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Show orbits in the HUD, use speedlines etc as source code inspiration i think we'd likely want to show only the orbits inside the current frame by default, for clarity So if you are in a planets frame the system-wide orbits are either not visible, or faded Distance based fading could also be good f...

Some things that I'd love to see from a rendering / gameplay position are: clouds/volumetric atmospheres rings with physical ice/rocks/etc so they can be mined/interacted with better ring rendering overall Gas giant atmosphere rendering VR headset integration, I did some experiments with this many y...

These came up in conversation on Discord and I keep losing them http://www.thetenthplanet.de/archives/4062 https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/135845/how-could-i-render-a-star-like-those-in-elite-dangerous-coronas-and-some-sort) I did a branch with real-time noise to improve the look of star...

Yeah actually https://github.com/pioneerspacesim/pioneer/pull/6257

Elite Dangerous references
https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Station

https://www.tumblr.com/procedural-gener ... hats-a-bit

This is for brain dumping ideas about how to make stations have more variation. My first instinct is to have a type of station that can be built from sections/pieces both internally and externally. What I mean by that is that the process would work something like this for the external appearance: Pi...

Nasa documentation about floating habitats on Venus https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20205008515/downloads/Venus_cities-AIAA-ASCEND-smaller.pdf Isaac Arthur Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/comments/1fzhj0v/venus_floating_city_idea/ PInterest https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/why-we-should-...

I'd like to see this, a bounty system would be a good addition.
As always of course keep version 1.0 very simple, gather bounties, cash them in when you dock with any station.

I need to keep track of these links
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xL0udlhnqI
https://web.archive.org/web/20210925033 ... generation

Both contain valuable stuff about terrain generation and I keep losing one of those links