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📢 Gaia Sky 3.5.6 available now!

Features

• Add film grain filter (disabled by default).
• Set a maximum age for .part download files of 6 hours.
• Improve recursive grid with travelling pulses and a noise mask.
• Add ‘animate’ setting to recursive grid preferences to toggle animation on and off.
• Add checkbox to control recursive grid animation.
• Add initial notice about Gaia Sky contacting the server to get the dataset updates list.
• Improve shader compilation error handling.
• Enable elevation (height) representation without tessellation in a new ‘regular’ mode. This is the new default mode, as tessellation is a bit to taxing on old and integrated GPUs.
• Discontinue parallax mapping elevation type; the new vertex displacement type supersedes it.
• Add full support for point lights, and use them for stars.
• True depth-tested close-by stars, also working with light glow enabled.

Bug Fixes

• Prevent creation of background blur object, as camera motion blur was disabled a few versions ago.
• Use predicted position for tracking objects.
• ‘reload defaults’ button in visual settings component actually sets the default value to the elevation multiplier slider.
• New star shader in intel GPUs.
• Mouse coordinates collision with objects when back buffer scale != 1.

Code Refactoring

• Move GLSL snippet shader chunks to own directory assets/shader/snippet.
• Rename shaders from ’normal’ to ‘pbr’.

Build System

• Set -source to 16 in gradle build script to enable pattern matching in instanceof.

Style

• Code style now formats Javadoc comments.

You can get this release in our repository.