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| Published | Kind | Announcement | Build |
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| Steam news | Galaxy Engine 1.7.0 - Optics Update Beta 5 This new beta update brings some quality of life features: · Tool menu · Optics selection tool · Optics eraser · Now optics elements can be modified after being placed. Use the select tool to select the assets you want to modify and then just adjust the settings from the lighting tab. · Deleted alpha contribution for lights and walls colors · The scene now renders after adjusting the lighting s… | — | |
| Steam news | Galaxy Engine 1.7.0 - Optics Update Beta 4 Building optical instruments like telescopes, cameras and more is now possible in Galaxy Engine! · Added lenses · Added drawable shapes · Fixed diffuse lighting appearing with full refraction · Made default global light absorption more subtle · Added "Show Normals" button · Added "Symmetrical Lens" button I plan on adding more features before releasing the full 1.7.0 update. I want to add stuff… | — | |
| Steam news | Galaxy Engine 1.7.0 - Optics Update Beta 3 Refraction is fun, this is the first step towards building telescopes in Galaxy Engine! · Added refraction · Added new refraction color editor · Added new refraction roughness slider · Added new refraction amount slider · Removed specular amount slider · Set default samples to 1 | — | |
| Steam news | Galaxy Engine 1.7.0 - Optics Update Beta 2 This new beta release includes more light simulation features: · Added specular reflections · Added fresnel simulation · Added IOR slider · Added roughness slider · Added specular color editor · Added light color editor · Separated specular reflections from diffuse lighting | — | |
| Steam news | Galaxy Engine 1.7.0 - Optics Update Beta 1 This upcoming release will include light simulation as well as some other visual improvements. These are a list of features that are included in the beta 1 update: · 2D Ray tracing with global illumination · New "Lighting" tab · Modified internal rendering to use 16 bits per channel. This greatly improves color visuals with dark colors or large particles · Added new "Max Dynamic Size" slider ·… | — | |
| Steam news | Galaxy Engine 1.6.0 Beta 2 This beta update include some progress on the constraints system. Now constraints react to temperature. New visualization modes were added too: · Visualize Constraints · Visualize Mesh Adding constraints to solids is possible from the right-click menu now too | — | |
| Steam news | Galaxy Engine 1.6.0 Beta 1 This new beta update includes the upcoming constraint physics system. How to enable the beta branch: · Right-click on Galaxy Engine. · Go to properties. · Go to Betas. · Select the "betafeatures" branch How to test out the new constraints: · Enable "Particle Constraints" · Select the particles you want to add constraints to. · Press "P" on your keyboard · Now the particles are tied together Thi… | — |
Announcements are the developer’s own posts to the game’s Steam news feed: updates and their patch notes, in-game events, releases and sales. The important ones are marked on the players chart.