Mar 12 2018
New videos
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Mar 10 2018
OVERVIEW won the 2018 Viveport Developer Awards!
OVERVIEW won the Education nomination of the 2018 Viveport Developer Awards: https://www.roadtovr.com/htc-announces-2018-viveport-developer-awards-nominees-50k-prize-money-grabs/ It's not clear yet which place, first or second, but it competes with the Bartender VR Simulator...
Mar 02 2018
OVERVIEW release
Yesterday the SpaceEngine spin-off OVERVIEW was released on Steam.Get OVERVIEW on SteamRead the review article on space.comOVERVIEW is an educational app for VR, based on SpaceEngine. I've worked on it with the French company Orbital Views for more than a year. I've already written about...
Jan 20 2018
Terrain engine upgrade #5
Terrain engine upgrade is incessant work. I am decided to stop experiments and freezing out the current texturing method. I have updated biomes and materials preset editors, added a real-time preview of the editing texture, created a default presets for all types of planets.This is...
Jan 18 2018
Current work
Past weeks I worked hard on preparing for release of the OVERVIEW. It is now online on Vive Port, the Steam page is also online, but release there will be within few weeks. Oculus Store need some additional work.The major changes in VR are implementation...
Jan 04 2018
Custom 3D models for asteroids
The new feature - static (uncontrollable) ships, space stations and planetary bases - are handled by SE as a fake "satellites" with a custom 3D models. They uses a Keplerian orbits as a normal planets or moons do, or a static position relative to the...
Dec 30 2017
Terrain engine upgrade #4
This is the last blog post in this year, obviously)) A month ago I started a new experiment - splitting detail textures into two sets:Material (soil) textures, which are used at a centimeter-scale levels. These are sand, pebbles, grass etc textures. Sample textures, which are used...
Dec 27 2017
PBR rendering #1
Duke experimenting with the PBR - physically-based rendering, combined with IBL - image-based lighting. In order to integrate this in SE, I added support of PBR textures set for ships, ability to specify if the material requires the environment map, and implemented a pre-filtering pass...
Dec 25 2017
Christmas announce
I know it was a long time since previous blog post. I've worked really hard past month, sometimes without weekend. A three major topics of my recent work are:- Continued work on a new terrain generation and rendering. - Experimental PBR rendering of the ship models...
Nov 20 2017
Terrain engine upgrade #3
This will be a large post, so first I'll dilute the wall of text with a screenshots of new landforms, recently added to the engine. They are based on Rodrigo's mods, so far I added the rivers and rifts (faults) for desert planets. Parameters for...