As a student, I would like to be able to use the map for reading the flight plan, frequencies for VOR, NDB, ILS, but without giving away the position of my aircraft, so that I can train in IFR navigation using the instruments only in the cockpit.
This allows WS3.0 to sync scenery over terrasync.
At present there is no UI to enable this, as WS3.0
is not available on the main terrasync servers. So
it needs to be manually enabled by setting
--prop:/sim/rendering/scenery-path-suffix[98]/enabled=true
Note that WS3.0 has a dependency on the airport
data that is stored under the Terrain suffix.
Thanks to merspieler for setting up a test
terrasync server to test this.
- Terrain and clouds and now rendered on the envmap, with correct aerial
perspective.
- Each face is rendered on a separate frame to help with performance.
- All faces are updated every 1.5 minutes. This can be changed through a
property.
We also now pre-expose our lighting before writing to the HDR buffers.
This solves some precision issues and prevents the Sun from producing
infinite values.
- New atmosphering rendering technique based on my own work.
- Attempt to fix some remaining transparency issues.
- Use a luminance histogram for auto exposure.
- Add support for clustered shading.
- Add WS 2.0 shaders.
- Add 3D cloud shaders.
- Add orthoscenery support.
Change to calculate the frame rate ourselves because /sim/frame-rate doesn't take into account freeze and has a transient ridiculous value after a pause. Instead we calculate the average rate over a period and then LP filter this.
This also removes the annoying frame rate update messages
Cofiguration now comes from /sim/emexec
* /sim/emexec/monitor-period is the period to reset the average; the LP filter isn't reset.
* /sim/emexec/max-rate-hz is the upper limit on the emexec update rate. defaults to 50 and a model can override this. It's probably not a user setting
output of
* current emexec rate into /sim/emexec/rate-hz
* smoothed / LP filtered frame rate into /sim/emexec/frame-rate
Translations/default/menu.xml
defaults.xml
Added /sim/video/ items.
gui/dialogs/video.xml
New, allows one to select the video container, codec, quality, speed and
bitrate to be used when encoding videos. Radio buttons are provided for
common containers and codecs.
gui/menubar.xml
File menu now has 'video start' and 'video stop' items, plus an item that
opens new 'video control' dialogue. [We use menu items for video start/stop
to minimise the visual affect at the beginning and end of the generated
video.]
- The G-Buffer layout has been redesigned to be 96 bits per pixel. There are 24
unused bits that can be used for extra material parameters later (like
clearcoat).
- Add better debug views for the G-Buffer.
- Use octahedron normal encoding. This yields the same results as the previous
method but uses 16 bits less.
- Use rg11fb10f for the environment mapping cubemaps.
- Tweak the shadow mapping parameters and add a colored debug mode.
- Only render shadow maps for objects that inherit from model-default.eff or
model-pbr.eff instead of having a fallback Effect. Now transparent objects
should be ignored (if they are marked as such with model-transparent or
similar).
- Remove the separate occlusion texture. Now the PBR Effect expects a single
texture where R=occlusion, G=roughness and B=metallic.
Uses new property /sim/controls/brake-cancels-parking-brake.
Default is true; it is expected that some aircraft (e.g. p51d) will set this to
false so they can implement their own brake/parking-brake interaction.
Should address bug 2589.
There aren't any mechanisms in the C++ side to handle custom settings yet, so don't use graphics presets unless the user enables them explicitly through a command line option.
