What’s coming soon to SatDump:
SatDump’s development towards version 2.0.0, Major Rewrite: The developers are working on a complete rewrite of the SatDump software to fix previous design flaws and improve the overall system.
- New GUI: Version 2.0.0 will feature a new “Explorer” GUI that replaces the old tab system. This new interface is designed to be more flexible, with a GIS-like tree viewer, and will have a lower memory footprint and faster loading times.
- Simplified Systems: The “Product System” has been simplified, and a new “Generic Calibration” system has been implemented to support various units and sun compensation.
- Improved Composites: The “Composite” system has been redesigned to use absolute, calibrated values for more reliable results.
- New Scripting Engine: The old Lua-based system has been replaced with a faster and more powerful “Expression Editor” and a switch to Angelscript for more complex scripting.
- Additional Features: Other planned improvements include a new pipeline format, support for first-party products, and enhancements like hue and saturation controls.
For the full list and explanation, check here
https://www.satdump.org/posts/towards-2.0.0
How to download and install the latest VERYWIP (Very Work In Progress)
Use at your own risk Here is your warning! Backup up your Original
Developers slap VERYWIP (or its even more ominous cousins like “very WIP”) onto a repo the way theme parks post “You must be this tall to ride” signs: it’s not a suggestion, it’s a liability shield and a warning. This is not a badge of pride; it’s a confession that the code is being held together with hope, TODOs, and possibly tears. Use at your own peril, and preferably not on a machine you like. Functions may appear and disappear on any release.
You Have Been Warned
- Think of VERYWIP as: “This will compile only on Tuesdays, during a full moon, if you sacrifice a fresh README.”
- Features are theoretical. Bugs are very real, self-replicating, and probably unionized.
- Documentation? It may consist of a single line: “Yeah… good luck.”
Side Effects May Include
- Sudden crashes, memory leaks, and spontaneous existential dread.
- Stack traces longer than your life expectancy.
- You fixing three other problems just to discover the original “feature” was a joke commit from 2 a.m.
Recommended Safety Gear
- A disposable test environment.
- Version control, backups, and a handwritten farewell note to your stable system.
- The humility to admit, “Maybe I shouldn’t run bleeding-edge experimental code on production.”
In summary: VERYWIP means “Welcome, brave soul. The maintainers accept no responsibility for what happens next. Proceed if you enjoy chaos, debugging, and dark humor.”
Enter the Danger Zone
You must have a GitHub account. If not, get one:
- Use this link after you have logged into GitHub https://github.com/SatDump/SatDump/actions
- This will take you to this screen:
- Select (Click on) which version you want, these will have different names by the time you try this as well (note these are ALL in development, there is no STABLE version as of yet!)
- Then select what platform you want. in this example I am using Build_Windows_x64, click it.
- Click on the next screen, Build Installer (this ensures that the build is generated of the one you chose)
- Then Click on Upload Installer
- Then, at the bottom of the “Upload Installer” you will find a link something like this
Artifact SatDump-Windows_x64_Installer.zip successfully finalized. Artifact ID 4984893944
Artifact SatDump-Windows_x64_Installer has been successfully uploaded! Final size is 94082501 bytes. Artifact ID is 4984893944
Artifact download URL: EXAMPLE ONLY!: https://github.com/SatDump/SatDump/actions/runs/ blah blah blah - Click on that link, and it will link to the download of that file that you can download.
- Install it.
If it all worked, when you run it, you should see this, and whatever branch number you downloaded:
