Awesome video, and it shows just how good this game can look.
@ Matt - great explanations of the work done so far. As someone else mentioned after seeing Interstellar and their Black Hole effects - any chance we'll see something like that in Elite one day? Also would the Time Dilation effect be presentand will you get caught in its gravity well, cos we all know nothing can escape a black hole!
Great work everyone.
To answer a few questions then yes we have planetary nebulas in, you can go find the ring nebula etc and they're there (we scaled them up a little in the map so you can find them but they're "life size" in game) They just exist as part of the background for now due to how we generate and update the background currently. Black hole wise I think we have 1 of 3 types in, I don't believe we've added the types with jets and accretion discs yet! Somewhere on the todo list!
In gameplay terms I think the distance you're kicked out of SC prevents any nastiness occurring, your ship will look after you, treat her well!
