Monday, December 14, 2009

Another small lander prototype update

Updates will likely continue to be slight in the time leading up to Christmas.

There is a new version of the lander prototype.

Changes:
  • Increased rocket thrust: main nozzle by 75%, steering jets by 150%.
  • Added inset rocket view in upper-right corner of screen; useful when zoomed out. This will likely be replaced or augmented by indicators displayed over the rocket's location in the main display, so you don't have to look elsewhere.
  • Altered camera framing algorithm to emphasize the interesting band of radii on the planet. It can be made smoother than it is; just haven't finished yet.
  • Limited full-scene antialiasing to 4X, rather than 8X. I got really bad performance on one of the machines I tested on so this is an attempt to improve that.

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