May 28 2019
HarbingerDawn’s stream #16
Next stream is scheduled on Wednesday, May 29, at 17:00 UTC. Post in this thread what you'd like to see in the stream!...
May 27 2019
Steam Store Page is Live!
Great news everyone! The Steam store page for SpaceEngine is now live! Follow the link to check it out and add it to your wishlist.SpaceEngine 0.990 is not available for purchase yet, but launch day is fast approaching. Now that the store page is published,...
May 17 2019
Solar System and 64-bit
During the past month I have worked on updating the textures of Solar system planets and moons to make them compatible with the new terrain engine. The old textures are incompatible because they have a resolution of 258*258, while the engine now requires 256*256; also,...
Mar 28 2019
Terrain 2.0
For SpaceEngine's upcoming debut on Steam, program stability is crucial. As most of you know, SE has never shone in this area. Therefore, I am attacking the main culprit: the terrain engine. Historically, SE has used a dynamic redistribution of memory between different subsystems, depending...
Feb 17 2019
Current work
During past 2 month I continue work on preparing for release on Steam. I passed one iteration with Steam, and now, after fixing all issues, is ready to send them the new update. After they accept it as "ready for release", I will be ready...
Dec 16 2018
HarbingerDawn’s stream #15
Next stream is scheduled on Thursday, December 20, at 18:00 UTC. Post in this thread what you'd like to see in the stream!...
Dec 10 2018
Preparing for 0.990 release
I preparing the first build to be sent to the Steam for revision. I completed the most wanted feature - tutorials - and will switch to content updating. This includes integration of new nebulae and galaxies models, planet palettes and textures, and updating catalogs. Probably...
Oct 24 2018
Current work
Preparing for release is a challenging time. It is full of work: complete the development of many new systems, pass a large number of tests, and fix a huge number of emerging bugs, most of which are quite small. Some of the work listed below...
Oct 08 2018
Animated scene in the main menu
One of the "must have" items before the release is the replacement of a simple background picture in the main menu by a 3D animated scene with planets. As it is done in almost every space game. In SE, with its specialization on rendering of...
Sep 21 2018
The Map mode upgrade
HarbingerDawn gave an idea of how to make the Map mode more interesting. If you disable labels, lines and grid on the level of galaxies, and increase the magnitude limit, you will be able to see the large-scale structure of the Universe:[bs_image_comparison id='2634'] Slide the handle...