Added a new option "Road layer for satellite maps" to Settings - Map because we removed the separate hybrid map layer, use this option to show or hide road layer for satellite maps.
Added 400km as a choice for the marker distance.
Fixed a bug that the marker is not drawn in the VR when it is too small.
Added comet 13P/Olbers.
Added Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks.
VIIRS 2023 dark sky lay.
Fixed celestial objects jumps in the VR when dragging the time slider.
We will resend the verification email if the account is not yet verified when the user tries to login or reset password.
Only show the past task markers within a year on the map.
Added a setting button on the top left of the map, tap to open map category settings, press and hold to open all settings.
Added a show/hide markers added by you setting which allows you to hide all the markers so that the map content is fully visible.
Menu - Version History has complete change logs.
Show a center at scene button on the viewfinder if needed which can be used to quickly get back to the main subject.
Added a more smooth sling effect to the calendar slider on the bottom.
Added VIIRS2022 dark sky layer.
Fixed the display issue on the elevation profile sheet and hard to tap the close button issue.
Adjusted the display of sunrise/sunset/moonrise/moonset lines to text to make it easier for beginners to understand the meaning of those lines, can be changed back under Settings - Ephemeris - Rise and set directions on the map.
Displays the actual date under the time values if needed instead of +1day which has ambiguity.
Fixed a bug where the picture cannot be loaded in the picture VR and picture exposure feature.
Menu - Version History has complete change logs.
Fixed the sun and moon position are not touching each other for a partial solar eclipse.
Show the elevation profile chart on bottom for the distance and view tool, the light condition page and the polyline markers.
Tap the top right menu button for a selected polyline marker (can be imported from a kml trail file) to show the elevation profile of the trail.
Menu - Version History has complete change logs.
Added 4x4+diagonal grid line in viewfinder as some Sony cameras have this grid line type as Diag + Square Grid.
Fixed the VR display issue when the elevation angle is high (such as eclipse where the Sun or the Moon position seem wrong when they should touch each other).
Added a comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), possible to be very bright next year.
Menu - Version History has complete change logs.
Added a new comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF).
Press and hold on an azimuth value at the second time will rotate the map, can be used to find out the exact direction when shooting.
Added a clear button on the Sun/Moon Finder page to clear the azimuth and the elevation angle range to reset the green area in the viewfinder.
Fixed some crashes in the alignment search.
Support press and hold on aperture and focal length to change them using slider.
Changing the distance and azimuth can choose to adjust the camera location or the scene location.
Fixed the information from the location explorer pages are not saved to the plan file when sharing.
Fixed unexpected log out issue.
Changing the unit in the camera height etc dialogs will change the unit settings.
Added 1.4x extender to focal length chooser.
Fixed the elevation gain calculation does not consider the camera height from a camera location marker.
Fixed an error when changing the distance in the distance and view tool.
Fixed a display error of the task date.
Supports scaling the model by width and height independently when importing or editing the model.
Supports oval base for cy, co and cf.
Dof tool now supports focusing on infinity.
Press and hold on the cloud that blocks the Sun/Moon/MWC will copy the coordinates so that you can paste it to a cloud map app to check the cloud at that location.
Refresh the shadow display by seconds.
In the offline download mode, you can select a marker with polygon or polyline (only available if you subscribe to the 3D model feature), then press and hold on the download button on the offline map download sheet to batch add offline maps to the queue.
If you open a plan without any tasks, you can use the save as button under the rename plan dialog to save the new change after opening the plan as a new plan so that the existing plan is not changed.
Added an option under Settings - Map to disable the long press to drag the marker to avoid accidentally change the marker position.
Fix a crash in some dates when showing the yallop value .
Fixed the back button not working for the picture VR.
Menu - Version History has complete change logs.
Fixed the description for the yallop criteria is not correct.
Fixed a license checking issue for the Planit free version.
Show the panorama result in red if cannot meet the rotation increment.
Fixed a bug that the old picture metadata was not loaded in the picture VR.
You can long press the target height on the ephemeris page to adjust the height using a slider.
Fixed the focal length precision and the wrong ephemeris page issues when sharing the plan between iOS and Android.
Introduced the obj extension version 2 to simplify the grammar where the starting vertex of each shape is defaulted to the default origin vertex or the vertex defined in the immediately preceding line so there is no need to write the vertex index for each shape, see the edit model page for more details.
Menu - Version History has complete change logs.
You can tap the + button then "Browse Nearby Shared Markers" button to see the list of available shared markers without subscribing the 3d model feature.
Considering the scene location when determining how far the markers and terrain should be shown.
Set the default filter distance to All for the plan list and the marker list as people got confused for the first time when they don't see all the plans and markers.
Menu - Version History has complete change logs.
Improved the sync data (such as plans and markers) feature under the profile page.
Fixed a crash when starting the app for a small number of users.
Many bug fixes.
Encourage our users to publish markers by extending the 3D model expiration date.
If you published the markers before, you will see the points awarded on "My purchases" page.
Several bug fixes.
Added a new scale width option to the import model dialog.
Fixed a bug in the algorithm that determines whether a location is inside the camera location marker's polygon.
Added a check box on the marker info window to allow the server marker to be hidden in the viewfinder.
Fixed a bug in the previous release that deleting a task will delete other tasks.
Fixed the swap YZ option not working correctly when importing a model.
Redesigned the profile page by adding the My purchases button and two separate buttons for the plans and the markers sync respectively.
Fixed Mapbox not working issue in the last version.
Added naming suggestions to the plan/task name dialog.
Added a new comet - C/2021 A1 Leonard - which will be bright enough to be seen with the naked eyes end of this year.
Added naming suggestions to the plan/task name dialog.
Added a new comet - C/2021 A1 Leonard - which will be bright enough to be seen with the naked eyes end of this year.
Fixed the viewfinder aspect ratio setting also changed the content by mistake.
Fixed copy marker doesn't work for some fields.
Some bug fixes.
Merge similar undoes that happened in a short period of time.
Fixed bugs related to the ephemeris pages.
You can now hide the ephemeris pages that are not often used by clicking on the button on the right side of the ephemeris tabs and press and hold to hide the pages.
Fixed a bug that the bottom half of the register screen is covered.
Changed the exposure value chooser page to a full screen page with the filtering support, easier to look up.
Added a reset action to Settings - General so that you can reset all your personal settings to start over in case you messed up the settings while learning the app.
Fixed the known exposure value list is not scrolled to the selected value when showing.
When filtering the plan by date, considering the tasks under each plan.
Fixed the filter area not visible bug in the tide search page.
Fixed the lat and lon shifting bug in Hong Kong.
Fixed crashes on startup only on some phones.
Reduced the text size of the elevation angle and the azimuth so that the VR viewfinder gets larger a little bit.
Moved the default backup folder to Android/media as the new Android version doesn't allow the access to the Android/data folder.
Menu - Version History has complete change logs.
The tag list page supports hiding some tags, all markers having those hidden tags will not show up on the map or in the viewfinder.
Added menus to merge several plans into one and rename a plan when pressing and hold on the plan under the Plan List page.
Added menus to move tasks out as plans and rename a task when pressing and hold on the task under the Task List page.
Added Tasks menu item under Plans in the main menu.
Menu - Version History has complete change logs.
Introduced a new "Task" concept to the plan which will allow you to keep multiple tasks in the same plan.
Each task is like a mini-plan and the buttons to add a new task or to open the task list are under the "+" button.
Menu - Version History has complete change logs.
Added a back to map button in the viewfinder modes, press and hold on the mode button will also go back to map.
Adjust the algorithm to fix some bugs and improve performance.
Fixed a bug on the exposure page when exposure compensation is shown.
Support showing the marker name on the map.
Fixed the sun or moon track jumps near the horizon.
Menu - Version History has complete change logs.
Fixed the twilight wrong bug in some areas.
Added long press the choice buttons to set the start and the end time on the timelapse and sequence pages.
Fixed a bug that the sun/moon finder page will change the time.
Tap the year and month title on the calendar page to set the month and year.
Long press on the + button to add a marker and paste the content if it was copied earlier.
Long press on the viewfinder button to start VR viewfinder which is the most used viewfinder.
Tap on the shadow value on the Light and Shadow page to show and hide shadows of the buildings.
Supports editing of multiple markers.
Fixed the elevation angle limitation in AR.
Fixed several elevation related bugs in VR.
Fixed writing storage issue in the last release.
Still draw the comet and other stars even in the star-trails mode to avoid the confusion.
Only draw the selected comet in the VR if Settings - Show comets is not turned on.
Fixed an issue that the camera height cannot be saved.
Added version history under the Menu.
Allow the temporary red marker for the selected location to be dragged.
Fixed a bug that the eclipse overlay is not shown if one of the google tile map layers is used.
Added World Atlas 2015 and VIIRS layers to Dark Sky
Updated solar eclipse kml files
Fixed exception showing the video tutorial for VR
Change xxx to 1/xxx" for shutter speed to avoid confusion
When choosing overlap percentage, added recommendation percentage for the day-time and night-time panoramas
Fixed the wrong distance values in the elevation gain page
Set the date as well when long pressing on the eclipse times to set the time-lapse and sequence starting and ending time
Improved the Russian translation. Thank Sergey Louks for spending a lot of time reviewing the translation.
A lot of fixes related to different languages.
Fixed the first day in week setting is not respected in this week choice of Finder.
Reversed the elevation angle and azimuth in the focal length tool so that it is consistent with other places.
Fixed an issue where the sun and moon sequence is not shown in AR.
Added 13 more languages. We will use English way to format all the numbers to be consistent
Adjusted the animation speed based on the viewfinder focal length when clicking on the Play button
Adjusted the elevation range to [-90, 90] in the Sun/Moon Finder
Added Bing search option. It needs the same Bing map key, shared by the Bing elevation service
Fixed the timezone when loading a picture with EXIF
Extended the year range to from [1, 9999]
Show the azimuth values in the date time slider
Reorganized the settings screen, remove some uncommon ones, changed some order.
Added a furthest distance setting to allow user set how far the ground contour is drawn.
Fixed some bugs introduced by the last realistic milky way change.
Changed the Light and Shadow page to use the camera location to calculate the ephemeris information, except the light elevation and the light condition which will still use the scene location to calculate as before.
Adjusted the sun and moon track display to false by default.
Fixed the viewfinder ground layer not showing when the focal length is long.
Fixed timezone errors for Easter Island and southern Spain.
Added the undo/redo feature, the two buttons are under the “+” action button on the bottom right.
Other bug fixes.
Improved the accuracy of the compass for phones with better sensors.
Drew an extra hour of moon track in the viewfinder to avoid confusion.
Added Start of the week to the settings and is used in the Calendar feature.
Do not set the time to the picture taken time when loading the picture for the picture viewfinder if the picture settings had been saved.
Fixed some unstable issues in the previous release
Updated to the latest version of AMap
Support caching for the tile map
Adjust the timezone error in some regions. The timezone hour offset value could be in white or yellow color. If white, you can pretty much trust its value. If yellow, it means your camera is at a location near a timezone change, so please check the actual timezone to make sure it is correct and adjust whatever sunset etc. time the app tells you accordingly.
Fixed ephemeris page title is wrong.
Updated to support Android Q.
Fixed random copyright verification failures.
Added height context button on the bottom when the camera or the cane pins are selected.
Drew circles for the hyperfocal distance, the focus distance etc. on the depth of field map overlay.
Fixed no offline elevation for the southern Iceland area.
Limited the offline elevation file folder to only be /PFT/hgt for the internal storage. For phones that have SD card, it will be at /Android/data/com.yingwen.photographertools(pro)/hgt. No longer allow any folder which confused a lot of users.
Fixed -1 is shown on the cloud distance height input dialog
Added orientation sensor button back to the VR page but added a message to show people in case they clicked on it by accident. If user tries to adjust the viewfinder direction, we will stop the sensor automatically.
Polished the ephemeris page layout so that the labels will align properly for different font sizes
Added all markers option when saving marker file. This could be useful if you want don't want to zoom out the map to show all the markers but want to save all the markers. This is especially useful when you just want to add a marker to an existing marker file
Fixed strange painting artifact on the sun/moon track in the VR viewfinder
Show the ephemeris information as usual on the dark sky page
Redesigned the cloud distance overlay on the map
Fixed the errors in the relatively moon size on the event page and the moon calendar
Fixed large font issue on the tool's info window
Lunar eclipse, timelapse etc. a few more video tutorials are available on YouTube and in the app's help button
Fully integrated with the video tutorials, click on the help button in the lower left corner to see all the videos that are currently available. Although not many right now, more will come soon.
Copy and paste can be used to paste coordinates, which makes it easy to move multiple markers to the same position.
Add a button under Menu - About to check updates
Bug fixes
Fixed a couple of small bugs from the previous release, added localized strings for de, fr, it, es.
Introduce NPF rule to avoid star trail
Added sensor size in megapixels in the settings and diffraction limited aperture value
Added large prints options for the NPF rule, CoC rule and DoF calculation.
Fixed a bug in the twilights and special hours where the time doesn’t change green when the current time is in the range.
Fixed the weather page crashes for some European customers
Changed the place search algorithm
Switched to our own elevation server by default to avoid the blank viewfinder issue. It is recommended to get your own key for Bing elevation or Google elevation service for higher accuracy
Adjusted the settings screen to reflect recent changes
Fixed a bug in streetview where the horizon was drawn at a wrong location when the time slider is toggled
Updated the exposure page to use the spinning wheel control to select the values faster than before
Prompt to download offline elevation data when opening the VR viewfinder for the first time
Added labels to describe the meaning of some values on the ephemeris page
Other small bug fixes.
Added a marker will start editing
Fixed a bug that the buttons are not updated after deleting a marker
Added a brand new Cloud Distance page to predict nice sunsets or sunrises using a cloud map of your choice.
Added quick access buttons when press and hold on the map, tap the camera or the scene or a marker.
Shows Milky Way range in the time slider and Milky Way on the map for most Ephemeris pages.
Shows on the map the lines for Milky Way arch's left, right and center to help aligning with the ground subjects.
Fixed 3D viewfinder doesn't display correctly in some cases.
Shorten the labels on the info window for some languages so that it doesn't cover the 3D button.
Fixed some strings for Spanish and French. Thank you jsanzm!
Support the height above the ground feature for the marker
All travel category markers will support camera height as long as the camera pin is near the specified diameter of the marker
3D terrain will still use offline elevation even when the offline elevation switch is not on in the settings. In this case, the camera, scene and markers will still use the online elevation which is more accurate. Only the terrain will use offline elevation which is okay even if the accuracy is not as good.
Support 3D simulation in the VR viewfinder (offline elevation is required, Menu - User guides - Overview to see instructions)offline elevation overlay to show which area has offline elevation data (access from Settings)Major performance improvementSupport using our own server to access the online elevation data (can be changed from the Settings)Revised the moonrise/moonset displayRevised the save button under the Plan Button to do a quick save without prompting
Support more map types for Chinese customersFixed lunar eclipse center position is wrongSeveral bug fixes
Added tilted milky way eventsAdded lunar eclipse support (simulation with earth shadow and exposure)Show the moon shape in the actual rotation on the viewfinder, over the map and on ephemeris pagerFixed a bug that the hour value is not drawn on the Sun/Moon track on the viewfinder
Fixed a bug that tapping on Polaris doesn't show up the star selection pageSupport entering the angle of view when inputting the focal lengthAdd play button to the Sequence pageDraw Sun or Moon in elliptical shape because of the refractionFine tune the Sun and Moon trackAlways change the time when loading a picture which has time in EXIFIncreased the range to 600km to draw markers in viewfinder
Support entering the angle of view when inputting the focal lengthAdd play button to the Sequence pageDraw Sun or Moon in elliptical shape because of the refractionFine tune the Sun and Moon trackAlways change the time when loading a picture which has time in EXIFIncreased the range to 600km to draw markers in viewfinderSupport long press on the star name, meteor show name or milky way center to center the viewfinder at it
Changed the way the search area is defined in the Sun/Moon FinderAllow two-finger pinch to zoom in and out in the simulated viewfinderDo not show milky way on non-milky way pages if the show milky way setting is offAdded Baidu Map
Fixed the extended line is off a little bit on AMapOnly show the marker shadow on the Light and Shadow if they are buildingsFixed on the event page, the event time is wrong on the days when summer time starts or endsConverts the subject altitude in the kml, if defined, to the marker height
Improved the viewfinder performance when changing the time sliderAdded 1/2 grid line in the focal length tool as well as the viewfinderAdded extended distance line when the camera or scene pins are outside the mapAdded circle to indicate the marker width when the marker is selected
Misc bug fixes
Added multiple row panorama calculation and simulation
Fixed many bugsAdded support to release camera or scene pins when the pins are selectedAdded option to switch search engineAdded in-app purchase option back to the free version. Also added the support to restore the purchase if the phone doesn't support the new version of the inapp purchaseFixed regression in the mapboxReduced the usage of timezone request using networkFixed bug when changing the end time of the timelapse/sequence
