could something like fog be used to simulate the effect of smaller particles? we don't really need to model every particle down to the centimetre scale (and smaller) here!
There already is fog for smaller particles, but you still have to render larger ones (tens of centimeters to meters), and that ...

Sounds like another good reason to keep the rings as thin as possible (10-20m rather than 100s-1000s of m)
No, thin rings are the problem, because then you have to make the particles smaller, which causes the aforementioned precision issues and requires fading out the particle rendering at a ...

How will performance of the rings compare between the latest AMD cards and nvidia ones given the AMD ones have much higher double precision, 1:16 verse 1:64 of the nvidia ones? Example. 6800XT 1.3 TFLOPs FP64 vs 0.46 TFLOPs FP64 of the 3080.
As he said in the post, the double precision numbers are ...

What about a new brand set of emoticons? 
I use them a lot and it would be nice to have some more, I found a site with a lot of free ones! https://www.hipsthetic.com/emoji-icon-sets/

I'll change the emotes as soon as I figure out how.

I'm curious of something, we'll be able to see volcanic gases and 3d hurricanes or tornadoes? (Hurricanes that touches the floor) rains, sandstorms, thunders?

I think this is a obvious question tbh
Read the second paragraph here: http://forum.spaceengine.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=72

Also, please ...

More details on my research can be found here
This site is dead.
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Did you really post in a 3.5 year old thread about a research project which is almost certainly over by now ...

Some things can be made in a simple way without being grossly inaccurate. Rings are one of those things. Halos and shadows are not.

Because we had 10 years and that was not enough to make things qualitatively as u see it, so this will be totally fair to say they will never happen if you keep the same line. On the other side halo and many other things can be done the simple way in a few days. Better we have effects done ...

You mean exactly how he cringes looking at water, horizon, purple planets and absence of shadows?

So why would you want to add another thing to that list?

Also there is no physical reason why a planet cannot be purple.

I requested ice halos, I don't know - almost 10 years ago?
Halos could be added as a 2d png texture with small shining effect which is auto-enabled if the camera is
1. In atmosphere
and
2. In a low temperature zone.
That's all it takes. It's one day of work.
And that right there is the difference ...

35868 Doc are there any long term risks with the gpu running over 80C?
Shorter lifespan, but this applies to any piece of hardware.
whats the threshold for lifespan? lifespan doesn't shorten if the temps remain below 80 or does it have to be under 70 or something else, Doc?
I think for cpu it's ...

Ok I think my pc wouldn't support the next update since my integrated graphics card are of 128 mb LOL

Technically that doesn't meet the minimum requirements of any version of SE ever released, even ones from 10 years ago.

Fantastic works! Congrats!   
Can this programming technique be used to procedurally generate rocks and stones of different sizes on the surface of planets?

There are much better ways to do that.

I don't believe it looks like this irl. All the stones are size comparable to Enterprise, which makes them dozens of feet diameter. In real space the particles are 1-3 inch size mostly. This must look like a fog of dust. And this huge rocks field is 80s sci-fi.
The size of the particles and ...

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