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Bypassing the input system sounds best to me, go direct into the cameras like I did with the OVR stuff.

"System Administration Resting" is the name, a bit like the names of boats or ships which can be partial, even nonsensical, words, names or sentences.

Kind of like the ship names from Iain M. Banks novels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_s ... er_Phlebas

That is quite terrifying, I wonder what the backend that powers it is like?

Ok, figured it out we can't use SDL_Image to load 16-bit TIFF files because it converts them to 32-bit 8-bit per channel images internally. I.e. it turns the nice 16-bit inputs into 8-bit values, then copies those values into the red, green, and blue channels. Alpha is always 255. So it's useless fo...

WKFO, you have a Github repository? It makes it much easier to see what'd going on because then you can diff files/everything to see what's changed and the commits you've made.

In theory PNG can support 16-bit no problem, and I've converted some of the TIFFs into PNG for testing, however SDL_Image seems to just import them as 8-bit...

EDIT: ...and when you import TIFF files, which SDL_Image also supports, it promotes them to 32-bit! Wierd.

And by odd data I mean: The moon has (hardcoded) different data because it's a "scaled" heightmap ... *shrug*

After some reverse engineering I'm getting closer to figuring out the existing "hmap" formats. I have no idea how they were created, or where the embedded values came from, or why they're such odd dimensions! However it has helped me figure out that when they're used it does bicubic interpolation of...

Super-hi-res versions are available direct from NASA too https://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/70sArtHiRes/70sArt/art.html Also there's the book https://www.amazon.co.uk/High-Frontier-Human-Colonies-Apogee/dp/189652267X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= which is essential reading. I wonder how ...

by the way WKFO, me linking to those threads wasn't meant to stop discussion but just so that you know there's been previous thoughts about it so you can draw from them.

I'm broadly in favour of introducing atmospheric flight control, I just don't know how to do it.