Hey folks~
The next batch of updates and fixes is now available for public testing. This includes some future-proofing work for system builders and ship modelers, as well as adjustments made from community Catalog Notes and the addition of the first-of-its-kind exosatellite CD-35 2722 B b. Some of these changes are more involved than simple patch notes can provide, so we've written up extra details for your perusal on our website: https://spaceengine.org/news/blog260810/
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Changelog:
M-type brown dwarfs and L-type main sequence stars now have correct labels
Planetary mass “star” objects with spectral type M and later will now be labeled as planemos
Spacecraft materials now support gamma adjustment for Diff/Emis maps and green channel inversion for DirectX normal maps. The following parameters have been added for use in .sml files (see the website post for more information)
DiffGamma/EmisGamma: values greater than 0 behave as a simple power gamma adjustment, while values below 0 instead use a fixed piecewise sRGB to linear conversion
DirectXNormMap: a boolean that inverts the green channel if set to “true” (DirectX and OpenGL normal maps have flipped green values)
Fixed a bug where searching in the Star Browser for a planet with a pressure range that included 1.0 atm returned every gas giant in the search radius
Updated the CD-35 2722 system and added the newly discovered exosatellite CD-35 2722 B b
Updated Jupiter’s size and shape with the latest Juno data
Corrected Titan’s mass
Updated distance to M 99
Fixed distance, size, and orientation of Ring Nebula
Added Ring Nebula’s central star as a catalog object
Fixed distance, size, and orientation of California Nebula
Reduced luminosity of Pleiades Nebula for increased realism
Updated distance to Puppis A
Added newly published properties for The Garnet Star
Corrected orbital parameters of Mu Ara’s planets
Removed liquid ocean from Wolf 1061 c
Updated Gliese 777 system (removed extra planets, added missing d planet, updated properties for b and c planets)
Updated the exoplanet catalogs with 27 new host stars, 30 new planets, and five new brown dwarf candidates
Added 12 new binary asteroid systems, updated some binary system names
Added newly assigned name to 1999 JB80: Karolinadziadura
Catalog Additions:
Binary Asteroids:
Nysa
Nash
Korankei
Tippett
2002 TC302
2014 GX53
1999 SY8
2013 HU156
2000 AO1
2003 SD106
Harwood
1999 BG2
Brown Dwarf Candidates:
HD 16760 b
KMT-2023-BLG-0332L b
TIC 52059926 b
TIC 9344899 b
TOI-6884 b
Exoplanets:
Gliese 3378 b
HD 5388 b
TOI-3457 b
TOI-707 b
GJ 777 A d
HD 125136 b
HD 126105 b
HD 127195 b
HD 127195 c
HD 190360 d
HIP 10090 b
HIP 10090 c
HIP 39330 b
HIP 8923 b
HIP 98599 b
KMT-2023-BLG-1592L b
NGTS-38 b
OGLE-2023-BLG-0766L b
TIC 150070085 b
TOI-1533 b
TOI-1533 c
TOI-2147 b
TOI-3664 b
TOI-4034 b
TOI-6019 b
TOI-6564 b
TOI-791 b
TOI-791 c
BET Pic d
CD-35 2722 B b