Cosmonium is a 3D astronomy and space exploration program. With Cosmonium you can navigate in our solar system and discover all the planets and their moons. You can also visit the neighboring stars and discover the true size of our galaxy and the Universe.
Cosmonium supports (or will support) the creation of fictional planets, stellar systems nebulaes, ... using procedural generation.
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0.2.1.111 Jan 2024 02:17
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Features
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Improve editor layout
Add overlap support for heightmap and textures
Make heightmap scale and offset more user friendly
Separate data interpolator and filter configurations
Add navigation controller
Support configuration of the home system and start body in the config file
Add track body camera controller
Make the ship rotation more reactive
Rework camera controller API
Add basic support for texture reference
Allow override of body scale in the surface description
Add more advanced options in the preference panel
Separate orientation and position interpolation in autopilot
Add basic plugin support
Add galaxy and atmosphere in cel render flags
Add position and anchor in cel print command
Add setsurface cel command
Add options in set cel command to change the ship, navigation controller or camera mode
Add support of UTC date in cel time command
Bugfixes
Fix crash of editor and preference panels
Fix bad performance due to runaway task
Fix shadows of single planets and nested systems
Clean up frame configuration
Keep untranslated names for scripts
Timed cel commands should not run when other commands are active
Fix orbit cel command
Load cel scripts as UTF-8 by default
Correctly copy and update named orbits and rotations
Fix disappearing ring shadows when switching surfaces
Fix disappearing sphere self shadows when switching surfaces
Use distance to surface iso distance to centre when searching for nearest body
Use lonlat reference frame when moving on the surface