Version 6.5 has been released, which includes new opengl techniques, important updates and bug fixes.
The important improvements are as follows
- Topology data on planets has been taken from planet texture files, thus the special format topology files provided by Mitaka have been removed from use.
- Improvements have been made to display high-resolution textures of certain areas on planets, ensuring that clear images are displayed in areas that are approached
- The display of 3D vehicles in some Rover and Lander missions has been provided. Added 3D Models
- Perseverance - Curiosity - InSight - Lunokhod - Apollo_LEM - Apollo_LR - Other 3D tools will be added in future versions
- Smooth transition from Landing mode to 3D mode was provided with interpolating effect on projector screen
- Tilt setting which was separate for Space Flight and Landing was reduced to a single parameter. - "View Angle Offset" parameter was added to adjust the view angle during Space Flight
- Place Name and Surface Pointer text and color were made adjustable.
- Improvement was made in landing mode for Chinese constellation list.
- Added the ability to zoom in on constellations in landing mode, for this, after selecting the constellation as a single one in the constellation manager, click the "landing zoom" button
- Added a parameter to the settings screen related to the height of the Date time text on the dome
- Added the ability to set the starting area of the meteor shower simulation in radians. Thus, Leonid, Geminid and other meteor showers can be simulated.
- Added a setting that allows the default angle values of South/North/East/West orientations to be changed.
- Added controls to the Constellation Manager for displaying line and artistic views at the same time.
- Added two new panoramas for the Moon. Apollo-17 and Chang'e-3
- Added antialiasing support. (This feature requires more hardware resources)
What has been done on Shira Presenter side
- Significant improvement has been made to Flat media display in Shira Presenter.
- Added antialiasing support. - Added Encrypt starter application, in order to work with encrypted videos, this application scans the Content folder and adds it to the list of encrypted videos.
- Added support for playing mkv files - Minimize button has been hidden for all cases.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed the atmosphere, aurora and shooting star buttons in Web remote Controls. - Fixed the screen view status was not saved when exiting SPr. - Fixed the back view of Imahgoong Crux constellation belonging to Indonesian culture.
Removed features
- As a result of feedback from users, Overview and Innerview view features in SPr have been removed. - Realtime cloud display has been removed for now.
- You can update version 6.2 to version 6.5 without downloading the entire package.