Space Engine: Space Porn Is Real

[Makabb]

DAT ISS

i c wot u did thar

 

[Makabb]

 

[Perkel]

Fucking amazing. This update also will bring PBR to SE which should make things looks a lot fucking better.
Texture generation also was completely reworked.

They also hired few devs unlike before (which was mostly one dude) and they earn some money with Overview which should also speed things up.

 

[lophiaspis]

Why is this not on Steam yet? Does the dev hate money?

 

[Perkel]

Why is this not on Steam yet? Does the dev hate money?

It is for free you dummy also it is not 1.0
Overview (which is universe exploration short game on SE engine)is i think on steam though.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

Why is this not on Steam yet? Does the dev hate money?

It is for free you dummy also it is not 1.0

even better! these days if you're not selling an unplayable pre-alpha ridden with showstopping bugs sold as "early access - going to be released soon(TM)" you're nobody.

 

[Falksi]

Words cannot describe how disappointed I am at the content of this thread after reading the title

 

[kintake]

Words cannot describe how disappointed I am at the content of this thread after reading the title

Did you download and try Space Engine? Cause the title is accurate.

 

[mbv123]

I'm waiting for the new update and hope it fixes a bug I have with the gas giants where if you look at them from a certain distance, the texture hasn't loaded and it looks like a pink chess board.

 

[Bocian]

Words cannot describe how disappointed I am at the content of this thread after reading the title

Did you download and try Space Engine? Cause the title is accurate.

We all know what was he expecting...

 

[Ocelot]

I love SE, even though it's pure exploration and random generation for the most part. It's atmosphere is spot on, to the point where even some stars are spooky just by sitting there.

 

[kintake]

I like just zooming out from Earth. Start with a low speed, then increase it, watch Earth disappear in the distance. Planets soon zoom by, then stars; entire clusters of stars, in the end galaxies become small mottled dots on my screen. It gives me some perspective, makes me think.
On one hand I feel entirely insignificant considering the vastness of it all, on the other hand the very same apparatus of thought that enables me to think I'm worth nothing is worth everything to me; creating my entire world and all that's in it for me and I'm sorry I told myself I would stop at one glass of wine today.

 

[Citizen]

I like just zooming out from Earth. Start with a low speed, then increase it, watch Earth disappear in the distance. Planets soon zoom by, then stars; entire clusters of stars, in the end galaxies become small mottled dots on my screen. It gives me some perspective, makes me think.
On one hand I feel entirely insignificant considering the vastness of it all, on the other hand the very same apparatus of thought that enables me to think I'm worth nothing is worth everything to me; creating my entire world and all that's in it for me and I'm sorry I told myself I would stop at one glass of wine today.

 

[Makabb]

new release blowing mind once again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y10SA-5Hvk

 

[Perkel]

Damn it is so far the longest update since SE became a thing.
On other hand now few people work on it instead of one and they rework most of the stuff.
SE will be apparently sold on steam to further expand team size and make SE even better.

 

[Perkel]

It's mainly because XenForo absolutely insists on parsing every link it gets and adding "url" tags around it, meaning any attempt at implementation using the basic "Add Custom BBCode" results in a botched link that doesn't work in the HTML5 video tag. I also can't add it as a "Media Site" because that requires a url of the site, and a webm can be anywhere.

There is a way around it but it's weird and strange and basically means doing something like this:

[webm=http://www.linkto.webm]Pointless Text[/webm]

DarkUnderlord i have trouble with discord webm links. Could you look at it ?

Here is one:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/557658942151327774/557659123630604366/Witcher3_walk1.webm

Tried this [web=blabla| but doesn't seem to work on it and standard media doesn't recognize discord link.

 

[Wyatt_Derp]

I love how so many ppl won't touch SE because they say 'it's not really a game'. They're missing so much.

 

[Pipeweed]

https://zah.uni-heidelberg.de/institutes/ari/gaia/outreach/gaiasky/

beware there's no easy navigation like space engine but it has more data

 

[Agame]

I love how so many ppl won't touch SE because they say 'it's not really a game'. They're missing so much.

So what is the gameplay?

 

[Wyatt_Derp]

UI. Sound. Graphics. You fly around the universe and scope nice areas for screens, study orbits and chart galactic pathways for astronomy, and you can plot courses for drop-in ships.

Plus it's pretty and it's free. That combo alone puts it well above the typical indie trash highlighting the weekly Gog, Humble, Steam sales.

 

[Skdursh]

UI. Sound. Graphics. You fly around the universe and scope nice areas for screens, study orbits and chart galactic pathways for astronomy, and you can plot courses for drop-in ships.

Plus it's pretty and it's free. That combo alone puts it well above the typical indie trash highlighting the weekly Gog, Humble, Steam sales.

You left out some of the largest aspects of the game, i.e. you also build stuff, collect resources, make your own programming scripts to control various aspects of gameplay, destroy things, fight robots and shitty wolves/aliens. I think the game shines most in a dedicated multiplayer community where you can have faction wars and whatnot.

 

[Wyatt_Derp]

UI. Sound. Graphics. You fly around the universe and scope nice areas for screens, study orbits and chart galactic pathways for astronomy, and you can plot courses for drop-in ships.

Plus it's pretty and it's free. That combo alone puts it well above the typical indie trash highlighting the weekly Gog, Humble, Steam sales.

You left out some of the largest aspects of the game, i.e. you also build stuff, collect resources, make your own programming scripts to control various aspects of gameplay, destroy things, fight robots and shitty wolves/aliens. I think the game shines most in a dedicated multiplayer community where you can have faction wars and whatnot.

Mods are great, aren't they?

 

[Pipeweed]

nope that's space engineers skdursh is talking about

 

[Wyatt_Derp]

nope that's space engineers skdursh is talking about

Good. I was about to file a 'leading the witness' objection with the judge. Shit, was thinkin' I should have changed my name to Vladimir and moved to Russia to become an indie space software dev.

 

[anvi]

Will this ever have some gameplay or is it just a visual exploration type thing?