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Current

v0.11-alpha (work in progress)

Engine

  • Updated engine binaries (3.x as of 16th April 2023).
  • Fixed culling issues (objects and lights) caused by camera far-z plane glitch.

Models

  • Fixed some improper LODs.
  • Implemented sphere decals (for planets).
  • Reworked Phoenix Heavy ship model.
  • Reworked engine exhaust models.

Controls

  • Improved touch controls (event sorting).

Camera

  • Improved and fixed camera behavior.
  • Tweaked warp camera effect (stretch and brightness are now more smooth).

Environment

  • Environment zones (locally adjustable brightness, saturation, contrast).
  • New global nebula.
  • New star cluster Moirai.
  • Stars are adjusted according to their types (size, color, light ranges).
  • Added placeholder fake stars (sprites) to make space look less empty and for testing.
  • Added death zones (around stars for now) for future gameplay use.
  • Implemented mechnism which hides nebula environments or global nebula when needed.

Shaders

  • Tweaked shaders for performance (significant boost due to using vertex shading).
  • Re-introduced star core shader, optimized this time. Distance-modified brightness.
  • New different star sprites.
  • Clamped shaders alpha to prevent unexpected bugs.
  • Star sprite shader is adaptable with distance.
  • Added star halo (glow) shader based on camera angle.
  • Added opaque cloud and shade (like proximity fog) shaders.
  • Gas planet shader added.
  • Gas planet shader added.
  • Planetary rings shaders added.
  • Added decal shaders.
  • Vertex-lit shader is improved for solid materials to imitate per-pixel lighting.

Textures

  • Added crater decals.

Locales

  • Initiated localization (EN and UA).
  • Connected localization strings with interface, added language switching button.

Interface

  • GUI is now scaleable, and will adapt to any screen (16:9 and wider).
  • Separate navigation lists for different stellar objects and structures.
  • Reworked touchscreen controls. They can be swapped.
  • Reworked options menus.
  • Reworked desktop GUI layout.
  • Implemented object info window.
  • Theme color and intensity can be selected now.
  • Improved UI readability.
  • Moved readouts to the bottom of the screen.
  • Ship model can be hidden.
  • Reworking debug menu and output.
  • Character info panel added.

Audio

  • Ambient music added.

Refactoring

  • Refactored whole project to heavily rely on autoload for persistent data.
  • Refactored autopilot code to be more reliable.
  • Refactored UI code to be more reliable.
  • Refactored meshes of primitives and used unified names.
  • Refactoring meshes to use .gltf format directly.

Documentation

  • Universe reference papers (presets, test, random systems).
  • Lore: Xenohive alien race.

Tools

  • Universe generator script in Python3 added (works stand-alone).
  • Main sequence stars generator algorithm implemented.

Previous

v0.10-alpha (last release)

  • CCD is disabled upon reaching specific velocity threshold.
  • Tweaked autopilot to perform some rotation (approach is slightly spiraled).
  • Introduced star system coordinates databank for main galaxy (50k stars for now).
  • Split targeting into "selection" and "autopilot" controls for clarity.
  • Upon picking a stellar coordinate - spawn a system scene there (currently only a star).
  • Keep a track of recently visited star systems and do not despawn them if their number is within limit.
  • Proper spawner / despawner of stellar systems upon selecting them in order to create seamless travel.
  • Moved galaxy mesh into decoration background (scoping the space down for gameplay sake).
  • Temporarily disabled procedural coords.
  • Tweaked systems.
  • Tweaked velocity, damping is implemented in the game (due to recent engine changes).
  • Removed textures and uneeded sources.
  • Refactored UI a little.
  • Added panic screen.
  • Refactored cloud shaders.
  • Re-implemented LOD system (again).
  • Refactored cloud meshes.
  • Tweaked camera decorations.
  • Optimized background decorations.
  • Reworked primitive shapes scene (for importing).
  • Implemented planet surface shader (based on old implementation of star surface shader, but not animated).
  • Tweaked planetary shader to include lava layer.
  • Added a sector-level nebula.
  • Refactored names of local spaces and markers to reflect what they are clearly.
  • Added a new star system.
  • Added a new planetary shader (ice).
  • Pre-release tweaks.

v0.9-alpha

  • Tweaks to desktop UI.
  • Fixed lag due to complex collision trimesh.
  • Autopilot added.
  • New UI elements.
  • Default window size is 720p.
  • Some tweaks to superliminal velocity effects.

v0.8-alpha

  • A new star system!
  • Switched to full-scale stellar bodies (stars and planets are up to scale now).
  • Using meters instead of units now. Updated distance prefixes according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix.
  • Updated galaxy mesh and colors.
  • Updtaed camera motion on acceleartion for smoother experience.
  • Updated velocity increment mechanism, it is now exponential, which allows to accelerate rapidly.
  • Space markers are removed from Debug overlay.
  • Switched to custom LOD script which is based on zones.
  • Refactored stellar objects and their hierarchy for clarity.
  • Implemented multilayer local space, which tackles precision errors in object positioning.
  • Adjusted camera decorations to act as a boundary zone a size of 9e18 to prevent flickering. (9e18 seems to be a sort of safe margin for transforms?)
  • Fixed OmniLight and camera flickering (workarounds but robust).
  • Removed unrelated files from within project scope.
  • Removed Calinou's LOD plugin files.
  • New dynamic star shader. Stars are much less in polycount now.
  • Added icons for custom zone nodes.
  • Optimized paths.
  • Some temporary fixes for collision model (caused stuttering due to polygon number).