Stellarium Web Engine
Version 0.1
About
Stellarium Web Engine is a JavaScript planetarium renderer using WebGL that can be embedded into a website.
Features
- Atmosphere simulation.
- Gaia stars database access (more than 1 billion stars).
- HiPS surveys rendering.
- High resolution planet textures.
- Constellations.
- Support for adding layers and shapes in the sky view.
- Landscapes.
Build the javascript version
You need to make sure you have both emscripten and sconstruct installed.
# Setup emscripten path.
source $PATH_TO_EMSDK/emsdk_env.sh
# Build stellarium-web-engine.js and stellarium-web-engine.wasm
# This will also copy the files into html/static/js
make js
# Now we can open html/test-page.html in a browser.
Build the C version
For development, it is useful to work on a native build of the code, since the code is written in C with OpenGL, you can simply build it with:
make