Same with galaxies; I'm not really interested because my focus is the area around a few thousand light years of our solar system, but I've had several people ask me about doing one and it's probably within my capabilities, so I probably will make one at some point.

The main issue with other large catalogs (like SDSS) is that most of them aren't meant for detail. They're all more focused on where the stars are rather than what the stars are. I've found that a lot of the ones that do include additional details mention that they got them by crossmatching with Gaia and using their values.

SDSS would suffer the same issue that the old Gaia DR2 addon had in that every star would be identical because there's nothing to classify them with. I started working on this because I'm writing a hard sci-fi series and used SpaceEngine to keep track of system locations and parameters, so I wanted things to be as accurately classified as possible, and doing SDSS would defeat that purpose.

That said, it would also make it really easy, so I could probably pull it off with only like a couple weeks of work if I felt like it.

ive seen some other galaxy mods that dont really need quat, like isagi's milky way and andromeda sattelite galaxy mods.

also btw for the galaxies, i dont think u need to give them all quat, especially the far ones, there is also axis u can use for the galaxies, u can prob use data from NED. also a SDSS catalog mod would be cool, celestia had did it :)

thanks :D

alr ill take a look at it when i got the time

It's a bulk file, not a script, otherwise it would've been way harder. And probably run into filesize limits to be honest. Most star catalogs are usually in a format like votable or csv already, so it doesn't take much. All that's really necessary at a bare minimum is making sure the SpaceEngine-required fields are present. 99% of the difficulty I've had with this has been my insistence on scientifically accurate spectral classifications, which aren't included in the Gaia tables and thus need to be determined based on the existing fields first.

Eh...

Technical Documentation Link Again <– Just read that if you're really curious.

also just wondering, but how did u make this (by that I mean converting the star data to a SE script). I thought about porting some Celestia intergalactic star mods to SE, along with adding all the real stars in the Omega Centauri cluster and more

:o ooooooh

Smaller packs coming soon if it's too much...

ohhh MYY PC

Alr, sounds good, i was trying to figure that out too

It took me a minute, but I think there's been a misunderstanding. Assuming I'm right, to clarify, I was referring to my earlier comment on bulk galaxies, "Only hard part would be that SE doesn't have bulk galaxy files as far as I know." I've since found out that it comes with one by default, so I know how to format it now, I'd just need to figure out how the "Quat" values work and how to convert other galaxy catalogs to use them so they're SpaceEngine compatible.

I don't actually have a new galaxy catalog to add picked out yet, whenever I get around to doing one.

What catalogs are they from btw?

Alr that would be cool to see :)

I found a couple bulk galaxy files (apparently I already had some and didn't realize it) so I can probably actually do it pretty easily; I'll just need to figure out what some of the values are for.

Someone really needs to make a galaxy catalog :D

If you try hard enough, it'll start spinning the other direction. :)

the gif is an optical illusion

Uh... huh.

Well, at least I tested to confirm the actual pak itself got uploaded and was functional before I went to bed...

yea it happened to me just now

Hey, did my thumbnail image break for anyone else? Got like five network errors trying to upload the last update, and now it's missing on my end...

@MTDJ2011
I'd have to look at their formatting, but my scripts could probably be modified to work with other catalogs pretty easily. I'm already planning on doing some dedicated addons for speciality objects like the old Gaia DR2 WD addon once I'm done with the main table, so maybe I can look into galaxies at the same time.

Only hard part would be that SE doesn't have bulk galaxy files as far as I know . I saw that there's an addon that adds a bunch of AI generated galaxies, so I might just have to go see how they did that one.

I would love to see a Euclid DR1 galaxy catalog sometime in the future, but the DR1 won't be available until October 2026. :(

bru my se crashed when i download this addon but its so good

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This couldn't have come at a better time

No waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

TY!

@plutonianempire
Ah, well, it is what it is. I imagine most people aren't nearly as interested in scientific accuracy as I am anyway.

Love your terrain mod, by the way.

Delta Ori, unfortunately that's just how it is. I learned that the hard way when I tried to open up my TPE Universe to community contributions. No one is interested in contributing :/

Fantastic work!

Okay, it's been a week and there's been zero bug reports, which is hypothetically good, but statistically unlikely. I can't manually check every single star by myself.

I'm noticing a lot of page views but not a lot of subscriptions; is this just because everyone wants to wait for the full release, or is it the 5 million stars thing? I can reduce the size to 1M to match the main DR2 pack if needed.

I know the comments sections of SpaceEngine workshop submissions aren't exactly the most lively places, but I need feedback if it's ever gonna come out of beta, people.

@animationfan13

Yes, but only the 1M pack.

I had previously included compatibility info in the description, but forgot to update it in the upload tool and overwrote it, then had to rewrite the whole thing from memory and I guess I forgot it the second time around.

I've updated the description with compatibility info again.

is this intended to work with the gaia dr2 addons?

Hell yeah!