Stellar v0.1 Beta 2 ​

The second beta for Stellar is here, and with it, it brings a whole lot of technological improvements!

Highlights ​

• New property editing sidebar
• New theme colors (and underlying system)
• Redesigned parts explorer
• Significant performance improvements
• Internal technology updates
• Brand new icons

Read the full changelog here!

What's New ​

Parts Explorer ​

• Overhauled the UI to match the new theme colors
• Temporary removed quick actions
• Added part selection visualization
• Added new controls for part selection
  • Click = select as only part
  • Ctrl + Click = toggle part selection

Properties Sidebar ​

• Added a new sidebar for editing properties to the right
• When parts are selected, they are sorted by type on the right
• Parts with conflicting properties are represented by ~
• Properties often have units after the number (ex: 100%, 32m)
  • Focusing on the property will hide the unit
• Property felids support basic arithmetics (ex: 3 / 2 = 1.5)
• Some properties have minimum/maximum values (ex: scale x and y have a minimum of 0)
• Some properties translate to a different value in the data structure (ex: 100% fuel = 1.0)

Parts ​

❕ Only fuel tanks are available for now

• Removed shape_text variants for fuel tanks temporarily
• Added new controls for part selection
  • Click = select as only part
  • Shift + Click = toggle part selection

Canvas Controls ​

• New controls for the canvas have been rewritten from the ground up
• Scroll to pan up and down
• Hold Shift to pan on the X-axis
• Hold Ctrl to zoom in and out
• Pinch in and out on a trackpad to zoom in and out proportional to the pinch distance

Theme ​

• Stellar now offers new theme colors
• Most of the components now feature a blurple-ish hue
• Colors are now more organized, ranging from darker to lighter (with x-dark/x-light variants)

Technical Details ​

General Note ​

• Pretty much 100% of the code has been touched in some way

Part Addresses ​

• Stellar now utilizes a part address system where an address of a part is an array of numbers (ex: [4, 3, 8, 1])
• Parts now fetch their reactive states through the address
  • We no longer pass down the data through props

Debug ​

• Added debug control menu that shows up only in development and alpha builds (planned to be toggleable in settings)

Known Issues ​

• None of the buttons inside of File in the control many work
• Changing a fuel tank's width overrides its width_original, width_a, and width_b.
• Certain icons can appear smaller than intended
• Selecting parts increases the sensitivity of the canvas controls