Weekly Report 6

GSoC Week 6 - Qt3D based backend for KStars

In the seventh week of GSoC, I worked on adding all existing init and update calls to skymapcompsite and subsequent classes derived from skycomponent. This completes the integration with the KStars backend.

What’s done this week

• Init calls for skycomponent derived classes which help setup the Qt3D scenegraph

• Update calls which adjust shader uniforms an enable update and mouse events.

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

My priorities for the next week include.

• Completing all the update calls

• Debugging and adding other sky objects.

The Code

• Celestial Sphere Prototype
• My fork for KStars