Reminds me of WhirlyGlobe, for iOS and Android.

https://github.com/mousebird/WhirlyGlobe

Oh this is lovely. As someone who spent a lot of time in the graphics area, let me say bravo, it isn’t easy and the features you put together are really good. I might dive into your code at some point over holiday break.

Awesome work!

An open source rendering engine like this can open doors for new products in simulation/training. Not having to write an image generator from scratch will sure be a huge time saver.

> Realistic environment rendering at multiple levels of detail, from orbit to planet surface

How is this done? Is it like when a game reduces graphics quality for farther away objects?

Much like Google Earth I would think, ideally the geo-data services would already provide preprocessed level-of-detail texture and heightmaps.

Another interesting question would be if and how Skybolt creates high-detail data that isn't present in the original data set (similar to what FS2020 does via "machine learning", e.g. choosing plausible vegetation and building types).

Demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT8iFGkxcpA

The demo reel is really impressive. I wish Kerbal Space Program could leverage something like this

Demo in the video at the end of https://piraxus.com/

If this was around before Kerbal Space Program was written do you think they might have considered as an alternative to Unity?

This is a mind-expanding piece of software to say the least, congratulations

I'm jealous. :-)