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Nice work and an excellent writeup.

Much appreciated, thankyou!

System Name Generation has now been updated but there is more that could be done such as this Italian variant, or associating certain naming schemes with specific factions by weighting the probability that they'll be used for them.

https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1672/d ... -eclipses/

Complicated little system of 6 stars!

LODs etc are all chosen on CPU, so not OpenGLs doing

This is part of the code which mostly uses standard C++ and lives in a header // Copyright © 2008-2021 Pioneer Developers. See AUTHORS.txt for details // Licensed under the terms of the GPL v3. See licenses/GPL-3.txt #pragma once #ifndef KATAKANANAMEGEN #define KATAKANANAMEGEN namespace KatakanaName...

... and the other half of them :) Maado Maamo Mabahi Mabakinyo Mabe Mabi Mabotezu Mabottomo Mabuni Mabunyu Mabusoya Mabute Mabuto Mabuyoba Mada Madaanyu Madaji Madehotto Mademe Madesa Mado Maetehe Maeyori Mafu Mafuugu Magame Magazo Magena Mageppu Magu Maguda Magun Maha Mahe Mahi Mahiru Mahoto Mai Ma...

This is an example of the output from my katakana-like generator, attempted to generate 10,000 names, of which 9084 were unique. Unique names generated: 9084 Aakko Aba Abajunyu Abejuja Aberoza Abi Abioke Abo Aboho Abude Abuha Achi Achimito Achu Achufumi Achun Ade Adekkani Adekochi Adokkanoh Ae Aga A...

Interesting! If we had a Vulkan renderer we'd be able to run on Pi4 pretty comfortably.

Not super fast, terrain would be slow still, but pretty decent I'd expect

<The-EG> fluffyfreak: yeah height and temp would be good for planets with atmosphere. and for the multiple LUTs...maybe use different channels? Each LUT could technically have 3 different versions in a single file... <The-EG> not sure if I already mentioned that or not <The-EG> or even 4 if you are...

I found this site http://galaxymap.org/drupal/node/45 It's ... well it's a long term project with a LOT of detail about many things, aggregating a bunch of info and I've only just started to scratch the surface. Mapping the galaxy in whole is not currently possible but this site seems to have lot of...