New upcoming big update: General relativity!
https://spaceengine.org/news/blog220705/

I've spent the last few weeks working on a new procedural tree generator. Same six parameters as before: age, surface gravity, apparent solar luminosity, moisture, solar spectrum/peak wavelength, and average global temperature. They interact to affect the shape, size and color of the trees, as ...

As a long-time user of Spaceengine, I was very happy to see the last two news articles.

I was wondering, how is the work on atmospheres going? SpaceEingineer's post from 16 March 2021 seems not to have been implemented yet. Will it have to wait until 3D clouds are fully implemented?

I hope you ...

I still didn't start work on a proper support of GAIA data. The main problem is that SE require spectral class for every star, but GAIA data doesn't have this. It is possible to change engine so that it will use only observable data to generate procedural systems (i.e. luminosity and B-V). The other ...

Under the original Alcubierre notion of a very clean sharp bubble, that would rip and tear anything coming into contact with it.

Protective force field!

Any changes made to the data folder are wiped out by Steam then you run "verify game files". So you must use addons folder for experiments.

Nice work! Did you release it in the Workshop?

This method will cause artifacts on tile edges. May be noticeable on high-contrast textures.
The correct method is combining old tiles back to WAR using the glue.exe (you must configure it to regect 1-pixel-wide outside borders which old tiles use), and then convert six RAW cubemap faces to tiles ...

You need older driver version. Or upgrade SE to 0.990.

This is just a new algortihm for general sharpness, not especially the galaxies. I asked Vladimir if he could keep the old one available because the new one can has unwanted effects on some config/resolution.
Galaxies/nebulae have theor own sharpness pass, but it was disabled, because the global ...

Just look at stars in front of Milky Way with sharpness 1 or more, and you will see (in older versions).

This is not beacuse new algorithm has lower sharpness limit (well, it has, because values > 1 are not allowed because of graphical glitches). The thing is that galaxy/nebula rendering used its own sharpness pass, but in 1955 I switched it off. Because otherwise skybox/impostor nebulae will be ...

It's not broken, it's an engine limitation. I wrote about this in the first rings blog post.

Kerr black holes in SE, work in progress:

New update in the beta branch:
https://spaceengine.org/news/blog210701