A pre-build binary for MacOS is included in the download section of the webpage
Added support for using joysticks and gamepads as input devices. The data/assets/util/default_joystick.asset controls the handling of connected joysticks
Bittorrent-based file synchronization has been completely removed in favor of HTTP-based synchronization. This change will fix the majority of issues that users had while synchronizing data in a firewalled environment
The default.scene will now by default start at “yesterday”s date and show the as-of-yet incomplete VIIRS image for “today” if the user jumps to “today”
The startup and shutdown times of the application has been overall lowered
Potentially breaking change: The layout of the central openspace.cfg has been changed and users must adapt their old, modified variants for this release. Mitigation consists of removing the return { and single } at the top and bottom of the file respectively
Added a mechanism to pass commandline arguments to OpenSpace that modify the loaded openspace.cfg to enable the setting of start-up scenes, SGCT configuration files and others from the commandline for clustered environments
When PRINT_SCREEN is creating a screenshot, it is now placed in the screenshots/{current date}/ folder, rather than the bin folder as it was before
The default horizontal field-of-view has been changed to 80 degrees, which can be overwritten in the openspace.cfg file by the user by modifying the sgct.config.single parameters as described in the scripts/configuration_helper.lua file
When running OpenSpace in a windowed setup, manually changing the size of the window will now automatically adapt the aspect ratio that is used for the rendering
Added an inituial ability to automatically create focus markers on planets based on available .info files by editing the data/assets/customization/globebrowsing.asset file and changing CreateFocusNodes to true
Added the ability to use a single-file HTTP-based synchronization from third party locations. Examples of this are in the data/assets/examples/urlsynchronization.asset
It is now possible to zoom by using the left mouse button and pressing the Alt key in addition to using the right mouse button to support MacOS touch pads
Made it possible to click on the friction markers in the image to toggle the individual friction modes in addition to using the F, Shift+F, and Ctrl+F keyboard shortcuts
The Global Properties -> Dashboard now has a single property that will toggle its visibililty on screen
Potentially breaking change: The names of properties in the scene tree is now simplified and users must adapt their custom scripts to add a Scene. prefix to properties that change attributes of objects in the scene graph.
Added support for stb_image-based texture reader on non-Windows platforms
Content
Added asset for the Messenger mission
Added Pluto to the default scene
Added Scaling node to all planets
Bugfixes
Make the minimum skirt length of globes depenent on its radius to support small globes, such as moons of Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn
Fix bug preventing Saturn’s rings from rendering
Fix bug causing Kepler-based translation to use a wrong value for the semi-major axis