This could unlock massive views of the galaxy, perhaps the whole milky way? As you zoom out past the resolution of individual star systems, they should collapse into a cloud-like structure.
In E:D there are images of nebulas and stuff which I have no data for. In theory I could import this from another 3rd party. But I think I’d rather keep everything in the rendering of systems to be derived from the systems table.
If things really work out. We somehow query the data for the camera’s current frustrum of the galaxy and we get back a picture with local (no extra-galactic stars) constellations. I hope this means color blending of partially overlapping systems too, but I’d be pretty happy if things just reduced to a single white pixel.
https://jms55.github.io/posts/2024-06-09-virtual-geometry-bevy-0-14/
This could unlock massive views of the galaxy, perhaps the whole milky way? As you zoom out past the resolution of individual star systems, they should collapse into a cloud-like structure.
In E:D there are images of nebulas and stuff which I have no data for. In theory I could import this from another 3rd party. But I think I’d rather keep everything in the rendering of systems to be derived from the
systemstable.If things really work out. We somehow query the data for the camera’s current frustrum of the galaxy and we get back a picture with local (no extra-galactic stars) constellations. I hope this means color blending of partially overlapping systems too, but I’d be pretty happy if things just reduced to a single white pixel.