Sup my fellow spaceniggas, how about we try to forget about No Man's Sky and its awful threads for a while and talk about another cool space exploration "game".
Lets talk about Space Engine and post some cool screenshots about neat things we found.
I'll dump some of my screenshots.
This is a screenshot of the new black holes that got added in the 0.974 beta.
>>344877407
This is the core of the black hole.
[took me a while to fly into a black hole cause i'm afraid of them so much]
Another picture of a black hole from a different perspective.
>>344877306
Same planet
Dont let me hanging guys, i know you are out there.
>>344877306
I really dig this game, but stopped playing a short time after planets launched. What other major features have they implemented since planets? Have they fixed pistons and rotors?
>>344878328
Wrong game faggot
>>344878556
Dont be so mean, we are all spaceniggas after all.
>>344878328
But yeah, probably wrong game. If so give Space Engine a try.
Another screenshot
God it's been forever since a good Space Engine thread
I miss 2011 when they first became a thing
>>344878556
Oh shit, i did.
Fuck it. This is now a space enginEERS thread.
>>344878825
We can have both
>>344878823
Holy fuck anon. Thats looks fucking awsome.
>>344877527
>[took me a while to fly into a black hole cause i'm afraid of them so much]
Why?
Are you a faggot, anon?
Since they added accretion disks to Black Holes, they ain't scary anymore, for they are always fucking surrounded by enormous rings like >>344877407.
Random black holes who you just happened to pass by were scary as fuck.
>>344879074
How do you get it to look so good?
>>344879265
custom cfgs
>>344879118
It's easier now that they added the disks.
I dont know, my fear of blach holes is weird as shit.
Those fuckers just scare me to hell and back sometimes.I still think they look fucking awsome
>ordered all the parts for a new rig
>building it after my next run of shifts is over
>more excited to break it in with Space Engine than any other game
I've waited so long, I've been using a fucking GTX460 for years
>>344879406
I apologise in advance for doing this to you, but fun fact
Current theory suggests that the dark space between galaxies is a minefield of primordial black holes, and may be an explanation as to the nature of dark matter and dark energy
>>344880748
>>344877306
Where can I buy it?
I wish I have better CPU for this.
At first I thought this is some kind of bug. And I still not sure about it.
>>344883960
I'm pretty sure, this is Hell.
>>344884226
>>344883292
It's free
http://en.spaceengine.org/
>>344884386
>>344884485
They finally made a "realistic" black hole.
Time to download this shit again.
Why haven't we funded this engine yet?
We would be able to make our own disappointing space sims.
>>344884751
"they"?
>>344884751
The fuck do you mean "they"? Its a single russian dude who does ALL of the dev work, and who apparently has made it his life's goal to make a complete simulation of the entire universe.
>>344887612
Why doesn't anyone throw money and some competent devs at him to build a nice combat system?
>>344887612
Oh, I didn't know it was only one person. That's a remarkable job.
DID SOMEONE SAY SPACE ENGINE
Dumping my ultra high res collection
>>344887692
He does accept donations, and has a list of donation incentives on the spaceengine home page. One of the incentives I think is to turn it into a full fledged game.
As for the devs, he wont allow it IIRC. He prefers to work alone, and considering its just one dude, he's done a really fucking good job.
>>344887984
He has done a really good job, true. But he's still just one guy.
Wouldn't expect this to turn into a real game if he keeps working alone.
>>344887860
>>344888308
>>344887761
Many slavs like him
weird people
>>344888437
>>344888528
>>344888642
>>344888268
Well, the next goal apparently is to make it into a fully fledged single player game and all the things that entails. He's at $42k USD, with the "game goal" being considered funded at $80k, so about $37k to go so he has the cash to dev it full time.
Next goal at $120k is to add online play and a whole slew of features and shit involving it, after that at $150k he turns it into a full on SDK for other game-devs to use. His last defined goal is at $250k, and that is to turn SpaceEngine into a full on MMORPG.
Personally, I think he'll make the $80k goal within a sane timeframe and turn it into a single player game and maybe start some work on multiplayer. I dont see him successfully turning it into an MMORPG though, that is simply too massive of a project for one man even if he was doing this full time.
>>344889210
>$250k, and that is to turn SpaceEngine into a full on MMORPG.
That would be a huge waste of time. This kind of game doesn't need to be a mmorpg.
>>344889210
He really needs to do some crowdfunding though, he's been at that amount for like a year already.
>>344889210
>>344889519
And there I mostly agree, Eve is enough as it is. Multiplayer to some degree would be nice though.
If he adds some proper modding capability and make it easier to navigate between planets and stars it could easily become a superior version to KSP.
>>344889580
He's russian, so I doubt it'd be that easy to get that kind of money to him without getting the attention of multiple global organizations who watchdog that kind of shit.
>>344889210
I think Space Engine is good as it is. Big companies and even some well organised indie groups will do this much faster and better. Look at the Elite Dangerous, for example.
>>344890086
>Elite Dangerous
>better than anything
>>344889210
i mean, the main goal is to make the engine itself, so people can tweak stuff and add personal things to it (as in Unreal engine, unity, etc, but specified to space related things)
I can imagine a documentary using this engine. An exploration game for school, shit like that
>>344889948
Yeah he really needs to fine tune the atmospheric physics and the gravity model for multiple bodies. Add in some good instrumentation, the ability to properly land and maybe some ground clutter and I would be in space simming paradise.
>>344888749
>tfw I will never have anything better than an intelhd computer
>tfw have two telescopes but live in the city so they're useless
>>344890391
well I think ground clutter is on the list of things to do as part of the "cities and shit" he plans on implementing before release, and the other stuff you mentioned is likely to get another pass before V1.0 as well, because what kind of fucking game would this be without that kind of stuff?
>>344891056
Don-t despair.
>>344891197
>V1.0
Much like Dwarf Fortress, this game is never ever getting finished
And that's great
>>344879397
pls post screenshot of the config, or the file itself. Mine looks like shit in comparison
>>344891056
Does KSP work on Intel graphics?
>>344891948
>>344891056
Orbiter is still great.
>>344891948
In theory, yes, but I've never tried it on an intel IGP. KSP though is much more CPU and ram heavy. Its highly recommended that you have at least Sandy Bridge or better for the CPU, and at least 4GB of open ram (so 8GB system ram is recommended) during normal computer operations, because KSP will use up to about 4-4.1gb in 64-bit mode with a bunch of mods installed. Dont run 32-bit mode, you'll smash right into the 32-bit program memory limit within minutes of starting a game.
>>344892795
>>344891948
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9jNaM-GlFE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqhmUmpNeT4
>>344893148
Ok, guess that answers that question. Still, my point stands: lots of ram recommended, as is a fast CPU especially if you're going for big ships/stations.
And the person in the first vid clearly doesnt know how to land on other bodies. Low and fast, null out lateral velocity, counter vertical velocity as it makes its presence known once the retrograde marker is on top of the blue hemisphere, fall and do a short suicide burn to set down.
>forgot space engine existed
>downloading .9.7.4 now
thanks op
Why can't I find any black holes
>>344894234
go to the center of the milky way
>>344893867
Yeah, a lot of systems with only Intel graphics are light on ram and cpu power.
>>344894234
Try looking at the center of the galaxy or a globular cluster.
>>344894496
Well, there are memory footprint reduction mods, and ships/stations can be made less laggy by focusing on trimming part counts as much as possible during construction, and editing the KSP ini file to allow for .1s physics step.
I think Unity 5 is better at the part count thing though, I have yet to check with a fuckhuge space station due to the fact I'm still launching hardware.
>>344894928
Minimizing parts is good engineering practice anyway.
>>344895242
That it is, although some of the things done to ensure the final product is as efficient as possible in terms of part count can be rather wonky or unwieldy to fly to their destination at times.
Some of my heavier structures that i was minimizing part counts on required that they be surrounded and attached to what I call a lifting and maneuvering barge, where everything necessary to get it where it needed to go and then attached to the target ship was installed AROUND the payload.
I would then dock the payload to the desired target, release the payload from the barge, and fly the barge away, leaving 3 parts attached to the station instead of 20+.
Downside is that it requires a significantly larger rocket to get into space, and the payload inside the barge tends to wobble around like a giant floppy dildo the entire time I'm doing maneuvers.
>>344894234
use shift+f3 and go to the filters. select black holes and increase the search radius to 200. you'll find plenty
>>344896389
Search takes away the fun of exploration.
>>344896389
I still can't find anything
Do I need the 0.9.7.4 build for it? I have 7.3
what do you listen to whilst traversing the stars, anons?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzkAwCs5bnI
>>344896905
of course it does, but if you want to search something specific, its the only way out.
try clicking through the whole visible universe and see if you can find a black hole
Man i wish i had gotten a Steam key while it was available, seems to be more updated.
>>344897138
ah yeah, you're fucked. 7.4 has the updated black holes and other stuff.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3QD-W_7cA1IZDhTbmVkZmlncEU/view
this one is the most up-to-date version
>>344897221
Ambient/spacey soundtracks and such
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxeZmiv5MM8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpiuqMkuWL4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBfk37Fa3H0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It4WxQ6dnn0
>>344897558
>steam key
For Space Engine??
>>344897558
SpaceEngine is free dude.
>>344897945
>brian eno
good lad
>>344877407
huh, wasn't space engine supposed to be as realistic as possible, how does a black hole have light?
>>344897558
Are you thinking of space engineers?
>>344880748
>Current theory suggests that the dark space between galaxies is a minefield of primordial black holes, and may be an explanation as to the nature of dark matter and dark energy
Damn, that sounds fucking scary. But at the same time I kind of want a space exploration game where you have to navigate and cross that space, seems like it might be an interesting experience.
>>344898345
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretion_disk
>>344898057
Yeah, they're doing a steam release beta test.
>>344898345
It's an accretion disk, the blackhole isn't emitting light, the super heated gasses are.
>>344898345
That's not light, that's an accretion disk, anon.
>>344877306
Holy horse cocks a space engine thread, I haven't seen one of these in forever. Finally an excuse to post my quadrillions of webbums.
I'd be content to not even make this a game and just keep it as a simulation. Improve the physics model and stuff like that and just keep it as a giant universe sim.
I would be open to creating a fork of the engine and building a game on top of that but I think it requires different devs with a more coherent idea for the type of game and some experience implementing said games.
>>344888749
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh space is too big fuck me
>>344898259
I like a lot of the stuff he produced.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZDtrSQFjYc&list=PLW5_8eogYFDMWprSKGjryhPtPqmgPoPvX&index=11
>>344898345
The hole itself cannot be seen, but the accretion disk around it is normal sublight matter, and on its way into the black hole, it gets squeezed by gravity and magnetic fields (the magnetic field of a black hole is incredibly strong) and bombarded by radiation from matter further in smashing into other matter.
The end result is that the gasses near the hole itself are heated high enough to start emitting everything up to and including Xrays.
Sufficiently massive black holes with enough matter to feed on are bright enough to be seen from across the universe and are called Quasars. Most decently sized black holes that are currently feeding can eject some of the infalling matter (via the aforementioned magnetic fields) into a pair of extremely fast, narrow, and powerful polar jets. The elliptical galaxy M87 has a fairly huge and spectacular example of such a jet.
>>344899001
I dunno, i would dig walking on a planet some billions of light years from Earth with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0RKpmjjpLQ playing.
>>344898984
Please post them all.
>>344899141
>quasar
>pulsar
>black holes
I think you're confusing these three astronomical objects, anon.
The funny thing is, Space Engine has all of them, and they all have accretion disks.
But they're different from each other.
>>344899001
It would be nice if it actually was an engine that people could develop on. All I really want is something like Orbiter, KSP or maybe an Elite 2 clone using Space Engine.
can moons really really really have atmospheres?
>>344899676
You should consider doing some reading sometime.
>>344899467
I thought Elite: Dangerous actually had a pretty decent system for generating pretty realistic worlds, I was seriously considering buying it over the sale but everyone I knew advised against it.
I mean it can't be THAT bad can it? The sound design in that game is wonderful.
>>344899467
Or Aurora
>>344899141
Oh, and fun fact about the jet: it emits 13 orders of magnitude more energy than our entire galaxy, if i am reading these numbers right.
>>344899319
No i didnt. Black holes have been confirmed to have strong magnetic fields. A quasar is powered by a multi-million stellar mass black hole eating tens if not hundreds of solar masses of matter a day.
>>344899676
They can, see Saturn's moon Titan, and Neptune's moon Triton (has a tenuous atmosphere, but its there enough to have high altitude winds that move the output of the cryogeysers downwind.)
>>344899991
I got a good 60 hours out of it before I got bored and never went back to it. It might be worth it to you on sale.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_roar
>The space roar is a radio signal from outer space discovered by NASA's Alan Kogut and his team, and announced at the 213th meeting of the American Astronomical Society on January 7, 2009. Described as a loud hiss, the team discovered the signal while trying to find traces of heat from first-generation stars using an ARCADE radiometer. This instrument is designed to detect radiation at centimeter wavelengths. Though signals from radio galaxies have been detected before, the "space roar" sounds six times louder than what is predicted from those sources. Scientists have yet to explain its source. NASA scientists have currently ruled out primordial stars and all other known radio sources. The roar currently limits the study of the universe's earliest stars.
>>344900013
With simulated Newtonian physics and combat.
>>344900286
>There are giant space lizards out there RIGHT NOW
Oh shit, space thread!
Are you guys excited for Outer Wilds?
>>344900286
>The roar currently limits the study of the universe's earliest stars.
They don't want us to find out
>>344900286
that link redirects me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARCADE nice meme
how do i up the game's graphics? anyone got configs?
>>344900267
I'm literally just in it for the exploration and floating about, I do enough of it in SE anyway.
>>344899237
I can't at this time but if the thread is still up in an hour or two I'll dump all 50 or so webbums I have.
>>344900592
Deep space's rare pepes are REEEEEEEEEing at us human normies trying to make their secrets available to a wider audience.Fuck you space pepes, we will casualize the Universe
Why is that Slavs make such awesome games but so infrequently? IL2 Sturmovik, Silent Storm, STALKER, and the dude whos making Space Engine. Does it have something to do with their countries being shitholes?
What is there to do in space engine? i bought universe sandbox and that was fun for about 2 hours and then it got boring.
>>344901117
I find the exploration more satisfying in Space Engine. More variety, freer movement and actual physics when you want it. I didn't buy Horizons because it only has moons without atmospheres. I'm not going to buy a game that may or may not be completed eventually one 50 dollar annual DLC at a time. I don't give a shit about whatever gimmicky little tweaks he's done to the online universe.
How do you fagets make the game look so good?
>>344901761
A really, really good CPU and lots of RAM.
>>344901723
Don't forget Silent Hunter. I dunno, they just have a knack for making good sims with efficient use of hardware.
>>344901982
A good GPU with lot's of vram is important too because the terrain is rendered on the GPU. Well, 2GB isn't lots of vram anymore I guess.
OP here.
Just wanted to say how nice the thread turned out.I missed it cause i fell asleep on my bed but still thanks.
Let's talk about pic related.
The boötes void isnt the game right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C3%B6tes_void
>>344901982
I have a good PC, I meant what config do you guys use
Please help me I'm retarded, how the fuck do I control this game? I downloaded it and there were a trillion different buttons so I got scared and quit
>>344899319
Quasars are black holes but Pulsars are neutron stars.
>>344902289
I think it uses catalogued galaxies for a lot of the nearer more major galaxies and fills in the rest with random ones. It's probably too far away.
>>344899676
Yes, look at titan you fucking nigger
>>344901982
16GB enough?
>>344902747
yes
>>344902370
You don't need to know what they all do to get started. You only need a few.
>>344902370
IIRC the default controls are
W/S forward/backward
A/D roll
Q/E left/right
Click an object and press G to travel to it
Mouse wheel for speed
You should figure out yourself the rest, it's not hard
>>344902747
Thats more than ample.
>>344902370
just hit and click shit until you find out
>>344902659
>>344902370
It would be nice if it used a simple gravity procedure in it's universe generation instead of just random galaxy placement. You can some clustering when you're near to the milky way but not enough to really make out any superclusters or voids.
>>344902951
I always swap Q/E
I don't know what he was thinking.
>>344902221
But, is 2GB good enough to render terrain?
Not the guy you replied to, but i haven't opened up Space Engine since I changed my GPU. Now I'm actually tempted.
>>344879397
where those configs at senpai
>>344900484
Nobody? ;_;
>>344903513
Yes although it crashes fairly often depending on the situation.
>>344903808
Not my cup of coffee.
Red Sun Over Paradise.
>>344902871
How do you control it so well?
idk, it always feels like shit when i try to controle a spacecraft.
>Seeing all these beatufil pictures and wonder why my game looks so shit in comparison
>I had LOD at -2
>>344903343
I thought I was the weird one
>>344903808
what even is it
it just looks like some dickhead sitting at a fire
>>344877527
>[took me a while to fly into a black hole cause i'm afraid of them so much]
recently i've been playing subnautica and, goddam, never have i been scared during a video game like that one. might have to stop playing i feel like such a pussy. horror games have never even come close to the fear i have of exploring the abyss in a sandbox game.
>>344904116
I use a joystick and adjust the control sensitivity. You have to be careful about the axes you assign for atmosphere vs regular controls. Setting it up seems needlessly complicated and unintuitive and It still controls like shit in some atmospheres at some speeds. That's why one of my biggest desires for this games is overhauled physics and controls.
>>344903181
generating universe based on initial mas distribution is easy in theory, but way too heave on CPU to produce any results close to reality
there are better methods to achieve clusters though
>>344904040
Red dwarfs are so weird.
>>344904978
Yeah I guess an actual gravity simulation probably wouldn't be as practical as some kind of fractal noise.
>go so fast that you reach the end of the observable universe
>it's like staring a black wall
Shit's scaryalthough I know if you got to the end of OUR observable universe you'd keep seeing stars and shit unlike in SE
I wonder what's out there...
>>344905678
The universe is a cube.
Where can I download spacecrafts? Better if it has view from the cockpit
>>344905893
The observable universe is a cube.
It's theorized that the universe is toroid shaped.
Unless they changed again.
Laptopfag here, any sweet space exploration game that can work on a potato?
>>344906171
Outer Wilds
Noctis IV
Aurora
>>344906171
celestia is basically the less shiny version of space engine, i use both actually since celstia has better controls.
>>344887692
>combat
Jesus Christ fuck no
>>344905764
I suggest you guys open these images on a new window and zoom them in to appreciate the detail.
>>344906171
Orbiter
Elite 2/Pioneer
Freelancer
WC Privateer/2
I-War 2
Maybe KSP depending on specs
>>344906295
>Noctis
>Aurora
Nice!
>>344906063
Theorized or hypothesized?
>>344906547
Hypothesized, my bad.
Rodina is a really nice game, basically every that i wanted as a kid
i really recommend it.
>>344906479
Also
Starflight
Star Control 2/Urqan Masters
Endless Sky
>>344906365
Thanks this is my first time on the internet, I forgot that the 6080 meant it was bigger than my 1080p
>>344906942
Well most people just enlarge the image on 4chan and you don't get to see all the detail like that.
>>344906942
Do I detect a note of 16 year-old edgelord levels of sarcasm?
>>344906365
>less than 2mb
How
>>344901746
You have to be really interested in space to enjoy Space Engine. The fun is in exploring and making up your own shit to do. I personally try to jump from star to star in a ship, exploring planets and trying to keep my ship around as long as possible. If I fuck up and plummet into a planet, I delete the ship. If the game fucks up and makes my space ship invisible, I count it as a failed FTL jump and delete the space ship. I've gone probably 6 stars before this inevitably happens, it's very awesome though.
>>344907159
Proper compression.
The originals are always like 10MB.
>>344907159
It's mostly empty space.
>>344907071
What plebs not opening SPESS to its maximum potential, enjoying your posts since my rig crashes a lot playing this.Fucking horrifying how many planets, galaxies, and other objects exist
>>344907493
Doing these screenshots is hard, I crash more often than you'd imagine.
>that one insane genius russian man who programmed a fucking universe simulator is still making updates
this program gives me actual faith in humanity
oh man accretion disks even
>>344907812
Is KSP good yet?
>>344907874
With enough mods
anyone know how or where to find the new black holes?
>>344907874
I dunno. I haven't played it in over a year.
>>344907493
I'm more horrified that we may never ever reach the closest star without having to travel for hundreds of years.
Space bending spaceships when?
I think i've accidentally meaning of existence
>>344906365
>1920x6080
A B S O L U T E
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>>344908131
Probably never.
>>344908227
When the resolution is just THICC
>>344904257
It's a pretty neat game where you explore a tiny solar system.
Expect some spooks
>>344907493
Fucking horrifying how many planets, galaxies, and other objects exist
The thing that scares me is no matter what you're looking at on the screen while playing Space Engine, you're smaller than a single pixel relative to what you're seeing. Then you zoom out, and the thing you were just looking at, already so huge, is just a pixel itself.
>>344908856
If earth were a grain of sand, all the beaches in the earth still wouldn't account for one millionth of the actual size of the universe.
The size of the universe is so large that our brains can not comprehend it, you may see 10^23 million kilometers and say "ok", but you're just accepting the number, your mind can't grasp such sizes.
It's such an enormous, grandious, insurmountable distance that your mind can not understand it.
You are nothing, human.
>>344908131
In all honesty probably never, the only possible way is if the singularity/some other life extending ai fusion thing happens soon. There's almost 0 chance of any person leaving this solar system and reaching another alive without being mechanically modified due to radiation and various other effects. Not to mention if we do actually invent space bending/moving objects the people who sent you on the mission would probably be long dead once you returned I highly doubt the first metahumans would live longer than 300 or so years probably, hell everybody could be long dead for all you know it only takes one asteroid. or the singularity could happen after you leave and you're the last regular non-modified human for a long time
>>344908150
I actually thought that that is the core of the black hole. Actually its just the way you came from.
>>344909073
Even trying to comprehend the size of our own solar system is almost impossible.
>>344909572
Yee but it's not as big as ur mom's ass.
All these pixels and she still couldn't fit.
>>344909697
Yes well according to my data Uranus alone is over 50000 kilometers in diameter.
>>344907637
Can you give some tips/advice? these are some of the best screenshot i've seen of SE, and i've scoured the subreddit and the forums.
>>344909986
I knew I shouldn't have bought that Ultra Stretch Extra Large Space Dragon Dildo™
Here, have one of my largest images yet, clocking at about 21MB as JPG, and at about 150MB as a PNG.
Here's a link to an uncompressed high quality JPG: http://pastebin.com/s2BkJkiX
>>344910585
Well you see, I'm some kind of hidden genius of ultra high res screenshots before Nvidia downsampling was a thing.
I've always wanted to post on the forums and stuff but I could never find the time, so I just posted my images here.
I used to have a guide written on how I take these screenshots, but I lost it.
Let me see if I can find it again! Shouldn't take too long...
>>344910771
That'd be awesome if you could find it.
Yeah, I just wish you could use DSR with custom monitor configs. Choosing between overclocking your monitors for that extra smoothness in actiony games and having great textures is tough.
>>344911068
Well...
I tried googling, and I couldn't find it. I lost the .txt file when my SSD died last year...
But! At least I know that many of my screenshots are on the best of space engine galleries online somewhere!
Ah, but let's get to the point, how I do it. Well, it's actually simpler than it looks, I use a program called SRWE - Simple Runtime Window Editor, it's a little program that was made for Skyrim to take high res screenshots using a method called "Hotsampling".
Hotsampling is a term used to describe a game that can change it's internal renderer resolution on the fly by accessing it through the SRWE hack, there are many games that support it, and many that don't. Space Engine is one of the ones that support it, and have actually very good results (most games will crash immediately upon changing resolution).
So, to take these screenshots all you need is a very beefy computer, Space Engine 9.7.1 or higher, SRWE and a loooooot of patience.
With Space Engine the resolution limits are on your GPU, if you run out of VRAM you'll crash the game and most likely your system as well. If you don't, you probably will crash the game. If you don't, you can try to take a screenshot and hope it doesn't crash while you're taking the screenshot.
My "workflow" is as it follows:
>Fly around at 1080p normally
>Find object I want to take a screenshot of
>Position the camera accordingly
>Use SRWE to change to the desired resolution
>Wait for Space Engine to render the image (the game takes a bit to render the terrain, also at higher resolution higher accuracy of terrain generation so time increase is exponential)
>Take screenshot with F11 (I have it set to save a PNG, but you can set it to save JPGs, they are very high quality).
>use SRWE to go back to 1080p and continue moving around
1/2
>>344912036
That one's really nice. Love it.
>>344912036
2/3
You also have to remember too that when you hotsample, increasing the resolution of the window means you're expanding the borders, that means that on XY coordinate 0,0. (we assume 0,0 is the center of the screen even though it's not). If you expand the screen say 200 pixels it means you're expanding 100 to the left and 100 to the right. That means that when expanding the resolution you're expanding from the center, which means that your camera stays pointed at whatever you were pointing at.
You can use tricky camera positions and resolution expansion to get cool shots, you'll need experience for that but it's easy.
The game loves to crash when you try to increase your resolution, so if you find something cool and crash chances are it's going to be almost impossible to find it again, so what I do is after I find what I want and have my camera set up, I exit the game (this saves your location and camera position), so when I reopen the game and try to take the screenshot, if the game crashes I can just keep on trying until it works. Figuring this out took me many sad moments of crashes when I had found wonderful stuff that will never get to see the light on the internet.
I also use some .ini edits to increase the level of the terrain generator further, I like to call it LOD 2+ to be sophisticated, but really it's just some tweaks to the accuracy. I have my settings here: http://pastebin.com/8bqeJj4s
OP here again.
Wonderful thread, to bad i have to go now.
I wish my fellow spaceniggas a good day and hope we can have a SE thread again sometime.
Space Engine threads are always so comfy. I'm feeling really relaxed right now, guys.
>>344912665
3/4
This is turning out to be longer than I thought, no wonder I wrote a pastebin, anyway.
You may also want to download the space engine texture packs and such for cool screenies of the universe.
Also, in the game's graphics options there's this thing called "Imposters" that you can tick on and off, you've probably tried messing with them and noticed that turning them off gives you like 30fps less in the viewer. That's because these imposters are actually fake textures used to represent celestial bodies, like the galaxies or nebulae. If you turn the imposters off the game renders them itself, and it has a high performance cost. For all intents and purposes you leave these on while moving around and when you want to take a screenshot turn the imposters off. You probably won't even notice a difference, but trust me when you take the screenshot it will matter in the final result.
Also you may want to learn the hotkeys for Exposure controls, Magnitude Order and Exposure mode.
Exposure Mode lets you select between Auto Exposure and Manual Exposure. Auto is good for making planets stand out alone (no stars in the background) and to take deep space screenshots that look semi-realistic. Manual exposure yields more hubble-like deep space shots with thousands upon thousands of stars on screen.
With manual exposure on you can then use Magnitude order controls to increase the magnitude to see more stars and see dimmer stars more brightly, and then use manual exposure to control how bright the stars are. Exposure also controls how bright/shiny planets are. Basically it comes down to toying with the exposure to get the good looking shot or the shot you want to take.
This image for example is using manual exposure with very high magnitude order and high exposure.
>>344913123
4/4
Did I mention that higher magnitude also increase the chances to crash? Yeah, the game loves to crash if your magnitude is too high, so don't just hold the button down for three seconds or you'll most likely crash. It's really finicky.
Also learn to toy with the settings the game has like bloom, etc. It's sliders so you can easily mess around and see the results, just do it while in 1080p.
Also my recommendation when taking high res screenshots is to turn OFF the anti aliasing.
If you take a 10k shot you don't want the FXAA to blur your super crisp stars, just leave the AA off and then if you want to get rid of jaggies downscale the image in Photoshop or something. The final result will be much better than leaving AA on in-game.
And I think that's about it. If you have any questions, ask them now before I go to sleep, I have to go to work tomorrow and it's really late here.
Also here are my two flickr albums with all my good Space Engine screenshots, you can download the originals too at full res.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/courier_ttf/sets/72157633719799440
https://www.flickr.com/photos/courier_ttf/albums/72157650066873858
>>344912289
Thanks, I really like it too.
>>344913090
A much welcome change from all the shitposting everywhere else on this board.
>>344913573
>>344913123
>>344912665
>>344912036
Not the anons you were talking to but damn son, this is some good shit. I love you.
Has the dev said anything about rings around planets actually consisting of debris instead of just being a giant flat jpeg any time soon??
And to think I got a ban from all boards for posting lewd shit and here I am, ban evading like a boss for my space bros.
Man I wish I lived on a planet in space.
I can't see any terrain on planets, please help
>>344914558
Where do you think Earth is you fucker?
>>344914387
Space porn is the most lewd there is.
>>344914693
>that flatness
Oh you.
>>344914693
>8000x180
lol I didn't mean to post that one
>>344914731
Check this out. You can see all her craters!
Incorporate a mode where you can fly your own ship and walk around it and I'll be set forever
Anyone know a program that can open .tga files?
>>344915108
Photshop, IRFANView, Paint.net, GIMP, XnView...
For some reason I just thought of a space experience game in the spirit of Aria, but instead of Neo Venezia and gondolas, it's the Milky Way and spaceships. But you have similar characters. And it's all about appreciating space. I would love that. Akari leading me through the Galaxy with her usual perspective on everything. Or maybe it could be Carl Sagan, that'd be cool, too.
How does your SE looks so good? Mine looks like shit
>>344916039
Man, read the thread. >>344913873
>>344915329
I always wondered this because of all the SE pictures but never asked, but do auroras really appear like that? I mean, I don't think I've seen any real pictures of a planet where they're so big and obvious like that.
>>344916257
Well, if you do a quick google search for "Earth Aurora from Space" I think your answer can be found quite easily, though I'm not sure about the size!
I know though that I edit mine to look more bright so they're more noticeable from afar.
>>344914658
what the fuck is wrong with my game?
>>344916505
You forgot to do the blood sacrifice to the gods of space, right?
>finish reading Ring today
>love hard sci-fi but wish I had any competent understanding of maths and physics so I could truly comprehend it all
>>344916490
Wow it looks pretty cool actually, I never knew. I think I really like auroras now. I kind of want to cuddle with one...
>>344917718
wow wtf i love auroras now...
>>344917718
I actually know a tranny named Aurora, I can hook you up if you want.
>>344917718
Forgot image.
Found this pretty neato galaxy here
it has a very strange shape to it...
>>344917884
Hey, sign me up.
huh.... twins....
>>344918527
They look pretty close, are they going to collide with each other and spawn a new celestial body?
>>344918735
No, its just the perspective I made when taking the photo
One of them is actually a moon
Also, Check out this egg shaped gas giant with life
>>344918878
Is it getting ready to be impregnated with sentient beings?
