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  • System Folders
    • Linux
    • Windows and macOS
  • Run instructions
    • Running regular installation
      • Linux
      • Windows
      • macOS
    • Running from tar.gz package
    • Running from source
      • Requirements
      • Getting the catalog data
      • Compiling and running
    • CLI arguments
    • Packaging the software
  • Usage, data and options
    • Settings and configuration
      • Graphics settings
      • Interface settings
      • Performance
      • Controls
      • Screenshots
      • Frame output
      • Camrecorder
      • Panorama mode
      • Planetarium mode
      • Data
      • Gaia
      • System
    • The configuration file
    • Graphics configuration
      • Resolution and mode
      • Graphics settings
        • Graphics quality
        • Antialiasing
        • Orbit style
        • Line style
        • Bloom effect
        • Lens flare
        • Motion blur
      • Elevation representation
      • Shadows
      • Image levels
    • 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
        • Keyboard mappings
        • Focus and free camera modes
        • Spacecraft mode
      • Mouse controls
        • Focus mode
        • Free mode
        • Game mode
      • Gamepad controls
        • Creating mappings files for new controllers
        • Focus mode
        • Free camera mode
        • Spacecraft mode
      • Touch controls
    • Camera modes
      • Focus mode
      • Free mode
      • Game mode
      • Gaia scene mode
      • Spacecraft mode
      • Field of View mode
    • Cinematic camera
      • Cinematic behaviour
      • Non-cinematic behaviour
    • Stereoscopic (3D) mode
      • Stereoscopic profiles
    • Planetarium mode
      • Single-projector setup
      • Multi-projector setup
        • MPCDI
        • Gaia Sky configuration file
    • Panorama mode
      • Configuration
      • Creating panorama images
        • Injecting panorama metadata to 360 images
      • Creating spherical (360) videos
    • Datasets
      • Loading datasets
      • Managing datasets
        • Dataset preferences
    • External views
    • Connecting Gaia Sky instances
      • Configuration
      • Configuration: slave instance(s)
      • Configuration: master instance
      • Caveats
    • Camera paths
      • Camera path file format
      • Recording camera paths
        • Real time recording
        • Keyframe system
          • Keyframe and camera files
          • Creating and editing keyframes
          • Keyframes preferences
      • Playing camera paths
    • Scripting
      • Quick start
        • Requirements
        • Running a test script
      • The scripting API
        • API documentation
      • Writing scripts for Gaia Sky
        • Logging to Gaia Sky and Python
        • Method and attribute access
        • Strict parameter types
        • Loading datasets from scripts
        • Synchronizing with the main loop
        • More examples
      • Running and debugging scripts
    • Capturing videos
      • Frame output system + ffmpeg
      • OpenGL/Screen recorders
        • Linux
        • Windows
    • Taking screenshots
      • Screenshot modes
    • SAMP integration
      • STIL data provider
        • Positions
        • Proper motions and radial velocities
        • Magnitudes
        • Colors
        • Others
      • Implemented features
      • Unimplemented features
  • Additional information
    • Performance
      • Graphics performance
      • CPU performance
        • Multithreading
        • Limiting FPS
        • Draw distance (levels of detail)
        • Smooth transitions
    • Graphics performance
      • Graphics quality setting
      • Antialiasing
      • Star brightness
      • Model detail
      • Bloom, lens flare and light glow
      • Labels
    • 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
          • Star groups
          • Octree catalog loader
          • STIL data provider
      • Non-particle data: Planets, Moons, Asteroids, etc.
        • Top-level objects
        • Planets, moons, asteroids and all rigid bodies
          • Coordinates
          • Rotation
          • Model
          • Atmosphere
        • Orbits
        • Grids and other special objects
      • Creating your own catalogue loaders
      • Loading data using scripts
    • Data streaming: Levels of detail
  • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Q: What is the base-data package?
    • Q: Why do you have two different download pages?
    • Q: Why so many DR2 catalogs?
    • Q: Gaia Sky crashes on start-up, what to do?
    • Q: I can’t see the elevation data on Earth or other planets
    • Q: Can I contribute?
    • Q: I like Gaia Sky so much, can I donate to contribute to the project?
  • Gaia Sky VR
    • Running Gaia Sky VR
      • Pre-requisites
      • Cloning the repository
      • Running
      • CLI arguments
    • Getting the data
    • Controls
    • Common problems
    • More info
  • Javadoc
  • Changelog
  • About
    • Contact
    • Author
    • Acknowledgements
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Additional information

  • Performance
    • Graphics performance
    • CPU performance
      • Multithreading
      • Limiting FPS
      • Draw distance (levels of detail)
      • Smooth transitions
  • Graphics performance
    • Graphics quality setting
    • Antialiasing
    • Star brightness
    • Model detail
    • Bloom, lens flare and light glow
    • Labels
  • 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
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