This provides the following enhancements & bug fixes
- Fix the chequer-board bug.
- Add proper cloud coverage function - so scattered clouds are now truly scattered.
- Add real-time control for visibility range.
- Use a limited set of clouds rather than generating a completely new Geode for each cloud. This saves sorting and display time.
- Add controls to Rendering dialog to allow fine-tuning of the number of sprites, cloud visibility and the number of different types of cloud.
- Add some variance to the sort back-off to avoid all clouds being sorted at the same time.
- Pack attributes into vectors for performance
- Re-order the cloud type determination code so that if a cloud layer could either be stratus or cumulus, cumulus is used.
- Lowered the cloud level in the standard cloud configuration slightly so a cumulus layer is generated rather than stratus.
These last two mean that you should see some 3D cumuli if disabling real weather fetch.
My thanks to Yon Uriarte for his help with performance work.
(/sim/rendering/precipitation-gui-enabled) *and* if the aircraft wants it
(/sim/rendering/precipitation-aircraft-enabled). Some aircraft model rain
on the windshield and want to turn rain off for interior views.
- new parameter naming (left/right instead of min/max; signs are ignored)
- fix wrap-around skips
- use regular constructor so as not to confuse people ;-)
If a <view> contains a <limits> block, then a view handler gets attached to
it, which limits head turns to a given range, whereby headings beyond a given
threshold cause an additional sideways movement. This is turned off by default
for now.
distracting blury when viewed from nearly edge on (as runway textures almost always are.) This can be adjusted to individual preferences with the
--texture-filter={0,1,2,4,8,16} command line option.
- Update redout level every frame
- Replace reading of properties every iteration with listeners
- move -onset and -complete properties into a parameters subtree
are set in controls.nas since ages)
controls.nas: avoid repeated querying of /sim/input/selected/engine[*]
properties; this isn't supposed to change at runtime and is a rather
costly process, especially in axis handlers
- Disable the 737 AI demo (because it uses the user 737-300, which is
currently not part of the base package).
- New version number
- Add some more 747 size parking areas at KSFO.
These are then skipped with view.stepView(n), unless the second, optional
argument is set to 1: view.stepView(n, 1);
Whether a view is enabled or not, is saved in $FG_ROOT/.fgfs/autosave.xml
(system views) or $FG_ROOT/.fgfs/aircraft-data/<aircraft>.xml
- allow turning on/off extra widgets for developers (HUD dialog: colors,
rendering dialog: visualization of shadow edges), and to turn on/off new
- property key handler ('/'-key)
Both features are off by default, and their state is saved to autosave.xml.
/sim/current-view/dynamic-view. There are additionally <dynamic-view>
settings per view, but those only enable it for that view if it's
globally turned on.
populated are: KHAF, KHWD, KOAK, KSJC, and KSFO. Includes traffic for
two to three major US based airlines for each aircraft type. Traffic
is included for the 737, 747, 767, A320, A333, and an assorted selection
of smaller aircraft.
are. /sim/view[0] .. /sim/view[99] are reserved for the system, the rest
can be used by aircraft. That way nobody has to update all configs only
because a generic view was added.
us3_mbrola doesn't lack some phonemes, causing interrupted messages
- use us2_mbrola for the pilot (seems to be rather complete, too;
pity that the female voice us1_mbrola sounds so ugly :-)
