Update History

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Release History

  • v1.2 — Marinda Prepared
    • Preserved the starfield's positions, camera, playback, and mementos across page navigation and reloads.
    • Added travel direction, speed, distance, and playback to the floating View window, with View and Direction & Playback access from Scene.
    • Kept orb settings open through mobile keyboard and viewport changes, and added tap access with a mobile hint.
    • Added released orbs that travel with the starfield, fade their influence with distance, and can be recalled from Scene.
    • Set the default page zoom to 75% while remembering explicit zoom and reset choices.
    • Enriched stellar presets with more stars, dust, and celestial objects, including dense scenes above 10,000%.
    • Removed numeric range and rounding restrictions from settings and orb controls, and honored signed speeds without artificial motion limits.
    • Removed native tooltip duplicates and tightened the cosmic effects tray around its working controls.
  • v1.1.0 — Triton: Cosmic Horizons Prepared
    • Moved the meteor to the far left and grouped fullscreen, rewind, orb controls, presets, and Randomize in the Scene menu on every page.
    • Unified keyboard shortcuts, preset selection, and menu state across pages and open tabs, with mobile and keyboard navigation.
    • Added helpful cosmic tooltips with live action labels and restrained randomized guidance.
    • Expanded dust and nebula depictions with diffuse emission, reflected light, and dark dust lanes.
    • Preserved fullscreen navigation, camera directions, live variables, and the stellar preset catalog.
  • v1.0.0 — Triton Prepared
    • The first major release, 1.0.
    • Added the View switch for Triton's surrounding starfield and the original Beyond_Distance travel view.
    • Added independent compass views and Behind through the Look dropdown, available while paused, moving, or rewinding.
    • Preserved travel direction, speed, pause, rewind, memento history, and the saved Triton bearing when switching views.
    • Synchronized Settings, presets, and open tabs, with live variables for the view mode, camera angles, world totals, and visible counts.
    • Refined theme colours and mobile controls, and centred the orb settings close icon.
  • v0.8.0 — Beyond the Distance
    • Added synchronized rewind controls.
    • Introduced Timewalk and Ghost Walk memento presets.
    • Applied consistent starfield influence across every celestial layer.
  • v0.7.2 — Ceres
    • Moved from Pluto to Ceres.
    • Adjusted comet settings and orbs.
  • v0.7.1 — Pluto
    • Restored Luna's perspective-based forward and backward starfield motion.
    • Preserved the expanded settings and celestial objects.
  • v0.7.0 — Orbital Canvas
    • Added global interactive orbs, mutual dynamics, and starfield influence.
    • Introduced contextual controls, spawn buttons, keyboard shortcuts, and fullscreen presentation.
  • v0.5.6 — Limitless Starfield
    • Added unrestricted starfield motion, varied bright-star light, and direction controls.
    • Introduced periodic elements and reusable presets.
    • Updated asset versions across the release to refresh cached files.
  • v0.5.5 — Open Settings
    • Removed browser-enforced numeric bounds, steps, and presets from all Settings variables.
  • v0.5.4 — Keyboard Steering
    • Added arrow-key starfield steering, with Shift + Up/Down for depth travel.
    • Updated controls in place while the simulation runs.
  • v0.5.3 — Live Scene Controls
    • Preserved the running scene when live starfield controls change.
    • Applied motion settings immediately and reconciled density incrementally.
    • Updated object and dust layers independently.
  • v0.5.2 — Navigation Recovery
    • Restored the starfield after page navigation and browser history restores.
    • Preserved values during partial starfield updates.
    • Applied numeric Settings changes while editing.
  • v0.5.1 — Starfield Stability
    • Delivered the starfield crash fix with a versioned script URL to prevent stale cached JavaScript.
    • Added the home-screen scene element chooser.
    • Included branch updates for matrix, comet, dust, and telemetry effects.
  • v0.5 — Live Starfield
    • Fixed starfield crashes and restored live starfield settings.
    • Added the home-screen scene element chooser.
    • Included branch updates for matrix, comet, dust, and telemetry effects.
  • v0.4 — Live Settings
    • Added live settings synchronization and restored the comet companion button.
    • Introduced the keyboard shortcuts toggle and comet core speed/size settings.
    • Added a trigger hitbox range of 0–1000 and improved explosion visuals.
  • v0.3 — Settings & Updates
    • Introduced dedicated Settings and Updates pages.
    • Expanded settings persistence.
  • v0.2 — Visual Controls
    • Added the initial visual controls and comet/star interaction improvements.
  • v0.0 — Project Start
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