Based on our record, Space Engine seems to be a lot more popular than X-Plane. While we know about 122 links to Space Engine, we've tracked only 5 mentions of X-Plane. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I mean, there are plenty of good deep sky images out there. Try looking at the New General Catalogue (NGC) objects for something that strikes your fancy. Alternatively, you could cruise around in Space Engine and bookmark an interesting galaxy to get screenshots from multiple angles, which is what I usually do. (SE is available on Steam for a reasonable price.). Source: 10 months ago
Computer says yes: https://gravitysimulator.org/ https://spaceengine.org/ Once the mass, velocity, heading of an object is known it becomes easier to track and fine tune parameters meaning time of intersect with earth can be calculated which gives orientation of planet and entry attitude. An exact street addres | sub metre grid reference is a big ask, but the "line of breakup" arcing across a narrow slice of the... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
Space Engine[1] is another popular one [1] https://spaceengine.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
This is a bit of a tall order. There are none that I know of; most folks I know who do galaxy maps either make them by hand with their digital paint tools of choice, or utilize the procedurally-generated ones from Space Engine. Up until recently SE had a free (old) version available on the site; you should still be able to find a mirror of it somewhere but I don't know of one personally. Otherwise, SE is available... Source: 11 months ago
Numbers as overwhelming as these are meaningless to our little minds. Then, do yourself a favor. Download Space Engine and see for yourself what it's like to visually behold the mindblowing immensity we are talking about. Now, take into account Multiverses, and consider the possibility that all those Universes may be fractal-like with n-infinite dimensions. Contemplate that we probably know absolutely nothing... Source: about 1 year ago
Oh, Thanks ! I wasn't expecting to be able to download on the WayBackMachine I tried on the old x-plane.com website with no success but it worked on boostair.com ! Source: over 1 year ago
Haha, yes I know I can just buy it from x-plane.com, but I was just wondering what the community had to say. Source: over 1 year ago
Has anybody gotten the "transaction failed (error 47)" message when trying to check out on x-plane.com? I've been trying to buy XP12 and I repeatedly get hit with this message :(. Source: over 1 year ago
Welp x-plane.com is throwing a 504 now so either the server got hugged to death or they brought it down temporarily for the imminent release. Source: over 1 year ago
What tf do you think a forum is for then? Personal thoughts and opinions are like the entire point. If you wanted straight facts you would go to x-plane.com lol. Source: over 1 year ago
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