New landform - something that looks like rivers. I call them pseudo rivers. Of course this is not a real rivers, i.e. they don't flow from highland to the sea, they have no inflows etc. River nets sometimes look strange - like blood vessels, and...
Updated warp bubble effect. The space-time is compressed in front of the ship (blackhole-like metrics) and expanded after the ship (whitehole-like metrics). The ship itself stays inside the bubble in the flat space-time. ...
Small update of the water. Specular spot have a size according to size of a light source: And surface now have a small animated normal noise: Water surface opacity is calculated using Fresnel equation, underwater volume have an exponential fog: Reflections, refractions, caustics, and 3D waves are will...
Updated controls settings menu. It now have mouse axis binds and sensitivity, and independent settings for free camera (planetarium), ship in atmosphere and ship in space controls. So now you can, for example for atmospheric flight mode, invert mouse Y axis and set X axis...
Small but important bugfix: cyclones on gas giants are returned! And new update today, again with moons and rings. Inner moons now makes gaps in rings: And this gas giant have a pack of moons which orbits are very close to each other, so they make a...
I implemented something like debris asteroid belt around a planet. Nothing new in the engine, just few hundreds of asteroids orbiting a planet. Brute force implementation killed FPS immediately, so I made many optimizations: reduce size of asteroids to a few kilometers (so only few...
I updataed procedural moon system generator. Now it generates 3 types of moons: Inner moons, small asteroid-like bodies orbiting close to the planet in its equatorial plane, near or inside its rings if they are present. Regular moons, big spherical-shaped satellites (or asteroidal with some small probability),...
Today I implement video capture in avi. So now you can record video with built-in recorder and upload directly to youtube. And this is demonstration of new video capture...
Implemented GUI controls and HUD (head-up display) for space ships. Ship HUD and control panel may change very much in the release version. Just cool lighting :) ...
Increasing variety of life in SE Universe. Now these types of worlds can be inhabited: Terra (organic life on the surface or in the oceans) Oceania (organic life in the ocean) Desert (organic life on the surface) Ice world (organic life in the ocean under the ice crust) Titan (methane-based...