Space Engine: Space Porn Is Real

[Surf Solar]

I've also made some videos over the night - awesome program, it feels so overwhelming.

 

[DraQ]

So... what is this? Some glorified interactive screensaver/screenshot generator?

Planetarium with objects known to mankind plus mostly realistic universe generator to make up the remaining stuff.
With purty graphics.

 

[Whisky]

The saddest part about the new version is lack of stability of generated universe between versions, meaning all the cool places from version before no longer exist.
But that would be too much to ask.

They will live on in screenshots.

And we will explore new universes.

 

[Whisky]

Rise and shine, Codex.

Make sure to wear protective eyegear.

 

[DraQ]

Does anyone else see the resemblance?

 

[Makabb]

Dem space Cleve monsters are just waiting to eat you

 

[DraQ]

Dem space Cleve monsters are just waiting to eat you

(sorry, too obvious)

 

[Pipeweed]

I didn't know jupiter had this many rocks orbiting it

Anyhow, populating far away galaxies and giving some planets to stars is ok but I'm not keen on procedural content in general. It's nothing but clutter when all you want is a real 3d map(RIP Celestia).

 

[Lyric Suite]

virtual planetarium is best description it has every object known to man in its database and when you go behind horizon it will generate new galaxies and so on.

Any chances somebody will ever make a game out of this?

 

[DraQ]

I didn't know jupiter had this many rocks orbiting it

Anyhow, populating far away galaxies and giving some planets to stars is ok but I'm not keen on procedural content in general. It's nothing but clutter when all you want is a real 3d map(RIP Celestia).

You can toggle anything you like.

 

[TripJack]

Any chances somebody will ever make a game out of this?

see gameplay section on planned features list, so long as this russian bro doesn't lost interest or die first i think he intends to make it a game

 

[Perkel]

honestly at this point he probably doesn't give a shit about "gameplay". He probably focuses only on creating best planetarium you can get

 

[Surf Solar]

Does anyone else crash upon trying to approach a black hole? I guess it's realistic eh... But I know you can observe them in the sim. What can cause this?

And here's greetings from Proxima Centauri:



Also, anyone found a quazar, or is that even in the game yet?

 

[Whisky]

honestly at this point he probably doesn't give a shit about "gameplay". He probably focuses only on creating best planetarium you can get

Well, if so, good for him. He's made something really unique and if he wants to refine that until he's satisfied, then that's fine with me. The last two Space Engine updates have been fantastic and the game's crashes have decreased so much. It used to be I had to keep shifting the LOD and slow the fuck down in globular clusters, but now it takes slamming into Earth at 10 giga-parsecs to make the game self-destruct. There's still the odd occasional crash, but the usual suspects have been fixed.

Still, making a game out of Space Engine would be damn cool. Actually having some resources and conflict with the exploration would be a game I'd be very much into.

 

[DraQ]

Does anyone else crash upon trying to approach a black hole?

Probably your system cannot gravitational lensing.

 

[Perkel]

Well, if so, good for him. He's made something really unique and if he wants to refine that until he's satisfied, then that's fine with me. The last two Space Engine updates have been fantastic and the game's crashes have decreased so much. It used to be I had to keep shifting the LOD and slow the fuck down in globular clusters, but now it takes slamming into Earth at 10 giga-parsecs to make the game self-destruct. There's still the odd occasional crash, but the usual suspects have been fixed.

Still, making a game out of Space Engine would be damn cool. Actually having some resources and conflict with the exploration would be a game I'd be very much into.

Well globular clusters are just lumps of starts. Space Engine renders all distant stars as 2D sprites which means that those globulars had so many stars in them it literally crashed your system.

I have nice rig and some of globulars really are taxing on system. Crazy considering it is 2D.

 

[Surf Solar]

Probably your system cannot gravitational lensing.

I figured, but I can run everything else on the highest settings. What could it be that I may have to disable to watch these?

 

[DraQ]

I figured, but I can run everything else on the highest settings. What could it be that I may have to disable to watch these?

7) Crash on approaching to the black hole, neutron star or white dwarf, on using ship's hyperdrive, or when enabling the Oculus Rift mode or the Fish Eye mode (AMD/ATI)
Occurs on AMD/ATI Raedon. Open the config/user.cfg and change this parameter value to false, so that it looks like this:

EnableMipmapsWarp false // use mipmapping for warp effects rendering

If crashes on enabling the Oculus Rift mode or the Fish Eye mode still remains, change these two parameters to false as well:

EnableMipmapsGUI false // use mipmapping for GUI FBO
EnableMipmapsFrame false // use mipmapping for scene FBO

 

[JarlFrank]

virtual planetarium is best description it has every object known to man in its database and when you go behind horizon it will generate new galaxies and so on.


Honestly this is the best way to find out that world is huge as fuck and you can't comprehend just how big it is.

True, this is the only game ever where I actually sat in front of the screen staring at it in awe.

Go from planet to sun "ok this is a pretty big distance... and so many stars in the horizon!"
Go to another star "ok, this distance is huge... and so many stars all around... so many..."
Find something that looks like a nebula, actually is the big magellanic cloud which is a fucking galaxy, approach it thinking it's a nebula, be surprised how long it takes to reach, finally reach it and ITS FULL OF STARS

This is the most awe-inspiring thing ever.

 

[J_C]

So, I installed this thing and tried it. Aaaaand then I uninstalled it 5 minutes later. Then I thought, I should see it again. So I installed it again. Then I uninstalled it 5 minutes later. It looks amazing, it is a great technical achievement, but it has nothing in it which captures my imagination. Looking at pretty pictures without anything substantial to do is boring.

 

[JarlFrank]

Travel through space. Realize that all these stars and galaxies ACTUALLY EXIST. It's quite impressive and makes you feel tiny.

 

[Surf Solar]

When I started the program the first time I was fucking terrified after travelling with a few parsecs so I had to quit. Now I'm surfing the empty void between galaxies like a pro. :D Anyone seen the edge of the observable universe?

Oh and there are also a fuckton of mods. Anyone tried those?

 

[JarlFrank]

When I started the program the first time I was fucking terrified after travelling with a few parsecs so I had to quit. Now I'm surfing the empty void between galaxies like a pro. :D Anyone seen the edge of the observable universe?

Oh and there are also a fuckton of mods. Anyone tried those?

I tried going to the edge but I have some issue with loading galaxies for some reason. Often, they just appear as single dots of light and the stars don't load properly. There's nothing there. Sometimes it works again when I quit and restart the game. Going to the edge would be p. cool.

 

[Lemming42]

I made it to the edge a while ago thanks to a miraculous lack of crashing. Got a cool screenshot on an ice world looking out into the void, can't seem to find it now.

 

[Surf Solar]

Thank you DraQ - that little trick did indeed work.

I found a black hole, and... nope. Never want to approach that terrifying thing again. D: Though - I wonder how the one in the middle of the milky way looks. Any idea how to navigate through that clusterfuck?

It looks much more terrifying in motion.

Also found another terra like planet, beautiful rolling hills, 59°C though.