SpaceEngine Patch Changelog

What's new in SpaceEngine Patch 0.9.7.3

• Major updates:
• Fixed Windows XP compatibility issue
• Oculus Rift DK2 support: positional tracking and Direct mode
• Shadows on the rings from other planets and moons
• Fixed texture tiling on planets
• Updated exoplanets catalog, unconfirmed Kepler candidates are included in a separate file (more than 5000 planets total)
• Added many binary and multiple star systems, including all with discovered exoplanets
• Interface skin system with the switch option in the Player menu
• Astronomy:
• Added moons of asteroid (87) Sylvia
• Asteroid moons classified as dwarf moons to avoid tidal heating bug
• Catalog planets with no mass and radius specified got generated mass and radius
• Automatic calculation of the orbital period in a binary system (star or planet) if only masses and SMA provided in the catalog
• Automatic tidal braking and locking in a binary star systems
• Generation of missing planet orbital inclination and ascending node are worked based on a binary star data
• Reduced rings probability of tidal locked planets and moons
• Updated textures of Mars and moons of Saturn
• Interface:
• Updated Find object menu: third column with the object type, scrollbar, more clear controls (keyboard and mouse wheel to scroll), case sensitivity
• Updated localizations
• Options "Compress textures", "Normal" autoexposure, and "Super" diffraction spikes are removed from the graphics settings menu
• Anti-aliased selection pointer
• Map mode marks and cursor textures are moved into interface texture
• Menu for video capture settings: switch between set of screenshots mode and avi mode, choosing screenshot format and codec settings
• [F9] key brings up the Video capture menu, [Ctrl]-[F9] starts and stops the video recording with the chosen settings
• Removed default key binding [N] to enable/disable night side lights and emissive textures
• New planet filters in the Star browser
• Solar eclipses are not rendered in the system browser
• Orbital path rendering is disabled together with disabling of planet rendering
• New music added
• Smooth switch on/off of orbits, coordinate grid, vectors, selection pointer
• Object's into table is smoothly disappearing after a while in Oculus mode
• Engine:
• Hardware auto VSync is used if supported
• Galaxy and nebula rendering are moved to OpenGL 3.3 standard
• Returned back skybox for nebulae, so performance inside a nebula is improved
• Removed useless gal_part.png and aurora_part.png textures
• Built with Oculus SDK 0.4.4
• New video memory limiting system
• Washing out of planets which are small on the screen
• Texture of deposit layers on steep rock slopes
• More realistic sand dunes
• Conical shaped volcanoes
• Window resolution can be set in the Display settings menu to the maximum resolution supported by hardware
• Added frame output (screenshot sequence) video capture mode
• Video capture files are saved in the screenshots/capture/ folder
• Selena is a world with atmosphere pressure < 1 mbar
• Better rendering of low-pressure atmosphere models (thin haze on Selenas and Ice Worlds)
• Added details and dynamics to aurora
• Improved comet tail performance
• Atmosphere brightness is calculated based on air density
• Upper limit for atmosphere brightness is risen to 20
• Bug fixes:
• Fixed almost all Intel HD compatibility issues
• Fixed crash on entering Display menu
• Fixed bug with extremely hot asteroid moons
• Fixed button sound in the main menu and autopilot scripts folder location
• Fixed the text "(null)" in the critical error message box
• Fixed crash on ATI in Oculus Rift mode
• Fixed too long landscape generation time on ATI and Intel
• Fixed skybox edge artifact near center of the galaxy or nebula
• Fixed axial tilt of 57 degrees of every solitary star in the Wiki
• Fixed a bug in the life panspermia code
• Fixed glitches in the Find object menu: selection line position, auto scrolling, missing parent name for some objects
• Fixed the physical VRAM size detection on ATI
• Fixed a bug with only one planetary nebula model being used per galaxy
• Fixed nebula model cut in the impostor rendering
• Fixed a bug with stars scale did not applied at program start
• Fixed changing of the lens flare color in the "norm" mode
• Fixed disappearing of a star-like particle of dim brown dwarves illuminated with a main star
• Fixed disappearing of a star-like particle of hot asteroids and dwarf moons
• Bigger ClipZNear to reduce z-fighting
• Fixed bug with Dactyl tidal heating
• Fixed disappeared canyons and rivers
• Fixed ignorance of Temperature/Teff parameter in the star script
• Fixed bug with selection and go-to of planets/stars with the same name (planet b and star B in the same system)
• Fixed extreme heating of planets of cold (T type) brown dwarves
• Fixed wrong comet tail orientation of binary planets
• Fixed body selecting in a binary planet system
• Fixed reset of the rotation period to 1 day of the catalog stars with the "Static" orbit
• Fixed bug with white dwarves color and temperature