CosmoScout VR 1.9.0

This release generalizes the Bruneton atmospheric model of csp-atmospheres by loading phase functions, extinction coefficients, and particle density distributions from CSV files. This allows us to simulate a wide variety of particle types, including for instance Martian dust.

You can read the full changelog here.

CosmoScout VR 1.8.0

This release adds many new features, performance improvement and bug fixes. Most notably, there is now support for many Xbox-like controllers via a new SDL2 windowing backend, support for the Meta Quest 2, a new atmospheric model which simulates multiple scattering, and massive precision and performance improvements for the terrain rendering.

You can read the full changelog here.

CosmoScout VR 1.7.0

This release adds a new node-editor plugin library as well as several other tweaks and fixes. You can read the full changelog here.

CosmoScout VR 1.6.0

This release adds more moons in the default configuration, quite accurate eclipse shadows, improved depth precision, and much more. You can read the full changelog here.

CosmoScout VR 1.5.0

Amongst other things, this release features physically based rendering of celestial bodies as well as a new plugin for mitigating cyber sickness. You can read the full changelog here.

CosmoScout VR 1.4.0 - VESTEC Version

CosmoScout VR 1.4.0 - VESTEC Version

• Includes a plugin for the VESTEC project (https://vestec-project.eu/)
  • User interface + analysis and rendering tools
• The plugin allows to communicate with a VESTEC server instance
  • User login / logout
  • Create new incidents user specified workflows, areas and duration parameter
  • Configure a mosquito-borne disease workflow (Species, Disease, etc.)
  • Launch a simulation
  • Fetch and visualize results
    • Geo-referenced textures using GDAL
    • Persistence diagrams using VTK and VTK.js
    • Rendering of critical points from the persistence diagram with bushing & linking functionality
• Volume rendering plugin based on Intels OSPRay Ractracing Engine
  • Parallel coordinate plots allow to specifiy subvolumes for multidimensional data
• WCS Plugin enables to fetch and visualize data from a Web-Coverage Service (WCS)
• etc.

CosmoScout VR 1.4.0

This release features a new plugin for overlaying time-dependent WMS data and several fixes for the HDR-mode. You can read the full changelog here.

CosmoScout VR 1.3.0

This release features several new plugins, an interactive JavaScript console, remote scripting and much more. You can read the full changelog here.

CosmoScout VR 1.2.0

This is the first release which features automatically built binaries! This is not the only change, there are other notable features and fixes. You can read the full changelog here.

CosmoScout VR 1.1.1

This release fixes a regression which messed up the display of world space user interfaces.