Weekly Report 4

GSoC Week 5 - Qt3D based backend for KStars

In the fifth week of GSoC, I worked on adding stars in the 3d Painter backend along with grids. Code for Qt3D is shifted to a new Skymap3D now.

What’s done this week

• Shaders for instancing all kinds of stars(labelled, unlabelled) with all projection modes.

• A new abstract camera controller.

The Challenges

• Integration issues with the original SkyPainter API written to support multiple backends.

• Use of new custom camera controller and view matrix..

• Zooming and focus for deep star objects.

What remains

My priorities for the next week include.

• Adding Skymap events to Skymap3D.

• Debug deep star objects and get started with other sky objects.

Demo

The Code

• Celestial Sphere Prototype
• My fork for KStars