hello wonderful person this is Anton and
in this video I wanted to take a look at
the newly released space engine that's
available to everyone now but you do
have to pay a little bit of money for it
in other words there are now several
different versions of space engine and I
wanted to give you a brief idea on what
each of them represents and why you may
want to actually put some money and buy
a copy for yourself anyway let's talk
about this and start with so what
exactly is this now in short if you
watched any of my previous videos you
know that I use a lot of visual
simulations and a lot of them actually
do often come from space engine work for
example the simulation of the moon from
one of the previous videos was all
almost entirely space engine sometimes
when I talk about for example black
holes I usually go to Sagittarius a star
which is right here and use this as a
visual representation of various black
holes because for the most part most of
them do kind of look similar to each
other at least that's what we think now
on space engine is a little a simulation
of everything in the universe relatively
accurately as well with relatively
accurately distances but it's not
perfect
and it's been around for a really long
time it's actually developed by a single
person somewhere in the depths of Russia
actually I think he's from st.
Petersburg and I think he's an actual
astronomer who uses this in his
simulations as well although I might be
wrong this is how little we know about
the actual creator so for the longest
time I've also always actively promoted
his work and try to encourage people to
donate to his work but you know
surviving on donations is not really a
feasible way of living so he was always
encouraged to release this as a kind of
a paid tool and so he finally did but
here's the thing though you can still
use space engine for free as a matter of
fact the older versions will always
remain free and can be easily downloaded
from the download section of space
engine dot orgy so the latest one zero
point nine point eight zero is the one
that I've also used quite a lot on my
channel and still use sometimes because
there are certain things in it that I
like better but um these versions are
different from the one that you
and the participant that's approximately
20 bucks us is what you see here so what
are the main differences well first of
all there are a few things that are
visually different and a few additional
features like for example the
astrophysical jets for various objects
slightly better looking nebulas are
gonna better looking black holes
everything is a little bit more improved
in the paid version and also all the
updates are going to be going to the
paid version not so much actually
probably not at all to the free version
so the free version reserved like the
basic prototype you can still use and
still achieve quite a lot with but all
the new stuff will probably not exist in
it also the paid version has something
called flight simulator and so something
called planetarium these are going to be
two different I guess you can call play
modes flight simulator is intended to be
literally that you fly using an actual
spaceship that you can construct here
and you know just build something really
quickly right on the spot it doesn't
really matter what it looks like but I
think it's somewhere next to me right
now
and so here is an example of a ship and
now we can technically take control of
this and then fly it around now these
are actually relatively realistic
controls and are relatively difficult as
well but this is still an alpha it's
still early development and not really
that entertaining to be honest but
eventually it will turn into the actual
gameplay mode where you can explore the
universe using all kinds of different
ships that are available for
construction or you can even make your
own there's a really interesting
tutorial on how to make your own ship in
the way you want it and the put in
terror mode here that's basically the
major mode that I use and also um the
mode that always existed in this program
and actually let's just compare
Planetarium mode in the order of free
version dices in nine eight zero version
and so here you'll see that some things
will look a little bit different but not
by much now interestingly in this
version of the simulation for some
reason Trappist one planets look a lot
better
they looked a lot more realistic this is
an eyebolt I don't sign it but other
things may not look as good
like for example the supermassive black
hole in the middle of our galaxy it's
going to look a little bit different for
one you'll notice that it has no
Astrophysical yet and it also doesn't
have as many effects around the
accretion disk as well so this is the
earlier version but it might be enough
for most people and I mean it's free so
why not try this at least rate and then
there is actually the third version
available known as space engine Pro now
this version is meant for anyone who
wants to use these simulations in any
kind of a commercial product for example
if you want to make a commercial or
advertisement using planets and using
black holes and you use space engine for
this then you might want to get that
particular version of the game it's
about 60 bucks so it's about three times
more expensive than the actual a space
engine but it's sort of worth it if you
think that one day you'll be using space
engine videos for something that you
make money off and the other cool thing
about the version is that it basically
allows you to use a lot of camera tools
as well I believe to get two camera
tools you go in here and there is
basically all sorts of stuff you can do
with the camera where you can actually
record the way that you move around an
object like for example this planet and
then you replay this but it will do it
very very smoothly it will actually
order generate the path and make things
really easy for you to film so it's
really meant for literally professional
use and in that sense sweet engine pro
is definitely a version for people that
want to use these simulations in some
kind of a professional work or just
creating very beautiful animations that
then they sell to people the pro version
also includes a lot of other useful
tools that you can use to modify things
like for example the skybox um editor
which allows you to edit the actual
skies of various objects and other
editors that I'm not actually familiar
with right this one is clearly to edit
nebulas and this one is clearly to edit
your ships but I've never really used
them and so overall I really wanted to
make a separate video about this because
it's such a great tool it's super cheap
and it
only helps the stool grow bigger better
and become an even more impressive
feature full software with tiny this is
a one-person job remember and this
person has done a lot for the space
community a lot of simulations do they
actually use space in genetics to some
extent and because all of this is very
realistic and has actual databases of
actual objects out there it just blows
your mind to some extent that one person
was able to achieve all this there's
also a very active community there's a
war of modifications and it's actually
kind of easy to make your own objects
and your own star systems your own stars
or even to some extent your own galaxies
now I've already showed in one of the
previous videos how to create your own
star system but maybe I'll do it again
some other time you know how to heat
your videos because there is a few star
systems actually you like to try
creating again anyway on that note check
out space engine the link for it is in
description all super cool tool like I
said the free version will remain free
and the website for it is also in
description below but the paid version
is way better but also allows the
developer to really focus on this and
not rely on the nation's as much anymore
I mean he's a full-time developer and I
think this is our money anyone know
thank you for watching I'll see you guys
tomorrow come back tomorrow to learn
something else space out and as always
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