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
This feature brings high-resolution astronomical images from the American Astronomical Society WorldWide Telescope into OpenSpace
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