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| Malaclypse | Date: Monday, 27.10.2014, 18:41 | Message # 1 |
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| i love this software. what did you use to make it? i do not want to copy it whatsoever, but i am curious as to how you made full sized planets, let alone an entire universe without bogging down the processor? did you just start from scratch with C++, or did you use some sort of physics engine?
this has inspired me to continue with my old idea for a video game. i just wish i knew how to make a solar system to scale without fudging up processing speeds and whatnot.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Monday, 27.10.2014, 19:02 | Message # 2 |
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| He started from scratch with C++
All forum users, please read this!
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| Malaclypse | Date: Monday, 27.10.2014, 20:31 | Message # 3 |
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| wow, thats impressive.
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| form_d_k | Date: Monday, 27.10.2014, 22:37 | Message # 4 |
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| It's very impressive. Was there any thought into using C#? I've always found that to be excellent for rapid application development, particularly regarding UI implementation.
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p.s. I once programmed for Microsoft Surface (the old tabletop version) & used a mixture of WPF & XNA (both in C#). WPF was great for defining UI elements & logic. XNA could do the heavy lifting when it came to graphics. BUT... both XNA & the old Surface are dead.
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| SolarLiner | Date: Tuesday, 28.10.2014, 00:15 | Message # 5 |
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| Meh, WPF. Using D3D11 to render UIs ... Making your app unavailable to WinXP and down, + old graphics card ...
C# would be good on WinForms applications, but on graphics heavy apps like Space Engine, meh ...
C++ is the best choice when it comes to graphical applications. No wonder why all big game engines used C++ as language.
custom landing page to share: http://bit.ly/spaceengine
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| SpaceEngineer | Date: Tuesday, 28.10.2014, 13:43 | Message # 6 |
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| I used C++ and OpenGL. No wrappers or ready-to-use engines was used.
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| Malaclypse | Date: Tuesday, 28.10.2014, 19:43 | Message # 7 |
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| again, that is really impressive.
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| Pds314 | Date: Wednesday, 26.11.2014, 01:37 | Message # 8 |
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| The main thing I'm really really impressed with is how you can load/generate all of the pseudorandom "terrain" of stars without needing to know what the entire galaxy looks like. How you can know which 15 super-ultra-bright stars to load without having to look at the other trillion or so in a given galaxy that are currently below the mag limit. In trying to describe how this works I basically end up saying "Some kind of Sparse Voxel Octree wizardry."
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| adtdeveloping | Date: Monday, 16.03.2015, 15:42 | Message # 9 |
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| Sorry for bringing up this old thread. But I had to post this:
About a year ago I wouldn't know how to render a 3D cube. Leave alone a 3D quadcube sphere.
But with practice and dedication you can do allot. I am able to make stuff reaching from 2D particle engines to procedural space engines.
GLSL is something I just started with. But I am able to create some nifty effects 
The images show one of my latest projects written in C++ using OpenGL. (It hasn't been finished)
I wanted to say that if you REALLY want something you can do it. (You still need to learn programming though :P)
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Quote Pds314 (  ) The main thing I'm really really impressed with is how you can load/generate all of the pseudorandom "terrain" of stars without needing to know what the entire galaxy looks like. How you can know which 15 super-ultra-bright stars to load without having to look at the other trillion or so in a given galaxy that are currently below the mag limit. In trying to describe how this works I basically end up saying "Some kind of Sparse Voxel Octree wizardry."
^^ Procedural generation! 
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| parameciumkid | Date: Tuesday, 17.03.2015, 21:15 | Message # 10 |
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| ^ Neat!
I must admit I've been inspired myself, but I've never been much of a coder so for now I've been stuck derping about in Unity when I have free time. The whole octree and pseudorandom stars thing continues to boggle me ^^;
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