It's been three years since SpaceEngine first launched on Steam, and a lot has happened since. While every anniversary is important, the changes SpaceEngine has gone through over the last few months have made this anniversary special. Without our community, we would not be where...
A little while back, we reconnected with the awesome folks at Giant Army (the developers behind Universe Sandbox), and today is our first collaboration: the Space Is Cool bundle! You can pick up a copy of Universe Sandbox today on Steam (along with SpaceEngine) as part...
Hey Folks! As you may have noticed, there's a lot of action at SpaceEngine these days. We wanted to give you a bit of a (further) update, as well as some additional insights into what's been going on behind the scenes. We're officially a company! At the end...
We are pleased to announce that the latest update has finished public beta testing and is being released to all users! Just to recap, the biggest item in this update is the scalable interface, which should make life easier for people with 4k screens. You...
In this update on the public beta branch, we present a feature long requested by users of 4k displays: a scalable graphical user interface! Until now, text and menus were too small to be used comfortably on 4k displays. With this update, however, the scale...
The latest update has finished public beta testing and is now being released to everyone. Why we've been quiet You may be wondering why we didn't post about any public beta updates even though we released some. In short, it's because things have been very chaotic lately....
Volumetric rings are out of beta testing and are being released to everyone! You can read more about this feature in our previous blog posts here and here. More improvements for rings are planned for the future, but for now I must move on to...
Volumetric rings build is still in beta. I have found and fixed some bugs, and added some new features. Most of them are not directly related to rings, but needs testing. One of them is implementation of a better post-processing sharpening algorithm. The basic sharpness filter...
Build 1850 is a small update focused on completing the current iteration of the 3D rings system and fixing bugs detected during the public beta. By "current iteration" I mean that 3D rings will be updated in the future, but for now I must move...
SpaceEngine finally has volumetric planetary rings, with 3D rocks and a dust effect. I worked on volumetric rings with Duke for around half a year, with some breaks due to personal reasons. But now we are ready to release the first version of the system....