One of the "must have" items before the release is the replacement of a simple background picture in the main menu by a 3D animated scene with planets. As it is done in almost every space game. In SE, with its specialization on rendering of...
Over the past month I have been on vacation, exploring the USA. Now I am back to work, and first I would like to mention that OVERVIEW was released on the Oculus platform on July 12. It is now available for purchase on the Oculus...
After implementing constellations, I continued various work on the engine, and support/development of Overview. Most work is technical: finalizing previous work, optimizations, bugfixes. But some may be considered as user-noticeable features:Added more error checks for the catalogs loading Script command to switch the audio...
Introducing a new feature, which SpaceEngine needed for a long time - constellations! They were implemented with collaboration with ESO ePOD - European Southern Observatory's Education and Public Outreach department. Special thanks to Nico Bartman.Features:Displaying of lines, boundaries and labels (names) for all 88 +...
As I have mentioned in my previous blog post, I want to use texture compression for the terrain engine, in order to reduce its memory requirements. All graphics cards support S3TC - a lossy texture compression algorithm, which reduces the memory footprint of the texture...
During the past two months, I have been working 50/50 on Overview and SpaceEngine. Work on Overview continues: we are still not released on the Oculus Store, and are preparing some updates for the Steam and Viveport releases.Regarding SE, I continue to work on the...
Fantastic news! OVERVIEW has won first prize in its category at the 2018 Viveport Developer Awards! https://blog.vive.com/us/2018/03/19/viveport-announces-vda2-winners/ The $50,000 prize will be shared between Orbital Views and SpaceEngine....
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OVERVIEW won the Education nomination of the 2018 Viveport Developer Awards: https://www.roadtovr.com/htc-announces-2018-viveport-developer-awards-nominees-50k-prize-money-grabs/ It's not clear yet which place, first or second, but it competes with the Bartender VR Simulator...
Yesterday the SpaceEngine spin-off OVERVIEW was released on Steam.Get OVERVIEW on SteamRead the review article on space.comOVERVIEW is an educational app for VR, based on SpaceEngine. I've worked on it with the French company Orbital Views for more than a year. I've already written about...