Release Notes

Features

• Replace logo images by ttf text
• Add cyrillic characters for russian translation
• Add line width factor to conf and UI controls
• Edit timedate button is text icon button
• New compact sliders
• Finish blend map implementation for multiple-projector blend support
• Add slave configuration and status window (S+L+V) to master instances
• Dialog to configure slave instances live
• Allow configuration of slave instance with gaia sky configuration file
• Proper image warping for MPCDI support
• Geometry warp and blend shader, improve reverse mapping
• Add MPCDI parsing and orientation
• Dataset highlight size factor API call
• Planetarium mode uses cubemap method
• Add fisheye projection to cubemap mode
• Remember last tab in preferences window
• Update old preferences window icons
• Replaced external UI window with external scene view
• Minimap size controls and tooltips
• Add CTRL+PLUS/MINUS to increase/decrease the FOV
• Add VR icon
• Maintain a 1:1 aspect ratio for the fisheye/planetarium effect
• Add support for per-object primitive in GPU arrays, improved earth-venus-dance script
• New API call to convert equatorial cartesian to internal cartesian with unit conversion factor

Bug Fixes

• Adjust brightness of Sun glow, add empty release instructions file
• macOS shader and sprite batch crashes
• libgdx scene2d ui Window snaps to integer pixel positions resulting in text rendering artifacts
• Assets location when running from source and no properties found
• Dataset highlighting API calls improved, add test scripts for a few use cases
• Screenshot/frame advanced mode messes viewport. Fixes #319 #319
• Properties file version not found. Fixes #317 #317
• Fullscreen mode before initialization, cursor in slaves
• Stop the rest server the right way
• Correct perspective of labels in cubemap modes
• Master-slave connection messed up by scripting engine
• Fisheye setting persisted
• Do not replace backslaches with forward slashes
• Use fixed keyword for scene graph loader, improve internal catalog path handling
• Typo in German translation - geenden -> beenden
• Do not apply fog to normal shaders #312
• Default constructor for NBG
• Milky Way visuals adapt to fov changes
• Toggle buttons for dome, cubemap and stereo
• Notifications interface background in stereo mode
• Additive GPU VBOs

Build System

• Allow more than one instance with the Windows .exe file
• Update to lwjgl 3.2.3, deprecated annotations
• Update gradle version to 6.0.1
• Update to JDK11
• Disable motion blur by default

Code Refactoring

• Reorganize rendering paths and structure for multiple views

Performance Improvements

• Improve performance of API method/parameter matching