Constella News
01.02.2004 20:26
Sorry for the delay. Two things happened. 1) My StarCon game finished and I lost a little motivation. 2) I got addicted to a 3D online society called SecondLife. Do not try SecondLife! All of your time will go into a black hole! 
Constella .20 can be found at http://constella.org
Major improvements:
Load and Save multiple game files
Extra stuff (ships) not displayed while auto-mapping (speeds things up)
Auto-load of game file and new turns
I am in a new StarCon game, so I have good motivation to work on Constella. Now, if I can just kick the SecondLife habit!
Constella .20 can be found at http://constella.org
Major improvements:
Load and Save multiple game files
Extra stuff (ships) not displayed while auto-mapping (speeds things up)
Auto-load of game file and new turns
I am in a new StarCon game, so I have good motivation to work on Constella. Now, if I can just kick the SecondLife habit!
Zuletzt geändert von amaso am 09.02.2004 02:55, insgesamt 1-mal geändert.
02.02.2004 13:55
Nice to read and I hope we will meet in an german game 
09.02.2004 02:57
Constella 0.21 is draussen.
Neues: keine Tortenstüke! (On Windows, the ships do not appear as long flags. The ships now look like they do in the screenshot.)
http://constella.org
Neues: keine Tortenstüke! (On Windows, the ships do not appear as long flags. The ships now look like they do in the screenshot.)
http://constella.org
09.02.2004 13:47
The new Constella is great! I love it 
Only a little problem ...
I load an existing .cso - game, load the new turn and anchor all. All is fine - but the blue defense-rings on the planets will not be updated
If I load the whole directory (as I have done to get all turns in the new constella) all is fine, I only have to arrange the worlds. But when I load the next turn the blue defense-rings are shown as in the turn before ... no update. A click on the world in question tells me there is defense - on the map is no blue ring
Only a little problem ...
I load an existing .cso - game, load the new turn and anchor all. All is fine - but the blue defense-rings on the planets will not be updated
If I load the whole directory (as I have done to get all turns in the new constella) all is fine, I only have to arrange the worlds. But when I load the next turn the blue defense-rings are shown as in the turn before ... no update. A click on the world in question tells me there is defense - on the map is no blue ring
09.02.2004 21:09
WOW, I use an PC and it's looks real nice with shaded worlds!
10.02.2004 02:38
I also see the problem with defense-rings now. I looked at the program quickly, and do not see the cause of the problem yet. I think I can fix it this week though.
Thanks for the feedback and nice words!
Thanks for the feedback and nice words!
18.02.2004 01:12
release 0.22 (17 February 2004)
• Defense rings are now updated correctly when new turns are loaded. Previous, newly placed defenses would not show up.
Keep those comments, bugs, and encouragement coming!
I am setting up a bug tracking system now. I am reading all my old e-mails and creating reports for the things you have mentioned so far.
• Defense rings are now updated correctly when new turns are loaded. Previous, newly placed defenses would not show up.
Keep those comments, bugs, and encouragement coming!
I am setting up a bug tracking system now. I am reading all my old e-mails and creating reports for the things you have mentioned so far.
07.03.2004 18:54
release 0.23 (07 March 2004) http://constella.org
• Warning: This release cannot read saved game files from previous releases. I know it is very annoying to reload all turns and rearrange the map. My primary focus for the next release will be to standardize the saved game file -- so you never have to reload/remap again.
• Preferences/world attributes: You can display additional world attributes on the map. You can display the bulk, population, defense, or any other attributes for each world. The screenshot has been updated to illustrate this feature. This is the beginning of this feature; I would like it to be much more customizable: colors, shapes, sizes, text, show-for-me, show-for-others, and others. Please send me your feedback and requests!
• Window/Players: The beginning of player preferences (colors, nicknames?, others). In this release, it displays player names and colors, but they cannot yet be changed. For now, it serves as a reference card for player colors. See the screenshot for an example.
• Warning: This release cannot read saved game files from previous releases. I know it is very annoying to reload all turns and rearrange the map. My primary focus for the next release will be to standardize the saved game file -- so you never have to reload/remap again.
• Preferences/world attributes: You can display additional world attributes on the map. You can display the bulk, population, defense, or any other attributes for each world. The screenshot has been updated to illustrate this feature. This is the beginning of this feature; I would like it to be much more customizable: colors, shapes, sizes, text, show-for-me, show-for-others, and others. Please send me your feedback and requests!
• Window/Players: The beginning of player preferences (colors, nicknames?, others). In this release, it displays player names and colors, but they cannot yet be changed. For now, it serves as a reference card for player colors. See the screenshot for an example.