Wow, why nobody linked this thread to me? (Sorry, I can't read the whole forum...) Watsisname , very good job in explaining the Mercury orbit!  I have a question though: is time/space dilation due to Mercury's velocity accounted in equations automatically, or its effect is simply negligible? Your po...

Thanks, 2007 OR10 with its satellite is already added to SE 0.990.

Thanks, fixed!

Release is expected this year on Steam. I can't give the exact date, because developing the app is not like building a road. Then you build a road, you may measure your average speed, say 1 mile per day, then divide the remaining distance onto this speed and obtain number of days left. Developing ap...

20579 I would imagine the search always starts in the outer layers, otherwise if you've reached the 10K limit, it won't matter whether you select a radius of 20ly or 2000ly it would always find the same results closest to the viewer. No, searching order is "fractal", according on architec...

Wow I like the last one! Wanted to do similar myself

zhar22 wrote:

Qr Bbpost or just use my exported tileset (equirectangular not cube projection) straight into SE

You can stitch tiles together into a single equirectangular RAW image using the CubeMap tool, then use it again to convert in into cubemap.

20446  I think you should be paid for your work, that's simple ethics. Cheers. This is why I pay so many attention to the Overview project (and I also have a contract oblications). Constellations are another side work, with ESO for planetarium version (it is another market for SE). All this side wo...

New blog post - constellations
http://spaceengine.org/blog180521/

I already integrated this texture in SE. Also next Overview update will use it. its resolution is much greater, in Overview it has per-pixel quality in Vive and Rift.

Sorry for recent technical issues on the website. Server were run out of free disk space (30 GB!). SE forum is growing)))

SE can't handle more than few million stars right now. I will rewrite the catalog stars octree so it will support dynamic loading of visible nodes only (just like procedural stars octree works). This way it will support unlimited number of stars, just like terrain engine supports unlimited resolutio...

No, 0.990 have completely different system. Gas giants can be converted into it though.

Raytracing 25 years ago was not real time. Even now real raytracing (not a "cheat" one) is not real time on most PC hardware. Many modern game engines introduces screen space reflections - a cheap and cheat way to imitate raytracing of the reflected rays. But this have obvious limitations ...

19854 Do you plan on having full SLI support in 0.9.9.0? It is already implemented. 19856 I badly explained myself, what I wanted to ask was: if the emissions map affect the lighting of the ship itself... your answer makes me think that it is so. No. Not many game engines supports self-reflections ...