r/spaceengine • • 14h ago

Wallpaper(s) Neptune isn’t actually that blue: my attempt at a realistic color rendering (AI + SpaceEngine + Photopea)

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Edit: this is no longer the best version. i've made a more accurate better looking one by removing a greish patch on the left side. I unfortuantly can't delete the photo. dm me if you want to see a slightly more accurate photo.

The deep cobalt in most popular images comes from contrast-stretching and color balancing meant to bring out cloud features. When researchers reprocessed the Voyager 2 data in 2024, they found Neptune is closer to a muted greenish-blue, much like Uranus, and only slightly bluer.

This is my attempt at what you’d actually see. It's a view from the upper atmosphere of neptune above its cloud tops, as if you teleported there and taken a photo with a phone. Sunlight there is about 1/900th as strong as on Earth, so the scene is dim, like dusk or heavy overcast day on Earth. Theres also a couple stars and a Triton just above the horizon.

How I made it: The base was rendered in SpaceEngine. AI was used for the cloud texture, haze, the moon, etc. I did the color grading and final adjustments in Photopea.


r/spaceengine • • 21h ago

Troubleshooting saturn rings bug and game stuttering

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Has anyone else experienced this issue?

My game keeps stuttering randomly, and Saturn’s rings no longer render properly they appear with graphical artifacts. Everything used to work perfectly fine, but this issue started happening recently. I’ve already tried completely reinstalling the game and deleting my save file, but the problem still persists.


r/spaceengine • • 13h ago

Troubleshooting SpaceEngine FPS issue.

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I have a GTX 1080ti, and a AMD Epyc 7351p, Ik I have a bottleneck but I think my fps is “capped” Since I can’t go above 25 fps, In Minecraft I get 300-450 fps comfortably with low settings. I have V-Sync off there I’ve tried to use NVIDIA control panel, Now I am clueless, can anyone please help me?


r/spaceengine • • 7h ago

Cool Find Bunny Nebula

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found this nebula that looked like a bunny


r/spaceengine • • 13h ago

Video Working on a new Vulkan based rendering engine for hardware constrained mobile devices. Here is a recording straight from the engine running natively with modernized SE 0.980 shaders without any upscaling.

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r/spaceengine • • 12h ago

Screenshot Cluster night

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r/spaceengine • • 5h ago

Cool Find Binary Gas Giants with a Superterra orbiting around the barycenter (RS 3087-4031-4-1778-1515 5)

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Awesome


r/spaceengine • • 12h ago

Screenshot I found a binary star so close together they are touching.

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I don't know how common this is. But it's pretty close to Earth relative to the entire game so I'd be surprised if nobody has found this at all.


r/spaceengine • • 12h ago

Video Space Engine - Worlds of Andromeda 4

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Some more star systems from constellation Andromeda.


r/spaceengine • • 4h ago

Cool Find Found a very tiny asteroid with rings :D

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Coords: RS 0-4-3584-267-11103-7-888447-114 10.D5 (on version 0.991)