Astrocelerate v0.2.0-alpha

[ButteredFire]

This major update includes fixes primarily pertaining to user experience, and a new, more capable physics engine.

Changelogs

Fixes

• INSTALLER: Removed UI background for text readability
• UI/UX: Auto-closed the loading screen
• UI/UX: Changed SPACE and L-SHIFT for Up and Down movement to E and Q respectively.
• UI/UX: Fixed camera Alt+Tab issue
• UI/UX: Fixed Earth completely black on dark side

New Features

• UI/UX: Implemented orbital camera
• RENDERING: Improved camera implementation to allow for visual stability even AUs away from a coordinate system's origin
• PHYSICS: Integrated SPICE, with support for the J2000 ECI and SSB frames
• PHYSICS: Added support for N-body physics
• PHYSICS: Added support for TLE parsing and body propagation (with the SGP4 propagator)
• PHYSICS: Recreated the VNREDSat-1A orbit with SGP4 orbital propagation using publicly available TLE data
• OTHER: Overhauled simulation file syntax, with the addition of built-in common celestial bodies
• OTHER: Added 2 simulation samples (SP_SolarSystem.yaml and SP_SGP4Test.yaml) to demonstrate the new additions to Astrocelerate

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This discussion was created from the release Astrocelerate v0.2.0-alpha.