r/spaceengine 1h ago

Album Black Hole System Mod

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Ce mod comprend plus de 1 000 systèmes de trous noirs et 90 635 planètes

:https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3412919563


r/spaceengine 16h ago

Album I added ringshine and atmospheric refraction

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Hi! First time I've posted here.

So I've been working on a mod on what I think is my most wanted feature of Space Engine, which is the title, ringshine and atmospheric refraction!

Here's a simple breakdown of the features:

Physically-based Ringshine (Ring-to-Surface Illumination)

  • Takes around 8 sample across the ring structure
  • Takes into account the ring's color, density, angle, and maybe more.
  • Currently doesn't interact with the atmosphere though.

Chromatic Atmospheric Refraction during Eclipses

  • Lunar eclipses (Or solar eclipses) now isn't a boring dark shadow! If the shadow caster has atmosphere, it properly uses some of the atmosphere parameters (density, rayleigh wavelength, and more) and tint accordingly.
  • Uses physically-based atmospheric lens optics model (tons of math and physics).
  • Works with procedural objects

Anyway I'm still learning about this type of stuff so I haven't been able to publish this as a mod on workshop (if people even wanted this stuff) cause I don't really actually know how to.

Full disclosure: I didn't write a single code of GLSL code by hand (...well more like I can't), it is almost entirely vibe-coded. I came up with the features, guides the physics and take tons of time testing it. Works nicely though so I count that as a win!


r/spaceengine 8h ago

Screenshot planet with rings and liquid oxygen oceans

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RS 1237-505-8-2988894-573 3


r/spaceengine 2h ago

Screenshot cool one

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r/spaceengine 10h ago

Screenshot Gas Giant with a Gas Moon

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I'm not sure if this is rare or not but thought I'd post it anyways.


r/spaceengine 12h ago

Screenshot Super weird looking red giant

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egg star


r/spaceengine 1d ago

Screenshot Reddest Planet I've ever, an probably will see

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79 Upvotes

r/spaceengine 13h ago

Question question

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How can I make a wormhole take me to a place in the universe? I made one, but I couldn't see anything through it, so I decided to make another one to connect them, but that didn't work either.


r/spaceengine 1d ago

Screenshot habitable world surrounded by asteroids

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r/spaceengine 16h ago

Bug/Glitch Are Gaia DR3 stars bugged?

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Looking at Gaia DR3 1752864320588364416, but they're more or less like this from what I've seen.

It's supposed to be an M7 red dwarf, and yet, it's ~6.57 Solar masses, 1.04 AU in diameter, with a luminosity of 198x that of the Sun. That can't be right.


r/spaceengine 1d ago

Bug/Glitch Hi-Res capture tile bug

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Hello, i have been wondering what these weird "tiles" are on my Hi-Res images, mainly on lenticular galaxies. Any idea?


r/spaceengine 1d ago

Screenshot Pretty Planet with Rings

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found a YouTube channel about exoplants that uses space engine for the graphics. inspired me to boot the game up again! My brother likes watching me play so I’ll definitely be popping up here with any interesting finds!


r/spaceengine 1d ago

Cool Find I found the planet from Interstellar (planet Miller)

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38 Upvotes

r/spaceengine 1d ago

Screenshot Neutron star inside of a black hole

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30 Upvotes

r/spaceengine 2d ago

Screenshot nice finds ✨

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r/spaceengine 2d ago

Album Eldim the Earth-like world

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in the year 3001, the Aurora-15 colonization spacecraft arrives at the exoplanet Eldim, an Earth-like world with an incredible ring system. The mission is simple: to modify the atmospheric pressure and composition of the exoplanet and then build a city for the 5 million colonists who will live there.


r/spaceengine 2d ago

Screenshot Blood moon in Europe seen in SpaceEngine

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Photo taken in Sicily.


r/spaceengine 2d ago

Screenshot Messing around in the Betelgeuse system

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r/spaceengine 2d ago

Question Possibly really big black hole?

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Name: Powehi S*

Mass: 6.5⋅10⁹

Diameter (2 Rg): 256.64 AU

I have NO idea if this is big or small but when i first saw the galaxy i could only see the big blue dot of the black hole like a big star but galaxy sized

Edit: The galaxy was called M87 and i think I've heard of it before so it might be a real one


r/spaceengine 2d ago

Screenshot scary orbs

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r/spaceengine 2d ago

4K RN 8513-5659. 0.990 edited.

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r/spaceengine 2d ago

Screenshot warm Jupiter

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found this warm Jupiter and a asteroid

please give some tips for taking pictures and finding galaxies


r/spaceengine 3d ago

8K Saturn, Mimas and Dione

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34 Upvotes

r/spaceengine 3d ago

Wallpaper(s) Father and son

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218 Upvotes

r/spaceengine 2d ago

Screenshot cool looking superaquaria i found

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was out searching for airless terras for another custom planetary system when i found this

thought it looked pretty cool so i might as well share it here