Orbital branch - rewrite Vavatch branch.

[fluffyfreak]

Description:

People are asking for the Orbital work to return, and I want to get it working.
I initially wrote it just to see if I could, and it did mostly work for very small Orbitals. However there were a number of problems.

The problems need to be overcome and the Orbitals branch should be merged in once that's done.

Problems:

This is not a complete list just a few of the big ones.

• It needs a complete rewrite
  • I got it to work with small O's but it still needs a lot of love.
• The terrain generation is too slow and the geometry uses too much memory currently
  • an Orbital uses 10's to 100's of times more memory than a world and 1 small Orbital uses over 2GiB ram easily.
• Collision issues
  • they were numerous and part of the need for a rewrite.
• Atmosphere rendering
  • I had to simply rip it out whilst I worked on all of the above, it would have to work very differently to that used on planets.

The original branch is here : Vavatch

[fluffyfreak]

Started doing this https://github.com/fluffyfreak/pioneer/tree/orbital

[bszlrd]

Should I start preparing content/assets for it?

[fluffyfreak]

@nozmajner nah it's a looooong way from being usable.