Space Engine

[cubinator]

Anyone else here like to play Space Engine? Want to share interesting places you've found? This is the place! I haven't seen a thread like this, so I thought I'd post one. Here are a few nice places I found today:

This stuff is so nice I set my desktop to shuffle my Space Engine screenshot directory. Anyway, what are your favorite planets you've found?

[livefree75]

One time I found a planet that looked almost exactly like Eve with rings. Another time I found a green gas giant.

(I admit it, all I look for in that game are planets that look like things from KSP) 

[A35K]

In fact, there is a thread like this, but it's hidden somewhere a few tens of pages back... I know because once I made a thread exactly like this, and it was merged with the previous one (which wasn't anywhere in the first 10 pages).

Edited February 6, 2016 by A35K

[silversliver]

When you learn how to modify things to create yourself stars and planets, then you understand how incredibly powerful is this "game".

Various links to my albums:

http://imgur.com/a/zf3e2

http://imgur.com/a/SGxwG

http://imgur.com/a/J38Yq

http://imgur.com/a/4SQ9L

http://imgur.com/a/BtkcM

http://imgur.com/a/UmQy0

[cubinator]

@silversliver Nice! Makes me want to play with that "Edit Planet" menu now!

[silversliver]

20 hours ago, cubinator said:

@silversliver Nice! Makes me want to play with that "Edit Planet" menu now!

Sadly with the internal editor you can't do much except modifying the sea level, the atmosphere and the auroras but it's fun regardless.

[Guest]

Anyone: please donate to them so they can make a Mac version...  I can't play it...

[RA3236]

Sucks.... My computer gets to the brink of loading the planetarium and.... Crashes.

[BloodDusk]

No supermassive black holes or neutron stars?

[Andem]

So... Is there a thread where @silversliver unloads his Space Engine wisdom upon the masses? 

[Clockwork13]

On February 13, 2016 at 11:07 AM, BloodDusk said:

No supermassive black holes or neutron stars?

Not sure about supermassive black holes (regular ones though) although I do remember there being neutron stars.

[cubinator]

7 hours ago, Clockwork13 said:

Not sure about supermassive black holes (regular ones though) although I do remember there being neutron stars.

There are supermassive black holes. If you go to any galaxy, then zoom in without changing the camera angle it will be perfectly focused on the exact center, there you will find a very big black hole.

[silversliver]

15 hours ago, Andem said:

So... Is there a thread where @silversliver unloads his Space Engine wisdom upon the masses? 

Nope. But you can ask.

[Clockwork13]

13 hours ago, cubinator said:

There are supermassive black holes. If you go to any galaxy, then zoom in without changing the camera angle it will be perfectly focused on the exact center, there you will find a very big black hole.

Huh. I tried that but didn't notice it being any bigger than a regular one.

[cubinator]

10 hours ago, Clockwork13 said:

Huh. I tried that but didn't notice it being any bigger than a regular one.

I recall seeing in the UI where it tells info about the selected body that it's mass was several billion suns and it's diameter several AU. It's hard to tell because there's nothing to compare it to, no smaller black holes orbiting near it.

[Delfinus]

Yeah, I've been playing SpaceEngine a TON lately, here's the picture's I've taken in my adventures:

WARNING: SPOILER IS EXTREMELY LARGE.

Spoiler

 

 

[cubinator]

I like the new accretion disks in the 0.9.7.4 beta:

Reminds me of Interstellar, although none of these have planets remotely near enough to the black hole to be illuminated by the disk in any way.

[Pikachu8204]

Dude, you do know that you can make ksp mods with space engine

Edited March 3, 2016 by Pikachu8204

[cubinator]

3 hours ago, Pikachu8204 said:

Dude, you do know that you can make ksp mods with space engine

I've experimented with Kopernicus some, but haven't been able to get my rocky worlds working quite right so I dropped it. I also got the KSP planet pack for Space Engine, and that worked well except Minmus which was buggy. There's a lot that can be done with Space Engine, that's for sure!

Edited March 3, 2016 by cubinator

[problemecium]

Sure, you can. I'm not sure that means you should...

[Pikachu8204]

I watched a video on youtube where they did it with planet factory CE

[cubinator]

Here are some interesting ones I've found lately:

 

[Spaceception]

14 minutes ago, cubinator said:

Here are some interesting ones I've found lately:

 

Nice!

[Pikachu8204]

Here's the video

 

 

[Pikachu8204]

This is the only one where they use space engine