Review Report 2

GSoC Review 2 - Qt3D based backend for KStars

In the eighth week of GSoC, I continued on init and update calls to skymapcompsite and subsequent classes derived from skycomponent.

What’s done this week

• Init calls for various skycomponent derived classes which help setup the Qt3D scenegraph like CatalogComponent.

• Update calls for stars, planets, lines and similar sky components.

The Challenges

• Integration issues with the original SkyPainter API written to support multiple backends. The CustomWindow class doesn’t utilize SkyPainter but has similar draw calls.

What remains

• Completing all the update calls

• Debugging and adding other sky objects.

• Fixing star sizes

Demo

The Code

• Celestial Sphere Prototype
• My fork for KStars