[Mote-dev] The checkinfest continues...

[Edwin B. <E.C...@du...>]

Perl improvements - now creates the whole galaxy and instatiates models
from the galaxy data. Now would be a good time to be thinking about that
XML spec...

Perl bug fixes too. Better reference handling. I'm still not convinced I
understand the reference counting internals though. Still, at least it
doesn't crash ;).

Also, I've gained a huge speed increase (at least on my machine) by the
curiously simple tactic of not drawing things that are too far away or
behind. I've always been going to do that, but it has become necessary
since I've added two more random planets. I could take it a bit further
too, so that's good.

Finally, F7 gives you a "Local System Details" screen. Not that there's
anything on it yet, but I will be using that as an initial navigation
system. It'll show a graph of what planets are in the system, what's
orbiting what and so on. We could do with some nice planet and space
station bitmaps/icons for it, I think. The section at the bottom is for
displaying more wordy information about the system, if it exists, and
statistics.

Edwin.
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Edwin Brady - http://www.dur.ac.uk/e.c.brady/