Added ability to reduce illumination color saturation. It is a kinda fake white balance adaptation. Real white balance adaptation as a post-process will make all planets looks like Earth, with distorted colors of the star sky, This is not what I want from SpaceEngine. But...
I am still working on HDR, also added some post-processing filters, like sharpness, saturation, color vibrance. And I remade the settings menu, combining them into a single huge menu with tabs (excluding keys/mouse). Not sure if I should merge keys/mouse settings there as well. Here are...
Continue developing post-effect shaders. First, simple color enhancement. Will be configurable. Next, the effect called pseudo lens flare. Flares inherits the shape of the light source. Any light source now can generate flares, even brightly illuminated object. Effect is fully integrated into the engine: added preset config files similar...
Recently I have working on a proper HDR with autoexposure, and adding a new shiny bloom effect. In process, improved quality of MSAA, and many other things. Now, finally, SE is able to display very large difference of brightmess, and true relative brightness of objects. Earth...
Duke's nebula update. Still a lot of work, integration into engine, correct blending with stars...
A small improvement - ability to change length of the orbit trails: Also added a displaying of an orbital resonance with neighbouring planets/moons: ...
Implemented "rings winter" effect on Saturn (don't know if this effect has some name, "rings winter" is my invention). It is a well known effect of winter hemisphere became blue as if receives a rings shadow. This is because there become too cold for a...
It's long time since last update, because simply nothing to show. I am working mainly on internal engine systems, including the scripting system and various UI improvements. The most interesting feature is a spline path recording tool (it is called 'editor', but editing options are not...
Added some parameter of the star rendering shader to the graphics settings menu and config file. So we are no more need a star shader mods: ...
Made some upgrades to the chart mode. Now it's possible to compare planets by diameter, mass, density and temperature. (BTW check out that planet - RS 8474-2690-8-9131880-116 AB5 - it is a tidally locked titan). I also added a "2D system map" mode, similar to those in...