Now, Shira Player has Subtitle feature.
Users can create a subtitle file in SubRip Text (*.srt) format for fulldome show in some language. The Subtitle feature supports Japanse, Chinese, Russian and other european language fonts present.
You can change font size, color, word count for each line and can save them. 

Information can be found below link about SubRip files..
https://www.speechpad.com/captions/srt
https://fileinfo.com/extension/srt

At this new version has been boosted rendering performance about at least twice as much. Now frame per second (FPS) can not be below 30 for stellarium sky and projector output is much more smooth.

Added new scripts to favorite list
- Analemma:
- Arctic Season:
- Solar Eclipse:

Shira Player 2.5 has been released.
In this version new Altitude feature is added. Atmosphere and landscape up to 10000 meters altitude are simulated with simple controls. So users can experience how the sky from Everest mountain is viewed on planetarium dome. 

Everest Summit image. Photo: AFP

 

In this version developments are below
- Increased count of shown nebulas, galaxies and other deep space object images and updated texures with high resolution ones. Now added about 300 object images with space coordinates.
Sample screenshots below are showing differences between old and new textures.

In Previous version In version 2.6 In Previous version In version 2.6

- Added Colored-Hevelius constellation image library.

  

New "Shadered Landcape" feature added to Lanscape Manager.
Created a sample "Animated Ocean Lanscape" for 2.4 version. This landcape includes opengl shader codes that animates and colored ocean related datetime and atmosphere. It has also moon phosphorescence daynight on the sea.

Ocean Landcape Ini file includes type line as "shader". If the type line is selected as "shader" it requires shader fragment codes file with same name of the landcape file.

Secondary added feature is daylight clouds effect. Now Shira Player atmosphere is more realistic with these features.

Some improvements were made on Fulldome player feature .
- Added buttons for selected videos settings to save or delete.
- Show seek tracking bar time value of the video.
- Fixed bug of the seek operations while paused video.

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