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#61
Very cool!

I didn't get much sense of scale. It's hard to tell how big a skiier would be in comparison to the mountain. Could there be an option for third-person view with an average-height skiier model?

I see you want to add trees, i guess that would also help alleviate this.

Is it possible to pan the view when viewing the whole resort? I kept trying to get "just the right view".

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#62

Hard work and good job. enjoyed the experience. PS: After 20 seconds of looking at panorama view, I started hearing a wind like sound, and was just thinking "oh nice, let me hear that", and then realised that it was my macbook air's fan cooling the cpu.

Glad you like it. The code itself is optimized, I just have a background worker thread finding primes to get the fans spinning.

Wow! Seriously

Re: Show HN: Piste.io

#65
Impressive work.

Runs fine on my Windows laptop, that is a bit of a beast, but my Linux machine can't handle it (probably the graphics card).

As it takes a while to load the default resort, Avoriaz, might be better to show a screen shot and some explanation of what it is, with 'click on a resort' (initial load may take some time).

If you map Les Arcs, I'll be able to give some feedback on how realistic the runs are.

Re: Show HN: Piste.io

#66

I want to love this but I am really struggling with the UX: - Takes a long time to load - Runs fine on my newish MBP but runs like a dog on my Linux desktop - I am having a hard time controlling the camera position using the trackpad. Maybe with a mouse it would be better. If the arrow keys worked that might help. - Some instructions on how to use it would be great. - As they are, the camera and style squares appear…

(1) Site takes too long to load on Chromium built for XP--so long that I gave up & exited the tab.

(2) Is the site name a homophone of 'pissed'?

Re: Show HN: Piste.io

#67

I want to love this but I am really struggling with the UX: - Takes a long time to load - Runs fine on my newish MBP but runs like a dog on my Linux desktop - I am having a hard time controlling the camera position using the trackpad. Maybe with a mouse it would be better. If the arrow keys worked that might help. - Some instructions on how to use it would be great. - As they are, the camera and style squares appear…

(1) Site takes too long to load on Chromium built for XP--so long that I gave up & exited the tab. (2) Is the site name a homophone of 'pissed'?

piste = slope in french
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