if only this is what no mans sky was rendering at!

Yeah I was about to say it doesn't seem right. I've seen space in No Man's Sky, and I know the FPS of space is 10.

Looks cool but I need some sort of creative control or I tend to get bored. I'd enjoy reordering matter and creating new celestial events. Wake me up when the future is here.

Ah the obligatory zooming through space with large white blobs streaking past your face like what doesn't happen.

Try Universe Sandbox.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTro90oUsZY

http://universesandbox.com/

If I go to enough worlds, will I eventually find procedurally generated life?

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This trailer misses the exact thing that No Man's Sky trailers realized - you have to show the transition in scale. If you want to impress, you need to seamlessly transition from surface to orbit to solar system to galaxy. If you don't do that, the celestial objects just look like balls with high res textures and the surface shots look like Bryce 3D renders, but there's nothing to connect them.

Obviously you haven't played with Space Engine. It's not much of a game, but I find myself lost in it for hours just exploring. The shots you see are made in-game, traveling at many thousand times the speed of light. Every star you see, you can literally travel to. It might have planets and moons in orbit which you can visit, or that "star" might even be an entirely new galaxy with billions more stars.

It does have a game mode with space ships, but I have never tried it. I just load it up from time to time, click a random star and go to it.

I love space engine. Y'all needs to check it out. <3