Changelog

1.1.0

• Added full remote planet rendering when viewing other star systems from the starmap.
• Remote planets now display their real terrain, oceans, atmosphere and day/night lighting.
• Added remote factories, buildings, conveyor belts and other structures to the starmap view.
• Added animated buildings, including wind turbines, assemblers, labs and turrets.
• Added building lights, signs and other illuminated details.
• Added planetary logistics drones and delivery vehicles.
• Added visible combat activity, including missiles, lasers, gauss shots, plasma shots and projectile trails.
• Added animated cargo placeholders to remote conveyor belts.
• Improved remote conveyor visuals with animated details and illuminated elements.
• Added cargo placeholder speed, density, size and appearance.
• Improved remote planet image quality and reduced shimmering and camera jitter.
• Fixed remote structures appearing black or incorrectly lit.
• Fixed incorrect ocean lighting where the day side could appear dark and the night side bright.
• Fixed objects from the local system occasionally appearing on remote planets.
• Fixed structures and effects being visible through the opposite side of planets.
• Improved loading and unloading when switching between star systems to reduce unnecessary resource usage.
• Improved stability when rapidly switching between systems or viewing planets that are still loading.
• Remote rendering remains completely visual and does not affect factories, gameplay or save data.

1.0.0

• First release. The celestial map shows the game's real rendering instead of the schematic view:
  • every planet filmed live by its own in-game camera — terrain, ocean, clouds, atmosphere, day/night;
  • buildings and conveyor belts of the other planets in the system, drawn with the game's own meshes and materials, without teleporting anyone;
  • real sun surfaces inside star glows;
  • the game's real starfield behind the map;
  • the game's own sun shafts, cast from the star (experimental, off by default).
• Planets and suns are drawn after the Dyson sphere, so its structure no longer shows through them.
• Orbits and the position marker are drawn at the same stage as the planets, right after them, so their own depth test decides: what passes behind a planet is hidden, what passes in front stays visible.
• Purely visual and save-safe: nothing is changed for the player, the factories or the save file, and everything is cleaned up when the map closes.