long time exposure option for free camera

[John Guevara]

i wish i could set a long time exposure and take a picture at a edge of our milky way to see other galaxies in the deep dark zones, like Hubble was doing: http://hubblesite.org/image/4492/news

Spoiler: Hubble's Wide View of the Evolving Universe

 

[Old Duck]

I don't think that will happen due to limitations in Stellar Forge. However, I'd like something very similar but in quality vs "see far away". I'd like the ability to take a screenshot in super-duper-ultra graphics mode, perhaps even raytrace / multiple lightsource mode, even though it might take many seconds or even minutes to render. This would be especially handy for those of us on lower-end hardware who cannot default to Ultra-graphics for normal gameplay. Since it's "long exposure", then it doesn't matter if FPS is 60 or 1 or even just one frame per minute.

Imagine the screenshots we could get with proper ray-tracing

 

[John Guevara]

I don't think Stellar Forge, as accurate as it is in placement of bodies, supports the expansion or inflation of the galaxy. In other words, nothing actually moves over time in Stellar Forge. Even Hubble does not see any actual expansion or inflation of the cosmos, as that takes millions and even billions of light years to see. Hubble can detect the movement of a planet around a sun by measuring the dimming of the sun as the planet passes across it. Expansion and inflation of the cosmos can only be done mathematically but not observed directly.

I know that this feature could not happen, but what would this forum-section (Suggestions) would be, if I could not even express my wishes here. i don't care about the expansion, because my first thing for longtime exposure in free camera was not to prove real life physics for expansion or inflation of the cosmos. my main concern was to make better visual effects possible while taking a screenshot, in space and on planet surface, like

Spoiler: one of my personal longtime exposure photography

photographed with my Canon 30D in Austrian Alps, i made this shot at 2 o'clock at night, the exposure took ~25 minutes.

 

[Exeider]

I don't think that will happen due to limitations in Stellar Forge. However, I'd like something very similar but in quality vs "see far away". I'd like the ability to take a screenshot in super-duper-ultra graphics mode, perhaps even raytrace / multiple lightsource mode, even though it might take many seconds or even minutes to render. This would be especially handy for those of us on lower-end hardware who cannot default to Ultra-graphics for normal gameplay. Since it's "long exposure", then it doesn't matter if FPS is 60 or 1 or even just one frame per minute.

Imagine the screenshots we could get with proper ray-tracing

Honestly, the free camera needs to be retoolled/upgraded to a legit screenshot, video maker mode like NMS or even Starlink: Battle for Atlas. The ability to video yourself jumping into and out of witch space would be boss.

I would even go so far as to say I would pay a small sum for a full machinima/creator mode, separate from the main game modes of course that would allow you to place cameras, ships, even change the orientation of stars planets, etc in stellar forge and access to all the particles effects, animations, etc.

You let me do that, then I just need a small space for some practical cockpit mock ups and I can make my Elite Dangerous movie.