Stellar v1.0 Beta 4 ​

It's finally time for a Stellar lift-off using engines added to Stellar in this beta. This beta is jam-packed with optimizations to ensure Stellar does not serve as the bottleneck in your productivity.

Highlights ​

❕ This is mostly a technical beta introducing many optimizations and changes to the core engine

• 4 new engines from the game, including a currently unavailable one in-game!
• A toolbar full of useful utilities that you will need
• Cleaner, faster, and more stable visual part bounds
• Prettier Canvas with even more reliable controls

What's New ​

Engines ​

❕ glTF-based part mesh is currently an experimental feature and is subject to change to maintain parity with the base game

• Kolibri Engine
  • Meant to be used on small landers
  • Incredibly tiny, 1 x 1.5
• Valiant Engine
  • Meant to be used in space
  • Very efficient, however, lacking in thrust
  • Medium sized, 1.75 x 2
• Frontier Engine
  • A large-scale version of the Valiant Engine
  • Quite a chonky boi, 2 x 3.5
• Peregrine ENgine
  • From the incomplete career mode in Spaceflight Simulator
  • Large, 2 x 2.5

Toolbar ​

❕ The toolbar is currently incomplete

• Transform (cursor icon)
  • Used to perform transformations like translations, rotation, and scaling
• Pan
  • Used to pan around the canvas without worrying about accidentally mutating the blueprint
  • Can also be toggled, temporarily, with the Space key
• Undo
  • Reverts to the last state
  • Is grayed out when there are no changes to be reverted
  • Undo limit, currently, is 512
• Redo
  • Reverts the undo
  • Redo data will be lost if the blueprint is mutated after an undo
• Save
  • Locally saves the blueprint in Stellar's .stbp file format
  • Note that this is different from exporting it to the game; only Stellar understands this format

Canvas ​

Before	After

• The grid is now smaller
  • Major marks at every 1m (previously, 5m)
  • Minor marks at every 1/5m (previously, 1m)
• The lighting is now closer to the game
  • ❕ In-canvas lighting is a temporary feature intended to light up Fuel Tanks; parts should and will be using MeshBasicMaterial with a texture moving onwards

Translations ​

• 🎉 You can help translate Stellar over at Crowdin!
• Stellar is progressively replacing all interface strings with data-driven path names

Help Control Menu ​

• A link for the Stellar GitHub page

What's Changed ​

Canvas ​

• The maximum zoom has been reduced from 800x to 200x
• Rewrote the pan controls to resolve an issue where the canvas acted as if it was only half the original size
  • This also made zooming in a lot more precise

What's Removed ​

Inspect Tab ​

• Bounding boxes have been removed for now

Debug Control Menu ​

• Orbit controls have been removed for now