User manual

• Settings and configuration
  • Graphics settings
  • Scene settings
  • Interface settings
  • Performance
  • Controls
  • Screenshots
  • Frame output
  • Camrecorder
  • Panorama mode
  • Planetarium mode
  • Data
  • Gaia
  • System
• The configuration file
  • Program settings
  • Controls settings
  • Graphics settings
  • Data settings
  • Scene settings
  • Post-processing settings
  • Proxy settings
• Graphics configuration
  • Resolution and mode
  • Graphics settings
    • Graphics quality
    • Antialiasing
    • Point cloud style
    • Line style
    • Star glow over objects
    • Lens flare
    • Bloom effect
    • Unsharp mask factor
    • Chromatic aberration amount
    • Film grain
    • Fade time
  • Elevation representation
  • Shadows
  • Image levels
  • Virtual textures
    • Cache size
  • Experimental
• Proxy configuration
  • Use system proxy
  • Direct configuration
    • HTTP
    • HTTPS
    • SOCKS
    • FTP
• Dataset manager
  • Welcome screen
  • Dataset manager
    • Data location
    • Available datasets
    • Installed datasets
• Controls
  • Keyboard controls
    • Keyboard mappings
    • Default camera controls
    • Default spacecraft controls
  • Mouse controls
    • Focus mode
    • Free mode
    • Game mode
  • Gamepad controls
    • Default camera mappings
    • Spacecraft camera mappings
    • Gamepad UI
  • GUI navigation
• Camera modes
  • Focus mode
    • Object tracking
  • Free mode
  • Game mode
  • Spacecraft mode
• Camera behaviors
  • Cinematic behavior
  • Non-cinematic behavior
• Control panel
  • Time
  • Camera
  • Type visibility
    • Per-object visibility
    • Velocity vectors
  • Visual settings
  • Location log
  • Bookmarks
  • Datasets
  • Bottom buttons
    • Minimap
    • Load dataset
    • Preferences window
    • Log
    • About/help
    • Exit
• Search objects
• Focus panel
  • Focus object
  • Mouse pointer location
  • Camera information
• Object visiblity
• Datasets
  • Preparing datasets
  • Loading datasets
    • Star catalogs
    • Particle datasets
    • Star cluster catalogs
    • Variable star catalogs
  • Datasets pane
    • Dataset highlighting
    • Dataset visual settings
    • Dataset filters
    • Dataset transformations
    • Dataset inforamtion
• Eclipse representation
• Stereoscopic (3D) mode
  • Stereoscopic profiles
• Planetarium mode
  • Single-projector setup
    • Spherical mirror projection
  • Multi-projector setup
    • MPCDI
    • Gaia Sky configuration file
  • Re-projection shaders
• Panorama mode
  • Configuration
  • Creating panorama images
    • Injecting panorama metadata to 360 images
  • Creating spherical (360) videos
• Orthosphere view mode
• Bookmarks
  • Creating bookmarks
• Bounding shapes
  • Adding bounding shapes
  • Removing shape objects
• Location log
• Debug panel
• External views
• Connecting Gaia Sky instances
  • Configuration
  • Configuration: replica instance(s)
  • Configuration: primary instance
  • Caveats
• Camera paths
  • Camera path file format
  • Recording camera paths
    • Real time recording
    • Keyframe editor
      • Keyframe and camera files
      • Creating and editing keyframes
      • Playback controls
      • Export keyframes to camera paths
      • Keyframes preferences
  • Playing camera paths
• Scripting
  • Quick start
    • Requirements
    • Running a test script
  • The scripting API
    • Using the API remotely
    • API documentation
  • Writing scripts for Gaia Sky
    • Backing up and restoring settings
    • Logging to Gaia Sky and Python
    • Method and attribute access
    • Strict parameter types
    • Loading datasets from scripts
    • Synchronizing with the main loop
    • Camera and scene runnables
    • Overriding object coordinates provider
    • More examples
  • Running and debugging scripts
• REST API
  • Using the REST API
  • Debug
• Capturing videos
  • Frame output system + ffmpeg
  • OpenGL/Screen recorders
    • Linux
    • Windows
• Taking screenshots
  • Screenshot modes
• SAMP integration
  • Implemented features
  • Unimplemented features
• Procedural planetary surfaces
  • Surface generation process
    • Seamless (tilable) noise
    • Noise parametrization
  • Cloud generation process
  • Descriptor files
    • Randomize all
    • Surface description
      • Color look-up table
      • Noise parameters
    • Cloud description
    • Atmospheric parameters description
  • Procedural generation at runtime
• System logs
  • Session log
  • Crash reports
• Debug mode