Oct 15 2009

Eclipse shadows

Implemented eclipse shadows. They are analytically calculated in the planet surface fragment shader.View from the eclipsed body:...

Oct 06 2009

Mulitple light sources

Three suns illuminating Saturn (just for a test):Light source can be local. This one looks like a nuclear explosion near Saturn:Mulitple lights are needed not only for binary and multiple star systems, but also for illumination of moons and planets by each other:This is the...

Sep 30 2009

Detail texture for Saturn rings

Noise texture is sampled 4 times: 2 octaves of a normal 2D noise, 2 octaves of radially applied noise. This splits rings into millions of a narrow sub-rings....

Sep 23 2009

Saturn rings lighting

Front lighting:Contraversal lighting:This is based on a famous backlit Saturn photo from Cassini (this is a real photo):...

Aug 23 2009

SpaceEngine dev blog

This is the first ever publication I ever made about SpaceEngine. It was originally published on the gamedev.ru forum. Original text was lost, only video remained. This was because I update the opening post multiple times during many years. Releases of first SE versoins were...