Advanced topics#
This section dives into the more technical and advanced aspects of Gaia Sky. The chapters collected here describe internal systems and implementation details that are useful if you want to better understand how Gaia Sky works under the hood, fine-tune its behavior, or extend it.
Topics covered include memory management and performance considerations, configuration options, data formats and loaders, the internal reference system, and several advanced rendering and visualization features.
Contents#
Reference system
Data
- Data format
- STIL data loader
- Star catalog formats
- Particle catalog formats
- Archetypes
- Components
- Base
- Body
- GraphNode
- Coordinates
- Orientation
- Celestial
- Magnitude
- ProperMotion
- SolidAngle
- Shape
- Trajectory
- TLESource
- ModelScaffolding
- Model
- Volume
- Atmosphere
- Cloud
- RenderFlags
- MotorEngine
- RefSysTransform
- AffineTransformations
- Fade
- DatasetDescription
- Label
- Render
- BillboardSet
- Axis
- LocationMark
- Constel
- Boundaries
- ParticleSet
- StarSet
- OrbitElementsSet
- ParticleExtra
- Mesh
- Focus
- Raymarching
- Highlight
- ProceduralTrigger
- Defining an extrasolar system