.. _vizardReleaseNotes:

Release Notes
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.. sidebar:: In Progress Features

    - Adding star tracker configuration visualization
    - Adding coarse sun sensor configuration visualization
    - Add ability to place the location of the standard camera relative to spacecraft
    - Visualizing the standard camera within the 3D window
    - Better automatic simulation data usage monitoring
    - general GUI enhancements
    - dynamic texture rendering
    - articulating CAD models
    - fuel tank visualization
    - better support for visualizing multiple spacecraft
    - add labels to spacecraft and sensor visualization

**Version 0.9.0**

- added an option to Standard Camera GUI panel and vizMessage to supply a custom camera position
- eliminated camera jitter in body view when pointing at a nearby spacecraft
- improved reaction wheel panels and HUD to better support multiple spacecraft by tracking the max speed and torque for each spacecraft’s reaction wheels
- added fields to the vizMessage reaction wheel sub message to allow user to set the max torque and max speed
- fixed broken link between Main scene manager and direct comm controller to restore direct comm ``liveStream`` as illustrated in :ref:`scenarioBasicOrbitStream`
- improved support for Unity’s physical camera properties, focal length and sensor size, when setting up Custom Cameras

**Version 0.8.1**

- trigger colliders now resize to fit the spacecraft mesh being used (improves the user experience when double-clicking to change camera targets)
- fixed a bug that prevented multiple custom models being loaded back-to-back
- rebased on Unity2019.2.16f1

**Version 0.8.0**

- The camera view panel screen shot button now stores the PNG image in the user's home folder
- Changed how standard cameras work.  The user can invoke readily 2 standard cameras and specify for which spacecraft these are attached.  This scales much better with lots of spacecraft where before we attached 3 standard cameras to each spacecraft by default
- made it possible to launch vizard in Black Lion live streaming mode from command line
- Added option under File menu to compress simulation data
- usability improvements to custom CAD model inventory and tuning GUI panels

**Version 0.7.0**

- added ability to load in a custom CAD obj file to replace the default spacecraft model
- added the ability to replace any simulation object with a custom object or a default shape like sphere, cone, cylinder, etc.
- added vizMessage user settings support for custom models to allow automatic import at runtime

**Version 0.6.0**

- scriptable vizMessage user settings allow users to customize the start-up configuration of vizard. Users can now toggle spacecraft and planet coordinate systems, orbit lines, actuator Heads Up Displays, actuator panels.
- users can specify a custom skybox by providing a file path to the desired texture, one of the default skybox textures, or a plain black background with the skybox user setting
- Spacecraft camera vizMessages can be configured to user specified headings or targets and panels can be automatically visible on start-up.
- configuration messages specifying multiple pointing vectors and/or Keep Out or Keep In cones can be added to generate these items automatically during Vizard initialization

**Version 0.5.0**

- added a lightweight opNav mode that can livestream camera images to the Basilisk simulation over the Direct Comm connection on demand
- improved main camera panning
- added support for reaction wheel spin sub message
- scriptable user setting message for Ambient Brightness

**Version 0.4.0**

- New option to set the ambient brightness
- New Camera menu option to select the target object
- General code fixes and improvements
- Added option to toggle off/on orbit illustration
- Added keyboard support to quit the application

**Version 0.3.0**

- Initial public release of the new Unity based Basilisk visualization tool.
- This tool is able to illustrate spacecraft translational position, trajectory, orientation and primary celestial bodies.
- Currently this public Vizard copy support saving Basilisk simulation data to file to be then viewed in Vizard.
- In development feature is being able to live stream Basilisk simulation data to Vizard directly
- The Visualization can show a spacecraft centric view (default), a planet centric view (enabled by double clicking on planet or zooming out even further), and a heliocentric view (by zoom out even further)
- Spacecraft and planet axes can be toggled on or off
- Screen size can by dynamically changed
- The menu bar at the top is dynamic in that it only shows device options if such devices are actually modeled and sent as messages to Vizard.
- Heads-up visualization of the thrusters is possible
- Device state panels can be enables for Reaction Wheels or Thrusters
- Separate camera views can be invoked to get perspectives from the spacecraft along particular body-fixed directions
- Direction vectors can be added from the spacecraft to other object to always illustrate the heading to the sun, the Earth, etc.
- Keep-out and keep-in zones can be set within Vizard to visualize if a celestial object is visible within a body-fixed cone.  This enables checking if a solar panel axis is within some degrees of the sun, or checking that a sensor axis is outside a cone relative to the sun.