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And we're back. Thanks for your patience!

Hi everyone, Just a heads-up to let you know that the Pioneer website, wiki and this forum will be offline on Monday 19 October 0900-1100 UTC. The datacentre where the server lives (QuadraNet LA) is doing some urgent power works, and need to shut a few things down to shed some power load in the rack...

I'm not working on anything Pioneer-related at the moment. Feel free to take it and make your own!

At review time, what's in the PR is canonical.

You mean Value::asInt and Value::asUint? Yes, you can use those without casting.

SaveModelToBinary is part of the model compiler. You don't need to worry about it for this. NodeVisitor walks a model node graph and invokes methods for each node. SaveVisitor and LoadVisitor are responsible for serializing and deserializing node state. They're the only ones involved in the save/loa...

Sector x,y & z are signed, system and body indices are unsigned. The serializer only has methods for unsigned ints, so we cast.

Your "x88 xb7 xe0" could be a fragment of a UTF-8 string. Also note that there's no actual requirement that a Lua string or a std::string contains only printable characters - it could be anything. You need to cope with that. That said, JSON is fully UTF-8 aware, and has escaping rules for ...

My plan was to have a blinking icon in the header, or maybe blink the text itself. I think it'll take a few iterations to get it right though.


Btw, I'm back working on this. A lot has changed in the last year so its taking a little while to get it all hooked back up but I'm nearly there.

Placement is kind of tricky. I think we'll need to fake it to a certain extent because we could put thousands of them throughout the system in a "realistic" kind of way but still have them impossible to find due to the sheer vastness of space. So we could just fake it and put some near sta...