News and announcements
New Nightshade Website
Written for Nightshade Legacy by Rob Spearman on 2012-10-08
The Nightshade simulator project now has a new website design which should allow much easier interaction and participation with the project. We have consolidated three websites into one to streamline project management and make the full development process open.
Issue tracking, feature requests, news updates, documentation, source code, and downloads are all now accessible in one place. New items include a roadmap of features and our release schedule, as well as a new forum feature where anyone can easily participate.
See the new site at: http://
Discovery Dome sponsoring warping feature for Nightshade 12
Written for Nightshade Legacy by Rob Spearman on 2012-09-11
Discovery Dome (http://
An initial preview release of Nightshade 12 will be released in November. A few more preview releases will follow, with a final feature-complete version estimated for release in July, 2013. A development roadmap with more detail will be posted in the next few weeks.
Nightshade 12 Preview Video Posted
Written for Nightshade Legacy by Rob Spearman on 2012-08-06
To see a preview of some upcoming Nightshade 12 features, see: http://
Nightshade: IPS update and specifications help needed
Written for Nightshade Legacy by Rob Spearman on 2012-07-30
It was great to connect with everyone at the International Planetarium Society conference in Baton Rouge last week. We showed off a short video preview of some of the features coming with Nightshade 12 later this year.
We are currently looking for feedback on a specification for warping (as used by spherical mirror systems, for example) written by Paul Bourke. If you want to provide input, please see:
https:/
You can leave comments on the "Whiteboard".
Nightshade 11.12.1 Released
Written for Nightshade Legacy by Rob Spearman on 2011-12-21
A new community release of Nightshade, the open source astronomy simulator is now available for multiple platforms.
Features of this release include:
* 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
More information and downloads at http://
