Release notes v0.12.5

Rocket Science Jul 2, 2021

Features:

added Mars, Phobos and Deimos to the game;
added atmospheric pressure models for Mars and Venus;
added space context menu with contextual Switch To, Focus and Set Target options;
you can set target for spacecraft, two new autocorrection modes will appear (Target and Anti-target);
ascending/descending nodes for spacecraft orbits with target set;
redisigned navball UI + added tons of tooltips to it;
new mod type: navball, new celestial bodies were also added to the surface mod;
orbit raycast is now snapping to the closest orbit node (you can hold Alt key to disable this behaviour);
significanly reduced game launch time, especially on old GPUs;
imroved perfomance of spacecraft gravity, engines and drag calculations (again);
flight loading time reduced by 3-5 seconds; when spacecraft is in a deep space it is almost instant now;
max possible planet quadtree level now equals 30 (previously was 17), this means that the same LOD could be achieved on the planets with pretty much any radius;
new engine parameter “Throttle limits” (for now it was only added to engine 4)

focused body no longer reset when closing and opening solar system map;
real planet surface now loaded instead of the fake surface in the spaceport and assembly shop;
perfomance settings now affect planet surface in the spaceport and assembly shop;
unified sun look on map and during the flight;
Sun disk has proper size now and depends on distance to the Sun;
earth atmosphere on solar system map and startup system uses proper exposure and color correction;
fixed exposure is used on the solar system map until different exposure modes will be implemented (back planet side will be a bit dark becuase of that);
water quads under the planet surface will no longer render (perfomance improvement);
changed planet’s surface triangulation, it is less stretched along one axes right now;
greatly decreased amount of geometry rendered during the flight (moderate perfomance improvement);
changed how rocket part impact is calculated: now it is using force, applied to part to resolve collision and not just a relative velocity;
added mod type icon to mods in the mods list;
for some very small sattelites with no its mass data available set a minimum mass;
for some very small sattelites with SOI less than radius set minimum SOI size equals 1.75 x radius.

encounter prediction doesn’t work outside of Earth’s SOI;
distant celestial bodies dissappear when turning on any light during the flight;
rectangle connector not attaching to heptahedron socket if it already have hexdual connector attached;
planet’s atmosphere disappeared when switching from spacecraft orbiting the Moon to spacecraft orbiting Earth;
rocket parts exploded when decoupling them in the atmosphere at the speed over 5000 m/s;
reattaching rocket part with symmetry turned on not creating symmetry parts;
spacecraft fly into abyss if engine is working and spacecraft changes SOI;
grounded spacecraft explode when starting engines;
collisions between grounded spacecraft and active not work or work incorrectly;
impact node sometimes displayed when shouldn’t;
impact node not showing after closing and opening map;
orbit nodes sometimes placed incorrectly during encounter prediction;
stars are too bright at night in the spaceport;
predicted orbits are incorrectly scaled, if map scale was changed, when orbit was not active;
camera keep high rotational damping, when changing camera mode and then switching to map and back;
save panel is not showing in the surface mod constructor;
Eris have no gravitational parameter;