StarStrider 2.8.4 Description:

StarStrider is a software planetarium that utilizes the latest in 3D-technology in order to show you not only the planets and satellites of our solar system, but also the more than 100 000 stars from the Hipparcos catalogue, all in real-time 3D.

You'll also find galaxies, nebulae, supernova remnants, and the band of the Milky Way. Try the educative tutorial scripts, the optional relativistic effects of travel, the truly 'stereo 3D' color anaglyph mode, and many more interesting features.

Free add-ons include an larger planet textures, and a huge database of 2 million stars!

Created  by an astronomer and a software engineer, StarStrider is an application that combines photo realism and scientific accuracy. Enjoy the wonders of the universe!

StarStrider 2.8.4 Features:

· Contains the full Hipparcos database of 118 218 stars - plus optional database of 2 million more stars - in true 3D!
· Several star rendering modes: From simple points to Saturated Gauss bells with diffraction crosses.
· Visible extent when you get close enough to a star.
· Optional visual effects such as lens flares and camera burn-out.
· View a large selection of galaxies, star clusters and nebulae drawn from a variety of catalogues.
· Visit all of the 9 planets of our solar system.
· Or tour the 30 major satellites included with the program.
· The program contains highly detailed planet surface maps, as well as special maps for specular high lights, bumpiness, and cloud layers.
· Includes a comprehensive database of common names for stars, constellations, galaxies, nebulae and planet surface features (all are of course searcheable!).
· You can right click on any object to view more extensive catalogue information on it, including educative notes for some selected objects (it also is possible to add your own notes with a little work...).
· Includes several educational as well as entertaining and beautiful tutorials.
· Optional relativistic aberration and Doppler-shift effects - travel in a true Einsteinean universe rather than in a Newtonian one.
· Use any DirectInput supported controller (joysticks, mice et c) for steering your star-ship - fully configurable controls!
· Scripting engine and StarLua extension language - with a little work it's possible to create your own demonstrations and presentations just like the included tutorials. With a litte more work you can make very advanced extension to the program!
· A scientifically accurate planetarium - made by an astronomer and a software engineer - both with a background in physics!
· Highly realistic rendering is possible
Support for the latest hardware:
· StarStrider can run quite well on a wide range of hardware (minimum is a Pentium III or AMD Athlon or later plus a video card with hardware 3D support). But if you have the latest and coolest hardware then it will take advantage of it and work even better! E.g. giving you super-smooth frame rates in hi-res video modes - with all options turned on!
· Support for Pixel & Vertex Shader 2.0 (or later): If your hardware supports this then the "multi-pass rendering" of planets and of saturated stars are not only replaced with much faster single pass "shader programs" - but it also adds per-pixel lighting, plus bump-mapping support, and improved rendering quality (all calculations are then done in floating point until the pixel is output, avoiding the accumulation of quantization errors that occurs with multiple rendering passes).
· Our pixel shader for rendering Earth comes very close to the maximum instruction limit for the Pixel Shader 2.0 specification. It calculates per-pixel lighting with ambient light, two directional lights (the Moon and the Sun!), a specular light map (sparkling reflections in the oceans!), physically correct bump mapping (true rotation of the surface normal based on a height map for shadowed and sunlit mountain sides), a separate city light map for the night side, ray-traced cloud shadows, a moving cloud layer, and finally atmospheric haze effects. This in a single rendering pass - replacing up to seven rendering passes on older hardware!
· Support for Hyper-threading and dual-CPU systems: When enabled, star retrieval and projection from the database will run in parallel with other tasks.
· Highly optimized code ideal for long pipe-line processors such as the Pentium IV.
· Star and deep-sky object databases comes in a highly optimized format that works equally well however you move around in space. Also optimized for best memory-cache performance.

StarStrider 2.8.4 Requirements:

· A CPU with SSE support (i.e. Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon XP or later).
· DirectX 9
· A video card that supports DirectX v9.
· 256 MB or more of system memory.
· Mouse or equivalent pointing device.

StarStrider 2.8.4 Limitations:

· 30 days trial
· An 'Unregistered evaluation copy' banner is displayed on top of the main window
· The application exists after 10 minutes of use and you must restart it.

Related searches:

planetarium

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