My futile attempts to render an elliptical galaxy and an irregular galaxy (which looks awfully flat)
[url=http://postimage.org/image/5b2qhruej/full/][img]http://s17.postimage.org/az918nyr3/Space_Engine_2012_08_12_23_48_49_23.png[/img][/url]
[url=http://postimage.org/image/igmu1mdnv/full/][img]http://s17.postimage.org/4a736e2sv/Space_Engine_2012_08_13_20_51_55_01.png[/img][/url]
[url=http://postimage.org/image/uwjjvd6zv/full/][img]http://s17.postimage.org/qnett73qn/Space_Engine_2012_08_14_00_10_21_45.png[/img][/url]
Well, you inspired me.
Here's our little old Milky Way.
Screenshot:
[thumb]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/32146097/scr00186.png[/thumb]
Render:
[thumb]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/32146097/ALLLLAAADEMMMSTAAARRRS.png[/thumb]
[QUOTE=Freak2121;37424070]Well, you inspired me.
Here's our little old Milky Way.
Screenshot:
Render:
[img_thumb]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/32146097/ALLLLAAADEMMMSTAAARRRS.png[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]
How did you render that? I'm dying to know.
I forgot about SpaceEngine. I still have it on my computer somewhere... going to fire it up again.
Turn off Catalog Stars (looks nasty from this perspective).
Go far from the galaxy and then exit SpaceEngine.
Delete the cache folder.
Enter Space Engine again, go near the galaxy but not into it since you don't want to render many local stars.
Set your options to the [URL="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/32146097/scr00187.png"]this[/URL].
Set your FOV to 120.
Set your brightness settings to [URL="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/32146097/scr00188.png"]this[/URL].
Set your FOV to whatever you want and just wait for it to generate however many stars you're comfortable.
If you want it rendered, go to:
Menu>Export>Skybox
[URL="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/32146097/scr00189.png"]Center the Milky Way, export it at 4096x4096 per face[/URL] and then just stitch it together with something like Photoshop.
Enjoy. :smile:
So my Space Engine crashes after the same amount of time each time I start it up. It can run for about 15 minutes. Is this a memory or an overheat issue?
Probably a memory issue. What is your GPU and have you edited main.cfg to suit it?
[QUOTE=Freak2121;37424750]Probably a memory issue. What is your GPU and have you edited main.cfg to suit it?[/QUOTE]
It is an ATI HD Radeon 4670. And no I havent edited the main.cfg
Ok, so I looked at the main.cfg and lowered the resolution to my native resolution, that might help a little.
512mb VRAM is kind of low these days.
Open main.cfg and set [B]VideoMemorySize [/B]to 512 and [B]VideoMemoryMaxPercent [/B]to 85 or 90.
See if that helps.
There are actually a bunch of different types of these cards. I just looked at the card and it appears to be the diamond variety. It has 1024mb of memory, which is what the memory setting is at.
Left it generating for an hour. I'm impressed of my GPU, even with so many stars on screen it managed a framerate between 3 and 8.
[thumb]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/32146097/ALLLLAAADEMMMSTAAARRRSv2.png[/thumb]
[URL="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/32146097/ALLLLAAADEMMMSTAAARRRSv2nonpoint.png"]17mb soft version.[/URL]
I..I went overboard, didn't I?
[IMG]http://oi48.tinypic.com/21l7gn8.jpg[/IMG]
Sunrise from a selena that is 9.8 AU away from a 9.7 AU star. Just so you know, the star is 1044.3 times bigger than our sun. For those who don't know what an AU is it's the distance from Earth to the sun (Hopefully it's common knowledge to you all)
[img]http://i.imgur.com/CvQNj.jpg[/img]
Damn.
anyone got a mirror of the latest version up?
[thumb]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/32047569/scr00001.jpg[/thumb]
Its amazing how Space Engine comes up with such detail.
Also is there some hotkey to toggle the HUD?
Pressing F11 for screenshots should leave the HUD out.
Otherwise use CTRL-~ for the HUD.
[QUOTE=mecaguy03;37433886][thumb]
Also is there some hotkey to toggle the HUD?[/QUOTE]
Try f11 or alt and f11.
[editline]27th August 2012[/editline]
Fucking ninja.
[thumb]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/32047569/scr00014.jpg[/thumb]
An ice giant with several moons really close to a red giant.
[thumb]http://puu.sh/ZskU[/thumb]
[thumb]http://puu.sh/ZECX[/thumb]
Not nearly as good as that other guy's stuff, but I tried.
Took a trip over to Toliman to look at Pandora and Polyphemus.
[IMG]http://oi47.tinypic.com/2nkmesl.jpg[/IMG]
Have a sunrise.
[IMG]http://oi46.tinypic.com/20773vb.jpg[/IMG]
Helos orbiting Polyphemus.
[IMG]http://oi48.tinypic.com/1e8jtt.jpg[/IMG]
First one is my new desktop BG;
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/WwU3g.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/LSbK3.jpg[/IMG]
I found a neutron star, a first for me in SpaceEngine. Not sure how rare they really are, but it got me excited.
RS 8403-114-6-132232-585 BA
[IMG]http://i794.photobucket.com/albums/yy225/jeremymtc/SpaceEngine/scr00046.jpg[/IMG]
Nice planet rise on a terra moon:
[IMG]http://i794.photobucket.com/albums/yy225/jeremymtc/SpaceEngine/scr00000.jpg[/IMG]
I always wondered what our view of the Milky Way would be like if only our sun was a few thousand light years higher.
Well, I found out by going to a star about 9000 lightyears above the sun.
[thumb]http://i.minus.com/ibj5UjIfvULg6T.png[/thumb]
It would be fucking [B]AWESOME[/B]. I hate the placement of our sun now.
Some kind of odd cutoff hurricane or something
[t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5182016/scr00014.jpg[/t]
An asteroid
[t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5182016/scr00025.jpg[/t]
Sun set.
[t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5182016/scr00021.jpg[/t]
And if you wonder about the odd red glow it'll be this brown dwarf that was also present:
[t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5182016/scr00022.jpg[/t]
Partial Eclipse:
[t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5182016/scr00027.jpg[/t]
View from a moon:
[t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5182016/scr00020.jpg[/t]
Eclipse makes those images. Thats cool that you caught it
[QUOTE=paindoc;37488418]Eclipse makes those images. Thats cool that you caught it[/QUOTE]
Unfortunatly I didn't make more pics, on that planet it would eclipse on the moon several nights in a row and on the planet several days in a row.
Here's one looking from the moon:
[t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5182016/scr00028.jpg[/t]
Edit: found some interesting star formation:
[t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5182016/scr00031.jpg[/t]
Planet editor can make some odd stuff:
Looking at a surface of a star from the darkside of a planet:
[t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5182016/scr00032.jpg[/t]
Obviously hot lifeforms.
[t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5182016/scr00033.jpg[/t]
Look at the surface of a star...from the dark side of a planet?
Wat.
Can you take more pics?
I just upgraded my graphics card so my computer can finally run space engine, YEA!
Anyway, here's a few screens I took:
[IMG_thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/47456802/scr00003.jpg[/IMG_thumb]
[IMG_thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/47456802/scr00007.jpg[/IMG_thumb]
So then I decided to test my new card and take a shot of the middle of the Milky way:
[IMG_thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/47456802/scr00011.jpg[/IMG_thumb]
[URL="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/47456802/scr00010.jpg"]Link to a duller version[/URL]
One of the reasons I love space engine so much is:
Friend: "My computer's so good it can run Crysis 2 at maxed out graphics"
Me: "Ha! A single world, your computer is pathetic. Mine can simulate the Universe!"
[IMG_thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/47456802/scr00014.jpg[/IMG_thumb]
Yes they are galaxies, not stars.
By the way I was wondering, what is the difference between taking a skybox render and taking a png screenshot?
Skybox render can render at whatever resolution your GPU can support. Most can support 4096x4096. It also takes screenshots in cubemap form, meaning it'll have pictures of front, back, left, right, bottom and top.
[QUOTE=Freak2121;37505849]Skybox render can render at whatever resolution your GPU can support. Most can support 4096x4096. It also takes screenshots in cubemap form, meaning it'll have pictures of front, back, left, right, bottom and top.[/QUOTE]
Ok, that's good to know. Also where are the renders stored once I take them?
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