One of the best moments I ever had in ED was when I had landed on a moon, and was driving in my SRV across a large plain with a ridge of mountains to my right. I was driving in the dark/dusk, and then all of a sudden daylight was upon me, and the shadow I had been driving in was rushing away from me across the plain, and across the mountain range. I had been driving unknowingly in an eclipse shadow, which I'd then seen rush off into the distance!
All I managed to catch of the event was the last few seconds of me looking right, and screen capturing three times...
Consider for a moment if you could adjust ED's time to allow you to see a system, planet, moon, star position at anytime, in effect so as to be able to predict alignments, events and eclipses? So of course we can't do this in ED because it's realtime, but imagine if instead there was a simplified tool using the Stellar Forge engine allowed you to render a system, planet, moon, star position at anytime (within reason) to be able to predict when interesting alignments, events and eclipses would occur. In effect a cut of the Steller Forge engine, and graphics renderer we see in the game, to allow a simple tool somewhat like Space Engine, dedicated for the ED universe.
ie: So you could be back on the moon I was on, ready for the next eclipse I witnessed. Or be in system X, on planet Y, to catch the alignment of Z stars on the 3rd of January 2021?
ps: I doubt we'll ever see this of course, as it would allow players to view locations in the Universe they've never been too. But, it's an interesting thought
All I managed to catch of the event was the last few seconds of me looking right, and screen capturing three times...
Consider for a moment if you could adjust ED's time to allow you to see a system, planet, moon, star position at anytime, in effect so as to be able to predict alignments, events and eclipses? So of course we can't do this in ED because it's realtime, but imagine if instead there was a simplified tool using the Stellar Forge engine allowed you to render a system, planet, moon, star position at anytime (within reason) to be able to predict when interesting alignments, events and eclipses would occur. In effect a cut of the Steller Forge engine, and graphics renderer we see in the game, to allow a simple tool somewhat like Space Engine, dedicated for the ED universe.
ie: So you could be back on the moon I was on, ready for the next eclipse I witnessed. Or be in system X, on planet Y, to catch the alignment of Z stars on the 3rd of January 2021?
ps: I doubt we'll ever see this of course, as it would allow players to view locations in the Universe they've never been too. But, it's an interesting thought
