<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear developers of <span tabindex="-1" id=":2mz.15" style="" class="">KStars</span>,<br><br></div>After a 2 days delay (I planned to commit on Saturday) I finally pushed what I've done during the past week to gsoc2016-<span tabindex="-1" id=":2mz.16" style="" class="">kstarslite</span> branch. What you will find in these series of commits:<br><ol><li>Moved Projection <span tabindex="-1" id=":2mz.17" style="" class="">enum</span> from <span tabindex="-1" id=":2mz.18" style="" class="">SkyMap</span> to Projector. Introduced <span tabindex="-1" id=":2mz.19" style="" class="">RootNode</span>
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class that handles texture generation and caching as well as node clipping. It was pretty interesting to implement clipping and I will explain it in my blog post.</li><li>
<div class="">After <span tabindex="-1" id=":2mz.20" style="" class="">Jasem</span> got rid of <span tabindex="-1" id=":2mz.21" style="" class="">KIO</span> in the most classes I was able to compile <span tabindex="-1" id=":2mz.22" style="" class="">KStars</span> for Android. Except for a few classes, I left only
those that <span tabindex="-1" id=":2mz.23" style="" class="">KStars</span> Lite uses. <span tabindex="-1" id=":2mz.24" style="" class="">QML</span> files are now
installed and used from platforms application data directory.
Works well on desktop but on Android shows black screen (probably <span tabindex="-1" id=":2mz.25" style="" class="">QML</span>
files can't be loaded. Need to investigate this further)</div></li><li>Added support for asteroids and comets. <span tabindex="-1" id=":2mz.26" style="" class="">QtQuick</span> Scene Graph shows good performance even if I turn off all mag limitations and zoom level checks but it will be much interesting to see Android performance. Also changed structure of nodes.</li></ol><p>I will post detailed report of what I've done tomorrow in my blog. My plan now is to finish Android build (I will post instructions on how to build in blog), change few minor things and port planet moons. After that I plan to dive into porting Equatorial and Horizontal coordinate systems to <span tabindex="-1" id=":2mz.27" style="" class="">SkyMapLite</span>.</p><p>Regards, <span tabindex="-1" id=":2mz.28" style="" class="">Artem</span><br></p></div>