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Offline Ace

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Space Engine (your machine will cry)
on: May 28, 2011, 01:04:25 am
http://applesforgeeks.com/space-engine-free-universe-simulator/

Freeware. Procedurally generated star systems, planets, galaxies, nebulae, the works.

So a few images, one is a moon around a Neptune like gas giant around Epsilon Eridani.

An Earth like moon of a gas giant.

Two Earth like planets in orbit of Van Maanen's star (class M dwarf).

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Offline PsychoLandlord

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Re: Space Engine (your machine will cry)
Reply #1 on: May 28, 2011, 01:54:31 am
This looks incredible. Gave it a download, I'll install it and mess around tomorrow.
 

Offline Ace

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Re: Space Engine (your machine will cry)
Reply #2 on: May 28, 2011, 02:08:54 am
Moar screenies!

Van Maanen's star's twin planets are tidally locked and lunar eclipses are common.

Further into the system is a third, hot Earth like planet and a Mars like moon. The second pic is from that.

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Offline swashmebuckle

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Re: Space Engine (your machine will cry)
Reply #3 on: May 28, 2011, 03:15:03 am
Skybox factory?  Looks awesome.
 

Offline Kosh

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Re: Space Engine (your machine will cry)
Reply #4 on: May 28, 2011, 11:51:34 am
It CTD's on startup, didn't see any kind of troubleshooting guide anywhere. Thoughts?
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Re: Space Engine (your machine will cry)
Reply #5 on: May 28, 2011, 12:28:16 pm
Downloading... hope it works on Ubuntu through WINE, 'cuz it looks amazing.
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Offline PsychoLandlord

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Re: Space Engine (your machine will cry)
Reply #6 on: May 28, 2011, 12:55:13 pm
Just installed it. Runs beautifully. Only Crash I've had so far I believe had something to do with me exiting the known universe.
 

Offline Ace

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Re: Space Engine (your machine will cry)
Reply #7 on: May 28, 2011, 06:55:09 pm
It really loves crashing when generating stars for new galaxies.

Found a new system, a white dwarf at the edge of M31 with an Earth like planet. (just like a recent article about habitable zones discussed)

Completely covered in water, no land masses at all.

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Offline Rodo

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Re: Space Engine (your machine will cry)
Reply #8 on: May 28, 2011, 07:27:35 pm
wow, looks quite nice.
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Offline Kosh

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Re: Space Engine (your machine will cry)
Reply #9 on: May 29, 2011, 03:38:28 am
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It really loves crashing when generating stars for new galaxies.

So what could cause it to CTD on startup? Not enough memory?
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline Satellight

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Re: Space Engine (your machine will cry)
Reply #10 on: May 29, 2011, 06:23:51 am
Quote from: Kosh on May 29, 2011, 03:38:28 am
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It really loves crashing when generating stars for new galaxies.

So what could cause it to CTD on startup? Not enough memory?

It's pretty demanding on the hardware !

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                          System requirements
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Minimum:
CPU         2.0 GHz
RAM         2 Gb
Video       GeForce 8800, ATI 3850
Video RAM   512 Mb

Recommended:
CPU         3.0 GHz
RAM         2 Gb
Video       GeForce 9800 GTX, ATI 4870
Video RAM   1024 Mb
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Offline borizz

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Re: Space Engine (your machine will cry)
Reply #11 on: May 29, 2011, 07:33:31 am
Is it supposed to be really slow on first start?

Also, even on low priority it makes my PC unusable. I wouldn't mind if it were slow but I could do other crap while it ran.
 

Offline Snail

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Re: Space Engine (your machine will cry)
Reply #12 on: May 29, 2011, 10:16:53 am
These look incredible.
 

Offline Raiden

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Re: Space Engine (your machine will cry)
Reply #13 on: May 29, 2011, 12:01:51 pm
Crashes on start-up for me. Looks cool, though.
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Offline Dark RevenantX

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Re: Space Engine (your machine will cry)
Reply #14 on: May 29, 2011, 02:49:33 pm
It only uses about 50% (one core) of my CPU, but the thing that rapes my system is the complete and utter destruction of my video memory and hard drive.

Don't bother unless you have a 768MB or 1GB video card, and you'd best have a SSD for it to write to, as well.
 

Offline sigtau

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Re: Space Engine (your machine will cry)
Reply #15 on: May 29, 2011, 06:01:50 pm
One word:

Skyboxes.

That is all.
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Offline Retsof

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Re: Space Engine (your machine will cry)
Reply #16 on: May 29, 2011, 06:44:42 pm
 :(  My comp is too crappy.
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Offline Commander Zane

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Re: Space Engine (your machine will cry)
Reply #17 on: May 29, 2011, 07:30:07 pm
Moving around Neptune and only Neptune rapes the almighty **** out of my computer. :D
 

Offline Thaeris

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Re: Space Engine (your machine will cry)
Reply #18 on: May 29, 2011, 07:37:56 pm
So...

Is this thing essentially what would happen if you merged Celestia and what we know of the iNovae engine into one?

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Offline Astronomiya

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Re: Space Engine (your machine will cry)
Reply #19 on: May 30, 2011, 03:30:27 am
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Found a new system, a white dwarf at the edge of M31 with an Earth like planet.
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