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....
Version 0.990.42.1830 has now finished public beta testing and is being released to all users! This update primarily focuses on updating assets and some bugfixes. Here is the copy of the changelog from the previous blog post. You can read more details there.Updates: Updated exoplanets catalog Added...
A new update, version 0.990.42.1830, is now available for public beta testing (how to join the beta). It features new exoplanets discovered since SE's initial release on Steam, new/updated textures for Mars, Pluto, and Iapetus, and some fixes and improvements.Updates: Updated exoplanets catalog Added new names of...
Hello everyone! Version 0.990.41 has now finished public beta testing and is being released to all users! This update primarily aims to improve performance through optimizations and moving some significant tasks to parallel threads. Lighting and eclipse shadows are now calculated on multiple CPU threads,...
One year ago, on June 11, 2019, SpaceEngine was released on Steam. Since then we have released many updates, but haven't implemented many new features - this is because we were focused on fixing bugs and improving stability. Among the more noticeable features that were...
Hello everyone! The latest update, which overhauls autoexposure and video recording, and which you can read about here, is now out of public beta testing and is being released to everyone, along with a few additional changes and fixes.NOTE FOR INTEL GRAPHICS USERS A side effect...
Hello everyone, we finally have a new update for you! But before we talk about it, we would like to apologize for how long it has been since the last update. Though the delay was unavoidable, we still could have done a better job about...
Hello everyone!I'm a little embarrassed to say that there was a mistake in the configuration of the launch option for the SE configuration tool (i.e. the addon manager) which caused it to only be accessible to those subscribed to the public beta branch. We finally...
Hello everyone, we hope you're staying safe and well! We know the current pandemic is stressful, and some of you may also be bored by having to spend so much time at home. So we decided to hold an impromptu sale! For the next 7...
Today's small update 0.990.39.1765 is merged with the previous one and published to the main branch, making Workshop support available to everyone.Build 0.990.39.1765 - Updated exoplanet catalogs - Updated localizations - Fixed Auto Illumination saturation checkbox in the main menu - Fixed usage of the Load button in the...