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Work progress 0.9.7.1
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| SpaceEngineer | Date: Monday, 27.05.2013, 11:55 | Message # 1 |
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| Changelog for 0.9.7.1
Last update: 25 December 2013
Changes and additions:
Major updates:
3D water: animated water specular reflections, underwater fog
Improved procedural moon system generator
Debris rings around planets
New landforms: pseudo rivers, shield volcanoes
Music player with smooth mixing, context switching of soundtracks, repeat options and other capabilities
25 original soundtracks made by many authors
Smart blending of terrain detail textures
Detail noise textures on the planetary surface
New types of worlds with life, improved lifeform classifications
Many improvements with space ships
Built-in avi video recorder
Fast multi-threaded Star Browser: it uses all CPU cores to generate systems and does not reduce FPS
Added Czech, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Swedish and Turkish localizations
Installer for SpaceEngine distribution with automatic selection of localization
Space ships:
Supporting of emission textures
Supporting of modular models
Updated Ships Manager: ability to build, rename and destroy spacecrafts, sorting tables by any column
Easy installing of ships addons: just copy files into SpaceEngine folder, and new ships become available in the Ships Manager's build menu
Some old ships models changed to modular models
New "SS Basic", "SS Cargo", "SS Science", "Fire Dragonfly" and "Skylone" ships
Computing the Keplerian orbital elements and rendering the Keplerian orbit of the ship
Atmospheric flight physics
Spaceship Control Panel with Autopilot buttons
Spaceship HUD (Head-Up Display) for atmospheric and space flight modes
Ships may have Main engines, Retro (Braking) engines, Hover engines and Correction engines that can be controlled separately
New ship control system: rotation with mouse, changing Main Engines and Hover Engines thrust with mouse wheel or by Control Panel, WASD keys controls correction engines only
Additional parameters in the spaceship config file (engine thrust, hyperdrive, aerodynamics)
Improved autopilot: orientation commands (Prograde, Retrograde etc), and automatic hyperjump to selected body
Simulation and Orbital physics modes for spaceships (unfinished, switch modes on the Spaceship Control panel)
Static Keplerian orbit mode for space stations artifical satellites
Improved warp bubble effect
Astronomy:
Improved life classification: new types of lifeforms and biomes, various types of worlds to handle life, new script parameters
Reduced density of stellar remnants (black holes, neutron stars and white dwarves)
Updated exoplanets catalog
Improved star calculator (computing of required parameters based on some parameters given in the script)
New parameter Msini (M*sin(i)) in the planet script - used instead of Mass for exoplanets with only M*sin(i) known
Procedural generation of orbital inclination in the catalog system for planets with unknown inclination, based on planets with known inclination
Computing of actual mass of a planet based on given M*sin(i) and generated orbital inclination
New parameters in the planet script - discovery method, discovery date and date of last data update
New lines in the planet info table - discovery method, discovery date and M*sin(i)
Implemented "HH MM SS" or "DEG MM SS" format for RA and Dec for galaxies, star clusters and nebulae
New Vesta, Mercury and Saturn textures and landscape
New galaxy and nebula models
Increased turbulence on clouds of procedural gas giants
Interface:
Updated GUI tables appearance
Updated Display Settings menu: options for toggle to fullscreen, choosing fullscreen and windowed mode resolution, VSync, anisotropy level
Variable column width in the Star Browser's table
Green text in the Solar System Browser indicates that an object has life or satellites with life
Updated localizations and added new ones
FPS counter is enabled or disabled via console command "FPS"
Changed color of orbits, markers and labels for dwarf planets and dwarf moons
Onscreen keyboard help info in the Edit mode
Some improvements in the Planet Editor
Controls:
Capturing video with GUI by pressing [Ctrl]+[F9]
Sliders in the planet editor are not scrolled with mouse wheel
Close button on the Solar System Browser window
FOV is taken into account when choosing the camera position behind the ship in the Game mode
"Look around" by holding the middle mouse button; on release, camera returns to original view
Improved Controls settings menu: binding keys and mouse axis, independant bindings for planetarium and spaceship controls modes
System:
Terrain detail texture atlases are merged into a single atlas
Configurable color palettes for procedural planets
Automatic calculation of the offset of the ship model to make it perfectly centered
SpaceEngine's window saves its size, position and fullscreen state in the config and restores them in the next launch
New magnitude function in the Map Mode: easy to find dim stellar objects
Supporting RGBA diffuse textures for ships with per-pixel specular power in the alpha channel
Supporting RGBA color specular textures for ships with per-pixel specular power in the alpha channel
Supporting RGB color emissive textures for ships
Experimental support of the logarithmic Z-buffer
Exit screen texture saved to the config folder
The stars120k.txt file is renamed to stars120k.cfg
Bug fixes:
Fixed a "poor terrain textures" bug (incorrect indices of detail textures on procedural planets)
Fixed a bug with generating worlds with life only in multiple star systems
Fixed a bug with setting "StarProcBifurcation false" in the config disables procedural binary and multiple stars
Fixed a "boring planets" bug and "deserted terra with life" bug
Fixed too low and too high altitude of clouds on some planets
Fixed a bug with impossibility to disable the VSync
Fixed a bug with moons counter in the Wiki's General info tab
Fixed a bug with moons with life counter in the planet's info table
Fixed a bug with incorrect star multiplicity counter
Fixed a bugs with the nearest star searcher (in star clusters and galactic halo)
In the Map Mode, the Star Browser performs search around the map center, not around the current camera position
Removed double slash in the message "Saving screensots//scrxxxx.xxx"
Removed duplicate of Fomalhaut
Removed "Fomalhaut B" name of star TW PsA/Gliese 879
Fixed some other mistakes in catalogs
Fixed wrong luminosity (0.9) of the Sun in the info table and in the Wiki
Fixed artifacts when window is stretched on a bigger or a secondary monitor
Fixed bugs with fish eye projection
Fixed various bugs in the Star Browser
Fixed a rendering slow-down after using the Star Browser
Fixed a crash in Search By Name menu when entered a name of non existing star in a star cluster
Fixed wrong axial tilt info of Earth and other barycenter-orbiting planets
Fixed wrong obliquity parameter in exporting of the planetary system script
Fixed the absolute magnitude of the Halley's comet
Fixed a crash when turning on rendering of a spacecraft trajectory
Fixed a bug where "Warm ice world" was printed as "Warm ice giant"
Controls settings menu and right-click context menu changes localization properly
Fixed a typo on the coordinate grid labels
Fixed incorrect camera orientation on start if the last bound object was a spaceship
Fixed some VRAM cache issues (blinking stars, etc)
Fixed the music player
Fixed small blurriness of font and GUI
Fixed galaxy orientation problems
Restored clouds bump
Fixed a bug with no cyclones on gas giants
Fixed asynchronous loading of shaders
Fixed a bug with a black dot rendered above the star in the "Points" mode
Fixed a bug with bright blue stripes in evaporating planet tail
Fixed appearance of wrong textures on planets during loading/generation
Fixed a bug with wrong positioning of the camera relative the ship during hyperjump
Fixed inability to select a moons inside the planet's shadow
Fixed discontinuity in normal map lighting on a ship models
Star browser: generation of a systems is moved to parallel threads. Now it uses all the CPU cores, filling the table is faster in a few times (depending on the number of additional cores), FPS is not affected. Maximum count of stars in increased to 10000. On the Core i7 @3.8 GHz, all 10000 system is generated in 30 seconds (7 threads for the generator and 1 thread for the renderer).
Planets: patch size is returned back to 256x256. Fixed a bug with incorrect indexing of a tiles in the the texture atlas, because of which the entire planet used only snow tiles (although they are correctly colored). Two atlases terra_pack.png and desert_pack.png are combined into one planet_atlas.png, which is slightly increased the speed of landscape generation.
Implemented a "smart" blending of textures. Until this, they are used simply blending into each other: the grass seems to shine through the sand:
The "smart" blending takes into account the height of the pixels in the texture, that provides a more natural-looking transition. The grass now is visible in the folds of the sand, gradually eroding:
The effect even more natural on the rocks:
I've experimented with a detail noise on the rendering stage. It allows to bring the level of detail down to millimeters, although it looks somewhat primitive. But at this stage it is still better than nothing:
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| boyan3001 | Date: Monday, 27.05.2013, 13:04 | Message # 2 |
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| Good improvements! Espacialy that detailed noise level. I think that terrain generator needs more attention in this phase, as it result in more eye candy rendering - and that attracts people at first.
Now, one question... what will do if you make different shader for surface details? Details at scale about one meter or less. So, when you land and look at surface at close, you can see different pattern than on macro scale.
Also, some small rock generator will be helpful for rendering more realistic surface.
Realno...
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| Destructor1701 | Date: Monday, 27.05.2013, 13:43 | Message # 3 |
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| Wow, that blending tweak makes SUCH a difference!
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| Flugcojt | Date: Monday, 27.05.2013, 14:10 | Message # 4 |
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| Aww, it just look awesome!
Cant wait for it 
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| DoctorOfSpace | Date: Monday, 27.05.2013, 18:10 | Message # 5 |
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| Looks great so far, keep up the good work. 
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| Salvo | Date: Monday, 27.05.2013, 19:30 | Message # 6 |
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| Awesome! Now it's more realistic, I liked the old method too, a mix of two whould be nice but impossible to implement
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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(still don't know why everyone is doing this...)
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| werdnaforever | Date: Monday, 27.05.2013, 22:34 | Message # 7 |
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| Next will be procedural 3d models of specs of dust, pebbles, grains of sand, and blades of grass. The movements of all will be controlled by a physics simulator. You can walk around in the sand and leave footprints. Someday.
These improvements are looking amazing. The noise for the millimeter level detail looks very promising. Perhaps there are various ways to implement this for different types of surfaces. Perhaps there are various types of patterns that can be generated.
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| Red_River | Date: Monday, 27.05.2013, 23:57 | Message # 8 |
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| it's time for me to upgrade my 'puter. all that eye candy is gonna cost me eventually ;(
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| Billy_Mayes | Date: Tuesday, 28.05.2013, 01:31 | Message # 9 |
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| Ooo, this looks very pretty! Can't wait for 0.97.1. (By the way, isn't the title supposed to be Work progress 0.97.1?)
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Edited by Billy_Mayes - Tuesday, 28.05.2013, 01:33 |
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Tuesday, 28.05.2013, 01:47 | Message # 10 |
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| Quote (Billy_Mayes) isn't the title supposed to be Work progress 0.97.1?
No, it's 0.9.7.1. Look at the changelog in your SE docs folder to see how the versions are numbered.
All forum users, please read this!
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| LiveLife42 | Date: Tuesday, 28.05.2013, 02:59 | Message # 11 |
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| I'll be looking forward to this
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| Dwarden | Date: Tuesday, 28.05.2013, 09:15 | Message # 12 |
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| very pleased to see such improvement keep up great work ...
Ideas are like ocean w/o borders! https://twitter.com/FoltynD
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| smjjames | Date: Tuesday, 28.05.2013, 15:47 | Message # 13 |
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| Quote (HarbingerDawn) Quote (Billy_Mayes)
isn't the title supposed to be Work progress 0.97.1?
No, it's 0.9.7.1. Look at the changelog in your SE docs folder to see how the versions are numbered.
Well, we DO call it 0.97, and yes I get it about the version numbering.
Anyways, the new terrain blend and detail looks pretty good. I wonder how it'll look for worlds (and moons) without life on them.
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| Disasterpiece | Date: Tuesday, 28.05.2013, 21:36 | Message # 14 |
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| Quote (smjjames) Anyways, the new terrain blend and detail looks pretty good. I wonder how it'll look for worlds (and moons) without life on them.
This is Space Engine, it'll look tasty as usual.
I play teh spase engien
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Tuesday, 28.05.2013, 21:55 | Message # 15 |
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| Quote (smjjames) I wonder how it'll look for worlds (and moons) without life on them.
Moons are worlds...
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