News

Every release, and the dev diary behind them. The simulator always runs the newest build of main.

  1. Saturn and its rings during the Grand Tour

    Release

    v0.5.0

    The Grand Tour, ray-traced black holes, GPU-baked planets, real gas giants and rings, procedural skies, stable and faster N-body, and a refreshed UI.

  2. Release

    v0.4.0

    Sol from real epoch data, satellites like the ISS and JWST, a renderer rewrite, cube-sphere planets and a WebAssembly N-body path.

  3. Release

    v0.3.0

    A rebuilt N-body physics engine, Sol with real epoch data, multi-star lighting and shadows, comets, and new info panels.

  4. Dev Diary

    Cataclysms and Creation

  5. Dev Diary

    First pass on planet shaders

  6. Release

    v0.2.0

    A UI framework of our own: new core components, plugins, a guided tour and a camera manager.

  7. Dev Diary

    Whoops! I built a UI framework

  8. Release

    v0.1.0

    The first public release: procedurally generated systems in a dockable, multi-view N-body simulator.

  9. Dev Diary

    First Major Update

  10. Dev Diary

    Developer notes from the megalocosmos