Pilot a large, and often comedic ship throughout the strange solar system of PixSpace! Visit gas giants, so large you can see them from huge distances away, but so low in mass you’d be flung off their surface if you beamed down! Orbit a strange ocean dominated planet which orbits no sun. Hit tiny rogue asteroids as you attempt to escape orbit. Above all, zoom out so far that your ship becomes a single pixel - and all the while, zoom past other players, some of whom may be ducks, pigs, or even kittens in cups.
In order to run the PixSpace Server, you will first need to setup a MySQL database. If you want to run the scripts yourself, the creation script is "db_scripts/mysql_db_create.sql", and the deletion script is "db_scripts/mysql_db_delete.sql". The creation script will create a "pixspace" database and a "pixspace" user with a password of "pixspace". The deletion script will delete the "pixspace" database and user.
The database creation script can be executed with the following command.
mysql -u root -p -h DB_HOSTNAME < db_scripts/mysql_db_create.sql
PixSpace Client and PixSpace Server can be built via the command line using the following commands.
cd pixspace/
mkdir build/
cd build/
qmake ../trunk/
make
This will also build the static library, and the unit tests.
If you are not running the MySQL server locally on the default port, an error message will appear reporting that the simulation will not work unless the configuration is updated. To remedy this, switch to the "Server Configuration" tab, update the MySQL configuration to refect your setup, then restart PixSpace Server.
To execute PixSpace Server run
./Server/pixspaceserver
To execute PixSpace Client run
./Client/pixspaceclient
- W - Increase Throttle
- S - Decrease Throttle
- A - Rotate Left
- D - Rotate Right
- C - Center on Ship
- Mouse Wheel Scroll Up - Zoom In
- Mouse Wheel Scroll Down - Zoom Out
- Mouse Drag - Move View
Pixspace now works in Docker (in Linux and Mac)! Start by building the image with build-docker.sh, then launch the containers with launch-docker.sh.
Once the client is up, you will need to give it the IP address of the server container, 172.20.240.2, then everything should work like normal.