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<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 ...

<r>Here is a demo of the "Saving Planet Erph" mission script. <YOUTUBE id="nTBiM5zJi8A"><s>[media]</s>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTBiM5zJi8A<e>[/media]</e></YOUTUBE> The script is here: https://github.com/smcameron/space-nerds-in-space/blob/master/share/snis/luascripts/SAVING-PLANET-ERPH.LUA ...

<r>I have improved the planetary ring shader to make rings a bit more opaque and also to differentiate between the light and dark sides of the rings. This is after spending some time looking at a nice video of Saturn's rings made from photos from the Cassini mission. Below are two pictures, one ...

Finally got around to implementing a 3D "demon" screen for Space Nerds In Space. 

Incremental progress with the speech recognition. 

<r>More progress on the speech recognition front. I figured out how to give pocketsphinx a custom vocabulary which improves its accuracy considerably, and I wrote some code to convert written out numbers like "two hundred thirty eight" to "238" which enables a lot of things. <YOUTUBE id="3EZNzcF4_4g ...