Author Topic: Brief sneak preview of Alpha 15 (Read 7650 times)

Greenleaf · « **on:** June 02, 2015, 03:20:14 PM »

The "fun" thing is that an hour after uploading this video, it was made obsolete due to another major performance improvement ;-)

https://youtu.be/BsLlrFvexX0

blotz · « **Reply #1 on:** June 02, 2015, 04:19:00 PM »

woah, nice. that looks amazing. love the new gui too. hopefully it'll run on my computer with that performance improvement

EnuclearFireball · « **Reply #2 on:** June 02, 2015, 05:21:02 PM »

Wow, this looks really nice! I'm definitely looking forward to this! Also, do ring particle collisions heat the planets as a normal collision would in 15?

Cryo · « **Reply #3 on:** June 02, 2015, 07:33:31 PM »

( ͡Â° ͜ʖ ͡Â°) that's all i have to say

Greenleaf · « **Reply #4 on:** June 02, 2015, 10:33:58 PM »

Quote from: blotz on June 02, 2015, 04:19:00 PM

woah, nice. that looks amazing. love the new gui too. hopefully it'll run on my computer with that performance improvement

The performance improvement... improves the performance, so if it ran at all before, it should run good now.

Dan Dixon · « **Reply #5 on:** June 03, 2015, 12:29:08 AM »

Quote from: EnuclearFireball on June 02, 2015, 05:21:02 PM

Also, do ring particle collisions heat the planets as a normal collision would in 15?

Yes. That should be what's happening, although the ring particles are so low in mass that they don't heat it up the planet very much (so little you won't notice).

Lord DC · « **Reply #6 on:** June 03, 2015, 06:28:49 AM »

Finally will be able to do those super-uber-overkill apocalypse scenarios.

Gordon Freeman · « **Reply #7 on:** June 03, 2015, 07:07:20 AM »

Either Greenleaf has a monster of a computer or divine forces have acted upon the performance issues.

I'd say that it looks a lot smoother and easier to run, and I see that grids have labels, but I'm not sure if that has always been there. I much preferred the GUI as a sidebar, maybe that could be toggle-able like Mac's dock?

titanicpassenger1 · « **Reply #8 on:** June 03, 2015, 07:57:58 AM »

WitheHole18 · « **Reply #9 on:** June 03, 2015, 08:59:57 AM »

looks cool!

Greenleaf · « **Reply #10 on:** June 03, 2015, 09:26:11 AM »

Quote from: Gordon Freeman on June 03, 2015, 07:07:20 AM

...divine forces have acted upon the performance issues.

..why, thank you! ;-)

WitheHole18 · « **Reply #11 on:** June 03, 2015, 10:34:10 AM »

but there will the thermal map of the planets ?

Dan Dixon · « **Reply #12 on:** June 03, 2015, 04:58:49 PM »

Quote from: WitheHole18 on June 03, 2015, 10:34:10 AM

but there will the thermal map of the planets ?

Not in 15... but this year most likely.

blotz · « **Reply #13 on:** June 03, 2015, 06:44:14 PM »

Quote from: Greenleaf on June 02, 2015, 10:33:58 PM

Quote from: blotz on June 02, 2015, 04:19:00 PM
woah, nice. that looks amazing. love the new gui too. hopefully it'll run on my computer with that performance improvement
The performance improvement... improves the performance, so if it ran at all before, it should run good now.

it did, but i didn't get a steady fps rate before/things lagged if i spammed the number keys

Greenleaf · « **Reply #14 on:** June 04, 2015, 03:39:36 AM »

Quote from: blotz on June 03, 2015, 06:44:14 PM

Quote from: Greenleaf on June 02, 2015, 10:33:58 PM
Quote from: blotz on June 02, 2015, 04:19:00 PM
woah, nice. that looks amazing. love the new gui too. hopefully it'll run on my computer with that performance improvement
The performance improvement... improves the performance, so if it ran at all before, it should run good now.
it did, but i didn't get a steady fps rate before/things lagged if i spammed the number keys

If you add a lot of bodies, things will be slower. There is really no way around that.
With this update, you can add more bodies before it becomes too slow, though.
Now rendering&UI and calculation are separated, so even if the calculation runs very slow, due to complex scene, you are free to delete bodies or simply clear the scene, to get simulation speed up again. Previously it could be hard to use the UI when things were laggy.

DiamondMiner10 · « **Reply #15 on:** June 14, 2015, 07:03:39 PM »

A similar question was asked before but... can a planet actually heat up enough to gain lava lakes if it hits enough ring particles?

Gordon Freeman · « **Reply #16 on:** June 15, 2015, 12:36:18 AM »

Ring particle size typically ranges from dust to the size of a house, so I would guess no.

gabriel.dac · « **Reply #17 on:** June 15, 2015, 08:04:12 AM »

Looks so magical, actually.

dylan · « **Reply #18 on:** June 15, 2015, 11:09:16 AM »

i really want to play alpha 15 is it almost done

Cryo · « **Reply #19 on:** June 16, 2015, 06:01:01 PM »

Quote from: Cryo on June 02, 2015, 07:33:31 PM

( ͡Â° ͜ʖ ͡Â°) that's all i have to say

need we say more?