The only unresolved problem is changing of procedural objects names (RS 8404-...) after changing the generator or even after adding/removing of catalog objects. Do you remember that in old versions of SE procedural stars in Milky Way had names starting from RS 8404-...? But now they are RS 8403-... because of removal of duplicate of one galaxy. That names do not affect on planetary system generation, because seed is based on coordinates, not a name (like in more old versions). But changing of names will destroy the database. For real galaxies we may use alternate names: replace "RS 8404-768-xxx" with "Milky Way 768-xxx", but this will not work for procedural galaxies, which have procedural number themselves.

Yes I have. At some point, I move all generation code (including shaders) into a library. Then, if I would like to change something in the generation code, I will copy/paste the library, rename it and do changes there. All old generation libraries will stay here forever. In save files (locations) and on the server database, the library version number will be stored. So if engine tries to generate a system that is already in the database, a version of library will be taken and it will be generated with that library.

The only unresolved problem is changing of procedural objects names (RS 8404-...) after changing the generator or even after adding/removing of catalog objects. Do you remember that in old versions of SE procedural stars in Milky Way had names starting from RS 8404-...? But now they are RS 8403-... because of removal of duplicate of one galaxy. That names do not affect on planetary system generation, because seed is based on coordinates, not a name (like in more old versions). But changing of names will destroy the database. For real galaxies we may use alternate names: replace "RS 8404-768-xxx" with "Milky Way 768-xxx", but this will not work for procedural galaxies, which have procedural number themselves.

Wouldn't that be taxing on memory, though?

(SE needs some way to unload stuff once a threshold is reached, I think. And also a switch to turn off animations.)

And also a switch to turn off animations.)

Also, how will it work with catalogue stuff? Our own systems, systems people like and save to use later, that kind of stuff. Will we have some sort of a version tag in catalogues, to tell the program to load the appropriate library and thus provide stability to the procedural part of the generation?

Couldn't you base the galactical nomenclature also in (broad) coordinates, not serial numbering? Either primarily or as an alternative? That way even if you change everything in galactical generation you'll always have the old systems linked with a given position in the universe, which I guess would be enough for them to generate... even if they end up in intergalactic space if their old procedural galaxy vanishes in the meanwhile. You'd probably need to use alphanumeric codes for that, not just numerical ones (widens the number of possible permutations) but I suppose it might work, no?

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And also a switch to turn off animations.)

What? What are you talking about?

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Also, how will it work with catalogue stuff? Our own systems, systems people like and save to use later, that kind of stuff. Will we have some sort of a version tag in catalogues, to tell the program to load the appropriate library and thus provide stability to the procedural part of the generation?

Catalog stuff do not affect of procedural stuff, except catalog galaxies that have procedural stuff.

Maybe. I need some hash function that will compute galaxy number based on coordinates and vise versa.

Changelog on the first page is updated.

to keep these features stable between versions, like a version tag to add to the bodies' definitions in the sc files.

Of course, in exactly that way.

Does this always happen, even if it's just staying still?

Space-time is compressed in front of a ship (blackhole-like metrics) and expanded after a ship (whitehole-like metrics). The ship itself stay inside the bubble in a flat space-time.

I notice in your screens the ship is viewed from the same angle. While messing with the shader myself I was able to get an effect similar to this but it would flip with the view where viewing the right side would show it properly and viewing the left would show it flipped. Did you fix that issue and create two views?

This effect only happens when you turn on the drive with the "H" key. You can always disable it by removing the ship warp shader.

New warp bubble effect: