Release Notes

Bug Fixes

• adjust default area line width
• star clusters visual appearance
• min star size scaled by resolution
• apply scale factor to milky way
• camera group bottom buttons aligned to center
• emulate 64-bit float with two 32-bit floats in shader to be able to extend time beyond +-5 Myr
• controller mappings not found on first startup. Fixes #341. #341
• use Java2D instead of Toolkit to determine initial screen size
• data description update
• controller mappings looking for assets location if not found
• manpage gen
• smooth game camera view
• spacecraft mode fixes
• GUI registry check
• add timeout to sync behavior in dataset loading
• new default startup window size to accommodate welcome screen
• update default data desc pointers to version 3.0.0
• default fps limit value, aux vectors in recursive grid
• overwrite coordinate system matrix by recursive grid
• start some units over XZ plane to avoid conflicting with recursive grid
• gaiasky script defaults back to system java installation if nothing else is found
• octreegen empty hip x-match crash
• points in VertsObject with wrong uniform name - incorrect location
• do not round dialog position values
• blue, orange and red themes crashed
• controls scroll box resizing
• download data window sizings, update data desc
• regular color picker does not show dialog
• music player actually finds audio files
• size of keyboard shortcuts table in controls pane
• disable background models’ depth test
• focused widgets in scroll panes capture all keyboard events
• actually send errors to stderr instead of stdout
• fix VR properties data pointer
• motion blur bug producing wrong results for models
• touchUp event on Link and LinkButton objects not working
• improve logging messages in case of index name conflicts
• update URL pointers after ARI CMS update
• graphics quality in log messages

Build System

• modify installer unpacking message
• ignore release candidates in changelog, update some defaults
• generate sha256 in catalog-pack script
• macOS does not query screen size due to exception
• check OS when trying to use Linux commands
• remove music files from release, don’t use OS-dependent system for controller mappings
• upgrade to Libgdx 1.9.12
• update STIL library jar
• upgrade to Libgdx 1.9.11
• update version and data pointer

Code Refactoring

• run code inspections, cleanup. Improve particle effects
• begin() and end() substituted with bind()
• remove unused or derived uniform definitions
• use java.utils collections whenever possible, Libgdx buggy since 1.9.11
• complete font update to more modern, spacey choices
• all regular UI fonts from Tahoma to Roboto regular
• use system.out with UTF-8 encoding, improve gen scripts
• remove ape, Gaia scan properties
• move RenderGroup to render package for consistency

Features

• new recursive grid object
• new welcome screen reorganizes dataset management
• new game controller UI with virtual keyboard
• UI adjustments and tweaks all around: new fonts and visual appearance
• add number of objects to download manager
• velocity scaling allows approaching stars slowly
• add optional arrow caps to polylines
• add progress bar to dataset loading
• add brightness power and reload defaults to visual settings
• improve loading tips subsystem with custom styles and arbitrary elements
• download helper accepts local files (file://)
• API call to get parameters from stars given its name or id
• API call to set the maximum allowed time
• 3D fonts can be limited in solid angle size
• catalog selection displayed when more than one Gaia catalog is selected
• add wavefront converter
• camera speed-from-distance function rescaling
• update eDR3 catalog descriptors
• add --debug flag for more info
• improve --version information
• add ASCII Gaia image to text ouptut