▼ List of changes

Major updates:

Oculus Rift support

3D monitor and 3D TV support (anamorphic stereo pair mode, shutter glasses mode)

3D anaglyph glasses support

Full joystick and gamepads support, multiple devices allowed

Animated procedural stellar corona

New star rendering

Night textures on planets: city lights, lava

Thermal lighting of a planet and its clouds based on: tidal heating, solar heating, young age

Volcano with lava flows

Melted lava planets and moons

Updated soundtracks

Ability to change some measurement units: parsec to light year, kilometer to mile, Kelvin to Celsius and Fahrenheit

Hapke BDRF: opposition effect and zero-phase glare on dusty planets, planet script parameters to control the effect

Planetary system chart mode: compare size of planets, moons and stars in the system

Space ships:

Added option for multiple preset cameras for spacecraft

Enabled retro engines

New ship models

Astronomy:

ESI value now uses average planet surface temperature and doesn't change with time

Improved solar spots

Updated textures for many Solar system objects

Added accurate rings to the asteroid/centaur Chariklo

New procedural clouds texture

Updated brown dwarf appearance

New pink atmosphere model for brown dwarves and some planets

New physical model of planetary atmospheres (2-layered: adiabatic troposphere and isothermal stratosphere)

Elevations on gas giants are counted from the atmosphere level with pressure of 1 atmosphere (~1 bar)

Procedural generation of orbital ascending node in the catalog system for planets with unknown ascending node, based on planets with known ascending node

Improved planet temperature calculation: it now takes into account the internal and tidal heating

Glowing hot planets illuminates neighbouring objects

More accurate probabilities for generation of white dwarves, neutron stars, and black holes

Red giants now have 100% probability of hot planets

Icy moons smaller than 400 km and rocky moons smaller than 600 km are classified as asteroids and dwarf moons

Improved ice specular on terras and deserts

Large scale albedo variations on planet surface

Computing snow altitude based on atmosphere model

Increased level of detail of asteroids

New planet script parameter "Panspermia", for specifying that life did not originate on that world

"Life origin" field in the Wiki describes how life originated on that world

Dwarf moon names are changed to a form like "3.D4"

More realistic generation of planets density

Interface:

Improved quality of black hole and warp field distortion effect

Animated Selection pointer

Simple GUI editor (debug feature)

Atmospheric pressure and air temperature at the user's location is displayed in the object's info panel and in the Wiki

Wiki pages update automatically after changing the selected object

Wiki pages don't switch after changing the selected object or Wiki opened/closed

Wiki window is now more compact

Ability to select the screenshot image format in the Player settings menu

Main menu scales to any screen resolution

Filter by planet and star parameters in the Star browser

Updated interface texture

Updated toolbars appearance

Lock button on bottom toolbars now have 3 states: lock, half-hide, and hide

Added Display settings and Main Menu buttons to the left toolbar

Updated ship control panel

View direction altitude in the Fish Eye mode can be configured

Selection now work in the Fish Eye mode

New texture-based mouse cursors

Many visual improvements to the Map Mode

Expanded Display settings menu with controls for projection and 3D mode

Expanded Controls settings menu, with ability to customize all mouse and joysticks axes and all joysticks buttons

Brown dwarves size in a Solar system browser is in a planets size scale, not a stars one

Engine:

Many optimizations in the engine core

Upgraded memory manager

Some shaders are rewritten to the GLSL 3.3 core profile

Reduced number of planet shaders

Forced HDR mode and Bloom effect

Optimized lens flare code

More precise LOD setting for planets

Implemented the pak file system (zip archives)

Default texture packs and addons are now in pak files

New catalog update/addon system

Significantly improved catalog loading performance

Implemented separate texture sets for RGB and Alpha or higher and lower byte of elevation map for planets

Time stamps printed in the log

Settings for minimum distance for procedural stars and brown dwarves added to the config

Ability to edit a barycenter parameter in the Planet editor

Console variables to control the mouse cursor: "HardwareCursor" and "HideCursor"

Surface color parameters for gas giants and brown dwarves are renamed to colorLayer0 ... colorLayer7

Palettes for gas giants and ice giants are split into 7 ranges according to their temperature class

Palettes for brown dwarves are split into 3 ranges according to their spectral type (L, T, Y)

Swapped neg_z and pos_z faces in the Export Skybox function

Added the entire ship model rotation parameter in the config and in the editor

Improved life panspermia code, new probability parameters in the universe.cfg

GUI windows don't change their positions when SE window resized

Added "ModulateColor" parameter for planet scripts; can modify the color of planet textures and also modify opacity for cloud textures

Script "Exposure" parameters for surface, clouds and ocean are replaced with one global "Brightness" parameter

Script "Exposure" parameter for rings is replaced with the "Brightness" parameter

Added "stable" motion blur (blur length independent of framerate), can be adjusted in config/user.cfg or in the console

Solitary black holes particles are now invisible

Accelerated rendering of star-like particles of planets and ships

Updated SolarSys3000.sc

Removed error message if the local database file did not found

Added console variables for collision detection clamp and near plane clamp, log stamps, motion blur length, and many others (read docs/console.txt for reference)

Bug fixes:

Fixed bug with "islands" on oceanias

Fixed spacecraft and lens flare textures not loading in Immediate loading mode

Fixed a bug where catalog neutron stars could have very low temperatures

Fixed Roche limit calculations

Hacked fix of screen edge artifact of gravity lens effect

Fixed rounding errors in GUI sliders (sticking at certain points when using arrow buttons)

Fixed not saving of mouse axis settings

Fixed a bug with too high speed of clouds on tidally locked planets and moons

Fixed bug with clouds on catalog planets with low atmospheric pressure

Fixed problems with fullscreen if display resolution changed

Fixed a bug with procedural stars with infinite luminosity generated

Fixed mistake in FXAA implementation

Fixed some bugs in the planet editor

Fixed some bugs in the lens flares code

Fixed automatic binding to a planet after controlling a spacecraft

Fixed resetting of the mouse-controlled ailerons/elevator angles after using keyboard controls

Fixed atmosphere scattering models precomputing code

Fixed orbital paths cutting in the Map mode

Fixed "micro debris ring" and asteroids sharing the same orbits with moons

Fixed "square star" bug

Fixed "pink rings" bug

Fixed some bugs with eclipse shadows

Fixed mipmaps generation on planets and ships

Fixed bug with closing the Universe Map

Fixed sun lens flare rendering mode when ship is warping with autopilot

Fixed "negative lens flare" effect when close to a star

Fixed wrong orientation of the star's equator relative to the planetary system plane

Fixed some bugs in the planetary system generator

Fixed hole in red giant stars

Fixed a crash at first-time nebula model generation

Fixed a mistake in the procedural white dwarf class generation

Fixed smoothing of the font

Fixed "Interstellar" mode of ships in some star cluster's planetary systems

Fixed lags caused by ships physics updating

Fixed the "barycenter star in binary system" artifact

Fixed rendering of the Wiki preview for star clusters, galaxies, and nebulae

Fixed Wiki preview disappearing after selecting the barycenter

Fixed rotation parameters for moons

Fixed density of small planets

Fixed dwarf moons density and Roche limit check

Fixed bug with the number of aurora particles sliders in the Planet editor

Fixed bug with DXT1 textures loading and wrong rendering of the modular ships' trusses

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