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What's new in this version:
Added:
- missing include
- ability to store a local file of objects as bookmark
- missing file in Babylonian (Seleucid) SC
- ability to show the alternative shortcuts in Help dialog
- B-V color indices for planets and the Sun
- B-V indices for few moons
- ability to change the font size and color of the landscape labels from the GUI
- ability to visualize heliocentric ecliptic distances for bright comets in AstroCalc/Positions/HEC tool
- an option to use supersampling for shadows on the Moon
- implementation of the limb darkening for the Sun
- Methuselah star
- support 32-wind compass rose
- decorative textures for the observer used in the location panel
- accurate ecliptic calendar marks
- ability to settings fps in the GUI
- a workaround for poor NPOT mipmap implementations
- “Now” button into AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
- discovery info for Messier objects
- phase name and age to Moon’s infoMap
- a check for screenshot file format
- proper name for Arp 239
- proper name for PGC 1436754 from SIMBAD
- support MIT license for sky cultures
- GUI to manually entering FOV
- ability to toggle ignore date test for orbital data in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
- explicit text message for “satellite below horizon”
- a confirmation warning to overwrite an existing list on import in Observing lists
- support for masses of the major planets
- masses for major planets
Fixed:
- umbra circles in Satellites plugin
- plotting markers of ephemerides
- the performance penalty: enabled compression of high frequency events
- off-by-one error in planetary rings mesh generator
- compilation on Qt configured for OpenGL ES2
- bookmarks for minor planets in Solar System Editor plugin
- the wrong transformation of the Moon’s color texture values
- solar eclipse rendering of the Moon in a better way
- default distance of “observer” to the parent
- handling of lighting factor when rendering lunar eclipse
- AstroCalc/RTS tool
- another missing timezone
- location changes via Search panel and “Goto” Action
- return to default location (with default landscape)
- other place where location name is printed in bottom bar
- pixelized panel icons in screenshots
- a possible security issue
- DSO filters
- screenshot size
- a potential security issue when storing screenshots
- scaling of screen geometry when setting window position
- limits for altitudes in Satellites plugin
- working the filter in shortcut dialog for Qt5-based builds
- storing DSO with designations in Observing lists
- the type/objtype bug in Observing lists
- creation of default empty list at start in Observing lists
- behaviour for ‘Reload the sky culture’ feature
- a crash when observer is on the spaceship
Changed:
- Changed GUI of Satellites plugin: disable a bad implementation of fixed shadow altitude
- Changed GUI: better button labels
- Changed core: set line and file numbers in shader prefixes
- Changed core: make ring shadows smoother
- Changed core: improve quality of planetary ring edges
- Changed core: make sure that textures being loaded don’t exceed OpenGL size limits
- Changed core: avoid blowing out highlights on the lunar surface
- Changed core: use a ratio of FoV and sphere scale when calculating brightness coefficient for the Moon
- Changed core: allow more threads for texture loading
- Changed core: do computations for the planets in linear color, convert to sRGB in the end
- Changed core: move Lambert BRDF from vertex shader to fragment shader
- Changed core: make terminator of planets with atmosphere not so sharp
- Changed core: allow texture decimation
- Changed core: simplify checking whether planet being drawn in Planet::draw3dModel is the Sun or the Moon
- Changed core: simplify checking whether current location is Earth in Planet::draw3dModel
- Changed core: draw solar corona before the sphere, regardless of halo settings
- Changed core: make rot_obliquity=0 for all observers
- Changed core: do the computation of lunar eclipse colors in nonlinear color
- Changed core: enable mip mapping for old-style-landscape textures)
- Changed core: switch old-style landscape to fragment-shader-based direction computation
- Changed core: allow “goto” action to observers
- Changed core: inhibit drawing of a few grids/markers when on Observer pseudo-planet
- Changed core: inhibit location name if observing from Observer pseudo-planet
- Changed core: inhibit landscape and atmosphere drawing when on an “observer” pseudo-planet
- Changed core: make it possible to restrict texture size of GUI panel button pixmaps
- Changed core: softened inner edge of earth penumbra slightly
- Changed core: avoid creation of default user dir if CLI override given
- Changed core: deprecated a redundant command line option)
- Changed core: force redraw of dynamic resolution atmosphere on window resize
- Changed core: use config settings screen_* in physical (unscaled) pixels
- Changed core: render ShowMySky atmosphere calculating view direction per fragment
- Changed core: tweak screen intersect callback
- Changed core: disable culling for ZodiacalLight and MilkyWay
- Changed core: ensure screenshot format initialisation sets supported format
- Changed Satellites plugin: refactoring the code (simplification)
- Changed Satellites plugin: reduced the minimal entered altitude for apogee/perigee filters
- Changed Satellites plugin: switched to use WGS-84 data in whole Satellites plugin
- Changed scripting engine: avoid empty filenames for screenshots
- Changed scripting engine: also make writing to absolute paths a GUI option
- Changed scripting engine: require user consent to let scripts store screenshots to paths given in the script
- Changed encoding format in Korean.isl
Updated:
- GUI: losslessly recompress PNGs to save space
- orbital elements for minor bodies of Solar system
- default list of locations
- default catalog of satellites
- default catalog of exoplanets
- default catalog of pulsars
- qxlsx dependencies
- XML data: use generic-icon in mime file
- list of languages
- default bookmarks for Solar System Editor plugin
- translations of sceneries
- translations of landscapes
- translations of sky cultures
Removed:
- the clamping kludge from the Oren-Nayar function
- NGC 5976A designation
- checking architectures in Windows installer
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