Documentation

• Settings and configuration
  • Graphics settings
  • User interface
  • Performance
    • Draw distance
  • Controls
  • Screenshot configuration
  • Frame output
  • Camera recording
  • 360 mode
  • Data
  • Gaia
  • System
• The configuration file
  • Graphics properties
  • Data properties
  • Scene properties
  • Program wide properties
• Graphics settings
  • Resolution and mode
  • Graphics quality
  • Antialiasing
  • Line style
  • Vertical synchronization (V-sync)
  • Maximum frame rate (FPS)
  • Other graphics settings
• Graphics performance
  • Graphics quality setting
  • Antialiasing
  • Star brightness
  • Model detail
  • Bloom, lens flare and light glow
  • Labels
• User Interface
  • Data download manager
  • GUI window
    • Time
    • Camera
    • Type visibility
    • Visual settings
    • Objects
    • Datasets
    • Music
  • Bottom buttons
    • Preferences window
    • Running scripts
    • About/help
    • Log
  • Spacecraft UI controls
• Controls
  • Keyboard controls
    • Focus and free camera modes
    • Spacecraft mode
  • Mouse controls
    • Focus mode
    • Free mode
  • Gamepad controls
    • Creating mappings files for new controllers
    • Focus mode
    • Free camera mode
    • Spacecraft mode
  • Touch controls
• Camera modes
  • Focus mode
  • Free mode
  • Gaia scene mode
  • Spacecraft mode
  • Field of View mode
• Cinematic camera
  • Cinematic behaviour
  • Non-cinematic behaviour
• Stereoscopic (3D) mode
  • Stereoscopic profiles
• Planetarium mode
• Panorama mode
  • Configuration
  • Creating panorama images
    • Injecting panorama metadata to 360 images
  • Creating spherical (360) videos
• Recording and playing camera paths
  • Camera path file format
  • Recording camera paths
  • Playing camera paths
• Performance
  • Graphics performance
  • CPU performance
    • Multithreading
    • Limiting FPS
    • Draw distance (levels of detail)
    • Smooth transitions
• Internal reference system
• Data: catalogues and formats
  • General information on the data loading mechanisms
    • catalog-*.json example files
    • data-main.json example file
  • Particle data
    • Particle groups
  • Non-particle data: Planets, Moons, Asteroids, etc.
    • Top-level objects
    • Planets, moons, asteroids and all rigid bodies
    • Orbits
    • Grids and other special objects
  • Creating your own catalogue loaders
  • Loading data using scripts
• Data streaming: Levels of detail
• Scripting
  • The scripting API
    • API documentation
    • Using the scripting API
    • Synchronizing with the main loop
    • More examples
    • How to run scripts
• Capturing videos
  • Frame output system + ffmpeg
  • OpenGL/Screen recorders
    • Linux
    • Windows
• Taking screenshots
  • Screenshot modes
• SAMP integration
  • STIL data provider
    • Positions
    • Proper motions
    • Magnitudes
    • Colors
    • Others
  • Implemented features
  • Unimplemented features