With magnitudes fixed, we're giving the Climate Model some more love! You can expect better accuracy with regards to temperatures and wind speeds (see the Changelog for specifics) among the usual bug squishing efforts! As always with Betas, we're looking for bugs and inconsistencies that slipped through the cracks during internal testing, so be thorough on reporting any that you find!
For the uninitiated, you can opt in to Beta builds by right clicking SpaceEngine in your Steam Library, clicking Properties, then Betas, and selecting public beta branch from the dropdown menu. Report bugs and inconsistencies either in the Troubleshooting and Bug Reports discussion page, or in #bug-reports on the official Discord server.
Changelog:
- Added a seizure warning screen when the program is starting. Pressing ESC will end the screen early.
- Climate Model Update: Improved the relationship between temperature and windspeed; updated the equator-to-pole temperature calculations.
- Fixed a bug in the calculation of mean temperature, which was previously too low for planets with high windspeeds, and also incorrectly changed with windspeed.
- Fixed a planet surface temperature discontinuity in regions experiencing polar night. This also fixed a related bug for planets with axial tilts greater than 45 degrees.
- Fixed a bug that incorrectly calculated the minimum or maximum temperature when both were set in the Planet Editor or through the catalogs.
- Fixed a bug in the Star Browser where binary planets and binary moons were not correctly identified in a temperature-based search.
- Updated the exoplanet and host star catalog (this may include updated names for some objects)
- Updated asteroid catalog
Known Issues:
- Entering a minimum temperature sets the theoretical temperature at the winter pole for maximum possible subsolar latitude at maximum distance from the star - however, maximum subsolar latitude may not actually correspond to apoapsis, so your custom planet may not quite achieve the minimum temperature entered in the Editor/catalogs.
- When rate of time is set very high, there is a distance-calculation bug that results in incorrect temperatures (planets and stars move faster than the temperature calculation is performed within SE).
