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A friend of mine made this space skybox tool. The UI is a bit odd, but the results are pretty good. There are probably some controls you'll wish it had, like a bit more control of the color, brightness etc. If the README sounds a bit, uh, AI generated, well, I am sure that it was, the whole thing ...

Running Space Nerds in Space inside a web browser:

Added some basic support for WLED https://kno.wled.ge lighting controllers for smart LEDs.

Very cool. I remember watching the progress on limit theory with much interest years ago. Nice to see someone picking up the mantle. Good luck to you in this daunting effort.

Been a minute... this project is still going though...

<t>No, I was running the game at 30 fps. It was only recently that the game can even try to run at 60 fps (surprisingly to me, it seems to work ok at 60fps, mostly, though there are a few things that don't behave quite right because some bits of code for various slerping times, etc. still assume 30 ...

Maybe the stuttering is because I recorded on my desktop which doesn't have an SSD, and also I added some stuff into the atmosphere shader lately. With OBS running, maybe it can't quite keep up now in all cases. If OBS isn't running it seems fine though.

Just cruising around, looking at stuff.

<t>Some stations are more fun than others. Navigation and weapons are probably the most fun. Science isn't too bad, but it's basically scanning, which is selecting ships (so navigation can know where they are, and so weapons can know what phaser wavelength will be effective). Comms is kind of weak ...

A bit of game play from last night at the local hackerspace:

<t>By the way, there are now bootable x86-64 Arch linux live ISO images with Space Nerds in Space pre-built here: <br/>
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[url]https://gitlab.com/MCMic/snislive/-/jobs/artifacts/master/browse?job=build[/url]<br/>
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So if your friends don't run linux, you can slam that ISO on a bunch of flash ...

<r>Thanks theAntiBob and D.C.Elington. I made a little slide show about how the gas giants are made, and also I have put the gas giant program "gaseous-giganticus" into it's own github repo now.<br/>
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Slideshow: [url]https://smcameron.github.io/space-nerds-in-space/gaseous-giganticus-slides ...

<t>The way the forum is now, if someone updates a thread, there's basically no way to notice it other than to go manually digging around for it. Discoverability is pretty terrible.<br/>
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For example, unless you explicitly go digging around in "Free SciFi Gaming Projects", you're not going to ...

Short dev update for mid-August 2018:

Here's a development update from July 27, 2018:

If I had to give it a percentage completion.... hmm, not sure. I'll say 90%. So if the first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time and the remaining 10 percent will take the 2nd 90% ... so another 5 years should do it, heh.

Just a little update about what's been going on in Space Nerds for the last few weeks.

I disappeared from here for awhile on account of the switch to wordpress awhile back, but I'm back now.

<r>Been awhile since I've posted here. Lots of changes for Space Nerds In Space since last I visited, too many to recall really. Lastest thing is Space Monsters.<br/>
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Hmm, not sure I remember how to post videos on this forum, and I don't see a preview button... Maybe it will recognize a plain ...

<r>Small update. Main new thing is a tow truck service has been implemented for those times when you run out of gas out in deep space, and an EMF detector added to the Comms screen to give early warnings about imminent attacks. <YOUTUBE id="_KO6T3UXozI"><s>[media]</s>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v ...