Hello!

[billw]

Long time FE/FE2 fan and coder here! I am very excited by this project, and looking forward to contributing some time to it. I have a little experience in procedural generation of planets and graphics programming in OpenGL (see some of my work here: [url]http://www.youtube.com/user/billw2008[/url] I have played around with the latest alpha and delved into the code a bit, and have a few suggestions and ideas, but am not sure of the best place to start the conversation. I tried the IRC channel at 9pm UK time, but nobody is talking! Is there a good time to go on there to talk with code contributors?

[Geraldine]

Hi BillWelcome to the SSC You could try asking any questions you may have in these threads to get you started as the devs are usually around http://www.spacesimcentral.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=1579http://www.spacesimcentral.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=2166Or you could try git hub?https://github.com/pioneerspacesim/pioneer/wiki/Design-process

[Luomu]

Fork the project on github, implement a feature you want to see in the game and submit a pull request, that's the best way to start The irc channel sees varying levels of activity since people are scattered around the world

[billw]

Realised I am an idiot, I was on the HALnet #pioneer, it had people in it but non were talking. Found the right one now and it is active.

[fluffyfreak]

Welcome to SSC and Pioneer Bill Those are some really good looking videos!Just because you've found IRC don't stop posting on here, some of us don't go on IRC - it being a massive time sink - at all!Andy

[Cody]

fluffyfreak wrote:
some of us don't go on IRC - it being a massive time sink - at all!
Heh... I found this out the hard way on the Oolite IRC!

[Brianetta]

Development itself is a time sink. IRC is where the majority of Pioneer's development collaboration takes place, and it's worth being connected whenever you're in Pioneer development mode.

[fluffyfreak]

Brianetta wrote:
Development itself is a time sink. IRC is where the majority of Pioneer's development collaboration takes place, and it's worth being connected whenever you're in Pioneer development mode.
For you apparently yes, for me definitely no. It's a distraction with a dozen different threads of thought and many opinions. I get maybe 30 to 60 minutes a week to focus on some Pioneer coding at the moment and can easily burn that long on IRC discussing instead of doing.So for me it's either code or talk about code on IRC. The end.EDIT - thinking about it, I'm probably down to finding 30 minutes for Pioneer once every couple of weeks since I started this new job