Release Notes

Features

  • Add minimap scales: inner solar system, outer solar system, heliosphere, oort cloud, solar neighbourhood, milky way, inner local group, outer local group and high-z
  • Arbitrary filters to datasets (filter by attributes like ra, dec, l, b, dist, mag, etc.)
  • Color picker to highlight datasets
  • New (experimental) velocity map-based camera motion blur
  • Container background for notifications
  • Add shortcuts to buttons that have one
  • Scaling Milky Way visuals
  • Add axes (activated with grids)
  • Paths in help dialog
  • CPU detection to sysinfo
  • A few new convenient API calls
  • First draft of star colormaps (implemented, not exposed to user)
  • New default colors

Bug Fixes

  • Crash loading scene graph on windows #305 #306 #308 #310
  • Add default controller rendermodel in case no suitable model is found
  • Controller identifier in SteamVR - controllers work again when using SteamVR
  • Block motion blur if vr mode is on
  • STIL catalogs not scaling well with global scale factor
  • Catalogs loading twice fix
  • Catalog info creation from JSON
  • Wrong frame size when UI elements are on in VR
  • Graphics quality images not found looking to lower qualities - not it also looks for the image in higher qualities
  • Star group label scale and size
  • Live update of number of glow lights
  • Scripting crash when running several successive scripts
  • Eq/Ec/GaltoInternalCartesian() calls unit fix
  • Scripts using ‘Sol’ instead of ‘Sun’
  • Adjust star brightness map to magnitudes
  • Enable input after script is finished, log connection details
  • Layout of datasets pane
  • Billboard positioning
  • Orientation lock for quaternion-based objects
  • Dataset color cycling
  • Closest body being null in first frame #303
  • Crash resizing window when loading scene graph
  • Add screen size check before persist
  • Java version string without minor or revision #302

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