What's new in Nightshade 11.12.1
Dec 22, 2011
- Fixed bug with Earth terminator when using shaders
- Fixed bug with some duplicate stars
- Fixed bug with star scientific names not loading
- Smoother orbits at slow time rates
- Added galactic grid feature
- Added comet magnitude calculations
- Fixed various other bugs
New in Nightshade 11.7.1 (Jul 14, 2011)
- A new and larger star catalog, using a new reduction of the Nomad catalog
- Extended simulation time out to years +/- 1,000,000
- Cleaned up information output on selected object
- Revamped nebula images and data, adding distances
- More intuitive light pollution setting (by limiting magnitude)
- Improved light pollution realism
- Added remaining dwarf planets and more moons
- Fixed script recording (CTRL-R) regression
- Fixed memory leak in GUI
- Various bug fixes
New in Nightshade 11.2.1 (Feb 15, 2011)
- This release includes a more detailed Milky Way, Hevelius constellation art, smoother body orbit visualizations, and of course a number of bug fixes. Flight between bodies is now the default method to travel around the solar system.
New in Nightshade 10.11.1 (Nov 4, 2010)
- Adding clouds, night lights, and ring and moon shadows for more realistic planet rendering
- Extended image format support
- Better support for negative Julian dates
- A new Inca sky culture (constellations without stars!)
- Earth precession circle
- Tropic lines on other planets
- More fluid body motions
- A number of other bug fixes and improvements
New in Nightshade 10.7.1 (Jul 17, 2010)
- This release adds a nebulae related scripting command, line antialiasing options, and, most significantly, a Nightshade User Guide.
New in Nightshade 10.5.2 (May 21, 2010)
- This incremental update improves the project build process and fixes a few bugs. The one new feature of note is the ability to define a sky culture (constellations and star names) solely from a script. A number of language translations have also been updated.
New in Nightshade 10.5.1 (May 4, 2010)
- This release includes a new nscontrol library to support control from external applications, 30 more translated languages, an Aztec sky culture (author Enrique Gómez Candelario), a video frame recording mode (CTRL-V to toggle), and various bug fixes.
New in Nightshade 10.2.1 Beta (Feb 17, 2010)
- Highlights of this release include OSX support, truncated projection mode support, the addition of tropic lines, and automatic resolution detection at first time startup.