I've just started to build my own library of sounds and sfx for all the classes and before I continue with that I just wanna make sure it's not a waste of time due to major changes.

I don't mean to dis your effort in making your additions, but why don't you instead mute the SE music and have your music playing on Windows with a media player? SE actually used less CPU on my computer when I didn't have the SE music on. As for sfx, I think the file format is the same.

I use the context-function to play different sfx/ambient sounds just like the music is different depending on where you currently are in SE.  =)

I've just started to build my own library of sounds and sfx for all the classes and before I continue with that I just wanna make sure it's not a waste of time due to major changes.

I don't mean to dis your effort in making your additions, but why don't you instead mute the SE music and have your music playing on Windows with a media player? SE actually used less CPU on my computer when I didn't have the SE music on. As for sfx, I think the file format is the same.

I wanted someone to add this great Superman music to SE, this is amazing (I love full instrumental orchestras).

Thats the extended theme!

I wanted someone to add this great Superman music to SE, this is amazing (I love full instrumental orchestras).

Hmm, that is in fact pretty good. I can just imagine the first interstellar vessel being launched to a symphony like this.

I wanted someone to add this great Superman music to SE, this is amazing (I love full instrumental orchestras).

Hmm, that is in fact pretty good. I can just imagine the first interstellar vessel being launched to a symphony like this.

My two favorites are that and the extended Star Trek theme that was played a few minutes into the first Star Trek movie.

It's played with a slower cadence than any of the "theme music" but that's why I think it's better than any of the introductory Star Trek theme music.

In the changelog on the work progress post, there is a change that says "[font=Roboto, sans-serif]Uncontrollable space ships on pre-defined orbits". I assume this means that there will be a .sc file for ships similar to the way .sc files work for planets and moons. Does this mean that we can define custom orbits for things like satellites around our modded worlds? Or will this be exclusive to things like the Hubble Space Telescope and other satellites in our solar system?[/font]

No, Space engine will be release at the end of april

May I ask where you got this information from? Or did you only guess? I can also guess: on the 7th of August. That is my birthday.

Does this mean that we can define custom orbits for things like satellites around our modded worlds?

Yes

No, Space engine will be release at the end of april

May I ask where you got this information from? Or did you only guess? I can also guess: on the 7th of August. That is my birthday.

Well now you just jinxed it. Every time someone makes a guess the dev moves the release date back a month. Currently release is set for 26th of November 3246.

For those curious about the landscape resolution settings available and the differences in quality between them I have taken the following screenshots in 3840x2160, opening in a second tab is advised for comparison

In 1920x1080 with landscape resolution set to 2160p this is my VRAM use, so this should tell you how demanding this can be. You can see my other settings in the following screens, MSAA 8x and so on which adds onto memory use.


landscape res 480p


landscape res 720p


landscape res 1080p


landscape res 1440p


landscape res 2160p


landscape res 4320p

RIP my VRAM.

Hmm, there is surprisingly little difference between a max landscape resolution of 1080p and a max of 4320p. Without the comparison, I wouldn't have been able to tell the two apart, besides minor details like scaling.

DoctorOfSpace, no difference is noticeable on these screens. You must find more mountainous area - difference in LOD/resolution will be visible on mountain ranges. Also, displaying quadtree node bounding boxes is also very informative: as LOD increased by 1, number of rendered nodes (and textures) almost doubling. Displaying modes are toggled by Shift-P in the debug mode.

Stellarator, limiting by 1080p is the default mode, even on RTX 2080 I use it. But in VR difference is very prominent: I can see significant degrade in 3D rocks quality in few meters distance. So I implemented separate terrain resolution settings for VR and desktop modes.

Have to open them in another tab and click from one to the next, there is a difference in each.  The difference is imperceptible on the forum due to small size of screens vs full resolution.

The difference is imperceptible on the forum due to small size of screens vs full resolution.

Yes, that is exactly it. I had looked at the comparisons in the new tabs, and I did not see much difference. The selected environment is not dynamic enough, as SpaceEngineer said (unless you chose it to demonstrate detail degrading at a distance dependent on the resolution). However, the new terrain is a great improvement from the 2D decals from before. When are you thinking of taking another step up graphically, and have fully volumetric 3D models of various planetary objects like rocks?

Stellarator, limiting by 1080p is the default mode, even on RTX 2080 I use it. But in VR difference is very prominent: I can see significant degrade in 3D rocks quality in few meters distance. So I implemented separate terrain resolution settings for VR and desktop modes.

Ah, this makes a lot of sense now. Are you so far happy with the quality of SE 0990 in VR?