of the wiki is *also* planned to be obsoleted / removed entirely and migrated to Markdown, but it's been a matter of "not enough hours in the day&qu...

I'm also thinking about adding more keyboard binds to the Sector Map - moving the selection around between systems on a route, as well as being able to use the keyboard to set the jump destination or calculate a route. One challenge for setting the destination with the keyboard are multi-star syste...

diduuz: I'd consider focus_calm, insignificance_v2, and space_warfare_v2 as the front-runners for tracks to finish. I'd consider each of them to need about the same amount of improvement to fully match the style and mixing quality I'd like to see from the game's music. I'll refer you to this previou...