ABSOLUTELY INSANE ADDITIONS FOR MY GAME THIS TIME.
First of all my first ship was finally reviewed so i read all the reviews and made a mental note of all of them, they were all positive and im very happy people resonate with my project so i appreciate everyone who wrote a very thoughtful review for me i thank you all a lot.

Now in the technical part of the game:
I finally fixed my nebula raymarched shader, now it actually has volume and you can go inside it and it looks absolutely ethereal.

Reviews told me that they would love it if the planets had more details, so details i added, i made a VERY efficient chunking pipeline to scatter debries, and whatever i want on the planet mesh, i am being able to have the whole planet populated with no noticeable drop to performance. I made the script in a way that its a module, so in case if i ever want a planet with vegetation or trees, i can just drop the 3d obj file for that mesh and boom ill have a proper chunk based scatter for that mesh.
I tested the chunks using debug cubes and it works perfectly as it should.

I also added spacewalking to the game, you can genuinely just float in the space and enjoy the view from the outside, this was quiet easy but its an addition that i shouldve added a long time ago.

Also ive finally added randomly generated textures for planet surfaces, these dont look AS realistic rn, but im sure after changing a few parameters and adding proper debrie 3d models, it’ll look absolutely astonishing.

From the reviews i read that i didn’t add any help for what keys to use and genuinely thats on me im too stupid so in future ship ill 100% fix that

Also ive added a feature where you can currently place observatories on planets and use them to control the satellites, This is just for now as for future ill make the player do stuff on the planet first to have their base setup, I dont wanna complicate it too much as this is supposed to be a relaxing game, but i think this much is necessary.

Ive also 3d modeled a tiny astronaut along with his animations and im calling the player boney, i have decided on boney’s lore yet but i can assure yall one thing, it will be insanely deep, and there will be clues for it all around the game, you just have to notice it.

I also have massively optimised the star spawning shader, i am able to have 10s of thousands stars on the screen without having any frame drops at all, i used GPU instancing for this and this is genuinely black magic, I also used GPU bill boarding to help aid the performance even more. Removed the unnecessary calculations and now the sky is denser than ever.

I also herd people wanted me to make a web release for it as the download process was quiet tedious, but i think 2 devlogs ago you can see me in godots compatibility mode, it BUTCHERED the visuals completely so i dont think i can bring myself to do that after spending so much time writing complex shaders.

TODO: Add wormholes, infinite planet generation, coordinate system.