I’ve been poking around my very old Blitz3D sources (back to 2005) and found a little demo showing a simple planet earth turning around with nice music I never released.
This is a small test program how to control a lot of Asteroids and implement a Freelancer-like steering. The quad engine controls 25000 asteroid quads right now but it could handle even more at a decent FPS rate.
This is an older version of my current Planet Generator algorithm published in 2012 on Google Code. With Planet Creator, you can create your own planets on the fly.
The real Milky Way contains between 200 and 400 billion stars. I’ve made a small tech demo where you can fly through a very, very small galaxy with only 100.000 stars.
This is a experimental starmap. It zooms out seamless from a single star system (1 Light Year) to the whole galaxy (100.000 Light Years).