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ANNOUNCE: Celestia 1.4.1 Released.
Greetings, A new release of Celestia is available for the masses. This is mostly a bugfix release, though there are several new textures and models, as well as some UI enhancements. What is Celestia? ================= Celestia is a cross-platform OpenGL space simulator. By using state-of-the-art OpenGL it provides an accurate, comprehensive, educational, and fun space simulation for astronomers and casual users alike. Celestia/GTK: a front-end designed to require the minimum number of libraries for the maximum number of features provided by the OpenGL core. Celestia/GNOME: an expanded Celestia/GTK with GNOME integration features such as GConf and URL handling. Where to get more information ============================= The official Celestia site: http://celestia.sf.net/ The Celestia/GNOME screenshots and information: http://pat.suwalski.net/celestia/ Changes from 1.4.0 to 1.4.1 =========================== Celestia 1.4.1 is a bugfix release. There are a few tweaks to the UI as well. Full ChangeLog: http://cvs.sf.net/viewcvs.py/celestia/celestia/ChangeLog?... Abridged ChangeLog: * Changed number of eclipse shadows in OpenGL2.0 renderer to 3 * Corrected bad ring shader calculation * Added spiffy splash screen with progress indicator * Added 'configure' options to disable cairo/composite in splash screen * Corrected flickering of brightness of Milky Way * New Phoebe textures from Cyclops cylindrical maps * Removed GeForce FX render path, GLSL preferred * Added lunar elevation map * Updated/added Tethys textures * Added Phoebe locations labels * Added new Phoebe mesh * Updated Iapetus texture * Fixed time scale issue from cel:// URLs * Reviewed 'make install' saving ~5M from typical binary packages Downloading Celestia ==================== Source code: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/celestia/celestia-1.4.... Celestia/GTK x86 AutoPackage: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/celestia/celestia-gtk-... --Pat Suwalski _______________________________________________ gnome-announce-list mailing list gnome-announce-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-announce-list (Log in to post comments)
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