No more z-fighting

I want to say 'I love you'

It allows to remove z-fighting artefacts on water shores, remove near plane clipping (so allows to approach to a space ship or planet surface to a distance of a few millimetres), allows to finally implementing particles correctly intersecting with planet surface (3d clouds, volcano eruptions, ship engines smoke etc). It allows to have a single z-buffer for the whole scene, which enabling possibility to implement shadows and deferred shading with all effects which it can introduce (hundreds of local light sources, 3d water with refractions, huge increase in atmospheric scattering performance, etc). Also, correct blending of large planet-scale particles with planets (comets tiles, and future accretion disks and jets). Did you think why I still don't implement all these effects? Because SE have too large scene scale to work with standard z-buffer.

Temperature calculation error

Question: Do there are some disadvantages? Because... I don't know, Unity still uses normal z-buffer, and a lot of other engines too, why they don't use this one instead?

like orbital paths, or small moons inside rings. Fixing all issues with render order, like rings or aurora being rendered in front of space ship. Particle effects on planets and ships (smoke, clouds, rain etc). All modern algorithms which required access to the depth buffer (deferred shading, 3D water with distortion, SSAO, shadow maps(!), etc).

You are not the only one who feels this way Can't wait for this feature to be implemented ! Every new patch is a giant leap forward! I think 0.9.7.4 will be the best SE version ever (until 0.9.7.5 arrives of course )

Intel, SpaceEngine will use normal z-buffer, or maybe logarithmic z-buffer (I working on it also).