Spaceway space simulator

[astr]

Hi, guys!!

I wanted to ask you, do you guys ever heard of a space simulator called Spaceway? Please type in spaceway project and one of the links and see what spaceway space simulator is about. Your guys might find Spaceway space simulator very interesting! Spaceway, like orbitersim it's a free download. Please check it out! Thanks!!

Cheers,
Vincent

 

[kevin580]

Oh, it's a pre-alpha version. And I love Orbiter, so I'll never try it!
edit: But yes, I know about it, and thanks to Artlav... Maybe I try it later...

 

[Rtyh-12]

This sim was made by Artlav, one of our fellow Orbinauts! I was searching through his experiments yesterday and found it.

 

[Linguofreak]

Hi, guys!!

I wanted to ask you, do you guys ever heard of a space simulator called Spaceway? Please type in spaceway project and one of the links and see what spaceway space simulator is about. Your guys might find Spaceway space simulator very interesting! Spaceway, like orbitersim it's a free download. Please check it out! Thanks!!

Cheers,
Vincent

Yes, we have heard of it. It is developed by a member of these forums, Artlav.

EDIT: Ninja'ed :ninja:

 

[jimblah]

Artlav never ceases to impress me.

I read somewhere on the internet that he's around 24 years old. I don't know how accurate that information is now. Its easy to see that he has an abundance of talent.

Artlav: If I like Spaceway do I have your permission to submit it to "The Linux Game Tome" http://www.happypenguin.org/ for additional recognition?

If it will distract you from OGLA I won't do it.

 

[Artlav]

Somehow i find explicitly mentioning spaceway on this forum somewhat immoral.
Paradoxically, the only audience that would really appreciate it is mostly located here. You need orbital mechanics, sense of real spaceflight and nearby ideas to have fun in spaceway, but you can't learn them there, unlike Orbiter.

Artlav: If I like Spaceway do I have your permission to submit it to "The Linux Game Tome" http://www.happypenguin.org/ for additional recognition?

The issue i see is that Linux version hasn't been updated recently, and would be quite inferior at the moment due to lack of GPU-generated planets being ported to it. Submitting it as a Linux game without a proper Linux version available does not sound like a good idea.

 

[Urwumpe]

You need orbital mechanics, sense of real spaceflight and nearby ideas to have fun in spaceway, but you can't learn them there, unlike Orbiter.

Not that I want to make Orbiter smaller... but why can't you also have a flight school or tutorial mode, maybe by using Lua, in Spaceway?

(I know, I am Luaddicted.)

 

[Moach]

Not that I want to make Orbiter smaller... but why can't you also have a flight school or tutorial mode, maybe by using Lua, in Spaceway?

(I know, I am Luaddicted.)

M$ actually made a wise move when they included optional "missions"into FSX... it really does seem like the kind of thing that would make learning to fly easy(er) and fun...

if only they would have had the decency to make FSX a piece of software capable of actually -running- on a not-nasa-supercomputer, they perhaps would have acheived their initial goal of making flightsim appeal to more ppl :lol:


is there such tutorial mode (even if just in plans) for orbiter? could be a nice thing to consider having :hmm:


anyways... i digress.... back to topic now :lol:

Spaceway seems really cool... but Orbiter has the large user-base, which is pretty much responsible for most of the content-side development of the sim
Spaceway seems to have procedural planet/system generation, tho

 

[Columbia42]

IMHO, Spaceway's procedural generator is amazing and if I could combine any two programs they would be Spaceway and Orbiter. Running Spaceway, however, seems to require more graphics power than running Orbiter and Orbiter's physics engine is hard/impossible to beat.

 

[N_Molson]

I would say it's a very different approach aiming at the same result, simulating space travel. Interesting, but my opinion is that "manual" meshing is a real art that computer or maths will not (in a near future) be able to "imitate". Of course, procedural generation allows endless possiblities when it comes to space stations / ships building. Probably even ships tuning, like buying more engines, another cargo hold, and so on... Also, it seems best fitted for a sci-fi environement.

Anyway, the real question is : should it include the Probe ? Probologists will have to speculate a lot on this !

 

[jimblah]

An explanation

I haven't tried Spaceway yet. But I love Orbiter. Over the years I've frequented the Linux Game Tome looking for something I could appreciate to no avail. Orbiter has been right under my nose for years and by some trick of the gods I'm just now beginning to enjoy it. I don't blame anyone but myself for the oversight. This is what I get for ignoring the Windows platform for the most part.:lol:

 

[raxo2222]

I haven't tried it, did you play a Universe Sandbox?