originally, it's just about checking if a perf problem on text rendering is still true after all
well, one could, of course, say that a program being hard to start is a major problem, but that not like if VS is an hospital program without stable version.
I have one week worth of IRC log to read on unvanquished's dev chan, too, so don't worry, just ping me when you're back
Hello, I have been a fan of VS for a long time, and now want to contribute. I know a few programming languages(C/C++, Java, Python), but have gotten a little rusty in the last year and would appreciate an opportunity to practice. In college, I was praised for my writing, including documentation for design projects, and could do some technical writing, if needed.
I'm sorry if giving introductions like this aren't the thing to do, but I don't really know things work here.
Thank you.
I'm sorry if giving introductions like this aren't the thing to do, but I don't really know things work here.
Thank you.
We're also working on getting the MacOS port back up. All the help certainly appreciated. Check out our GitHub Issues and see if there is anything that sounds like something you'd like to try to tackle. Our current Targets are 0.8.x (working towards release) and 0.9.x (master).
I recently graduated, so my skills right now are pretty unimpressive, so if you have any small tasks that you think can be handled by someone whose understanding of game development is limited to writing the hello world program in python, I'd like to start by working on something simple. Also, as I said, I think I can do some technical writing. Is there any documentation that could benefit from some trivial edits?
It's in the AssetsProduction/documents repo
I think there's a non-pdf version too.... possibly in latex format
It's the source repository for much of the material in the assets productive repo.
also, question for both my own morbid curiosity and for my efforts to revise the documentation: I noticed that the setup menu supports censored and uncensored content. I can't imagine that an Elite-like such as VS would have much nudity or gore (except for references to pleasure borgs and erotica cargo items, or bodies floating in space after a ship is destroyed), unless is the censorship for language?
and are conversion mods like the ones for Star Trek and Privateer Gemini still supported, or should I remove references to them from the player guide?
The censor option was the result of a long debate on the forums one user did not want his little sister seeing those almost racy loading screens.The conversion mods can still be supported though the data sets for Star Trek,Star Wars may have been lost not sure but we may be able to find a few copies still around the Privateer data set is very much alive under @ermo care.
@romanyacik the mods will be first class citizens soon. Working to make the engine and engine that is really oriented at multiple data sets using it without need for custom mods. Right now we just have VS:UtCS and PWCU (Privateer). Hoping we'll have more VS games and others in the long run too.
I'm starting to do some work on the players guide, beginning with section 5.1 which explains configuration. The old version has its "computer" configuration described in terms of RAM and swap memory, but the new version puts it in terms of age of the computer. How do I explain what this means in terms of how it effects game performance?
I also need to explain Physics, Textures, Faction Textures, Accelerated Visual, Text, and Autodocker
I'm starting to do some work on the players guide, beginning with section 5.1 which explains configuration. The old version has its "computer" configuration described in terms of RAM and swap memory, but the new version puts it in terms of age of the computer. How do I explain what this means in terms of how it effects game performance?
It appears to some degree that "age" is an abstraction of GPU capabilities to some degree. the "current" option does not work on my machine, so I don't know if this means that the option is deprecated, or if my GPU just can't handle it
I suppose the most reliable metrics (still shitty, sure) are about capabilities
the OpenGL/Vulkan/DirectX version is likely the most important metric
also, you could, or should?, indicate the minimal amount of GPU RAM
this should be fairly constant accross OSes since it's a game's requirement
and does not depends on if GPU is integrated (east the general RAM) or not (have it's own RAM)
Hope this helps.
bmorel @bmorel also hopes it's not too wrong
@BenjamenMeyer This morning, I took the liberty of updating the build system on 0.8.x (CMake files, CI/CD setup, etc.) to be on par with what's on master. The resulting PR is here: vegastrike/Vega-Strike-Engine-Source#592
Hope this helps.