This small patch adds few bugfixes, and was released to the public branch. It was merged with the previous patch 0.990.38.1730.
The header image is a prominent triple solar eclipse on Jupiter, occurred at January 24, 2015. This event makes noticeable a bug in SE: orientation of analytical orbits of Jovian moons was inaccurate. As a result, Callisto’s shadow missed Jupiter’s disk. This is fixed now. Note that if you plan Jupiter observations with SE, you must take into account light travel delay, which is not yet modeled by SE (35-50 minutes for Jupiter).
Fixed bug with erroneous planetary systems in globular clusters
Fixed completely black areas on old red giants in auto/manual exposure mode
Fixed incorrect orientation of orbits of Galilean moons
Hapke parameters for coherent backscatter for planet surface, clouds and rings
Update 0.990.38.1730
Todays build 0.990.38.1730 is released in the beta branch. Changelog is below, more info and screenshots can be found in our blog.
New Titan textures by retro-visor
Gamma correction for planet textures: parameter in catalog scripts and slider in the editor
Adjusted gamma of Jupiter and Io textures
Adjusted photometric properties of Jupiter and the Galilean satellites for increased accuracy
New music by Lokijar
Fixed bug with selection of wrong screenshot file format at startup
Fixed displaying of incorrect axis tilt for procedural planets
Fixed generation of too many extremely tilted procedural planets (pending for for 0.991)
Updated localizations
Updated exoplanet catalog (September 10, 2019)
Added comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) and other minor bodies
Added names for 5 recently named satellites of Jupiter
Added ability to specify a threshold for the bloom effect
Solar system browser: fixed empty (globe) previews in the very long list of satellites
Fixed model of the galaxy ESO 510-G13
Fixed bug with displacement and flickering of star lens flares in fish eye/cylindrical/cube modes what happened in distant galaxies
Fixed bug with displacement of autoexposure metering zone
Update 0.990.37.1720
Fixed crash on new NVidia driver (436.15). Sorry for inconvenience!
Build 0.990.37.1720
Added "Spanish - Spain" localization, old Spanish renamed to "Spanish - Latin America"
Updated localizations
Fixed Carina nebula model
Fixed crash with NVidia driver version 436.15
Fixed points counter in the camera path editor tool
Moon textures update
The Moon HD DLC was updated with higher quality and greater resolution textures. So if you have this DLC, be ready to download 11 GB!
Build 0.990.37.1710 - Updated default and DLC textures of the Moon (11 GB)
- Updated default and DLC textures of the Charon
- Tilt adjustment for objects/spacecraft fixed on planetary surface
- Added all Apollo landing sites with closeup textures
- Adjusted Apollo LM position and tilt
- Fixed Apollo LM star-like particle brightness
- Fixed updating of BumpHeight and BumpOffset in the Planet editor
- Exposure compensation is saved between sessions
- Added asteroids named after science fiction authors
Chinese and Japanese support - release
Chinese and Japanese language support is released now! The new build 37.1705 have few updates, and merged with the previous beta build 37.1690:
Build 0.990.37.1705 - Some fixes in catalogs
- Updated localizations
- Fixed auto-filling of the pioneer name and discovery date for procedural objects in the Wiki
- Fixed star cluster selection bug
- Fixed issue with ship control panel appearing in the planetarium mode
- Semi-bold font for interface text of default (small) size
Build 0.990.37.1690 - While exporting planet textures, clouds transparency is not saved into a separate file
- Ability to specify custom subfolder to save video file/frames in the video capture dialog
- Fixed bug when some terrain node textures didn't generated
- Fixed bug with terrain not generating while recording video
- Opposition effect on planetary rings; parameters are added to planet scripts and editor
- Unicode support:
-- All localizations updated to UTF-8 encoding
-- Texture fonts replaced with ttf fonts
-- Added traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese and Japanese localizations
-- In language selection menu, country flags and full names of localizations are displayed
- Apollo 11 'Eagle' Lunar module model on the Moon surface
- Fixed bug with UI window stuck in moving mode when was closed by hotkey before releasing the left mouse button
- Fixed selecting of stars in star clusters and nebulae
- Mouse click in the text input field moves cursor to the nearest character
- Fixed arrow button of volumetrics resolution sliders
Chinese and Japanese support - beta
Todays update - build 1690 - is in the beta branch. It features Chinese and Japanese support! Read more about it in the blog-post.
Build 0.990.37.1690
While exporting planet textures, clouds transparency is not saved into a separate file
Ability to specify custom subfolder to save video file/frames in the video capture dialog
Fixed bug when some terrain node textures didn't generated
Fixed bug with terrain not generating while recording video
Opposition effect on planetary rings; parameters are added to planet scripts and editor
Unicode support:
- All localizations updated to UTF-8 encoding
- Texture fonts replaced with ttf fonts
- Added traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese and Japanese localizations
- In language selection menu, country flags and full names of localizations are displayed
Apollo 11 'Eagle' Lunar module model on the Moon surface
Fixed bug with UI window stuck in moving mode when was closed by hotkey before releasing the left mouse button
Fixed selecting of stars in star clusters and nebulae
Mouse click in the text input field moves cursor to the nearest character
Fixed arrow button of volumetrics resolution sliders
Moon landing anniversary
So today is 50th anniversary of the historical Apollo-11 mission landing on the Moon. We made a small update - adding the Eagle model to the Moon. Go to the Locations dialog in SE, find "The Eagle has landed" location, and check it out!
Read the full story and see more screenshots on our website: http://spaceengine.org/news/blog190720/
Great news for Chinese users: next update will support Chinese! Implementation is almost ready, so you will lose nothing by buying SE now!
Update 0.990.36.1665
Todays update - build 1665 - is in the beta branch (UPDATE: it is in public branch now). Read more about it in the blog-post.
Build 0.990.36.1665 (beta) - Some fixes in catalogs
- Multithreaded saving of screenshot (no lag on saving to png)
- Multithreaded saving of video frame images
- Updated video saving tool:
-- Option for automatically run a script simultaneously with start of video capture
-- Video capture is stopping automatically once script is complete
-- Options to minimize or close SpaceEngine once script is complete
- Planet emission textures are stored with color textures in the same array to save video memory
- Planet thermal textures are stored with hight textures in the same array to save video memory [experimental]
- Reduced tiling of some terrain textures
- Fixed bug with non-saving of database file of user names and descriptions
- Fixed bug with change of planet atmosphere color after restart
- Improved appearance of red giants
- Improved color variety of planet atmospheres [experimental]
- In HDR photo mode, aurora faded out with distance to not spoil appearance of a planet from space [experimental]
- Fixed dry lacustrine planets
- Fixed missing terraced mountains
- Released new version of the CubeMap tool - 1.15
Update 0.990.35.1660
Todays update - build 1660, it is merged with previous beta build 1655.
Build 0.990.35.1660 - Automatic saturation of stellar illumination
- Fixed star corona color bug
- Fixed toggle of the fullscreen mode when "Configure codec" is pressed in the video capture dialog
- VR/3D mode can be toggled by a hotkey / in the main menu
- In VR help about VR controller buttons bindings is displayed on the main menu background (Oculus and Vive, text is in English)
- In VR Solar system browser automatically hides itself after clicking "fly to" button
- In main menu script, buttons, labels and edit can have internal name; if not specified, data from the Text field is used
- Option to make planet hidden by default in the sc file - visible false
- Changed atmosphere model/color assignment rules
- Some fixes in catalogs
- Fixed bug with clusters/nebulae particles always rendered even if clusters/nebulae were disabled
- Reduced star particle wobbling effect of a very distant catalog stars
- Increased lens flare visibility range for very bright star systems
- Changed location preview file name generation method
Build 0.990.35.1655 - Fixed huge lag at startup and on switching graphics quality presets
- Limited paste text buffer size
- Some fixes in catalogs
- Updated exoplanet catalog to June 21, 2019 (Teegarden's star and other updates)
- Fixed abrupt scarps on terrestrial planets
- Fixed high-frequency "penitentes" on icy worlds
- Fixed depth of rayed craters
- Added timeout to the loading screen to prevent getting stuck on it for too long of a time
- Adjusted coefficients in the mass-radius equation for more a precise result [pending for 0.991]
- Updated localizations
- Fixed procedural galaxy/quasar seed change bug
- Disabled loading indicator in VR
- Fixed broken export of planet textures after landing on a planet
Public beta
Hello everybody! Almost two weeks have passed since release, and we can say that the launch was successful! We have collected many bug reports from the community on Steam, Discord, and the SE forum. The most important bugs must be fixed as soon as possible, and I am working hard to achieve this. Today's patch includes a major performance fix, which is most noticeable at program startup: there is no large delay anymore after the main SE window is opened. For some users during that delay the whole system lags, and may even crash with a BSOD! Switching between graphics quality preset triggered the same issue, so that is also fixed now.
This update has not been fully tested yet, but we want to release is ASAP, so I suggest that users join the free public beta. To do this, open the Steam client, navigate to SpaceEngine in your Steam library, right-click on it and select Properties. In the Properties window, switch to the BETAS tab, and select the "beta - public beta branch". The patch will start downloading immediately, you don't need to enter a beta access code.
Please note that the beta could be unstable and have many bugs, some of which may be caused by compatibility issues with installed mods. So before joining the beta, move the entire contents of the addons folder to a safe place (except SolarSystemHD, if you have it). After testing without addons, you may try to copy them back (copy, not move - this will be safer).
To exit the beta, just select "NONE - Opt out of all beta programs" in the BETAS tab of the Properties window.
Other changes includes fixed glitchy landscape features, added newly discovered exoplanets, and fixing a bug with galaxy/quasar seed change (which sometimes destroyed saved locations).
The full changelog of today's patch:
Build 0.990.35.1655 (public beta)
Fixed huge lag at startup and on switching graphics quality presets
Limited paste text buffer size
Some fixes in catalogs
Updated exoplanet catalog to June 21, 2019 (Teegarden's star and other updates)
Fixed abrupt scarps on terrestrial planets
Fixed high-frequency "penitentes" on icy worlds
Fixed depth of rayed craters
Added timeout to the loading screen to prevent getting stuck on it for too long of a time
Adjusted coefficients in the mass-radius equation for more a precise result [pending for 0.991]
Updated localizations
Fixed procedural galaxy/quasar seed change bug
Disabled loading indicator in VR
Fixed broken export of planet textures after landing on a planet
