General questions about SpaceEngine

15 Dec 2016 07:22

It should be

Remove "ObjectName" {ParentBody "ParentName"}

ParentBody declaration should be used if there are many objects with the same name.

15 Dec 2016 07:48

Salvo,
there is the possibility to create an 'invisible cluster'.

// Empire of the Black Rose

Cluster "Empire of the Black Rose"
{
    Galaxy  "Milky Way"
    RA      0 22
    Dec     -70 59 00
    Dist    4001
    Radius    0.0158125
    AbsMagn  -20
}

It does not create a real cluster, only the name appears.

But, of course, this does not work for places on a planet.
I guess you mean something like that.

In this case, it is a dwarf-moon that is made invisible by an empty texture.

It would be good if such labels could be created in a simpler way.

Ostarisk · 15 Dec 2016 13:46

Mosfet, Thank you! that's exactly what I needed.

16 Dec 2016 08:57

I suggested such a feature on the old forum. SpaceEngineer said it may be added in the future

AniGa · 17 Dec 2016 04:08

Hi there.

Basically, I wonder if there's some more effective method of looking for Earth-like planets.
So far I use the Star Browser's filter functionality - but while I might find terras with that, it doesn't give me a way to filter things like gravity, atmosphere composition and so on, so it still leads to looots of manually checking planets one at a time.
Which does get a bit annoying. xP

Is there some more effective search method that I'm not aware of?

Greets,
AG

17 Dec 2016 05:20

Not really; if you have another question, please post it in this thread

fatherobrine99 · 27 Dec 2016 14:47

Im having troubles with my HUD, i really want to make an video without the HUD in it.
Is there any way of removing the HUD in the console?

27 Dec 2016 15:26

If you're referring to the on-screen info regarding selected objects, there are 3 modes: brief, full and disabled. To cycle trough those modes use [ Ctrl + ~ ].
This choice is not saved for next program sessions, though. If you want to make this choice permanent, you need to manually change a parameter in your SpaceEngine config/main-user.cfg file:

// Interface settings
Interface
{
    Language                "eng"
    Skin                    "Minimalistic Blue"
    Mode                    1        // text info mode     <------------  0: no info;  1: brief info; 2: full info

Could you be more specific? What problem do you have?

fatherobrine99 · 28 Dec 2016 02:35

I meant the on-screen info, but CTRL Tilde worked, thanks alot.

28 Dec 2016 07:02

AniGa wrote:
Source of the post So far I use the Star Browser's filter functionality - but while I might find terras with that, it doesn't give me a way to filter things like gravity, atmosphere composition and so on, so it still leads to looots of manually checking planets one at a time.
Which does get a bit annoying. xP

Maybe in future I will remove that cheat searcher at all. The search will be possible only in the online database of planets, discovered manually by other users.

Ensabahnur · 30 Dec 2016 03:38

So I am curious whether future versions of Space Engine will be able to match the size and volume of the observable universe because right now I think the volume is one thirtieth(not 100% sure).

30 Dec 2016 05:43

No, SE's universe is larger by about a factor of three.

The observable universe has a comoving radius of about 14Gpc, or a volume of 11,500Gpc³. SE's universe is a cube with a radius of about 16Gpc, or a volume of about 33,000Gpc³.

YouTube · 30 Dec 2016 16:01

Watsisname wrote:
Source of the post SE's universe is a cube with a radius of about 16Gpc, or a volume of about 33,000Gpc³.

It's a cube with side length 10 Gpc. I'm not sure what "radius" means in the context of a cube (distance from center to vertex? - if so, radius is actually 8.66 Gpc - or center to nearest surface? if so, radius is 5 Gpc), but the volume of said cube would be 1,000 Gpc³, or about 1/12^th the volume of the observable universe.

30 Dec 2016 18:58

Whoops! You're right. I got so used to having SE report distances in parsec that I missed that the default is now LY, so where I thought I was reading a side length of 32Gpc is actually 32GLY, or 10Gpc on a side as you say.

Heath · 15 Jan 2017 18:59

2 questions I have

1) Will there be better graphics along the way like at least a little bit more detailed planets (such as a more detailed Mars for example) or is this the best it's going to get and we will have to rely on add ons for any better things like moving water, lava, etc?

2) Will there be easier mod support as in will there ever be a time when we can just import 3D models of stuff from places like our own creations on Blender lets say along with other models from other web sites or will we still have to use the folders system where we have to use the .pak files that have all the .sss files and .cfv files?

Thank you in advance for answering these questions if you do get around to them