technology Space Engine: Mind Blown!

[Tom Snyder 4,113]

 

Download: http://en.spaceengine.org/load/core/spaceengine0972/2-1-0-19

 

Please help support this! 

 

 Totally free of charge and incredibly awesome in it's sheer scale! 

 

 

Capabilities

 

• All types of celestial objects are represented: galaxies, nebulae, stars and star clusters, planets and moons, comets and asteroids.
  
• Known celestial objects are represented using data from the catalogs: galaxies (NGC/IC), stars (HIPPARCOS), star clusters, nebulae, planets (our Solar system data and known extrasolar planets).
  
• Uncharted regions of space feature procedurally generated objects: galaxies, stars, star clusters, nebulae and planetary systems.
  
• The observer is free to move around the universe. Transition between any celestial body and any scale occurs seamlessly.
  
• The observer can move around in space using the WASD keys, like in First Person Shooters. Movement with inertia is made possible in Spacecraft mode or Aircraft mode.
  
• "Select and fly" autopilot: just click on any object with the mouse and hit the 'G' key to automatically go directly to the object.
  
• Automatic binding of the observer to a moving object and automatic selection of optimum flight speed.
  
• Search for celestial objects by name. Search for stars in a radius around you. Scalable map of the Universe and a planetary system browser. Saving locations and autopilot's journal.
  
• Built-in wiki system with descriptions of many known objects and ability to extend by user. Possibility of renaming and describing of any object, including procedural ones.
  
• The orbital motion of planets and stars is calculated in real time, with the ability to accelerate, decelerate, or reverse the flow of time.
  
• Display of orbital paths of celestial objects, their rotation and motion vectors, labels and markers, celestial grid, current selection pointer and user velocity vector.
  
• Volumetric 3D models of galaxies and nebulae with interstellar dust clouds.
  
• 3D landscapes of planets and stars: for many solar system bodies actual data from space probes is used; for uncharted and procedural planets the surface is generated procedurally on the GPU.
  
• The exact model of the Earth's atmosphere (code by Eric Bruneton), adapted for the other planets.
  
• Lighting effects: lens flares, solar eclipses, shadows of planetary rings. Celestial objects cast light and shadows onto each other.
  
• Controllable space ships (alpha).
  
• Original background music with context-dependent switching of tracks.
  
• Localization to many languages, with the ability to add new ones.
  
• Ability to import user addons: models, textures, catalogs.
  

 

 

System requirements

 

Minimum / Recommended

 

CPU: 2 GHz / 3 GHz

 

RAM: 2 GB / 4 GB

 

Video: 512 MB / 1024 MB

 

OpenGL: 3.3 / 3.3

 

OS: Windows XP / Windows 7

Edited April 30, 2015 by Candy Star

[NonbinaryDuck 363]

Damn, this is actually very cool! Wonder if it was based off by some parts of the actual structure of space?...

[Alex Van Gamer 230]

Aww man, that looks so cool! >3<; Unfortunately, I have a mac, I would so help support this if I could!

[Tom Snyder 4,113]

First time i saw this, i was just going like this: 

Now i'm like this now: 

 

I want to play this, but i can't due to me having too low a graphic card.

Edited April 30, 2015 by Candy Star