During the past month I have worked on updating the textures of Solar system planets and moons to make them compatible with the new terrain engine. The old textures are incompatible because they have a resolution of 258*258, while the engine now requires 256*256; also,...
For SpaceEngine's upcoming debut on Steam, program stability is crucial. As most of you know, SE has never shone in this area. Therefore, I am attacking the main culprit: the terrain engine. Historically, SE has used a dynamic redistribution of memory between different subsystems, depending...
During past 2 month I continue work on preparing for release on Steam. I passed one iteration with Steam, and now, after fixing all issues, is ready to send them the new update. After they accept it as "ready for release", I will be ready...
Next stream is scheduled on Thursday, December 20, at 18:00 UTC. Post in this thread what you'd like to see in the stream!...
I preparing the first build to be sent to the Steam for revision. I completed the most wanted feature - tutorials - and will switch to content updating. This includes integration of new nebulae and galaxies models, planet palettes and textures, and updating catalogs. Probably...
Preparing for release is a challenging time. It is full of work: complete the development of many new systems, pass a large number of tests, and fix a huge number of emerging bugs, most of which are quite small. Some of the work listed below...
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 +...