SpaceEngine News

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
  

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
  

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
  

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!

More info (with screenshots) in the blog post:

http://spaceengine.org/news/blog190802/

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 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