What to Expect in Alpha 12

[Xriqxa]

Boi, I ain't 'specting dat til Alpha 14!

[gabriel.dac]

Real talk? I think that we can't make US² more complex than it is. In my previous replies I suggested relativity and electromagnetism, but even I gotta agree that it'd be a little too much.

The UI of us² still looks confusing to me. US was more succinct and elegant. I don't know what you can do to change that, however

[Dan Dixon]

The UI of us² still looks confusing to me. US was more succinct and elegant. I don't know what you can do to change that, however

Agreed. Improving the interface is one of the main issues I think about every day and something that will slowly get better over the coming months.

[Jim Jam Science Mans]

Absolutely critical in my eyes is fixing the bug where, in a multi-star system, adding a planet and then changing its orbit in the edit pane makes it zoom over to a random distance orbiting the other star. So far for me that's always the smaller of the two stars, for some reason. It makes it impossible to model anything more complex than single-star systems with ease.

[Xriqxa]

Absolutely critical in my eyes is fixing the bug where, in a multi-star system, adding a planet and then changing its orbit in the edit pane makes it zoom over to a random distance orbiting the other star. So far for me that's always the smaller of the two stars, for some reason. It makes it impossible to model anything more complex than single-star systems with ease.

Well, changing the eccentry of a moon orbiting a gas giant orbiting a star actually teleported the moon into the surface of the sun, so...

[spa_sapping]

I am shaking with hype right now..

[gabriel.dac]

Ok, now I had an idea that is simple to be implemented, interesting, and that wouldn't make the UI more confusing.

Right now there are (or there will be, I don't remember) visualization tools. You can change the view to realistic, velocity, mass, etc just like in US1. Now you (dan) said that the player will be able to manually change the color of stars.

My idea is that we should add a option that shows the objects in infrared or ultraviolet light. The hotter it is, the more it will glow in infrared, until a certain point where the infrared light emitted will decrease because most of the light will be in the visible spectrum.

This can be useful to make the player understand better what is blackbody radiation and how it works. For example, when an object is very very hot, it glows blue. But if you increase the temperature even more, it will start emitting most of the light in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum, so the body would slowly seem to stop glowing (by the way, this doesn't happen in the game. But it should, because that's what happens in real life) Then you select the ultraviolet mode and you'll be able to see the super hot objects' glow.

Ok, now that's something I wanna see implemented. I'm sure of that. Also, a tutorial about blackbody radiation would be great. Well, the more educative tutorials, the better....

[spacegenius2000]

I WOULD EXPECT LENS FLARE PLS

[phinehas]

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[Lord DC]

Berating other people's suggestions doesn't make yours any more important

[pac0master]

I think an improved lighting would be awesome.

Being able to see the bloodmoon and other eclipses phenomenons would be pretty nice.

[phinehas]

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[Xriqxa]

Relativity, SPH, and magnetism aren't goofy.

[Plutonium]

...This software is like a lamborghini with a 45mph speed governor installed.......

I tend to agree with this part))

[spa_sapping]

Physics and Collisions
We're in the middle of a major refactoring of physics code and changes in how we handle the body and particle counts during collisions. This new tech will allow entire bodies to fragment and break apart and explode...

Question, wont all that SPH and physics stuff lag and requires a good PC ?

[Skailer]

Make please a Collision with a another Solar System
That could be amazing

[creeperz1211]

A solar system collision? That would be cool to see our solar system collide with the VY Canis Majoris system. Great idea.

[TophatPhil]

Create planet/star - When i create a planet or star, the properties often change back to the numbers it where before. If i change mass on a planet to 0,24 Earth, and then change the radius to from 6000 to 5000 km, it will change back to 6000. This can happen with densities and mass too. Very annoying.

Hope it wasnt too much.

Well had the same problem....was guessing it was me who was doing something wrong, i m happy to see that someone else did point it out

Well you need to change the ratio of silica to iron in order to properly adjust densities and actually be able to customize the planet, so if you want a higher radius, increase silica and then vice versa

[spacegenius2000]

How about lag fix on Windows 10 Technical Preview?

[SpyCreepers]

How about lag fix on Windows 10 Technical Preview?

it's a beta. it's not recommended you use Technical Preview. it can crash your system.

[BrandCollision]

Speaking of which, I'd like to see some more random textures. More than half the time I get that flat one with the planet-wide mountain range near the Tropic of Cancer.

The reson you get that is probably becaus it likes to spawn in planets with alot of water, and when that happens, to simulate water level, despite it being ice, it makes it so that it has to be so high for it to poke above, and despite ice being a solid, it still simulates it that way