Is hardware ray tracing even possible under OpenGL? It's pretty pointless to push something that the underlying platform doesn't even facilitate.
But I guess a team should then be hired to convert all API calls to Vulkan, huh?

As for the hypothetical question. I speak from no experience, but I ...

It seems to me that some aspects of the rendering aren't being properly handled in terms of linear and gamma spaces. There are multiple clues of this, but a prominent example is how the bloom effect of stars has a mismatch with the body color. If the in-game gamma slider is turned up to 2, this ...

So I decided to push my puny PC to the limits and see how many stars I could get Space Engine to show on the screen by increasing the star magnitude setting. To my surprise, I was able to get the semblance of the Milky Way whilst having the galaxy display option disabled. I had to tune and mod the ...

Gamma correction for planet textures: parameter in catalog scripts and slider in the editor


Is this only applied on an individual basis? After having played around in .990 for some time, I noticed some quirks that I suspect can be attributed to imperfect handling of gamma. For instance ...

[quote="default0.0player"]For those who don't know 0.990 no longer has "auto exposure" "real sun/planet brightness"
Here's what 0.990 did in 0.980
SpaceEngine (1920x1080) 2019_6_14 21_04_06.pngSpaceEngine (1920x1080) 2019_6_14 21_03_51.png[/quote]
That's not entirely true, is it? The simple auto ...

The black-body colouration option caught my interest. I assume CIE 709 corresponds with the Rec. 709 gamut, and by extension, sRGB. I wonder what plain CIE is, then?

It seems like one or more of the file packages are locked away? I am prompted with a password request upon opening some of the files for modding.

Are you using a script to generate those large arrays of orbiting bodies around a star or a black hole in those orderly patterns? Doesn't look chaotic enough to have been placed manually.

Is there any mod that overhauls the star/universe shaders? I made my own modifications to accommodate a high render-distance, and the result can safely be called splendid in my estimation, even though it's all assembled together with metaphorical duct tape.
[img]https://puu.sh/Dejth/bd446c96b2.jpg ...

I'm wondering how much a deferred shading pipeline will benefit Space Engine. With so much of the universe being transparent, and only a few lights illuminating celestial objects at most, I can't imagine it being a quantum leap.

I'd love to see some configurable tonemapping. The one in use has a nice balance between dynamic range and contrast, but it's a master of none.

Speaking of supergiants, why is WOH G64 the brighest star by far? Approaching the LMC, I expected a certain Wolf-Rayet star to present itself above others instead.

[quote="SpaceEngineer"][quote="silikone"][post]27510[/post] s Space Engine itself even using gamma-correct rendering?[/quote]
SE 0.980 is not gamma-correct, SE 0.990 is. What modifications did you add?[/quote]

I square rooted the tonemap shader output, which is a reasonable approximation of the ...

[quote][font=Roboto, sans-serif]- [/font][font=Roboto, sans-serif]Gamma[/font][font=Roboto, sans-serif]-corrected rendering of E galaxies[/font][/quote]

Is Space Engine itself even using gamma-correct rendering?
I could be mistaken, but a lot of objects and effects look like they aren't being done ...