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Probably an old left-over note from before the improvement was merged; I'm also unable to reproduce the crashes so feel free to remove that section :D

Metallicity is essentially a "catch-all" scalar for crust metallicity used in other calculations that does not have any particular physical basis for its values. It's a 0..1 value indicating the distribution between light and heavy metallic elements in the crust.

I appreciate the zeal in this regard, but I must sadly inform you that changing the version number does basically nothing - OpenGL contexts are backwards compatible and so you most likely have been running GL 4.5 even though we request GL 3.2, and more importantly there's no difference in graphical ...

Thanks for the new wiki page zonkmachine! I've made a few minor edits and pointed the documentation to the Lua 5.2 manual (as that's the Lua version that Pioneer uses), but overall it's a very useful resource! One point of clarification though - I've (sometime in the last year or so) fixed the issue...

A long-unmaintained PR that proposed a basic implementation of a racing mission was recently closed. I'm posting it here for reference and as an open call for any mission coders in the future who are willing to adopt the branch, address the outstanding feedback, and do the remaining 40% of the work ...

Terribly abused the sector cache system and undersampled sectors by a factor of about 100 IIRC... It's a really nice proof of concept but the sector cache system was never meant to do that.

zonkmachine: there is no fixed order in which event callbacks are executed, meaning that the onGameStart callback that clears the comms log cache as part of a new game can run after the callback in which you've logged the start message. I'd recommend creating a Timer with a half-second delay that is...

Looking at the code, it's not going to be nearly that simple... lots of files and APIs using DWORD et al and #include <windows.h> everywhere. All of the tools use old .rc -based UIs, and it's very much a windows-developed app. Still a pretty cool project to poke around in and see how they implemente...

Tropical: in the future, I'd prefer it if you start (and append to) a single thread with these small feature requests rather than creating individual threads for each one. That way, there aren't a plethora of small threads that have to be sorted through and individually opened when developers are lo...

sturnclaw mostly hangs out in IRC and on github and doesn't check the dev forum for months at a time, but... setting up a prototype chat window with NPCs can be as simple as stealing code from the CommsLog and ChatForm widgets and hooking them together with a new UI module, but making it work well b...