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 +...
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...