Stellar v1.0 Beta 6 ​

Stop! Don't touch. This beta came right out of the oven.

Warning The blueprint file version was increased to version 6 and has no data fixer upper

Highlights ​

• Added settings
• Visual part scaling
• Powerful selection controls
• Focus mode
• Added a few more parts

What's New ​

Create Screen Rework ​

Info The last beta introduced the create screen. It was quite bare-bones so it has been spiced up.

• Added icons to the list of templates that can be used
  • Soon, they will represent whether they were outsourced
  • Join our discord server and submit your templates!
• Added the Stellar logo near the name and motto
• Fixed spacing between the word "Stellar" and the version number in the status bar
• Reordered links to the left in the status bar
• Removed a random link from the copyright year

Toolbar ​

Info Ever since it was added, it definitely needed more love. Here's the attention that it requires...

• Selection modification controls
  • "Select Deep" lets you select a part regardless of how deeply buried it is within groups
  • "Select Multiple" enables you to bypass the concurrency of selection
  • "Focus Mode" toggles the new Focus Mode, which lets you... well... focus (with better screen space management)
• Selection controls
  • Added select/unselect all
  • Moved group/ungroup here
• Edit controls
  • Moved the delete, rename, lock, and hide buttons here
• Clipboard controls remain the same
  • Only the copy icon was tweaked
• The info options were changed from a circled question mark icon to a circled info icon
  • The function essential controls were also finally fully implemented (my bad, lol)
• Settings were enabled

Settings ​

• Has a search bar
• Has a reset button too
• Interface settings
  • Theme
    • Can toggle between all the implemented themes
    • Only offers Stellar Dark and Stellar Light currently
    • Themes were internally implemented in Beta 5; however, they've now been exposed to the user through the UI
  • Default tab
    • I personally love this one
    • Lets you pick any tab that you want Stellar to open by default
  • Touchscreen mode
    • This was an internal feature introduced in Beta 5 too
    • Rearranges elements of the UI to better work with the available screen space
    • Best left unchanged
  • Language
    • Please help us translate Stellar your language on Crowdin!
    • This was, again, implemented in Beta 5 but has now been exposed
    • Offers a significant amount of languages
    • Join our discord server to request your own language to be added
  • Prompts/notifications
    • Read the prompts section below for more info
    • Prompts to toggle:
      • Orientation
      • Installation
      • Instability
      • Missing parts
• Editor
  • Undo limit
    • Constrains the maximum number of undo available
    • The default is 512, the maximum is 4096, and the minimum is 16
• File preferences
  • Format
    • Formats the JSON that is outputted
  • Watermark
    • A watermark that gets added to the exported blueprint files linking to Stellar
  • Default name
    • The default name of a blueprint in case it was created from scratch
    • Best left unchanged for compatibility with the game
• Debug
  • Debug info
    • Toggle showing advanced debug info on the crash screen

Properties ​

• Constraints
  • Maintains the ratio between two values

• Hints
  • Shows a hint when the question mark icon is Active
  • More will be added later

Parts Explorer ​

• Added quick part actions like there were before Beta 5

Parts ​

• Added hawk engine
• Added titan engine
• Added HD textures for a few engines
  • Every part will be reworked in the next beta as we plan to implement all parts

Prompts/Notifications ​

Orientation ​

• Requests you to turn to landscape if you haven't already done so

Welcome ​

• A few quick settings to get started

Unstable ​

• Warns you about an unstable warning

Installation ​

• Lets you know that Stellar can indeed be installed
• Your device may be eligible for installing Stellar regardless of the notification; read about PWAs

Format ​

• blueprint.parts have been changed from Map<string, Part> to Record<string, Part> because I don't see a point in using a map (the vanilla counterpart being VanillaPart[])
• There are no data fixer uppers to upgrade from blueprint version 5 to 6, so all old .stbp files are deprecated
• Most files were switched from export const foo = () => { ... } to export default function foo() { ... } to closely stick to Airbnb styling guides
  • A lot of files still need this change
• Most core functions were renamed to be less verbose
  • They're no longer all exported from core/*/index.ts as they manage their own default exports now
• All primitive Foo.Container were renamed to Foo.Root to match Radix UI

We moved technologies from Webpack to Vite, did a bunch of other fancy code stuff, and a million others things that I either forgot to mention here or are too "code-oriented" to be intreating, but none of that matters. We have a great beta at hand! Let's see what the future holds.