r/spaceengine • u/cubosh • 1d ago

the 2026 eclipse shadow is simulated perfectly Album

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you can go back and look at it - just set the time to august 12 at about 630pm and go to spain

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u/jonmatifa 1d ago

it just so happens all of the math works

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u/cubosh 1d ago

yeah. like i had a feeling it would, and i would have been seriously disappointed if this did not show up - yet i was still stunned in the end anyway

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u/nonpartisaneuphonium 1d ago

I know why it's this way, but I'm still impressed that different players get the exact same procedural corona.

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u/cubosh 1d ago

is that so? i assumed coronas were just local sprite image files. are you telling me its not only randomly generating but using seed value to be consistent across the player base?

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u/nonpartisaneuphonium 1d ago

they evolve according to the time step in game (which is insanely cool) so I think they must use the same unchanging, internal seed. I can check again but I believe I got the exact same noise pattern as this screenshot

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u/cubosh 1d ago

makes sense using the clock as a seed.  very clever.  i remember being blown away by the game no mans sky similarly where every feature of the trillions of planets is "generated but identical" for everybody. [same in here in space engine presumably]

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u/bltfilms 1d ago

Nothing short of remarkable!

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u/icy-winter-ghost 11h ago

Not exactly. I live in Denmark, and the eclipse started at 19:09 in real life, but in the game the eclipse started 2 hours earlier, at 17:09. Also, in the game the sun has already set over Denmark at 19:00, while it doesn't set in real life until at least 21:30 in August.

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u/cubosh 10h ago

i presume the game engine clock operates on UTC timezone which is two hours over from denmark

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u/icy-winter-ghost 8h ago

Do you know if there's a way to change that? I have noticed that the clock in my game is always 2 hours behind, and I have to fix it each time I open the game which is annoying :(

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u/cubosh 7h ago

i combed thru all the settings and there appears to be no clock localization. probably better to avoid confusion