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Update: 0.0.10 Released!

StarDust
A downloadable game for Windows

--v0.0.10 Notes:

Visuals:

  • -Modified: Camera FOV is now set to 60 instead of 20 (Why was it 20? I don't know).

Controls:

  • -Modified: Flight Controls: Flying is seperated into 4 modes: Normal, Subluminal, Superluminal and Hyperluminal

Normal: Used for flying in and around planets, max speed is 3,000 m/s or 3 km/s. Speed will adjust when approaching planet's atmosphere.

Press and Hold Space to enter:

Subluminal: Used for flying between planets, and for travelling in star system. Max Speed is 300,000 m/s or 300 km/s. Ship will automatically exit to Normal mode when close to a planet.

Superluminal: Used for flying between stars, Max speed is 3e+15 m/s or 10 million times the speed of light.

Hyperluminal: Used for flying between regions of stars, Max speed is 3e+16 m/s or 100 million times the speed of light.

While using Luminal Drives: The ship while autopilot to the star near your crosshair, and automatically slow down on approach. 

Ship will be unable to be steered or rolled.

Stars/Planets:

NOTE: For all stars/planets: Colors, Sizes, and Distances are not using real dimensions! This is for artistic/aesthetic purposes.

  • -Added: Star Systems - Stars will generate it's own star and planetary systems when approached.
  • -Added: Star Systems: Binary Stars - Some star systems are home to a pair of stars. They will orbit each other with approximate baryocenter.
  • -Added: Stars: Main Sequence - Stars representing main sequence can be spawned. They range from 300,000 to 700,000 meters in diameter.
  • -Added: Stars: Giant Sequence - Stars in their giant, super or hyper giant phases are represented. They range from 2,500,000 to 7,500,000 meters in diameter.
  • -Added: Stars: Remnants - Black Holes can be spawned as a star in some systems. Some are really small, causing a wobble in what seems to be a single star system!
  • -Added: Stars: Remnants: Black Holes - Larger black holes can be spawned with accretion disks.
  • -Added: Planets - Planets will spawn in star systems. They come in various sizes. Press P to pause orbits to fly and get a surface view of the planet! They Range from 50,000 to 300,000 meters in diameter.
  • -Added: Planets: Gas Giants - Gas Giants can be spawned and flown into.
  • -Added: Planets: Rings - Planets can spawn with rings. They come in various sizes and colors.
  • -Added: Planets: Auroras - Planets can spawn with auroras, depending on the planet's atmosphere.
  • -Added: Planets: Clouds - Planets can spawn with clouds, in various different colors, and elevations.
  • -Added: Planets: Atmosphere - Planets can spawn with various levels of atmosphere, in various different colors.
  • -Added: Planets: Terrain - Planets can spawn with various height levels of terrain.

Known Bugs: 

  • -Stars in space do not reflect actual star system colors. 
  • -Collision with ship and terrain is disabled. 
  • -Sun Flares may pass through terrain/planets.

Files

  • StarDust-0.0.10 (2021-05-23).zip 133 MB
    May 23, 2021
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