Gaia Sky 3.6.5

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📢 Today, coinciding with the end of the sky-scanning phase of Gaia, we publish GaiaSky 3.6.5. The most noteworthy addition is the introduction of the volume rendering infrastructure.

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.

As always, you can grab it right here (link to repository).