0.9.0 - Big graphics rehaul

What's Changed - 0.9

Big graphics rehaul

• Planets geometry is now based on Naive Surface Nets
• Blocks now use 2K textures (thanks a lot to https://freestylized.com)
• The atmosphere has been reworked and now has proper light scattering
• Assets are now cooked by the new AssetCooker (textures are compressed, shaders are compiled, cubemaps are built, etc.)
• Sunlight ambient now depends on orientation and depth
• The server map has been reset due to heavy changes

Other changes

• Fixed dataraces and deadlocks when planet is generated
• Switched Lua runtime to LuaJIT
• Added support for dev tokens
• Server scripts can now receive parameters
• Added noclip and infinite_breathe server cheats
• Block selection is now slightly over block faces to avoid z-fighting

Pull requests

• Create planet if it does not exists by @SirMishaa in #46
• Replace stackwalker with cpptrace by @SirLynix in #47
• Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #48
• Update shaders to NZSL 1.1 by @SirLynix in #51
• Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 by @dependabot[bot] in #52
• Bump actions/cache from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #53
• Refactor chunk generation to use Lua scripts by @pytomprog in #54
• Implement surface nets by @SirLynix in #55
• Load planet chunks asynchronously and optimize chunk loading to avoid loading planet center by @SirLynix in #56
• Big graphics rehaul by @SirLynix in #57

New Contributors

• @SirMishaa made their first contribution in #46
• @pytomprog made their first contribution in #54

Knowns bugs:

• The computer entity physics collider can move in unpredictable ways client-side.
• There are a lot of bugs that will be addressed in the next patch versions

Full Changelog: 0.8.2...0.9.0

0.8.2 - Client-side hotfix

What's Changed - 0.8.2

• Fixed block selection bar not working

What's Changed - 0.8.1

• Added ships thirdperson camera
• Thirdperson camera now collides with the environment
• Piloting and exiting ship piloting is now handled by server (Fixes the issue where players were still piloting their ships after death)
• Added /tpplanet debug command
• Added /removetree admin command
• Moved some configs to the server database, for now only the default spawnpoint is there
• Dead players can no longer place/mine blocks or interact with entities
• Fixed a crash on disconnection
• Internal: logs are now handled with spdlog
• Internal: Renamed packets by prefixing them by their sender side (which broke the whole netcode)

Full Changelog: 0.8.0...0.8.1

What's Changed - 0.8.0

• Added atmosphere scattering (planet now have atmospheres and fog)
• Moved server persistent data to SQLite (#42)
• Added logical atmospheres, planet and ship now have oxygen! and players can die if they lack oxygen for too long (#43)
• Added atmosphere_sensor entity to show O2, CO2 and Nitrogen values in the atmosphere they're in (/spawnsensor for now)
• Added trees to convert CO2 to O2
• Reworked environment switching to allow scripted entities (such as atmosphere_sensor) to switch environment
• Added server autoupdater (#44)
• Added Linux ARM64 binaries (#40)
• Added Linux server binaries
• Linux binaries are now built on Ubuntu 22.04 to avoid too high GLIBCXX dependencies (#41)
• Linux binaries now have the .tgz extension instead of .tar.gz
• Planet editor has been fixed (it wasn't showing up in previous version)
• Switched planet editor UI to ImGui

Knowns bugs:

• The computer entity physics collider can move in unpredictable ways client-side.

Full Changelog: 0.7.2...0.8.0

0.8.1 - With thirdperson ships

What's Changed - 0.8.1

• Added ships thirdperson camera
• Thirdperson camera now collides with the environment
• Piloting and exiting ship piloting is now handled by server (Fixes the issue where players were still piloting their ships after death)
• Added /tpplanet debug command
• Added /removetree admin command
• Moved some configs to the server database, for now only the default spawnpoint is there
• Dead players can no longer place/mine blocks or interact with entities
• Fixed a crash on disconnection
• Internal: logs are now handled with spdlog
• Internal: Renamed packets by prefixing them by their sender side (which broke the whole netcode)

Full Changelog: 0.8.0...0.8.1

What's Changed - 0.8.0

• Added atmosphere scattering (planet now have atmospheres and fog)
• Moved server persistent data to SQLite (#42)
• Added logical atmospheres, planet and ship now have oxygen! and players can die if they lack oxygen for too long (#43)
• Added atmosphere_sensor entity to show O2, CO2 and Nitrogen values in the atmosphere they're in (/spawnsensor for now)
• Added trees to convert CO2 to O2
• Reworked environment switching to allow scripted entities (such as atmosphere_sensor) to switch environment
• Added server autoupdater (#44)
• Added Linux ARM64 binaries (#40)
• Added Linux server binaries
• Linux binaries are now built on Ubuntu 22.04 to avoid too high GLIBCXX dependencies (#41)
• Linux binaries now have the .tgz extension instead of .tar.gz
• Planet editor has been fixed (it wasn't showing up in previous version)
• Switched planet editor UI to ImGui

Knowns bugs:

• The computer entity physics collider can move in unpredictable ways client-side.

Full Changelog: 0.7.2...0.8.0

0.8.0 - The atmosphere update

What's Changed

• Added atmosphere scattering (planet now have atmospheres and fog)
• Moved server persistent data to SQLite (#42)
• Added logical atmospheres, planet and ship now have oxygen! and players can die if they lack oxygen for too long (#43)
• Added atmosphere_sensor entity to show O2, CO2 and Nitrogen values in the atmosphere they're in (/spawnsensor for now)
• Added trees to convert CO2 to O2
• Reworked environment switching to allow scripted entities (such as atmosphere_sensor) to switch environment
• Added server autoupdater (#44)
• Added Linux ARM64 binaries (#40)
• Added Linux server binaries
• Linux binaries are now built on Ubuntu 22.04 to avoid too high GLIBCXX dependencies (#41)
• Linux binaries now have the .tgz extension instead of .tar.gz
• Planet editor has been fixed (it wasn't showing up in previous version)
• Switched planet editor UI to ImGui

Knowns bugs:

• The computer entity physics collider can move in unpredictable ways client-side.

Full Changelog: 0.7.2...0.8.0

0.7.2

What's Changed - 0.7.2

• Added chunk layers and water blocks (WIP)
• Added water buoyancy and swimming
• Added server script support
• Added remote console
• Implemented downstream throttle input buffer
• Fixed player name not appearing
• Restored spawnpoint on planet 1
• Fixed Console command history
• Fixed libcurl HTTPS support on Linux

Knowns bugs:

• Spawning ship may not work after entering/exiting a ship (?)
• The computer entity physics collider can move in unpredictable ways client-side.

What's Changed - 0.7.1

• Implemented infinite z far and reverse depth buffer planet can now be seen from an infinite distance!
• Added a second planet (generated using the script made by @pytomprog)
• Minimum network protocol has been raised to 0.7.0 (this was overlooked in the previous release)
• Fix server crash when a ship environment is reused
• Fix server health checker killing the server when generating the planets

Cascaded shadow maps are being reworked, in this version they went from 4096x4096 to 2048x2048, this should give a FPS boost for some machines.

Knowns bugs:

• Player nickname appears incorrectly only if there's something in front of it, due to reverse depth comparison not being applied to it, this has been fixed to dev branch.
• Spawning ship may not work after entering/exiting a ship
• The computer entity physics collider can move in unpredictable ways client-side.

Full Changelog: 0.7.0...0.7.1

What's Changed - 0.7.0

• The planet is now round
• Planet generation scripts are now implemented, you can launch the game with --planet-editor to preview the planet generated by a script
• The environment system has been reworked internally to allow for multiple planets in the near future.
• Fix player normals that didn't follow animation
• Scripting: Vec3 has been renamed Vec3f (same for EulerAngles and Quaternion), and Vec3i/Vec3ui have been introduced
• The camera hack for seeing planet at very long distance has been removed, the far plane has been set to 5000 units to compensate, in a future release we will move to infinite zfar instead
• A lot of small fixes

Full Changelog: 0.6.2...0.7.0

0.7.1

What's Changed - 0.7.1

• Implemented infinite z far and reverse depth buffer planet can now be seen from an infinite distance!
• Added a second planet (generated using the script made by @pytomprog)
• Minimum network protocol has been raised to 0.7.0 (this was overlooked in the previous release)
• Fix server crash when a ship environment is reused
• Fix server health checker killing the server when generating the planets

Cascaded shadow maps are being reworked, in this version they went from 4096x4096 to 2048x2048, this should give a FPS boost for some machines.

Knowns bugs:

• Player nickname appears incorrectly only if there's something in front of it, due to reverse depth comparison not being applied to it, this has been fixed to dev branch.
• Spawning ship may not work after entering/exiting a ship
• The computer entity physics collider can move in unpredictable ways client-side.

Full Changelog: 0.7.0...0.7.1

What's Changed - 0.7.0

• The planet is now round
• Planet generation scripts are now implemented, you can launch the game with --planet-editor to preview the planet generated by a script
• The environment system has been reworked internally to allow for multiple planets in the near future.
• Fix player normals that didn't follow animation
• Scripting: Vec3 has been renamed Vec3f (same for EulerAngles and Quaternion), and Vec3i/Vec3ui have been introduced
• The camera hack for seeing planet at very long distance has been removed, the far plane has been set to 5000 units to compensate, in a future release we will move to infinite zfar instead
• A lot of small fixes

Full Changelog: 0.6.2...0.7.0

0.7.0 - Rounded planet and planet editor!

What's Changed

• The planet is now round
• Planet generation scripts are now implemented, you can launch the game with --planet-editor to preview the planet generated by a script
• The environment system has been reworked internally to allow for multiple planets in the near future.
• Fix player normals that didn't follow animation
• Scripting: Vec3 has been renamed Vec3f (same for EulerAngles and Quaternion), and Vec3i/Vec3ui have been introduced
• The camera hack for seeing planet at very long distance has been removed, the far plane has been set to 5000 units to compensate, in a future release we will move to infinite zfar instead
• A lot of small fixes

Full Changelog: 0.6.2...0.7.0

0.6.2 - Quality of life²

What's Changed - 0.6.2

• Camera feedback when piloting is now framerate-independent
• Chatbox message now disappear over time (#23)
• The game config file (including the player token) is now saved outside of the game folder (on Windows: %localappdata%/ThisSpaceOfMine/Config)
• A bit of optimization

Full Changelog: 0.6.1...0.6.2

What's Changed - 0.6.1

• Added move up (space), move down (control) and stabilize (r) controls for ship
• Added camera feedback when piloting ship
• Ships and planets are now visible regardless of the distance from the camera (they are no longer clipped by the far plane)
• Fixed physics deadlock when getting out of ship while piloting
• Fixed missing scripts folder in release archives
• Fixed own player nickname being visible in first person
• Fixed some missing libraries in release archives

Full Changelog: 0.6.0...0.6.1

What's Changed - 0.6.0

• Added entity scripting (#32)
• The game now has a logo! (by @lorene.mdini)
• Added early ship piloting (use /spawncomputer in a ship)
• Added in-game console (#29)
• Fixed datarace at chunk destruction
• Fixed memory corruption when a ship was destroyed before it was saved
• Fixed ship rotation on spawn
• Fixed crash when receiving a mine block request on a just destroyed chunk
• Fixed destruction of player entities when destroying a ship containing them (by either respawning a ship or disconnecting)
• A lot of network issue fixes

Full Changelog: 0.5.3...0.6.0

0.6.1 - Quality of life fixes !

What's Changed - 0.6.1

• Added move up (space), move down (control) and stabilize (r) controls for ship
• Added camera feedback when piloting ship
• Ships and planets are now visible regardless of the distance from the camera (they are no longer clipped by the far plane)
• Fixed physics deadlock when getting out of ship while piloting
• Fixed missing scripts folder in release archives
• Fixed own player nickname being visible in first person
• Fixed some missing libraries in release archives

Full Changelog: 0.6.0...0.6.1

What's Changed - 0.6.0

• Added entity scripting (#32)
• The game now has a logo! (by @lorene.mdini)
• Added early ship piloting (use /spawncomputer in a ship)
• Added in-game console (#29)
• Fixed datarace at chunk destruction
• Fixed memory corruption when a ship was destroyed before it was saved
• Fixed ship rotation on spawn
• Fixed crash when receiving a mine block request on a just destroyed chunk
• Fixed destruction of player entities when destroying a ship containing them (by either respawning a ship or disconnecting)
• A lot of network issue fixes

Full Changelog: 0.5.3...0.6.0

0.6.0 - Now with ship piloting and scripting!

What's Changed

• Added entity scripting (#32)
• The game now has a logo! (by @lorene.mdini)
• Added early ship piloting (use /spawncomputer in a ship)
• Added in-game console (#29)
• Fixed datarace at chunk destruction
• Fixed memory corruption when a ship was destroyed before it was saved
• Fixed ship rotation on spawn
• Fixed crash when receiving a mine block request on a just destroyed chunk
• Fixed destruction of player entities when destroying a ship containing them (by either respawning a ship or disconnecting)
• A lot of network issue fixes

Full Changelog: 0.5.3...0.6.0

⚠️ Due to a bug in CI, the scripts folder was not included in the release archive, you can download it here and extract it to your installation folder.