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SpaceEngine 0.9.7.1 release!

SpaceEngineer

Date: Wednesday, 25.12.2013, 23:46 | Message # 1

Author of Space Engine

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Russian Federation

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SpaceEngine 0.9.7.1 has been released!

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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

DoctorOfSpace

Date: Wednesday, 25.12.2013, 23:59 | Message # 2

Galaxy Architect

Group: Global Moderators

Pirate

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Well now that is surprising. Merry Christmas to everyone eh?

Intel Core i7-5820K 4.2GHz 6-Core Processor
G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory
EVGA GTX 980 Ti SC 6GB

Disasterpiece

Date: Thursday, 26.12.2013, 00:02 | Message # 3

World Builder

Group: Users

United States

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I love you.

I play teh spase engien

Salvo

Date: Thursday, 26.12.2013, 00:03 | Message # 4

Star Engineer

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Italy

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Wow! I never expected the relase today! biggrin

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

CPU: Intel Core i7 4770 GPU: ASUS Radeon R9 270 RAM: 8 GBs

(still don't know why everyone is doing this...)

DeathStar

Date: Thursday, 26.12.2013, 00:14 | Message # 5

Pioneer

Group: Users

Croatia

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Quote Salvo (

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Wow! I never expected the relase today!

I actually have for a long time expected the release date to be during christmas, but as night was starting to fall in my region, I was starting to think it may be pushed back...

Vothriller

Date: Thursday, 26.12.2013, 00:22 | Message # 6