Ah, I remember playing with space engine a year or so ago. I was blown away by the photo-realism and immense detail, even if it only ran at 10 fps on my old computer.
I don't know why, but when I first loaded up space engine, looked around in different directions and saw Andromeda looming back at me, my mind flipped out. I guess it's quite something realising that the thing you've heard about all the time is actually part of reality. I can't imagine what it's like to experience the real thing, going up to space in reality.
If you're in a place where the night sky is dark enough (far away from city lights) and it's the right time of year, you can see the Andromeda galaxy with the naked eye. In fact, it's the most distant thing the naked human eye can see. It's in the constellation Andromeda (of course) and it looks like a faint blurry smudge. The Google Sky app for Android can help you find it. I'm sure there are alternatives for iPhone.
I'm a teacher in a primary school and explored the universe together with around a 100 students by now. They all love it so much. And partly thanks to your video I have cool things to show and tell. With 1 class I was talking for two hours, and about 80% of the class was so sad I had to stop. They were still booming with questions. This is so unbelievably amazing! Thanks for this vid Scott!
@@dum_tard5528 not everyone shares our passion about these things. Some teachers have a passion for history, some for maths, some for language. It's good that there's a big variety :)
I've been following the development of this simulator for a while, and own the previous version. Saw this video was up and immediately made my purchase. Thank you for bringing this latest update to my attention Scott, I probably wouldn't have discovered it on my own for quite a while :)
I know Space Engine isn’t a “game” but it’s still great to see you get back to some gaming type videos from time to time. I love all your science content as well, but it’s nice to get in to the fun stuff here and there. As always, thanks for the years and years of amazing content, Scott. Appreciate it!
Scott: This game will absolutely push your graphics card to the absolute limits. Me: Ha, I'm running integrated graphics. Jokes on you. PC: But, wait........
@@devin8362 cmon its a universe Simulation Tool. Not a "Game". If i Simulate Fluids or chemicals its also not a game. Definition of a "Game" is to win or loose at something.
@butchtropic You can't convince me that the rendering power will not be an issue on my Intel q45/q43 express chipset (powered by the gma x4500 (not the 4500m)). This thing comes from 2008.
This game is so relaxing, i like to sit on one of the objects orbiting Jupiter and accelerate time just a bit while i eat. it actually gets pretty scary sometimes.
The dev has said they would like to liscense it. They put out an educational title last year using this, and the Steam store also has a version for "professional use" I'd say this nearly counts, it's just not available yet.
Discovering this simulator single handedly gave me an existential crisis. It's one thing being told about how big the universe is, being shown the data and interpretations but actually seeing it simulated like this is almost beyond human comprehension.
For once TH-cam put something in my recommended I actually like. I'm sticking around for the videos, but I'm subscribing for the best last name I've ever seen. Great video Mr. Manley
I just noticed this game, why it took so long I have no idea. Spent 1½ hour in it with my VR headset. Usually I cannot wear it for more than 30 minutes but this game was just too amazing to stop.
With reference to the 180 solar mass star, typically, the largest stars have mass of about 200 solar masses. These stars burn through their fuel fast, dying early. Eventually, after a long time, the only stars left in a galaxy will be the small red ones, rendering the galaxy as red. The main way of getting big new stars like that in an old galaxy such as that would be an interaction/disturbance from another nearby galaxy (which there isn't). The alternative is that a stable H II region of space in the galaxy was disturbed by, say emissions from a supernova, causing the region to collapse into a new star. I'd say that this is the most likely scenario.
I just downloaded this off Steam two days ago and finally got it working. Using the rift and all I can say is its just EPIC. You can go in close to a planet and put it in airplane mode. You are skimming right over the surface and if you stop moving and look down you see PEBBLES. I was on a planet with sand dunes and you could see incredible details, shadows. Its so amazing!!!!!! Got a little dizzy after about 20 minutes, bit of a headache, but that's normal. I have been waiting for real VR support for this software for years and the wait was definitely worth it. I cant express how good it is. It was amazing eye candy on a PC monitor but using a VR headset it adds a dimension to it that just makes it stunning. Its just VAST, you could spend the rest of your life exploring in this and wont have a chance of seeing it all.
Gotta hook this game up to an OLED monitor to truly appreciate the details of the auto-generated planets against the void of space. I wish the randomly generated surfaces were in Universe Sandbox^2.
YES! Best ever space exploration game, just point at anything and go there! I didn't know it came out on steam.. I've been messing around with space engine since 2013, and got all my space enthusiast friends in on it. Now it's on steam, as i'm watching your video I bought it and the PRO DLC for no other reason than to support what this developer has achieved!
When I first saw the trailer of No Mans Sky, I really thought it was going to look a bit like Space Engine, but with a very cool life system using crazy AI and everything... Then, a few months later, the game was released and I saw some gameplay footage on TH-cam. I was a little bit disappointed, to say the least... I didn't even bother to download a pirate version of the game.
@@Reth_Hard The game has actually become really good now. I just bought it last week on steam and havnt been able to stop playing! Every promise that was missing in the release is now fulfilled
It's worth noting that it also has a space ship mode with some pretty neat warp effects with red and blue shifting as well as light bending in the space around the ship.
I literally built a gaming computer so I could play this and Universe Sandbox. But it helped knowing I would have the ability to play a lot of other games.
Just so you now, I've been a fan of yours for years, but "A giant space baked potato made of lava" made my friggin' WEEK! You, sir, rock. Space rock, that is!! :P
A tip, on the panel on the right side of the screen you can turn off things like Clouds and Stars seamlessly instead of having to go into the menu. Great video!
When I was 6 (in 1992/3) I put my hand up in class and told my teacher that a new planet had been discovered called Smiley. She didn't believe me but said I had a good imagination. I told my mum about the new planet but she didn't believe me either. I swear I saw it on the news, I used to watch the news when I was that age. I used to watch all grownup programs, watching sitcoms I used to laugh when the audience laughed and got some funny looks from my parents when I laughed at something I didn't actually understand!
13:15 "...one thousand light years per second and that's actually pretty slow..." ...right. How many mega-warp is that by the way...? And what did you do with the real Scott Manley?!? I'm onto you, Q...!
I was going to ask "what does it do when your turn off clouds and look at a gas giant", but you did that already and it wasn't as funny as I was hoping. So... I'll just say it's cool that the planetary engine for both this and ED put a very similar close in orbit around Betelgeuse. I guess physics works, eh? When I was kid Betelgeuse was one of the first things I looked at through a telescope, so it was also one of the first trips I took in ED. In that game the planet is so close and the start is so big that the ship's fuel scoop stayed active when you were at the planet's orbit. Very cool.
Its brilliant yes. However given the pricing structure it's a bit of a price gouge. The pathing mechanic everyone was waiting for is not included when he said it would be. Its an $89 addon. All the HD texture sets for the free version you have to pay for now. I supporyed going to payware but this is over the top.
A thing you forgot to mention is not only this game simulates galaxies and stars, but also is cosmological simulator, check this out: Fly away from the Milky way, and then you can see the most distant galaxies turning red because of the cosmological redshift, I saw that and I found it so cool.
Damn, I've messed around in earlier versions of Space Engine before, but this video just re-awaked a sense of awe at how immense space is. Great video, definitely going to go and buy this version on steam.
They need to make a game like this and KSP where you progress from a chemical rocket, to nuclear rocket, to warp drive in a universe like this. Perhaps part of the way you unlock technology would be encountering crashed tech or other civilizations. As you colonize planets, you can watch their texture go from uninhabited to lit up with lights and building scatter objects. Maybe incorporate terraforming tech that you have to deploy, hostile NPCs, asteroid diversion, impending nova evacuation, etc. I guess it could be a Spore, KSP, Universe Engine combo.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
Jeff Vader -- I'm glad you put in the comparison with going to the chemist's down the road. I thought that 'space' was going to the next town. Now I know that it is really big ;-)
Listen; when you're thinking big, think bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real 'wow, that's big', time. It's just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.
1) I think when the game says there's life on the surface it adds some additional textures on the surface, they look kinda like greenish-brown moss 2) You can add Star Trek ships from the workshop and that's just the greatest feeling ever 3) Also you can get high-res textures for Earth, Moon and some other bodies as free DLCs
I bought this game moments after hearing it came out on steam. It is something I believe anyone can enjoy and lay back and relax to. More than worth the money it costs.
Hey Scott just wanted to say thank you for these wonderful and interesting videos. I actually just enrolled into a free astronomy and physics college course because of your videos. You have renewed my love of space and science, Thank You again brother FLY SAFE!!!!!!!!!
hm... i dont know of a buyable system that really enjoys adding that much data to the background, but you could make it happen. the icons might make it look pretty weird though... might be better off saving scenes from it and stream it on the background. or just tab out... lmao
@@nicewhenearnedrudemostlyel489 I have that system. I wouldn't run the frame rate past 1hz probably, but with 32GB of system memory and 8gb vram I wouldn't mind it. Definitely would have to run no hud when using Space Engine for a live background. Only issue I run into is that there is no selection for the window to be always on bottom/desktop. Devs might not know of the functionality for windows as it dates back to windows 98.
Thank you for the heads up mr. Manley, I didn't know about the Steam release. Just bought it now. I also bought the Space Engine Pro DLC to give the devs some extra support... Absolutely worth it..
You're going to abso-fucking-lutely love this highly original bit of wit from me, mate... You really should have said - wait for it - "Mmm....nailed it this time you did"
Discovered space engine a few years ago and its brilliant. Got a few quality pics. Decided to leave the galaxy and thought I'd try to get by just flying and not searching for it. There's no SatNav in space.
if this game is random generated within the law of phisics, there is a remote, infimus, posibility that this game could generate at some point an acurate representation of a planet that we dont know of it yet, heck even solar sistems
Looks great! I have the Stellarium installed and it is good to begin exploring the planets and its moons. This Space Engine is something worth exploring too. Thank you Scott.
Stormboxer uhhh no. Universe Sandbox 2 and Space Engine are 2 different games designed entirely for different purposes. Space Engine is designed for exploring the entire universe without any limits with great visuals and procedural generation. Universe Sandbox 2 is designed to be a universe physics simulator. Sure, while space engine has extremely good visuals, the orbital mechanics are basic and mostly on rail while universe sandbox has a fully feature dynamic N-Body physics, but lacks in the visuals department. And those are just the tip of the differences. Honestly I don’t understand why people compare those 2 games together, they are entirely different games meant for entirely different purposes.
Nice video, Scott. Awesome program. 4:44: 180 solar masses is definitely on the huge end of the scale, but not so out of whack as to be a bug. R136a1, a Wolf-Rayet in the LMC, has a mass of 315 solar masses. The LMC has a fair number of stars above 150 solar masses. In the Perseus Arm of our own galaxy, HD 15558-A has a mass of 152 solar masses, and is O-type like this star here.
"The reasons I turned them off I shall explain earlier" ... Scott = time traveller confirmed. That also explains his space knowledge.
He's a Time Lord!
@@carbon4454 I knew it, all this time I suspected him of being one, and now I have definitive proof!
I knew it!
This is what we call a dangling modifier in grammar class. It's a quirk of English not having a fixed sentence order.
Lol, I thought the same thing!!
0:37 "The reason I turned those off, I shall explain earlier" XD
Was just about to comment that as well
Time travelling Scott :-) he gets confused about which way time flows. Did you notice he never ages, unlike his children?
Saanguinee Fwedit - Same
It's because later he has no time to explain.
That's for the people who watch the video backwards.
Ah, I remember playing with space engine a year or so ago. I was blown away by the photo-realism and immense detail, even if it only ran at 10 fps on my old computer.
I’m an big fan
it will probably run at 0.5 FPS on my pc
1. Turn off clouds on Venus to see what's Protomolecule is really doing
2. Profit
CAN'T STOP THE WORK
Lol 😂
love that show and hope it goes on for a long time.
@@bgis6409 Sorry to burst your bubble dude but I'm pretty sure it's already over
@@SuperGman117 season 4 filming has already wrapped. Amazon picked them up
I don't know why, but when I first loaded up space engine, looked around in different directions and saw Andromeda looming back at me, my mind flipped out.
I guess it's quite something realising that the thing you've heard about all the time is actually part of reality.
I can't imagine what it's like to experience the real thing, going up to space in reality.
If you're in a place where the night sky is dark enough (far away from city lights) and it's the right time of year, you can see the Andromeda galaxy with the naked eye. In fact, it's the most distant thing the naked human eye can see. It's in the constellation Andromeda (of course) and it looks like a faint blurry smudge. The Google Sky app for Android can help you find it. I'm sure there are alternatives for iPhone.
Go get an 8" telescope from your local library and look at Jupiter right now. Sooooo cool to actually see all the moons orbiting.
What I love to do is turn off procedural stars and see just how much we have seen of our own galaxy. (Spoiler- There's a lot yet to see.)
You can go outside and see it, you know?
Trevor Kupetz if you just want to see the moons orbiting Jupiter, you can do that with any pair of binoculars. No telescope required.
I'm a teacher in a primary school and explored the universe together with around a 100 students by now. They all love it so much.
And partly thanks to your video I have cool things to show and tell. With 1 class I was talking for two hours, and about 80% of the class was so sad I had to stop. They were still booming with questions.
This is so unbelievably amazing!
Thanks for this vid Scott!
That's an amazing use and showcae3 of how tech should be used in the school system! Awesome work.
All teachers should teach subjects in a fun way like this but schools just don't want that for basically no reason
@@dum_tard5528 not everyone shares our passion about these things. Some teachers have a passion for history, some for maths, some for language. It's good that there's a big variety :)
I've been following the development of this simulator for a while, and own the previous version. Saw this video was up and immediately made my purchase. Thank you for bringing this latest update to my attention Scott, I probably wouldn't have discovered it on my own for quite a while :)
real.. this video is certainly correct for 0.98 version users who just have waited long long times for new version of space engine, includes me!
Why does NASA spend so much on rockets when they could just play this game smh
To collect data to create this game
@@wallacesantos0 got me there
NASA is run by grumby old men who don't believe in games?
Hans, get ze r/whoosh-wasser!
*r/whoooosh*
@@sleeptyper someone's out of touch...
Pro Tip: There are buttons on the right panel which can disable clouds and everything else much more effectively.
It's so frustrating to watch someone who doesn't know all the shortcuts.
I already know that bc I played this game for a long time, there are some people that don’t understand what these image on the panel means
My Therapist: "Norwegian Manley does not exist he can't hurt you."
Skøtt, in my TH-cam notifications: «HJÜLLØ»
+++
I’m Skøtt Månlëy, raid safe
"HALLO, DET ER SKØTT MANNLIG HER"
I for one welcome our new overlord, Norwegian Skøtt Månley.
when you realize 'skøtt månley' is pronounced like 'scut m-ohh-nley'
Just tried this in VR. Mind blown. Sitting on a planet in the Large Magellanic Cloud looking at the Milky Way in the night sky is amazing
I'll only be able to try it in VR later tonight when it isn't so hot, can't wait :D
Try it while high asf
Space Engine wasn't made to explore our solar system... It was meant to explore THE UNIVERSE!
It’s meant to take you places your all too mortal corpus will never go. For almost all of us, that starts somewhere far short of the Moon.
I know Space Engine isn’t a “game” but it’s still great to see you get back to some gaming type videos from time to time. I love all your science content as well, but it’s nice to get in to the fun stuff here and there. As always, thanks for the years and years of amazing content, Scott. Appreciate it!
"Giant space baked potato made of lava." Yeah, no one's ever said that before.
r/BrandNewSentence
I've been following the Space Engine development for many years. Happy it finally gets the attention it always deserved!
Yay! Thank you so much, Scott, for spending some time on this software.
Phunnie, Nice avatar!
>It's really hot, I don't know how this thing is surviving!
exactly my thoughts about Australia
We have other problems to deal with
*emus intensifies*
It is winter in oz right now.
Scott: This game will absolutely push your graphics card to the absolute limits.
Me: Ha, I'm running integrated graphics. Jokes on you.
PC: But, wait........
Intel Integrated Graphics: NANI?!
It isnt even a "Game".
@@devin8362 cmon its a universe Simulation Tool. Not a "Game". If i Simulate Fluids or chemicals its also not a game. Definition of a "Game" is to win or loose at something.
@butchtropic You can't convince me that the rendering power will not be an issue on my Intel q45/q43 express chipset (powered by the gma x4500 (not the 4500m)). This thing comes from 2008.
I wonder if an RTX2060 will be enough
This game is so relaxing, i like to sit on one of the objects orbiting Jupiter and accelerate time just a bit while i eat.
it actually gets pretty scary sometimes.
That toolbar on the right would be a faster way to toggle clouds by the look of it
It indeed does
you can create scripts and create a button that runs your script to turn clouds off ;)
Right off there to your right. It’s got a picture of a cloud ☁️.
Shortest way to explain Space Engine to someone:
"If you can see it, you can go there."
So great to have SpaceEngine 0.990 now released :D
Can't wait for 0.999!
I like the fact that this is a game that doesn't need a user name, yet you managed to get yours appear in it.
what I mostly liked about the vid is that black hole cuz it looked soooo pretty
dude for a second there I thought you were talking about a rocket engine
it is its own engine
in a matter of speaking, it is a software engine, so... I guess depending on how you think about it, it is one
Yes, well, we have one of those too, but it's an entirely different game - "Sunless Skies".
just adding the word actual doesn't specify what kind of engine. lol. maybe try using better words, more appropriate to the point you want to make.
The dev has said they would like to liscense it. They put out an educational title last year using this, and the Steam store also has a version for "professional use"
I'd say this nearly counts, it's just not available yet.
this would be amazing to interact with using a planetarium display ^.^ thanks for sharing bud
THIS! ... will probably require alle the graphics memory in the world.
There is actually a 3D virtual reality planetarium mode.
@@76Eliam Aye! Just waiting for KSP VR over here ^.^
The pro version has a fisheye version, for planetariums ;)
Discovering this simulator single handedly gave me an existential crisis. It's one thing being told about how big the universe is, being shown the data and interpretations but actually seeing it simulated like this is almost beyond human comprehension.
"I don't claim to be an expert on anything" -- says the guy who frequently corrects experts all over the place.
"Who frequently accurately corrects experts" I fixed it for you
@@Kesiif LMAOOOOOOO
*also has a astroid named after him*
friend ... what is your channel about? It looks interesting
For once TH-cam put something in my recommended I actually like. I'm sticking around for the videos, but I'm subscribing for the best last name I've ever seen. Great video Mr. Manley
ship spinning in eve online with ambient music on, is the prefect match for this video..
perfect*
Flat Earthers will love this, they can finally see the engine that runs the holographic moon :D
They can also prove that the earth is flat when they zoom in til they reach the atmosphere!
...& let us take a moment to consider that 'Flat Earthers' are positively swamped with favourable empirical evidence compared to theists!
@@ph8077 - Ha ha. Most flat earthers I've come across are theists too. It's all part of their "I'm special" philosophy.
@@allahspreadshate6486 I know right, like its always like some hardcore christian living in a trailer park
I just noticed this game, why it took so long I have no idea. Spent 1½ hour in it with my VR headset. Usually I cannot wear it for more than 30 minutes but this game was just too amazing to stop.
The fact that this video doesn't contain a sponsored content warning speaks very highly of Space Engine.
You can actually fly ships in Space Engine as well.
Jett Quasar I’m going to have to download this game and pray my graphics card will handle it
It's not to gpu intensive
I once pulled like 300fps on a gtx 1050 as it took up 100% gpu power because it didn't have a frame rate limiter.
With reference to the 180 solar mass star, typically, the largest stars have mass of about 200 solar masses. These stars burn through their fuel fast, dying early. Eventually, after a long time, the only stars left in a galaxy will be the small red ones, rendering the galaxy as red. The main way of getting big new stars like that in an old galaxy such as that would be an interaction/disturbance from another nearby galaxy (which there isn't). The alternative is that a stable H II region of space in the galaxy was disturbed by, say emissions from a supernova, causing the region to collapse into a new star. I'd say that this is the most likely scenario.
(So most likely not a bug)
So do I get this right? Every time we get more data, this game gets updated to increase accuracy?
YUUUUUP
I was looking for this question to get an answer, but there seems to be none yet... thanks anayway.
Buy this now. The guy who made it has been working on it for YEARS. and in VR... wow I mean WOW
Guy....
Is there only 1 person working on it!?
I like that the rougher objects show opposition surge :)
I just downloaded this off Steam two days ago and finally got it working. Using the rift and all I can say is its just EPIC. You can go in close to a planet and put it in airplane mode. You are skimming right over the surface and if you stop moving and look down you see PEBBLES. I was on a planet with sand dunes and you could see incredible details, shadows. Its so amazing!!!!!! Got a little dizzy after about 20 minutes, bit of a headache, but that's normal. I have been waiting for real VR support for this software for years and the wait was definitely worth it. I cant express how good it is. It was amazing eye candy on a PC monitor but using a VR headset it adds a dimension to it that just makes it stunning. Its just VAST, you could spend the rest of your life exploring in this and wont have a chance of seeing it all.
This so amazing. This confirms it’s more likely we’ll become digital space explorers before we become a physical space explorer.
"Seamlessly Explore The Entire Universe" why is this not more popular??
Stephen Hawkings would have have loved this program to bits...
This would be great for educators.
Yep, you included Scott Manley in the solar system major features, nice ! lol
Looks like a great teaching tool for schools
I just picked this work of art this morning and I'm waiting till tonight to play it so I can sit back and relax and take it all in
It’s like Celestia, but heavy on graphic cards!
Gotta hook this game up to an OLED monitor to truly appreciate the details of the auto-generated planets against the void of space.
I wish the randomly generated surfaces were in Universe Sandbox^2.
I should also mention that the Steam version is much more stable than previous versions.
I have crashed it enabling MSAA, but my graphics card isn't amazing
My favourite thing to do is getting between a galaxy and a Globular or cluster and get on a planet where i can see both. It's crazy
It already has loads of great reviews on steam. I'm glad he's getting the recognition he deserves. It even has VR support!
I'm gonna shit myself approaching black holes
YES!
Best ever space exploration game, just point at anything and go there!
I didn't know it came out on steam..
I've been messing around with space engine since 2013, and got all my space enthusiast friends in on it.
Now it's on steam, as i'm watching your video I bought it and the PRO DLC for no other reason than to support what this developer has achieved!
No Man's sky: is 18 to 19 trillion planets big
Space engine: you gotta pump those up, those are rookie numbers
Elite Dangerous : I have the galaxy
Space Engine : I have the entire universe
"Why this is I shall explain earlier."
You didn't know Scott is time-traveler?
0:35 - "The reason for this, I shall explain *earlier* " - Curses, -where- when will I have misplaced my time machine again??
you're typing on one of them. you probably have a magnifying glass laying around too...
"No Mans Sky is not in any way realistic" -Oh, come on. Both have spherical planets and some light.
When I first saw the trailer of No Mans Sky, I really thought it was going to look a bit like Space Engine, but with a very cool life system using crazy AI and everything... Then, a few months later, the game was released and I saw some gameplay footage on TH-cam. I was a little bit disappointed, to say the least...
I didn't even bother to download a pirate version of the game.
@@Reth_Hard The game has actually become really good now. I just bought it last week on steam and havnt been able to stop playing! Every promise that was missing in the release is now fulfilled
Shut up! How dare you, that's totally unfair!
Granted, Scooby-Doo jumped out from behind a rock on one planet & shouted "Raggy" but apart from that...
@@ZeNashB
Ok, maybe, I don't know...
I might take a look at it, in the future.
@@ph8077 it's 1 am dude, i was not prepared to laugh this hard lmfao
"you can try no man's sky"
Spore: :(
It's worth noting that it also has a space ship mode with some pretty neat warp effects with red and blue shifting as well as light bending in the space around the ship.
This might answer my question posted a minute after yours about whether the game assumes no time passes while traveling. Thanks!
looking out and slowly falling back into the blackhole is one of the most amazing things in space engine, you should have shown that!
Greatest software ever created.
in future retrospect, this is like the Earley seeds to the simulation theory :)
And like our reality, detail only needs simulating when observed. Double slit style
I literally built a gaming computer so I could play this and Universe Sandbox. But it helped knowing I would have the ability to play a lot of other games.
Weird how we’re still on a v0.99 now, 5yrs later.. still fantastic and being regularly updated though.
Just so you now, I've been a fan of yours for years, but "A giant space baked potato made of lava" made my friggin' WEEK! You, sir, rock. Space rock, that is!! :P
I just like loading Universe Sandbox 2, or Space Engine with my VR headset and diving in to a black hole. Terrifying but awesome.
A tip, on the panel on the right side of the screen you can turn off things like Clouds and Stars seamlessly instead of having to go into the menu. Great video!
The system requirements are tens of times higher than before, but it runs _much_ more stable. I actually have to _TRY_ to get it to crash now.
:( I wish my Laptop was able to handle the app. I'll have to get me a good gaming PC some day.
When I was 6 (in 1992/3) I put my hand up in class and told my teacher that a new planet had been discovered called Smiley. She didn't believe me but said I had a good imagination. I told my mum about the new planet but she didn't believe me either. I swear I saw it on the news, I used to watch the news when I was that age. I used to watch all grownup programs, watching sitcoms I used to laugh when the audience laughed and got some funny looks from my parents when I laughed at something I didn't actually understand!
I want to visit the star S2 that orbits around SAG a* because it is one of the fastest stars in the milky way.
13:15 "...one thousand light years per second and that's actually pretty slow..." ...right. How many mega-warp is that by the way...? And what did you do with the real Scott Manley?!? I'm onto you, Q...!
Attila Asztalos They should show the actual warp factor for the speed, according to Einstein's formulas.
Space engine does have LOTS of details when you enter the planet.
I was going to ask "what does it do when your turn off clouds and look at a gas giant", but you did that already and it wasn't as funny as I was hoping. So... I'll just say it's cool that the planetary engine for both this and ED put a very similar close in orbit around Betelgeuse. I guess physics works, eh?
When I was kid Betelgeuse was one of the first things I looked at through a telescope, so it was also one of the first trips I took in ED. In that game the planet is so close and the start is so big that the ship's fuel scoop stayed active when you were at the planet's orbit. Very cool.
If you turn off atmosphere on a Gas Giant, you should be able to see the Rocky, Metallic core. Considering most of its gas.
Its brilliant yes. However given the pricing structure it's a bit of a price gouge. The pathing mechanic everyone was waiting for is not included when he said it would be. Its an $89 addon. All the HD texture sets for the free version you have to pay for now. I supporyed going to payware but this is over the top.
"It's like a giant space baked potato made of lava" ~Scott Manley, 2019.
I will find a reason to use this...somehow.
use it when showing off "space engine" to your friends (?)
@@thulyblu5486 But that would almost make sense...I don't want to do that!
Please use appropriate obese, yellow cartoon character's voice >>>>>
"MMMMMMMMMMMMM....giant space baked potato made of lava!"
A thing you forgot to mention is not only this game simulates galaxies and stars, but also is cosmological simulator, check this out: Fly away from the Milky way, and then you can see the most distant galaxies turning red because of the cosmological redshift, I saw that and I found it so cool.
I know its late but does it simulate composition of planets stars asteroids etc?
It’s like elite dangerous with better scaling and without the forced boredom.
I remember loading Redshift 3 on my dinky home computer to explore the universe. Now we have something like this. This project is amazing!
Time for astronomers to build up a database as beautiful as this game.
They did. The Gaia Database.
"I only have a 3 GB graphics card" "make due"... *cries in GTX 680*
You can run it.. earlier version I used a 660
@@d1agram4 I have a GeForce 940m, any idea how that compares to GTX?
Laughs in GTX 1660TI
No but seriously i used to have a Quadro 620k, i feel your struggles
Laughs in RTX 2070
Laughs in GTX 2060
Damn, I've messed around in earlier versions of Space Engine before, but this video just re-awaked a sense of awe at how immense space is. Great video, definitely going to go and buy this version on steam.
They need to make a game like this and KSP where you progress from a chemical rocket, to nuclear rocket, to warp drive in a universe like this. Perhaps part of the way you unlock technology would be encountering crashed tech or other civilizations. As you colonize planets, you can watch their texture go from uninhabited to lit up with lights and building scatter objects. Maybe incorporate terraforming tech that you have to deploy, hostile NPCs, asteroid diversion, impending nova evacuation, etc. I guess it could be a Spore, KSP, Universe Engine combo.
I am still hoping that someone eventually collabs with Vladimir to use this engine for a space game.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
Jeff Vader -- I'm glad you put in the comparison with going to the chemist's down the road. I thought that 'space' was going to the next town. Now I know that it is really big ;-)
Listen; when you're thinking big, think bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real 'wow, that's big', time. It's just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.
Very original! You should go on Elite's official forums....they'd find you absolutely hilaaaaarious & you'd fit in just perfectly!
1) I think when the game says there's life on the surface it adds some additional textures on the surface, they look kinda like greenish-brown moss
2) You can add Star Trek ships from the workshop and that's just the greatest feeling ever
3) Also you can get high-res textures for Earth, Moon and some other bodies as free DLCs
I bought this game moments after hearing it came out on steam. It is something I believe anyone can enjoy and lay back and relax to. More than worth the money it costs.
Hey Scott just wanted to say thank you for these wonderful and interesting videos. I actually just enrolled into a free astronomy and physics college course because of your videos. You have renewed my love of space and science, Thank You again brother FLY SAFE!!!!!!!!!
I want to have space engine as my desktop background.
hm... i dont know of a buyable system that really enjoys adding that much data to the background, but you could make it happen. the icons might make it look pretty weird though... might be better off saving scenes from it and stream it on the background. or just tab out... lmao
@@nicewhenearnedrudemostlyel489 I have that system. I wouldn't run the frame rate past 1hz probably, but with 32GB of system memory and 8gb vram I wouldn't mind it. Definitely would have to run no hud when using Space Engine for a live background. Only issue I run into is that there is no selection for the window to be always on bottom/desktop. Devs might not know of the functionality for windows as it dates back to windows 98.
Thank you for the heads up mr. Manley, I didn't know about the Steam release. Just bought it now. I also bought the Space Engine Pro DLC to give the devs some extra support... Absolutely worth it..
6:00 You nailed it this time lol.
You're going to abso-fucking-lutely love this highly original bit of wit from me, mate...
You really should have said - wait for it - "Mmm....nailed it this time you did"
Wanna feel like a Omnipotent being going on vacation all around the Universe?
*This game is for you*
So we're playing as his noodley greatness, the flying spaghetti monster?
What do you mean, _"feel like"?_
😜😜😜😜
I was studyng, but suddenly scott uploaded a video
Discovered space engine a few years ago and its brilliant. Got a few quality pics. Decided to leave the galaxy and thought I'd try to get by just flying and not searching for it. There's no SatNav in space.
if this game is random generated within the law of phisics, there is a remote, infimus, posibility that this game could generate at some point an acurate representation of a planet that we dont know of it yet, heck even solar sistems
Looks great! I have the Stellarium installed and it is good to begin exploring the planets and its moons. This Space Engine is something worth exploring too. Thank you Scott.
There appears to be a filter clouds button on the right side of the screen. You don't need to go into the options menu every time.
Space Engine > Universe Sandbox
Fight me.
Debatable.....i can't turn Jupiter into a pulsar in this simulator. Also can't hit California with a 50x lightspeed pyramid.
@@midship_nc LOL
They are two different things.
Universe sandbox is for normies
Stormboxer uhhh no. Universe Sandbox 2 and Space Engine are 2 different games designed entirely for different purposes. Space Engine is designed for exploring the entire universe without any limits with great visuals and procedural generation. Universe Sandbox 2 is designed to be a universe physics simulator. Sure, while space engine has extremely good visuals, the orbital mechanics are basic and mostly on rail while universe sandbox has a fully feature dynamic N-Body physics, but lacks in the visuals department. And those are just the tip of the differences. Honestly I don’t understand why people compare those 2 games together, they are entirely different games meant for entirely different purposes.
It's like a 3D Mandelbrot, will keep me busy for hours exploring
lol hey i know what the mandelbrot fractal and formula is
Z^2+C
Same software Nasa uses for their live stream, I love it!
'Everything Spacey, in one Placey'
..except Kevin!
Nice video, Scott. Awesome program. 4:44: 180 solar masses is definitely on the huge end of the scale, but not so out of whack as to be a bug. R136a1, a Wolf-Rayet in the LMC, has a mass of 315 solar masses. The LMC has a fair number of stars above 150 solar masses. In the Perseus Arm of our own galaxy, HD 15558-A has a mass of 152 solar masses, and is O-type like this star here.
I would do anything for space engine