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| SpaceEngineer | Date: Friday, 03.08.2012, 04:50 | Message # 1 |
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| This the work progress list (0.9.7.0 changelog).
Last update: March 02, 2013
Changes and additions:
Changed some of the mouse controls
The little loading icon instead of the progress bar
Context menu when you right-click on the object
A better function of the mass-radius dependence of gas giants and brown dwarfs
Reduced thickness of atmosphere on Earth-like planets
The height of the landscape is counted from the sea level (negative values - under water)
The land command performs a landing on the height of 10 meters above sea or ground level
While capturing the video, the GUI is visible on screen, but not recorded to video
Desaturation of faint stars (simulating color sensitivity of the eye)
Velocity pointer in Planetarium mode
Smooth stopping of movement and rotation of camera when you press the Z, X, or Num 5 in Planetarium mode
Scrolling tables and sliders with the mouse wheel
[F1] opens the Universe Map for the selected system, [Ctrl]-[F1] for the current one
[F2] opens the Planetary System Browser for the selected system, [Ctrl]-[F2] for the current one
Built-in wiki system
Ability to give a name and description to every planet or other object
Descriptions supports some of the BB-codes
Shadows under text
New console commands
Various upgrades in the Universe Map
HDR, Bloom and FXAA in the Solar System Browser previews
Real planet brightness can be disabled in the Solar System Browser
Red giants and asteroids are rendered with landscape in the Solar System Browser
Right click on the root star or barycenter in the Solar System Browser selects the star system itself
ESI (Earth Similarity Index) in the planet's info table
Improved rendering of interstellar dust in galaxies
Comets and evaporating planets
Auroras
Improved performance (FPS) on planets
Fixed color banding artifact on landscape and water
Taking into account color of a planet for illumination of moons, and vice versa
Multithreading resource loading/generating
Updated the cache of galaxies models, they are now registered in the memory manager
Updated the cache of textures and models for ships and buildings. ships and buildings are now registered in the memory manager
Supporting of TIFF format for textures and screenshots
Supporting of sounds of WAV and OGG formats
Built-in music player for OGG music
Saving compiled shaders binaries to the cache and fast loading
Preloading all shaders at startup (option)
Oblate planets and stars, automatic calculation of oblateness
Gravity darkening of oblate stars
The [End] button rotates the camera horizontally
Importing ships models in the OBJ fromat with material and multiple textures
Cache for textures and models
Updated graphics settings menu
Updated export planetary textures menu
Dynamic lens flares, with ability to choose a preset in the menu
Automatic clearing of the cache then hardware is changed
Automatic selecting of some settings then hardware is changed
Reduced the size of the zone for opening the tool panels
Menu for selecting of the GUI language, changes applies without restaring
Default localizations: English, Russian, French, Italian, Finnish, German, Portuguese, Spanish
Improved planetary rings variety, increased color saturation
Some sliders in the Planet Editor have logarithmic scale
Inverted red giants textures
Stars Browser - builds a list of the nearest stars, and can save it to a file
Bug fixes:
Console command "disable" now works
Fixed a bug with the nebula, shining through the planets
Fixed the accelerated spinning of the ship when time is reversed
Fixed glitchy star's Motion Blur
Fixed a bug with very small moons with atmospheres
Fixed camera autobinding
Fixed a bug with the equal mass of all brown dwarfs
Fixed a bug with wrong lens flare color at the edge of the screen
Fixed a bug with Earth fully covered with ocean
Fixed a bug with entering minutes and seconds in the time control panel
Fixed a bug with "intergalactic" mode of spaceships in certain regions of Milky Way
Fixed a bug with disappearing blocks of procedural stars in galaxies
Fixed a bug with blinking planet when Autoexposure is enabled
FXAA works when Bloom is disabled
Fixed a bug with "square shaped stars" when real Sun brightness is on
Fixed incorrect age of stars in multiple systems
Fixed a bug with stars generated outside star cluster boundaries
Fixed a flat landscape bug on Intel HD
Fixed a bug with incorrect planets number counters in the star's info
Fixed a bug with incorrect planets with life number counters in the star's info
Fixed a bug in binary systems, when smaller component have greater mass => reduced number of brown dwarves
Fixed cropping of some rotation/orbital parameters when starting editing in the Planet Editor
*corrections made 26-11-12
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Friday, 03.08.2012, 04:58 | Message # 2 |
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| I like the new loading circle icon.
I also really like the idea of having a progress blog here on the forum 
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| Talisman | Date: Friday, 03.08.2012, 05:42 | Message # 3 |
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| I like the circle too. 
I love development blogs, I hope you keep updating us on progress.
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| apenpaap | Date: Friday, 03.08.2012, 13:25 | Message # 4 |
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| I like it a lot, it's a big improvement. Though I hope we can still independently turn it off like we can now.
Have a look at my blog, Platypus Pancakes.
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| SpaceEngineer | Date: Sunday, 12.08.2012, 22:52 | Message # 5 |
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| I have replace an ugly purple loading progress bar with annoying messages with a small rotating icon near the FPS counter:
These loading messages are still shown in the Debug mode. This info was really needed only for debug purposes, there are many videos on youtube where people forgot to disable the HUD or change it simply with Ctrl-~. I think these rotating icon will look much better and not so annoying as the huge blinking progress bar.
Also I have changed mouse controls a bit.
Left drag - rotate the camera (look around)
Right drag - rotate around the current object (orbit)
Middle drag - change the FOV
Left + Right drag - change the distance to the current object (zoom; works in the Map mode)
Left click - select an object
Right click - select an object and call context menu
Middle click - return previous/default FOV
Wheel - change speed
The context menu is slightly different for different types of objects. If you select the "Moons" or "Planets" it opens the Solar system browser at the selected object's level (i.e. right click on the planet -> Moon -> a browser with moons of this planet has opened).
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Laptop: i5 2.27 GHz, 8 Gb RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730 with 1024 Mb VRAM
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| Daniel | Date: Monday, 13.08.2012, 01:18 | Message # 6 |
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| Awesome! Left-click drag for look around is much more intuitive. Can't wait!
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Monday, 13.08.2012, 01:24 | Message # 7 |
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| Quote (Daniel) Awesome! Left-click drag for look around is much more intuitive. Can't wait!
That is what is already implemented in this version...
I'm excited about the context menus though!
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| j0KeR | Date: Monday, 13.08.2012, 01:37 | Message # 8 |
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| How exactly is it going to provide information with the "Info" option , is it going to redirect us on a site ? or it would bult-in information ?
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| Kviki | Date: Monday, 13.08.2012, 01:50 | Message # 9 |
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| Quote (j0KeR) How exactly is it going to provide information with the "Info" option , is it going to redirect us on a site ? or it would bult-in information ?
Perhaps an in-game encyclopedia? (I think this was even mentioned somewhere)
 
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| SpaceEngineer | Date: Monday, 13.08.2012, 02:13 | Message # 10 |
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| Quote (j0KeR) How exactly is it going to provide information with the "Info" option , is it going to redirect us on a site ? or it would bult-in information ?
It will open the tab with info at the top-left corner of the screen, just like info table that is drawn every time you select an object, maybe with option of more detailed info, for example procedurally generated description like in Mass Effect.
PC: Core2Duo 3.0 GHz, 4 Gb RAM, GeForce 9800 GTX+ with 1024 Mb VRAM
Laptop: i5 2.27 GHz, 8 Gb RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730 with 1024 Mb VRAM
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Monday, 13.08.2012, 02:26 | Message # 11 |
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| Quote (SpaceEngineer) maybe with option of more detailed info
I think that parameters that could be listed currently in the info but are not should be included, like density, length of solar day, orbital inclination/eccentricity, etc. Maybe also provide support for a custom description written in catalog file 
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| Daniel | Date: Monday, 13.08.2012, 06:21 | Message # 12 |
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| Quote (HarbingerDawn) That is what is already implemented in this version...
I'm excited about the context menus though!
Ah, so there's another shortfall of SE running on Wine. I don't have left-click drag look.
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| SpaceEngineer | Date: Monday, 13.08.2012, 19:38 | Message # 13 |
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| Quote (Daniel) Ah, so there's another shortfall of SE running on Wine. I don't have left-click drag look.
lol, and how do you look around in SE, using numpad keys?
PC: Core2Duo 3.0 GHz, 4 Gb RAM, GeForce 9800 GTX+ with 1024 Mb VRAM
Laptop: i5 2.27 GHz, 8 Gb RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730 with 1024 Mb VRAM
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| Daniel | Date: Thursday, 16.08.2012, 19:39 | Message # 14 |
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| Quote (SpaceEngineer) lol, and how do you look around in SE, using numpad keys?
Clicking and holding the mouse wheel, which zooms in, but lets me look around.
However, updated wine and now left click look around works. Hooray!
SpaceEngineer, what Windows-specific libraries are you using in SE?
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| SpaceEngineer | Date: Friday, 17.08.2012, 01:17 | Message # 15 |
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| Quote (Daniel) SpaceEngineer, what Windows-specific libraries are you using in SE?
No one. Just creating a window and process Windows messages.
PC: Core2Duo 3.0 GHz, 4 Gb RAM, GeForce 9800 GTX+ with 1024 Mb VRAM
Laptop: i5 2.27 GHz, 8 Gb RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730 with 1024 Mb VRAM
--- SE works very well on these specs ;)
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