OpenSpace 0.22.0

Highlights

OpenSpace 0.22.0 is a major release bringing significant performance improvements, new rendering capabilities, and important platform changes marking a significant step toward a future 1.0 release.

Content & Workflow: A new AssetBuilder application simplifies scene graph node creation without manually editing .asset files. Profile Add-ons provide opt-in curated asset collections (interstellar objects, DESI, dwarf planets, minor moons, asteroids). Asset files have been extensively reorganized into composable parts.

New Renderables: This release introduces RenderableVectorField for 3D vector volume visualization, dynamic shadow mapping between models and globes, Solar Imagery rendering (RenderableSolarImagery / RenderableSolarImageryProjection), Dynamical Molecular Systems via the ViaMD library, and new ScreenSpaceText/ScreenSpaceDate objects.

UI: New panels for browsing/adding assets at runtime, interactive WMS layer addition for GlobeBrowsing, improved touch gestures, millisecond time display, and a redesigned Lua console with tab completion and word-level editing.

Performance: This release delivers significant speed improvements across the entire application. The update to OpenGL 4.6 brings with it many small optimizations that add up to the default profile running about 3-4x faster than in 0.21.4. Asteroid and orbital rendering via RenderableOrbitalKepler is up to 8x faster thanks to multithreading and CPU-side vertex computation, and Kepler data loading (e.g. Minor Planet Center) is up to 20x faster. Additional gains come from fewer texture binds and triple-buffered NDI streaming.

Platform: macOS support has been removed as Apple’s OpenGL support does not meet OpenSpace’s current requirements. OpenSpace now targets OpenGL 4.6, delivering improved rendering performance across the entire application.

Infrastructure: Default servers have migrated from Utah-based to New York-based servers. Satellite data is now relayed through OpenSpace’s own proxy to reduce load on Celestrak.

Note: This release contains multiple breaking changes. See individual sections below for details on renamed scene graph nodes, changed asset file locations, API updates, and removed features.

Features

  • Add the AssetBuilder (#4012)

    • The AssetBuilder is a new application located in the bin folder that is currently capable of generating scene graph nodes. Files are stored in a file format that makes it possible to edit them later without the need to manually edit any text files. The AssetBuilder is a replacement for manually editing .asset files and is capable of creating files that do not require any complicated Lua scripting

    • The ability to create more types (ScreenSpace objects, actions, etc) and the ability to access non-local data resources will be added to the AssetBuilder in the future

  • Improve documentation in many places

    • Add missing documentation for many Asset components on the docs.openspaceproject.com page

    • Add more (correctly) restrictive parameter settings for Assets components, indicating for example where only positive numbers are allowed

    • Better documentation for the SGCTConfig and Profile options in the openspace.cfg configuration file

    • Many small improvements

  • Add Profile add-ons (#3947)

    • Add-ons represent opt-in features consisting of a list of curated assets. Profiles can recommend suitable add-ons, but any add-on can be included in any profile

    • Add add-on “Interstellar Objects” to display the paths of the known interstellar objects

    • Add add-on “desi” to show the results of the DESI instrument

    • Add add-on “dwarf_planets” to show the positions, trails, and globes of the various known Dwarf planets

    • Add add-on “minor_moons” to add the minor moons of the gas giants

    • Add add-on “asteroids” to show some of the known asteroids and comets in the solar system

  • Overall improvements of the RenderableOrbitalKepler class (#3739, #3799)

    • Add multithreading and a better system for updating which segments to render for each orbit. This causes a speed-up of asteroid rendering of about 4-8x

    • Add multithreading for loading of data decreasing the loading time. For example the Minor Planet Center data loading time was reduced by 20x

    • Add support for “Camera View Direction” in addition to existing “Camera Position Normal”

  • Add button camera controls to the Mouse4 and Mouse5 buttons to mimic (CTRL and CTRL+Shift) in order to be able to land on planets using only the mouse (#3850)

  • Remove the configuration_helper script. A new default.json window layout is now being used to create a window 2/3 the size of the primary monitor (#3986)

  • Change the default value for the “Stereoscopic Depth of Focus Surface” to 40. This prevents excessive atmosphere rendering issues when approaching other objects

  • Add the ability to render dynamical molecular systems using the ViaMD rendering library. This includes rendering of full dynamical systems using, for example, GROMACS, but also rendering of individual atoms or proteins from the Protein Data Bank (PDB) (#3889)

  • Improve the behavior of playing back videos in clustered environments (#4032)

  • Add trigger properties to jump to the start or end times of a TimeFrameInterval

  • Various improvements to the RenderableModel

    • Add the ability to render dynamic shadows using a RenderableModel as shadow sources and RenderableGlobe and RenderableModel as receivers of shadows. See the data/assets/examples/shadowmapping.asset for example on how to add shadows to models and globes (#3801)

    • Add the ability to control the strength of specular highlights

    • Add a mode to render a model only as a wireframe

    • Add the ability to overwrite the textured color of the rendered model

  • Add the SolarBrowsing feature (#3926)

    • This new feature includes two new renderables: RenderableSolarImagery, which renders images from a specific spacecraft. The SolarImagery supports multiple instruments so you can load multiple folders of images and switch between them at runtime. RenderableSolarImageryProjection takes a list of RenderableSolarImagery Identifiers and projects them onto a sphere centered on the Sun. Images from multiple sources that overlap will blend color. Any area without projection data will render as a neutral gray to indicate no coverage. There is currently a limitation that projection is assumed to target the Sun in our solar system.

    • More documentation is available on the Docs page

  • Add a new Renderable type RenderableVectorField that takes a 3D volume containing vector data and renders that data using arrows (#3897)

  • Improve touch gestures and touch interaction (#4005)

    • Update handling of 1-finger rotation, pinch, and panning

    • Refocus to the current focus node on a triple-tap

    • Direct manipulation is now only used if the first touch is on the object in question

    • Make zoom/pinch detection more reliable by checking for finger movements

    • Reduce default sensitivities a bit for more precise control

    • Make it possible to roll and zoom at the same time

  • Update the code to use OpenGL 4.6 (#3903)

    • This update brings with it many small performance improvements that sum up to the default profile running about 3-4x faster than in 0.21.4

    • All graphics cards that do not support OpenGL 4.6 also have been declared End-of-Life by Nvidia/AMD/Intel, so no graphics card currently running OpenSpace should be affected, but some very old drivers need to be updated

  • Add a new bounce interpolation method for propertiy values, causing them to oscillate between the current value and the selected value (#4013)

    • To use this, add a true as the last argument of the setPropertyValue or setPropertyValueSingle functions: openspace.setPropertyValueSingle("Scene.Earth.Renderable.Opacity", 0.0, 3, "Linear", "", true); will cause the opacity of Earth to bounce between its current value and 0 over 3 seconds

    • The stopPropertyBouncing function can stop the bouncing

  • Remove support for macOS (#3919)

    • OpenSpace now requires OpenGL 4.6, which is not supported on macOS. Maintaining a separate rendering path for macOS is no longer feasible alongside continued development for Windows and Linux. Similarly, macOS C++ compiler support has lagged behind what is available on other platforms.

  • As the Utah-based servers are no longer available, they have been replaced as the default with the New York-based ones for map layers and data synchronization (#3847)

  • Add various improvements for the rendering of planetary globes

    • Add support for relative paths in GeoJSON’s SpriteTexture (#3761)

    • Increase the visual fidelity of the shadows on a planetary ring (#3749)

    • More user-friendly name for the default properties in a GeoJSON in the user interface

  • Add various improvements for the RenderableTrailTrajectory (#3742, #2128, #3740)

    • Breaking Change Removed SweepChunk feature as it was not enabled by default and didn’t perform as expected

    • Add toggle for Accurate Trail Points (in asset: AccurateTrail)

    • Remove max vertices ceiling and fixed issues with sample interval

  • Add the ability to show a full trail for a RenderableTrailOrbit (#3757)

    • Add toggle Force full orbit trail that shows a full orbit worth of trail

    • Add toggle that limits forced trail to only be visible between the start time and one orbital period after the end time

    • Add three new properties called StartTime, EndTime and LimitToTimeRange

  • It is now possible to drag and drop 3D model files which will then be added in front of the camera (#4112)

  • Add triple-buffering to the NDI streaming to reduce blocking and thus increase transfer speeds

  • Add properties to the ScreenSpaceBrowser that allow the sending of keyboard inputs to the displayed browser (#3980)

  • Add the ability to not specify the window size in a Window Configuration which will cause the window size to be automatically set to 2/3 the size of the primary monitor’s resolution

  • Add the ability to render a visual indicator for the mouse interaction (#3781)

  • Add support for different colors and the use of images when blacking out the rendering (#3983)

    • Breaking Change The blackout values have been moved into a separate PropertyOwner, thus changing the URI to the blackout factor

    • Breaking Change The blackout factor value was inverted compared to the previous solution for consistency with other sliders

  • Add keybind for toggling idle behavior (#3906)

  • Make the port used by TUIO for touch input configurable (#3813)

  • Add the ability to fade the RenderableGaiaStars

  • Rename “Idle Behavior” to “Idle Motion” (#3949)

  • Update the texture handling in the RenderablePointCloud class, resulting in slightly lower memory footprint (#3990)

  • Add support for CSV format from Celestrak and change requesting format to reduce the amount of bandwidth needed by Celestrak (#4015)

  • The rendering in the window is now disabled if the window is iconified unless the render-while-hidden setting is enabled in the Window Configuration

  • Add the ability for the Window Configuration to further customize the values loaded from Scalable mesh files

  • Accelerated rendering of the user interface is now disabled by default without a loss in performance

Launcher

  • Add new icon for user profiles and Window Configuration that are outside of the built-in or user folders (called “External”)

  • Add a “Duplicate” button to the profile menu to duplicate existing profiles (#2418)

  • Add the ability to choose units in the Simulation Time Dialog (#1391)

  • Add better tooltip information for items in the dropdown menus. The items now contain both descriptions and file paths

UI

  • Add new panel to browse assets and be able to add and remove assets (#591, #3798)

    • The new panel shows a list of all assets in the OpenSpace folder and the User folder and provides the ability to add any asset at runtime

    • Assets loaded directly by the profile and assets loaded at runtime can also be removed in the new panel at runtime

  • Update the order and improve the organization of the windows that can be shown using submenus (#3872)

  • Various updates to the Night Sky panel

    • Cleanup the look and feel of the cardinal direction buttons (#3754)

    • Redesign layout for markings tab and introduce a new toggle component (OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#207)

    • Redesign cardinal directions part to look different than the others and make it listen to the currently shown texture

    • Add placeholder buttons for Hide All per group

  • When popping out scene graph nodes, they will be added to the right side of the screen instead of a floating window (OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#224)

  • The Idle Motion is now exposed as a state and a button in the top bar (OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#199)

  • Add a new checkbox to control whether a new folder should be created when saving screenshots (OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#211)

  • Add notifications to indicate when files are being downloaded and show the download progress when adding assets while OpenSpace is running (OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#190)

  • Add a new GlobeBrowsing panel to be able to interactively add new layers that are provided by WMS servers (for example GIBS) (#3849)

    • Any layer can be added as a ColorLayer, HeightLayer, Overview, or any other layer

    • Any WMS server with a compliant GetCapabilities API end point can be dynamically added at runtime

  • Add a new overlay window that displays information on how to connect an external browser to OpenSpace. Also displays a QR code to simplify that connection (OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#198)

  • Add new visual elements to better expose video playback controls (OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#192)

  • Improve the rendering performance by animating the in-progress fade state of a checkbox instead of directly using the Fade value (OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#208)

  • Change the default height of targets in the GeoLocation panel to 10 km (OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#226)

  • The “Open GUI in Browser” menu item now opens the routes page in the browser

  • Add new property confirmation modal hint to some properties, when trying to remove an existing scene graph node or layer (#3730)

  • The time panel in the toolbar at the bottom can now handle milliseconds (OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#197)

  • When loading multiple mission files, the last mission will now be opened by default (#4105)

  • Add new tabs to the “Add webpage” object in the ScreenSpace panel (OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#177)

  • The menus will now stay open for an additional 200ms after removing the mouse cursor for easier control using touchpads

  • The User Panel has been slightly redesigned to support opening panels in an external browser

  • Add fixed minimum width to the main time panel menu button and the time controls in the Night Sky panel. This prevents the rest of the UI from “jumping around” (OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#213, OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#217)

  • Adjust properties to new capitalization rules (title casing using APA style)

  • Improve the UX of the in-game console (#3772)

    • Fix CTRL + Left/Right arrow key not being consumed correctly

    • Add CTRL + backspace and CTRL + delete shortcuts to delete entire words

    • Add tab completion for paths and nested Lua functions

    • Render command buffer overflow as rows instead of using horizontal scrolling

    • Add the ability to paste into the Lua console (from the primary selection area on Linux) with the middle mouse button

ShowComposer

  • Add the ability to add a ScriptComponent to the MultiComponent (#3795)

  • Add a scroll area for long scripts in the ScriptComponent (#3809)

Content

New Assets

  • Add assets for globe browsing layers previously distributed via Zip files separately from the homepage. These assets are located in the layers folder of Mars, the Moon, and Mercury

  • Add new satellite groups available on Celestrak (#4017)

  • Add the DESI (DR1) galaxies and quasars

  • Add the position, label, and trail for interstellar object 3I/ATLAS

  • Add the positions and labels for the Earth-Sun Lagrange point 3 (#2819)

  • Add new asset defining an inertial Moon scene graph node

  • Add the labels for interstellar objects 1I/’Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov

  • Add new asset with action for locking the displayed time of temporal layers (#3760)

New Maps

  • Add a new higher resolution Jupiter texture as the default layer (#3851)

  • Use new temporal night time layer on Earth as the previous one was no longer working

  • Apply the existing New Horizons map as a layer to Pluto and Charon

Updates to existing Assets/Profiles

  • Remove all keybinds from provided profiles in favor of users defining their own keybinds

  • The base asset no longer includes the base_keybindings

  • Satellite track requests to Celestrak will now be handled through our own new relay server, which reduces the bandwidth load on the Celestrak servers (#3989)

  • Remove satellite groups no longer available on Celestrak (#4017)

  • Add Artemis 2 assets and include them in the artemis profile (#4099)

  • Breaking Change Remove global openspace bookmarks file. The localbookmarks file is split up into one for globes and one for stellar positions each with their own CSV files and formats

  • Cleanup of Asset file locations and separation of asset files into composable parts (#3993)

    • Many assets before defined the object, the trail, sometimes a label and sometimes actions in the same asset, meaning that it was impossible to get the trail for an object without also loading the labels or the object itself. Separating them into individual assets makes it possible to include elements more granularly. The previous asset is now a “meta” asset that includes the other new asset files to provide as much backwards compatibility. In many cases this also caused the introduction of a subfolder to hold the new assets (except for regular planets). For example: mars.asset -> globe.asset + trail.asset + label.asset + actions.asset + mars.asset and the new mars.asset includes all other four. - Dwarf planets (special: If a dwarf planet is specified as a RenderableGlobe, the new asset is globe.asset; if it is a model, it is model.asset) - Planets - Major and Minor moons of planets - Sun - ISS, Hubble, Tiangong, Aqua, SNPP, and Terra

      • Interstellar objects - 1I/’Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov

    • Planet assets no longer implicitly include their trails

    • Some naming harmonization specifically with the dwarf planets to export the objects as their correct name

    • All minor moons for gas planets are now in the minor subfolder and each group has received its own subfolder

    • Don’t explicitly Enabled = false labels, but use Enabled = asset.enabled and use the false on the meta asset

    • Only use asset.enabled in the second-to-last meta asset. It was causing a lot of warnings otherwise when meta assets (particularly for layers) were included from multiple places

    • Moving the Server-location detection into all default_layers.assets

    • Breaking Changes

      • Scene Graph Nodes

        • Exporting all objects using their Identifier rather than a custom name

        • ErisGlobe -> ErisModel

        • GonggongGlobe -> Gonggong

        • MakemakeGlobe -> MakemakeModel

        • OrcusGlobe -> Orcus

        • QuaoarGlobe -> Quaoar

        • SednaGlobe -> Sedna

      • Asset file locations

        • A large number of assets have changed locations. The most visible changes will be that planets and moons will now be exported through the /globe.asset. So any asset.require that used for example earth/earth or mars/mars before, will now need to use earth/globe, mars/globe, etc

        • dwarf_planets/pluto/minor/... -> dwarf_planets/pluto/moons/...

        • charon -> moons/charon

        • The minor moons for all gas giants are now in the minor folder

        • Renamed Deimos and Phobos asset files

    • Breaking Change Move existing Artemis 1 assets into a new artemis subfolder

  • Update datasets

    • Add new moons for the minor moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune (#3927)

    • Star dataset to include Alcor (#4035)

    • Digital Universe updates (#4058)

    • Exoplanets Archive data used in the Exoplanets panel

    • SBDB data and change SSSB identifiers (#4041)

      • Add new groups and update files for existing groups

      • Remove unsupported asteroids and comet groupings

      • Breaking Change Use capital identifiers for asteroids and comets

  • Update the visibility of nodes that are not focusable or not user-facing to reduce the clutter in the scene menu

  • The “All globes standard illumination” and “All globes global illumination” will now apply to all globes instead of explicitly mentioned planets and moons in the solar system (#3729)

  • Add actions and tags to more easily show and hide some of the elements in the Night Sky profile (#3998)

  • Make the Pluto trail the same length as the planets and the other dwarf planets (#3952)

  • The offline profile now includes the base_keybindings (#4076)

  • Added new blend function that is a mixture of a blend and a multiply for layers that provide better blending option for night layers

  • Retire WSA 5.4 assets in favor of WSA 6.2 for Today’s Sun profile. Note: The old version is no longer online and the new version does not provide historical data (#3932, #3992, #4028)

  • Improve the visual look of the Mercury overlay maps by using the new MultiplyMix blend layer (#4075)

  • Remove Pluto’s trail calculated through Keplerian elements as the new SPICE kernels now reach back to 1549 (#3726)

  • Increase the maximum tile level for the ESRI World Imagery layer from 19 to 21

  • Provide ShadowGroup for Saturn so that the Moons cast a shadow onto Saturn

  • Add the ability to control the color mapping options of the exoplanet rings (#3845)

  • Use the correct value range for the coloring of the Local Dwarf Groups object

  • Rename galactic line/band in the Night Sky to equator (#3737)

  • Add a Lat/long grid overlay for Earth in the default profile (#3059)

  • Update various elements of the Apollo photogrammetry models

    • Cleaned up asset to utilize GlobeRotation and remove the extra Holder scene graph node

    • Updated shading to make default lighting properties for boulders better match the existing photos (#3843)

  • More rigorous handling of which kernel exposes which SPICE object to be able to provide more meaningful error messages or error messages at all (#3901)

  • Turn off paleo_map.asset layers by default since there are so many of them (#3853)

  • Remove some unused intermediate scene graph nodes (Itokawa, Gaia, …)

  • Remove constellation assets that define keybinds and remove predefined keybinds from the SlideDeck asset

  • Breaking Change Rename the New Horizons Label identifier from Labels to NewHorizonsLabels

  • Add missing caching to the default layer for Callisto (#3863)

  • Disable face culling for models that have issues (#4022)

  • Convert the usage of TLE to CSV for the generation of a SPICE kernel used for ISS orientation (#4096)

  • The offline profile now includes the maps for Pluto and Charon

  • All of the TimeFrames in the Apollo 11 assets are now the same time to prevent an issue where the lunar module would not show up even though it is indicated as active

  • Add a new asset with actions to toggle the multi-phase SPICE-based trails of Voyager 1 and 2

Content creation

  • Breaking Change Make asset path comparison case-insensitive on Windows. So it is no longer possible to have Abc.asset and abc.asset in the same folder, even though Windows allows this (#3855)

  • Add the ability to map equirectangular and fisheye images onto RenderableSpheres (#3837)

  • Add support for loading compressed .glb models

  • Improve the quality of documentation for many numerical properties, providing more range information and thus better error messages

  • Add new ScreenSpaceText objects (#3794)

    • ScreenSpaceText: Can be used to print a fixed text onto the screen

    • ScreenSpaceDate: Can print the current in-game simulation time to the screen. Uses the same parameters and properties as DashboardItemDate

  • The debug axes now use the bounding sphere instead of the interaction sphere for the default size

  • Make screenshot folder also use seconds in name. Add a new TriggerProperty to cause a new folder to be created

  • Make it possible to configure the level at which the model space rendering switches to camera space rendering per Globe

  • Add the ability to load multiple GP datasets into the RenderableOrbitalKepler class, which get then get internally concatenated

  • Improve error message quality for the ShaderPreprocessor

  • Breaking Change Remove the MieScatteringExtinctionPropCoefficient parameter from the RenderableAtmosphere in favor of writing the correct Rayleigh and Mie scattering parameters directly

  • Breaking Change Rename ScreenshotUseDate property of RenderEngine to ScreenshotUseDateTime

  • Add a new feature to invert the size mapping for the RenderablePointCloud class (#4107)

  • Add a new task FindLastClosedFieldlinesTask and improve the existing KameleonVolumeToFieldlinesTask (#3887)

  • Add a new debug property to RenderableGlobe to toggle horizon-based culling

  • Add support to provide a table for the bindKey function that extracts the Identifier

  • Add support for the Predictive Science Inc’s “Magnetohydrodynamic Algorithm outside a Sphere” (MAS) simulation to the RenderableFieldlineSequence type

  • Add parameter for setting the output directory in the ExoplanetDataPreparationTask task and create the folder if it does not exist

  • Allow specification of filenames when requesting multiple URLs in UrlSynchronization

  • Add LazyLoading parameters to the RenderableSphereImageLocal (#4019) and ScreenSpaceImageLocal classes

  • Expose the ability to enable the calibration pattern to the ScreenSpaceInsetBlackout

  • Some obsolete and non-functioning rendering methods in the Gaia module were removed

  • Rename SkyBrowser’s “Hover Circle” to “Hover Indicator” (#3960)

  • Add a warning when a transition level is requested in the TileProviderByLevel that does not exist anywhere in the data

  • Add read only properties for video player playback status (#4031)

  • Add and apply opacity properties for RenderableFov (#4047)

  • The NOAA Science-on-a-sphere Blue Marble dataset now also contains two heightmaps for the data

  • Better guard against missing GP data when loading Kepler position data

  • Add a more meaningful description for TimeFrame property owners in union

  • Changed shader uniforms to not begin with a capital letter

  • Print informational messages in shaders even when it is not an error

  • Add the ability to enable remote debugging in CEF, but disable it by default

  • RenderableOrbitalKepler’s ContiguousMode is now an “Advanced User” property

  • ResetTileProviders is now a Developer level property

  • Remove the ToyVolume module

  • Remove enabled property from the video module

Lua

  • Add new function loadNavigationStateFromFile to return the state rather than setting it

  • Deprecate loadNavigationState in favor of openspace.navigation.setNavigationState(openspace.navigation.loadNavigationStateFromFile("<path>")) or openspace.navigation.jumpToNavigationState(openspace.navigation.loadNavigationStateFromFile("<path>")) (#3955)

  • The toggleFade function will no longer report an error if a wildcard or tag matching was requested but no match was found

  • Add a new function removeFromListProperty to remove a single item from a list-based property, mirroring the appendToListProperty function

  • Add an additional parameter to the downloadFile function to determine if the download should be skipped if the destination file path already exists

  • Add support for specifying the format string for the openspace.time.SPICE() function

  • Add new Lua function openspace.imageSize to query size of an image

  • Add new function profileName and profilePath returning Profile information (#3734)

API

  • Complete overhaul of many Topics that are used by the JSON and Python APIs (#3896)

  • Update the Topic, JavaScript, and Python API versions to a stable version 1.0.0 (#4055)

  • Remove unused keyframe time reference modes and update the SessionRecording version. All previous SessionRecording files will be automatically converted upon loading

  • Update SessionRecording version to write orientation quaternions in the standard (w,x,y,z) order (#3826)

  • Truck movement and rolls in the Camera API are no longer internally represented as a two-dimensional value where one of the dimensions is ignored

  • A new event is now published indicating finishing loading of the profile

  • Add camera view direction and subsolar coordinates to the information sent by the CameraTopic (#3741)

  • Remove the explicit string-based name for the current OpenSpace version

Bug Fixes

  • Disable uniform location errors for globes when they only have a single solid color (#3728)

  • Fix issue where the incorrect string markers were copied when picking a ScriptLog in the Profile Editor (#3620)

  • Fix issue where the console did not have correct focus when opened (#3649)

  • Fix missing info button for current scene graph node (#3735)

  • Fix issue where a property interpolation would not cause the postscript to be called

  • Fix errors with meta information of profiles (#3743)

  • Fix crash in planets sonification when no planets have been added

  • Disable caching for exoplanet textures that are based on images to prevent warnings when enabling MRF caching

  • Fix missing calls to absPath in the slidedeck example

  • Fix issue where the Fade value was not applied for the RenderableGalaxy

  • Fix Sun glare to use the correct billboarding for fisheye rendering

  • Fix min and max values of RenderableModel transform matrix (#3746)

  • Fix issue where the labels component would not load correctly with a path containing path tokens (#3751)

  • Fix issue where the camera would be moved to near-infinity with a blank screen while rotating around Earth (#3497)

  • Remove warning when trying to MRF cache local image files

  • Fix issue with infinite lock in the LuaConsole if the window is minimized while the console is open

  • Remove warnings for missing uniforms in RenderableGlobe under some conditions (#3770)

  • Fix issue with the TileProviderByLevel example when no name is specified

  • Fix issue where a model transformation determinant of 0 would cause the rendering of a model to fail (#3177)

  • Fix OpenGL errors being raised when disabling ring shadows when rings were disabled (#3779)

  • Fix identifier for the action to toggle planets and moons that caused it to not function

  • Fix inconsistencies in the fieldline coloring during time changes in the Today’s Sun profile (#3786)

  • Symbols in Stacktraces should now be correctly resolved on user machines

  • Fix incorrect rendering of planet-onto-ring shadows in fisheye projection mode (#3776, #3784)

  • Fix the error being raised when disabling the “Perform Shading” property on Saturn

  • Fix incorrect path for MPC kepler data causing it to fail to load

  • Remove offset for max chunk level, fixing disappearing height tiles on Earth (#3791)

  • Fix issue where the sandbox permissions for the CEF process were misconfigured on Linux (#3711)

  • Fix issue where the mean motion for the data retrieved from the Minor Planet Center was calculated incorrectly (#3804)

  • Fix issue where specifying a custom openspace.cfg configuration file, the ${BASE} path token was set to the location of the configuration file instead of the base of the OpenSpace installation (#3806)

  • Fix overdraw issue that caused flickering in RenderableSphericalGrid when the opacity was set to a value less than 1

  • Fix crash that would occur when deinitializing ScreenSpaceRenderableRenderable

  • Fix issue where the heightmap of Earth close to the surface would disappear as the max chunk level was miscalculated when no overview was available (#3771)

  • Fix issue where the Sun trail action was using the wrong time (#3848, #3817)

  • Fix issue where the top bar submenus could not be interacted with on touch screens (#3867)

  • Fix crash that would occur when a session recording includes a malformed setPropertyValue call

  • Fix an issue where static transforms would not update correctly when starting OpenSpace with a paused time

  • Fix an issue where the native ImGui sliders would not display large value ranges correctly (#3883)

  • Fix issue where the travel speed indicator computation would use the wrong rotation (#3878)

  • Fix issues with the New York-based MOLA layer where the tile pixel size was set incorrectly (#3890)

  • Fix error in offline profile when trying to set SkyBrowser module’s Enabled property that no longer exists (#3900)

  • Fix crash that would occur when an asset requires itself. Instead provide an error message

  • Fix issue with the linear path rotation where the rotation would be on an independent timeline from the movement, resulting in weird and unexpected behaviors of the camera (#3913)

  • Fix issue where the EnableFadeIn variable for RenderableStars was not read from the asset correctly (#3935)

  • Fix issue where you could not play an audio file that has ended without manually stopping it before (#3818)

  • Fix issue with the ConstructOctreeTask that would cause it to not detect files correctly

  • Fix crash that occurred when disabling a RenderableModel shown inside a ScreenSpaceRenderableRenderable (#3976)

  • Fix crash that occurred when trying to load a TLE file that does not exist (#3962)

  • Fix an issue where a RenderableModel would not render correctly inside a ScreenSpaceRenderableRenderable (#3977)

  • Write an error message when failing to save a session recording (#3830)

  • Prevent crash at shutdown when disabling a server interface

  • Fix issue where the default tab order in the Launcher was wrong

  • Fix incorrect orientation for Apollo15

  • Fix issue where the engine mode was not correctly reset to user control when there was an error loading a session recording causing the application to effectively hang (#3815)

  • Fix issue where setting a path on Windows using \ in the openspace.cfg file would not always work correctly (#3861)

  • Fix issue where the incorrect data mapping name was used to retrieve luminosity values in RenderableStars (#3961)

  • Fix an issue that would prevent the application from starting when we should start with the previous profile, but that file had been deleted since the last startup (#4000)

  • Fix a crash when changing the model scale of a RenderableModel contained in a ScreenSpaceRenderableRenderable (#4002)

  • Fix issue where setting the profile from a command-line option would fail with absolute paths or files with extensions

  • Fix crash that could occur when passing a wrong type into the setPropertyValue or setPropertyValueSingle functions (#4018)

  • Fix issue where the Clouds/Magellan Combo layer would not transition correctly (#4024)

  • Prevent crash when specifying a RenderablePlaneImageLocal as lazy loading when it starts as being enabled

  • Fix errors that occurred when running actions in the NightSky/Misc asset

  • Fix issue where a saved JSON navigation state was not loadable

  • Fix issues when trying to use a TriggerProperty when recording a Session Recording

  • Fix an issue where large number of parameter settings for base classes were not displayed correctly in the documentation

  • Fix an issue where the FITS sphere texture was not refreshing on timestamp changes (#4084)

  • Disable horizon culling by default to fix a flickering issue in the GlobeBrowsing (#4010)

  • Fix URL for the lo_mr_mosaic_newyork.wms that would cause the data to not load correctly (#4057)

  • Fix issue with RenderableTravelSpeed indicator showing wrong positions with high delta time (#3898)

  • Fix issue where removing an asset that owned a PropertyOwner which had one of its properties currently being interpolated would cause a crash (#4092)

  • Fix an issue where unloading an image that was loaded lazily was not actually unloaded (#4073)

  • Launcher fixes (#4086)

    • Fix issue where new “apply-without-saving” config did not properly get selected after creation

    • Fix issue where profiles and configs showed full file path or variable expansion path instead of name in the launcher GUI

    • Fix issue where tooltip displayed empty box

  • Fix issue where the PlayAudio parameter for video files was not extracted correctly from the asset files

  • Fix issue that sometimes could lead to a crash when removing an asset that contains a video

  • Fix crash when calling the saveSettingsToProfile function (#4101)

  • Fix issue where the Display copies of the SkyBrowser were not treated correctly when opening or closing the GUI panel (OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#200)

  • Add aria labels to UI components that were missing in a number of places (OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#203)

  • Fix an issue with default minRange for minMax range that would cause different properties to be linked (#3914)

  • Fix an issue with the user interface when removing a globe layer (#3790)

  • Fix issue where an overflowing long list in the user interface would not show the scrollbar (#3821)

  • Fix broken search button in the GeoLocation panel and do not clear search on blur (OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#218)

  • Fix issue where the meta documentation for an asset loaded at runtime was not displayed correctly (#3911)

  • Fix issue where manually typing a SessionRecording filename into the user interface would cause the last character of the filename to be dropped

  • Fix issue where a shader error in an included shader file would cause the file path to grow unlimited and fill the log and cause a crash

  • Fix an issue in the SGCT FontManager that could cause some font paths to not resolve correctly on Windows (SGCT/SGCT#114)

  • Fix an issue that would prevent Scalable mesh files from being read correctly (SGCT/SGCT#120)

  • Fix an issue where the rendering would freeze when providing 0 or negative capture threads for screenshot generation (SGCT/SGCT#121)

  • Fix an issue where some UI elements were not disabled correctly during automatic camera movements or session recording playback (OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#175)

  • Fix errors when loading the Euclid, JWST, and Messenger profiles

  • Fix an issue where the info box in the user interface was not scrollable, leading to long texts breaking the layouting (OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#225)

  • Fix an issue where the CEF cache was left in an unusable state, preventing the application from starting again. The CEF cache is now deleted at every startup

  • Fix a crash when no color map is set on a RenderableSphere (#4111)

  • Fix an issue where the menu title items could not be translated (OpenSpace/OpenSpace-WebGui#222)

  • Fix an issue in the ShowComposer where the camera altitude was using the wrong unit (#3838)

  • Fix an issue in the ShowComposer where loaded time components would not function after serialization

  • Fix spelling mistake in Cutplane Equatorial scene graph node

  • Fix issue with the point size rendering of RenderableTrailTrajectory

  • Fix an issue where errors in the creation of an off-screen rendering surface would not be communicated

  • Fix an issue where the Info box of a scene graph node would be indented incorrectly (#3951)

  • Fix the start and end times for Voyager 1 & 2

  • Fix the scale factor for Saturn included in the Night Sky profile

  • Fix issue where the Apollo boulder photogrammetry model was floating off the heightmap