Gaia Sky 2.2.1
Release notes — Build 90d5543a
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Release Notes

Features

  • Unify VR and desktop version into a single code base. vr branch is now obsolete. Launch Gaia Sky with VR capabilities with gaiasky -vr or simply use the provided gaiaskyvr.exe (on Windows)
  • Add markers for closest and starting objects. Add checkboxes to control which are shown
  • Much improved particle group renderer. Please update your SDSS datasets
  • Top UI bar with current time, wrap factor, focus/closest/starting objects
  • Adaptive-scale logarithmic z-buffer
  • Internal distance scale factor that works

Bug Fixes

  • Moon coordinates bug causing a very high frequency and low amplitude wobble
  • Greedy texture initialization works again
  • Roll back to GL 3.x if 4.x not supported
  • Windows cmd file fix
  • Deb dependencies
  • AUR package java version
  • Fixes for issues #293 #292 #298 #294 #295 #288 #299 #300

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