0.18.0

Download v0.18.0 on the OpenSpace website installation page. Below are notes that highlight new content, features, and bug fixes that will be of most interest to OpenSpace users.

New content

  • Two new profiles, Bastille Day 2000 and Solar Storm 2012, feature dynamic renderings of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs)

  • Added image sequences available from NOAA’s Science-on-a-Sphere datasets

  • Added new layers for the Moon, Mars, and Mercury from NASA TREKS

  • Added model-based representations of the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos

  • Added the Starlink satellites and other active satellites

  • Added a model of the Eiffel Tower that can be used for scale references

Improvements to existing content

  • Updates to the James Webb Space Telescope profile

    • Added a new animated model

    • Updated timing of launch date to the actual launch

    • Added a custom webpage to control the orientation of the telescope

  • Updates to Action Panel with new user actions

New features

SkyBrowser

Fly-to and Zoom-to

  • These new features should make it easier to navigate in OpenSpace

  • The new Fly-to feature allows users to automatically fly between different objects by clicking the airplane icon in the navigation menu

  • The Zoom-to button will automatically reposition the focused object into view

  • For in-depth camera paths navigation, see here

Actions

  • You can now create actions by binding a key to trigger an action

Event System

  • This feature automatically triggers specific events depending on the state in OpenSpace

  • For example, automatically fading an object’s trail when approaching the object

User interface improvements

  • Added a new panel to create SGCT configuration files

  • Added a panel showing the keyboard and all actions that are bound to keys

  • Added links to tutorial pages in the menu

  • Added the ability for users to reorder planetary layers

Bug fixes

  • Fixed issues that would prevent Windows 11 from being detected correctly

  • Prevent a crash when a profile does not provide any Time or Camera information

  • Fixed a crash when unloading GlobeBrowsing layers

  • Fixed issue that prevents the drag-dropping of an image that has extra dots in the name

  • Fixed issue loading a colormap for the Gaia stars

  • Fixed for a crash that happened occasionally when adding exoplanet systems