EVE Probe

I hope you don't mind frequent updates to EVE Probe, because we've got another update here:

http://files.eveprobe.ccpgames.com/eveprobe-0.83.4416.0.msi

Release Notes:
- Added a new scene, testing a new build effect (work in progress)
- Removed unused binaries, resulting in a smaller installer

Known issue:
- Doesn't start up on Windows XP.

Well, we do check if a new version is available - that will have to do for now.

That's a sexy new effect! ;)

Well worth updating the Probe to get a sneak peak!

What's wrong with using the installer?

Nice work, you fixed that annoying frame stuttering! Btw the new building effect looks awesome. For what purposes will it be used?

Forum users without EVE Forums Gold get the warning message when clicking on the installer file link.I think that *.ccpgames.com is inside of your control, right?

It will be the new building effect when your Anchor a structure in space, it's still work in progress and we don't have a set release date yet but we hope to get in for a future release. :)

Howdy! I posted this to a thread about Phoebe changes on SiSi without realizing this came from EVE Probe. Hopefully I'm in the right spot to give my feedback on the construction animation.

So I saw a post on Reddit today covering the new POS onlining animations.

The effect looks nice, but I don't think it makes sense at the moment. As was brought up in the comments, why are we hauling around giant POS items when it's all digistructed out of magical space lasers?

Because of this I suggest you add something like a "POS Egg". Basically throw a structure into the center of the animation that is the source of both the lasers and the building materials. Instead of the matter/energy for the POS coming from some magical singularity at the center of the finished model, the structure is a logical housing/genesis point for what is to be the completed POS.

Other than that the effect looks great (from the stills that I see, I still haven't seen it in motion so I can't weigh in on if the effect should be faster/slower/different)

Oh and one more thing. If you plan on making stations buildable at any point, it might behoove you to think about placing the "center" of the build animation (the POS egg if you take my suggestion) off to the side of the structure, just because there will be a longish time at the end of the construction period when you won't be able to see the animation due to it all being inside the model. If you put the animation center 5km away from the edge of the completed model, you can have the POS'/Station's/Whatever's construction visible for the entire duration that it is active and then just terminate the animation at 5km from your egg. It would look cool and makes logical sense.

If this isn't where I should be giving my feedback on the construction animation, please redirect me to the proper location so that I may do so.

Thanks for the response! Given that this applies to all V3 deployables (presumably huge ones like stations or any module that is more spherical than spire-like), what do you think about putting the center of the effect off to the side of the model so you don't have this effect going on where no-one can see it? I'm picturing something like this, but with construction happening.

The program just refuses to work for me on Win 8.1. It won't launch unless I run it as an administrator, and when I press start the button changes to "running!" but nothing happens.