Release Notes

Features

• add padding to tooltips by default
• add reflections in shaders plus skybox
• add startup object to config
• add VRAM monitoring
• add reset sequence number button
• improve debug pane layout
• initialise elevation data structures asynchronously
• CPU generation of height data
• add tessellation quality control
• noise-based height
• new scripting calls: cameraYaw/Pitch
• handle server down event correctly
• data downloader checks for updates
• decouple keyboard bindings from code, i18n camera modes
• warnings in object search
• new checksum algorithm: MD5 -> SHA256
• orbit refresh daemon plus shading
• comprehensive info panel on mode switch, star textures
• fix point scaling
• add starburst to lens flare
• add load queue progress to debug
• separate HiDPI theme to checkbox in preferences
• add point size and color attributes to asteroids
• add dithering glsl library to simulate transparency with opaque objects
• some work on controller mappings
• add optional gravity to game mode
• new camera mode: Game mode
• walk on the surface of any height-mapped body
• add game mode - WASD+mouse
• add physically based fog to atmospheres
• add Uncharted and Filmic tone mapping types
• add color noise parameter to particle groups
• parallax mapping
• improve light glow performance and visual quality
• add ACES tone mapping type
• improve atmosphere blending with stars
• add plumbing to allow automatic and exposure HDR tone mapping types
• automatic tone mapping based on Reinhard’s method
• move all post-processing shaders to version 330
• new milky way model
• migrate search window to generic dialog
• native support for gzipped obj models (.obj.gz)
• implement integer indices
• use gitlab API instead of github’s
• implement sane crash reporting to file
• migrate to Java 11
• add ‘y’ and ’n’ key bindings to dialogs
• add shortcuts to expand/collapse panes
• velocity vectors are regular component types
• add optional arrowheads to velocity vectors

Bug Fixes

• no-GUI mode inhibits GUI-related mappings
• memory info window layout
• VRAM leak disposing textures when changin quality
• truly release VRAM when unloading textures
• scripting parameter check
• cameraTransition()
• more glsl leftovers
• shader errors on macOS #288
• show notice with high/ultra quality
• tangent and binormal vectors on UV spheres
• ui inconsistencies
• line occlusion fixed with no depth writes
• adjust sun size and selection
• aspect ratio of most points
• synchronous catalog loading via script is really synchronous
• fade node visibility tied to internal frame rate, not absolute time
• fix dataset visibility fade time link, add cubemap projection setter in scripting API
• frame buffer and effects cleanup on resize
• adjust motion blur, remove blur radius
• about window layout
• add pad to version check buttons
• add some value checks to scripting implementation
• file chooser file/dir browsing state
• bugs determining location of files
• macos gradle launch script
• dataset version check in download manager
• macOS retina display scaling, remove analytics
• macos script fix

Build System

• Improved readme file instructions
• Requirements from JRE8 to JRE11
• move postprocessing lib to gaia sky
• gitlab issue templates

Code Refactoring

• texture component is now material component
• remove unused webgl code
• sphere creator to own class
• render system cleanup
• sprite batch shaders to version 330, moved postprocess shaders to own folder
• sanity checks and code cleanup in scripting API implementation
• reorganised scripts
• cleanup scripts folder