Gaia Sky 3.6.5
Build a7ae14f4d
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Release Notes

Features

  • add support for volume rendering. The infrastructure is in place with an new archetype Volume. This is necessary for the new volumetric aurora dataset and volume nebulae in NGC2000.
  • add ‘volumes and effects’ catalog type.
  • enable "flip" attribute for boxes/cubes in mesh builders.
  • add "cameraCollision" attribute to bodies.
  • shader include statement now supports targets in datasets.
  • add on-demand re-compilation of post-processing shaders from their source files, in runtime.
  • add new attribute ‘renderLabel’ to label component. This enables/disables the actual rendering of the label.
  • increase default quality of FXAA filter, provide a simpler implementation (disabled by default), and enable hot shader reloading for FXAA effect.
  • update Gaia Sky icon.
  • add bluesky link to readme file and about page.

Bug Fixes

  • position of context menu in dataset manager is off.
  • unknown dataset types crash Gaia Sky. Fixes #787.
  • do not crash when reloading non-compiling glsl shaders.
  • wrong size initialization for raymarched objects.
  • prevent non-focusable objects to appear in search results and to be set as camera focus.
  • enable atmosphere/cloud procedural generation even when the surface is disabled due to cubemaps being used.
  • do not attempt setting a window icon in Wayland, it is not supported and results in a (harmless) crash.
  • position tracking does not work with objects in orbital elements group.
  • correctly populate window width and height in preferences dialog.

Build System

  • update configuration file version number. This implies that your old configuration file gets overriden with the new version during the first startup of the new Gaia Sky version.
  • update to Libgdx 1.13.1.

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