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OpenSpace This is the official GitHub repository for OpenSpace: an open source astrovisualization project. For instructions on how to build and run OpenSpace, see the Getting Started Guides on the wiki page at http://docs.openspaceproject.com.
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You can find a list of breaking changes against 0.19 here .
Features
2024 Digital Universe Data Update
Add new TileProvider to select tile providers based on the date and apply to VIIRS Joint Polar Satellite System (#3350)
Provide better error messages when failing to load an asset due to verification failures
Add support for model vertex colors (#3346)
Reduce the number of capture threads used by SGCT to optimize image sequence framerate
Add server name to parallelpeer authentication, used as unique identifier on wormhole server
Add the ability to scale the debug statistics graphs
Move the statistics and frame info rendering from the RenderEngine into the debugging module ( #1248)
Update Ghoul to get more information on when WMI queries fail (#3330)
UI
Add possiblity to sort SGNs in GUI based on numerical value
Small Node Popover menu refactor
Content
New Assets
Add an example asset to show the current in-game time in a screenspace object (#3312)
Add new advanced example assets for the point cloud rendering
Updates to existing Assets/Profiles
Add Down and Up keybinds to set the time to realtime and "now" respectively (#3275)
Fix spelling mistake in Haumea model
Fix a warning from hdf.asset due to a missing dataset parameter (#3343)
Removed the version numbers from asset files as they were unused and inconsistent
Remove the large data files from the URLSynchronization example files to make the file loadable
Use the correct way to scale the Eiffel tower educational asset
Content creation
Add the ability to specify DashboardItems for ScreenSpaceDashboards in assets.
Make the 'Layer's specification in RenderableGlobe optional
Improve error messages and export DashboardItem documentation
Adds a task to generate a raw volume (used in for example RenderableTimeVaryingVolume) from a CSV file.
The default for actions is now to have them not local (#3194)
Lua
Add Lua function to calculate the number of seconds between dates and use it in assets (#3332)
Add a new Lua function to create debug axes for the current focus node
Bug Fixes
Fix a multithreaded access to SPICE that could cause a crash on startup (#3345)
Fix a bug where the keyboard shortcuts would no longer be displayed
Correctly consume char-based keyboard callbacks in the CEF module (#3290)
Prevent crash when starting without any enabled audio devices (#3329)
Fix bug with resizing the WorldWideTelescope window
Fix an issue with the point cloud rendering texture not being rendered when the texture file path is updated during runtime
Fix a faulty example GUI path in the point cloud example files
Generate the framebuffer for screenspace rendering without mipmapping as it handles transparency poorly
Fix parsing TLE files with CRLF line endings on unix (#3326)
A non-main dashboard is now correctly displayed when adding it as a propertyowner to a ScreenSpaceDashboard
Fix an issue where the scale for ScreenSpaceDashboards was always enforced to be 1
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