The main operations performed in this version are as follows.

- Added buttons to show/close individual planets and planetary orbits. Planets and planetary orbits can be turned on or off individually, operated from the orbit's definition popup panel.

    

- Added of the 12 signs of the zodiac to the constellation Ophiuchus, according to the criteria for the signs of the zodiac as defined by the Commission for the Validation of Proper Names of the International Astronomical Association. 

- On the the preview view, with the telescope zoomed in, provides mouse wheel to adjust the magnification.

- Made an improvement to dynamically adjust the center of the Shooting Star spawn. 

- For the display of stars, added an option to categorize them by magnitude - e.g., select 5th magnitude, i.e., stars below 5th magnitude are displayed, stars above 5th magnitude are not. Added Enable Button and Slider for magnitude. Removed brighten and darken buttons.

- Added function option for the ecliptic, either by month or by degrees for ecliptic line.

- Added single "Sun Show" and "Name Button" controls.  

- Fixed some bugs 

In this version, Shira Universe has been transformed into a plugin thanks to the plugin support developed in Shira Presenter and has been fully integrated with Shira Presenter.


Previously, Universe was sharing opengl textures with Presenter via the Spout library. Now direct sharing is provided. This development aims to eliminate the need for the Spout library and improve rendering performance.

Other innovations
- The audio tracks included in the media played in Shira Presenter have been listed. The selection of the audio file to be played has been provided.  
- "Deepseek" AI support has been added to the Shira AI Script Generator application.
- Updated the web remote access interface.
- Updated the location list.
- Updated the user books.
- The Jump process has been accelerated in the Basic Target selection screen.
- Corrections have been made to the positions of artificial satellites in 3D views.
- Fixed the freezing problem in the Proper Motion process when going to the past and future.

Released Shira Universe 6.0 with new features

New improvements

- Added Basic Target screen, which works with drag and drop and contains basic space objects.
  
- New fader-effect planetary and satellite orbits have been created.
 
- New 3D models added: Orion Nebula, oumuamua , deimos, phobos, vesta, eros, haumea..
      
- "Black styled" interface with main windows that can be designed by the user.
- High DPI image support has been added, users will now be able to use 4K monitors.
- Web remote updated
- Presentation Builder has been removed. All presentation preparation operations were made from the embedded Shira Presenter.

 

The main improvements made in this version are as follows

- Shira AI Assistant Beta version application added

This application aims to produce Shira Universe scripts using Gemini-AI free api. Although it is an experimental application, very good results have already been achieved. 
(Important note : Gemini AI models will not have a free tier available in the EEA (including EU), the UK, and CH. Developers will have to go through the necessary steps to set up a billing account and pay for usage. )
Below the sample video, the location and time information of the place where the total solar eclipse of 2024 will be seen has been found by AI, and the script files required for the eclipse's earth, eclipse corona and space view have also been produced by AI.

 

- Improvements were made especially in the script library and command base.
- Interpolation effect was added to time and camera movements.

- Markdown (md) description file with the same name was added to the scripts.
- Three new script programs have been developed and added to the distribution package

  • Day and Night
  • Our Solar System
  • Five Brightest Star

 

Shira Universe version 5.5 has been released with many innovations.

The following improvements and bug fixes have been made.

- Added Shooting Star & Star Twinkle effect for landing mode.

 

 

- Added Ultra High planetary textures option with combo selection ( Warning!: minimum 16 GB hardware memory and the ability to open 8 GB texture of the graphics card are required)
  Normal Texture High Texture Ultra High Texture
- Added Indonesian sky culture created by Imahnoong that Indonesian distributor. 
  Special Moon View ( Nini Anteh ) Nini Anteh (Copyright by Imahnoong)
- Added China Space Station 3D model.
- Added China sky culture.
- Added Animated Ocean landscape  - Update Remote Web Control Interface : Added Presentations & Scripts Manager
- Changed preview screen Hovered and Marked object views.

Bugfix

- Fixed "there is already script running" error problem while run a new script. 
- Fixed horizontal and vertical inverted output file problem when saving fulldome frame.

Full version package can be downloaded from the download area. Click 

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