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Manual sky exposure and a one-AU arrival: v0.4.0-dev.14

Sunholo
Sunholo
Stapledon's Voyage team

The painted ship and Solar departure tour share one perspective. This review build removes automatic sky dimming: exposure stays at your manually selected brightness while you move and look around. The tour finishes one AU from Alpha Centauri A.

Development build: macOS only (Apple Silicon)v0.4.0-dev.35-bow-view

Development build 35: bow view

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Pre-alpha and unsigned. After unzipping, clear the quarantine flag once:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "Stapledons Voyage.app"

Alpha Centauri A and its background stars at the actual one-AU stop, manual exposure

What's new​

  • One current painted ship: seven major tiers, a bridge floor and captain shadow that meet the walking surface, faster movement, trackpad look and known-star inspection. Integration PR.
  • Gradual approaches: the guided tour uses physical 1 g acceleration with 90 seconds of braking playback. Earth, Jupiter and Saturn sit beside the bridge at their close stops. Ordinary navigation keeps its existing pacing. Integration PR.
  • Manual sky exposure: J cycles the brightness settings, also available under Tab. Bright planets and suns can wash out at a setting chosen for stars; camera pans and journeys no longer change exposure automatically. The physical light and SR calculations remain unchanged.
  • Smoother tour starts: initialize the camera from the new session and ease departure time compression over three seconds. This corrects an initial camera jump and an abrupt first movement beside Earth.
  • Measured stars: Alpha Centauri A/B use measured radii and temperatures; the final leg intercepts the moving primary at 1 AU. A's disc is about 0.65° wide there. Integration PR.
  • Review evidence: the gallery and geometry reference include fresh native captures and editable Blender masters. B keeps the full benchmark locally and attempts an authenticated upload of filtered aggregate measurements. Integration PR.

Not yet​

Ship lighting is still an internal lighting study; external sunlight, detailed moon surfaces and further Commons art remain in progress. Fresh M2 Air performance needs a laptop measurement. Tour stops are inertial clearance stops: gravity, thermal hazards and GR are not simulated. Stellar photospheres are uniform emitters.

Release: v0.4.0-dev.14-manual-sky · Gallery · Ship reference.