1365 lines
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New in 0.9.5-pre1
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* July 15, 2004
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* New AIModel based air traffic subsystem (Durk Talsma)
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* Updates to the AIModel subsystem.
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* Switched audio subsystem from plib's "sl" to OpenAL.
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* Added support for SDL (pre-compile time configuration option.)
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* Threaded tile loader now enabled by default.
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* Overhauled Nav database code to directly support Robin Peel's default format.
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* Synced with latest JSBSim developments.
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* YASim now supports a nasal (script) based fuel management system.
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* YASim adds a simple turbo prop engine model.
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* Added an xml based gui/widget layout system for building dialog boxes.
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* Make gui windows dragable/repositionable.
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* Hide the mouse pointer when it sits idle. Mouse pointer reappears
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on any mouse motion.
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* The GPS module has been overhauled.
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* New joystick configurations added: Cyborg Evo, Top Gun Fox2 Pro USB,
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MacAlly iStick USB, SideWinder Precision Pro (on Windows.)
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* Updated aircraft: A-10, AN-225, B-52F, BAC-TSR2, T-37, T-38, YF-23, Beech-99,
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BO-105 (helicopter), DC-3, F-104, F-16, Fokker 50, Fokker 100, Pilatus PC-7.
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* New aircraft: Concorde, MD-11, Spitfire IIA, TU-154.
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* Updated airport, runway, taxiway, windsock, beacon, and tower data.
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* Updated world scenery based on SRTM terrain data. New scenery includes
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accurate radio towers for the USA.
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New in 0.9.4
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* March 26, 2004
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* Impliment SimGear's (aka Andy's) Nasal scripting language in
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FlightGear and integrate with the FG property system.
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* Many updates from David Culp and David Luff to the AI aircraft and
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ATC modules.
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* Complete overhaul of the autopilot system. The new system uses a
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much more advanced PID algorithm, is much more flexible, and is
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completely reconfigurable for each aircraft.
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* Added the ability to fetch current weather in real time during a
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flight (via a thread) from the weather.noaa.gov web site and update
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the current weather conditions in the sim.
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* Added properly working VASI/PAPI lights.
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* Make the ground intersection code smart so allow flying under
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bridges, taxiing on the lower level of the bay bridge, taxiing into
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hangers, etc.
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* Added a utility to automatically manage scenery installation and
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removal.
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* Several updated ground textures, plus a variety of new random
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scenery objects.
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* Much additional work on the San Francisco area buildings and bridges.
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* Added a Comper Swift (nice), a Hawker Hunter (nice), added a T37 Tweet,
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* Updates to the 737 (nice panel, 3d model, and flight model), updates
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to the 747 flight dynamics, updates to the OV10, T38, AN-225, bo105
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(helicopter), better sounds for the DC-3, updates to f104 model,
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many updates to the F16, updates to the J3 Cub, 3D cockpit added to
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the pa28-161, updates to the sgs233, overhaul of the tsr2 and yf23
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models.
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* The UFO became Santa Claus over the holidays, but it is back to
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being extra terrestial.
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* First stab at a weather radar instrument.
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* Added a number of basic 3d instruments to the instrument library
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that could be reused used for any general aviation cockpit.
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* Clean up much of the extraneous alias system entries for aircraft.
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Generally this means that if there is only one version of an
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aircraft, there is only one entry and no aliases. If there are
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multiple versions of an aircraft, we may still have an alias to
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point to the prefered or default version.
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* Added RedHat packaging files.
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* Added some perl script utility functions which are useful when
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writing remote perl scripts that interact with a running copy of
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FlightGear. Includes routines to facility remote control of data
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logging and even some simple graph plotting.
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* Updates to OpenGC interface.
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* Various JSBSim updates.
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* Various YASim updates.
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* Various UIUCsim updates.
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* More work on the native multiplayer system.
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* Sorted out the confusion between left, right, and parking brakes
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vs. the cockpit controls vs. the wheels they apply to.
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* Much infrastructure added to support future GPS instruments.
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* Fixed a meter/feet conversion problem in DME distance calculations
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which would cause it to often read quite high.
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* Fixes to nmea output so it can better trick a moving map software
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application into thinking it is talking to a real gps.
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* Fixed a subtle problem with our star database that has been lurking
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for many years, but it took an astronomy expert to spot the subtle
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misalignments.
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* Add support for Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, thrustmaster top gun
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afterburner USB, Logitech WingMan Force 3D, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro
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USB, and Microsoft SideWinder 3D Pro joysticks.
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* Removed the old WeatherCM module (it can be resurrected from CVS if
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any one ever wants to do that.)
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* Removed the NetworkOLK module (it can be resurrected from CVS if
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any one ever wants to do that.)
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* Removed support for the PSL scripting language.
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New in 0.9.3
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* October 24, 2003
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* Added a flight "replay" system.
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* Many updates to the ATC and AI aircraft subsystem. (David Luff)
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* Add support for moving cloud layers.
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* New "symbolic" time of day dialog box for easily setting dawn, dusk,
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noon, etc.
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* Aircraft are now each self contained in their own individual
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subdirectories for easier end user addition and removal.
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* Many improvements to scene lighting throughout the day->night range
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including more realistic sky and fog colors, more realistic scene
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illumination, better dusk/dawn sky coloring, better specular
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lighting support.
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* A nice new chase view has been added.
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* Added displaced thresholds on all runways that have them.
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* Updated default scenery for the KSFO area.
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* Many buildings and bridges added in the San Francisco area.
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* Updated airport and navaid database, many new taxiways, many
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corrected runways, many new airports (especially outside the USA.)
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* Updates to the man page.
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* Better Win32 packaging (more standardized installer, plus a launcher
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which allows selection of starting location and starting aircraft.)
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* Added an initial cut at modeling helicopters.
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* Support multiple inside the cockpit views.
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* Updated FlightGear Flight School tutorial.
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* Use the field elevation for GS when no specific altitude listed in
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FAA/DAFIF data
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* Fix to translate DME and TACAN X/Y channels to paired VHF frequencies
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correctly. Thanks to Jorge Van Hemelryck <ml@jvh.net> for the fix.
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* Fixes to runway search routines (didn't always work correctly under
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some circumstances.)
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* Many fixes and updates to the autopilot. Autothrottle tracks speed
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much better with much less jumping around.
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* Expose the tuned navaid via the property system to support building
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more advanced avionics.
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* Improvements to the environment manager and gui's, more control over
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turbulence, ability to specify boundary condition layers as well as
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aloft condition layers.
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* JSBSim updates including a new turbine engine model that supports
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things like starting and stopping procedures and thrust reversing.
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* UIUCsim updates (compiler warning and namespace conflict fixes.)
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* YASim updates (fix drag from shutdown engine, helicopter support,
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better in air startup support.)
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* Support for "clock" instruments that operate independently of
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computer system time.
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* Annunciators shouldn't work if electrical system not serviceable.
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* A few updated splash screens.
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* Added various fields to net_ctrls and net_fdm to include various
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failures, faults, control surface positions, and other interesting
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things.
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* A few updated joystick definition files.
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* Various keyboard mapping tweaks and changes.
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* Many updates and tweaks to default material properties and random
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land cover objects.
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* Updated aircraft: 747, A320, T-38, A-10, B-52, F-104, Fokker 50,
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Fokker 100, Piper Cub, P-51, UFO, YF-23, Ornithopter, A-4, C172,
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and F-16
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* New Aircraft: J-22, Paraglider, SGS-126 Sailplane, ASW 20, and
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AN-225 aircraft; Bell 206 JetRanger, CH-47 Chinook, and Ecureuil
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AS-350 helicoptors.
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* Updated cloud textures.
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* Removed dependency on Metakit. The airport and runway databases are now
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stored in a simple flat file ascii database.
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* FreeBSD, Solaris, MSVC, Irix, Mac OSX, cygwin, and mingwin fixes.
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New in 0.9.2
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* June 4, 2003
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* New aircraft available: P51-D (w/ full 3d cockpit), Sea Hawk
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(WV908), a research ornithopter (propelled by actual flapping
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wings), A10, B-52, F-104, F-15, F-16, OV10, PA28-161, T-6A Texan II,
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T-38, British TSR2, YF-23, 737,
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* Updated aircraft: airwave extreme hang glider, asw20 glider, A-4
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Skyhawk, Beech-99, Cessna 172 w/ 3d cockpit, Cessna 310 w/ 3d
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cockpit, DC3, Piper J3 Cub, 1903 Wright Flyer, Sopwith Camel, Space
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Shuttle, Boeing 747-400
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* Overhauled menu/gui system and made it xml configurable rather than
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hardwired. Include support for things like checkboxes, sliders, and
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dials.
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* Added some early multiplayer features.
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* Added support for in-air presets relative to a VOR, NDB, or fix.
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* Support for Futaba, Airtronics, Hitec, JR, Multiplex and Tower R/C
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transmitters using the RCJoy USB interface box (see
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http://www.rcjoy.com).
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* Much improved sky and coloring as well as more realistic coloring of
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the sunset and sunrise.
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* Clouds are drawn on a surface that better matches the underlying
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curve of the earth.
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* A few updated terrain textures, better variety of random ground
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cover objects.
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* Most weather options can now be set via the GUI. Added an option to
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randomize the weather.
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* Various instruments and systems can now be failed/unfailed via the
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GUI.
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* Developed scripts to build Navaid and ILS databases from DAFIFT,
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FAA, and other data sources.
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* Update Navaid and ILS databases based on DAFIFT, FAA, and other data
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sources.
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* Continued development of voice ATC, robot aircraft AI, logical
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taxiway networks (continues to be a work in progess, but much
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progress has been made.)
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* Separated out much of the low level model/material management code
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and moved it over to SimGear where it can be potentially used by
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other projects.
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* Separated out the low level sound effect playing/management code and
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moved it over to SimGear.
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* Added functions to the "telnet" interface to allow remote management
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of autopilot waypoints.
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* Support the parking brake in the "external" flight dynamics interface.
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* Added support for an audio panel (set of switches to set various
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avionics audio sources on/off in the aircraft.)
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* Add support for speed brake and spoiler controls.
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* Many code updates to UIUCmodel including support for ornithopters
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(flapping wing vehicles.)
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* Many JSBsim code updates include a new turbine engine model.
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* Added a "named pipe" external flight dynamics model interface.
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* YASim updates including support for manual-pitch control props,
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support for wing washout, and adjusting aircraft masses as fuel is
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consumed.
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* The property picker interface now shows the property values changing
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dynamically.
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* Added support for a simple annunciator panel (fuel, oil, vacuum,
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volts dummy warning lights.)
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* Added a "gyro" model. This can be driven electrically (turn
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coordinator) or via vacuum (attitude indicator). If one of these
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systems failes, the corresponding gyro will spin down realistically
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an introduce realistic errors in the gauge reading.
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* Model attitude indicator tumbling at extreme attitudes.
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* Modeled the pitot system and use that drive the air speed indicator.
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* Added a very simplistic volts/amps model to the electrical
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system...enough to make the gauges behave plausibly and drive the
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annunciator panel correctly.
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* Updated the vacuum/suction model to behave more realistically.
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* Added Italian and Polish translation for the GUI.
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* Mac OS X fixes.
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* Better FreeBSD support.
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* Mingwin fixes.
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* Improved native sgi compiler support.
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* MSVC fixes.
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* Fixed problems in marker beacon audio.
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* Fixed several subtle problems in the modeling/positioning of glide
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slope transmitters in FlightGear
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* Don't allow the dewpoint to go higher than the temperature.
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* Don't allow gust speed to be less than base wind speed.
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* Fix a couple problems in the external fdm interface that prevented
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FlightGear from being driven properly by an external source (i.e. to
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act as a image generator only.)
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* Fixes to camera parameters for external views (especially when rotating
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the view around the different axes.)
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* Many miscellaneous code clean ups, many bug fixes, and much code
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refactoring.
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New in 0.9.1
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* December 5, 2002
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* Fixes a problem with a missing file in the source distribution of 0.9.0
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* Updates to AI aircraft subsystem (this is a work in progress)
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* Added a canned ATC voice handling class (using prerecorded voice snippets.)
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* Added voice ATIS
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New in 0.9.0
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* December 3, 2002
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* Support for fully animated, fully clickable 3d instrument panels.
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* Support for runway, approach, and taxiway lighting. Lighting is
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directional and intensity varies smoothly with relative view
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direction.
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* Many new and updated aircraft.
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* Improved runway textures.
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* Some improved terrain textures.
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* Added a util called terrasync to runtime fetch just the scenery you
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need from the master scenery server as you fly. No need to
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pre-download large chunks of data.
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* Add a vacuum system and support for it's failure.
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* Add a pitot system and support for it's failure.
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* Model gyro spin for various instruments.
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* Added support for modeling complex aircraft electrical system. Sample
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implimentation for a C172, simplistic electrical model provided for
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other aircraft until their specific system is modeled.
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* Added a "presets" section to the GUI.
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* Localization support for GUI and for command line option help, including
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the ability to specify a custom per language font.
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* Support for specifying an initial startup runway.
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* Splash screen now slowly fades out revealing the ready to run sim.
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* Support additional joysticks: Logitech WingMan Force,
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Logitech WingMan Extreme Digital 3D (USB), and Saitek Cyborg Gold 3D USB,
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CH Virtual Pilot USB/USB CH Pedals,
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* Many updates to External/Network FDM interface.
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* Many updates to the JSBSim FDM model code.
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* Many updates from the UIUC folk to their FDM package.
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* Many updates to the YASim FDM model code (fuel usage, tunable
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induced drag parameter, better gear tuning, fix a ground effect bug,
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and a standalone config file compiler.
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* Make rotational rate FDM values available in the property tree.
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* Fix a subtle bug in the ssg partial tree deleter code.
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* Started a new XML configurable GUI subsystem.
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* Some preliminary support for AI driven aircraft.
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* Fix ILS back course needle deflection.
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* Fix for ATI driver "issue" causing instrument panels to be all gray.
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* Support for toggling 3d instrument hotspot visibility (debugging/learning
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tool.)
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* Tweaks to instrument panel night lighting.
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* Added a per engine fuel pump switch.
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* NOMINMAX fix for cygwin/gcc-3.2
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* Renamed External FDM to NullFDM
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* New module/submodule system.
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* IRIX build fixes
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* Restructured some of the initialization code to facilitate reseting the sim
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to alternate presets (airport, runway, offset distance, altitude, speed, etc.)
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* Fixed DG heading bug hold to work with new instrumentation updates.
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* Updates to autopilot to let it work with perfect values as a compile time
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option.
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* Split Nav/Com units, and DME out into their own source files.
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* Fixes to support newer versions of plib/cvs
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New in 0.8.0
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* September 7, 2002
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* The world is now populated with random ground objects with
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appropriate type and density for the local ground cover type
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(buildings, water towers, farm houses, silos, cows, trees, etc.)
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* Many (most?) ground textures updated for a much nicer, more coherent,
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more realistic overall look and feel.
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* Added a java client library for FlightGear.
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* Added some external scripting examples (python.)
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* Implemented a Bendix/King KT 70 transponder.
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* Implemented a Bendix/King KR 87 adf.
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* Added support for 3d instrument panels inside 3d cockpits.
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* Added support for animation of 3d models tied to internal properties.
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* New/updated aircraft include: Cessna 172, Piper J3 Cub, DC-3, A4
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Skyhawk, Cessna 310, 747, 1903 Wright Flyer (non-linear with stall
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modeled, based on wind tunnel data.)
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* Convert the magic carpet into a UFO, complete with sound effects and
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a 3d model (based on real world data of course.) :-)
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* Environment manager overhaul
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* Support for a base wind speed with gusts.
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* Support for a base wind direction with variation.
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* Support for more dynamically reconfigurable cloud layers. Cloud
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layers are no longer hard coded.
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* Updates and additions to the FAQ
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* Improvements to the sound effects module.
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* Autopilot fixes to allow it to work much better on large airliners.
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* Added a generic interface for running the flight dynamics model as a
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separate process communicating via a network connection.
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* Synced with the latest JSBSim code.
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* Synced with the latest UIUCmodel code.
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* Many fixes and updates to the YASim FDM (fixed flap drag issue, new
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tail wheel lock, lots of solver fixes, and fixes to other internal
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stuff.)
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* Added support for menus defined in an xml file.
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* Make the help system start more robustly/quickly in Win32
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* Added support for detecting the name of a joystick and using the
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appropriate default joystick config file.
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* Overhauled the remote/network property interface.
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* Added a --show-aircraft option to dump out a list of all the
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available aircraft you can select with the --aircraft=NAME option.
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* Added a --random-wind command line option.
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* --wind= option can now contain ranges,
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i.e. --wind=min_dir:max_dir@min_speed:max_speed; the system will
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automatically vary the wind within these ranges.
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* A "physical" crash (i.e. too-hard impact with the ground) causes the
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sim to freeze. You can then reset the sim to the starting state
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with the menu->reset option.
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* Support in the scenery tile cache for maintaining tiles in the cache
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relative to several view points that could be *very* far apart.
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* Brake makes the magic carpet fly backwards.
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* Many clean ups, fixes, and improvements with the tile pager. Memory free
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is now done incrementally and spread out through multiple frames to hide it.
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* Modernized the autoconf/make scripts.
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* Cleaned up old cruft from the build system.
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* Default to using FGEnvironment
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* Removed support for efence (in favor of valgrind.)
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* Bumped minimum plib version required up to 1.4.2, however the latest
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cvs (and hopefully release) works much better.
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* Added valgrind debugging config files/scripts.
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* Weeded out many warnings/errors flagged by valgrind.
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* Overhauled the FGSubsystem class.
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* Fixed reporting of winds, cloudbase and altimeter setting.
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* FGSteam converted to a proper FGSubsystem.
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* Fix fog on 3dfx cards.
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* Added internal support for turning each tank on/off individually.
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* Added support for a fuel selector switch.
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* Fixes to builtin property browser.
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* Fixed several math overflow problems with time elapsed calculations
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that had crept in. These would cause some things to stop updating
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(like portions of the instrument panel, and radio station frequency
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matching.)
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* Updates to the network OpenGC interface.
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* Irix fixes.
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* Mac OS X fixes.
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* MSVC fixes.
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* IA-64 w/ Intel compiler fixes.
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* automake/conf script enhancemnts and fixes.
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* Updated the UIUCModel code.
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* Removed some dos line endings that crept in.
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* Spelling fixes.
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* Removed some depricated code related to the old view management system.
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* Fix a problem with VOR station lookups where we wouldn't always find
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the closest station of a given frequency.
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* Changed the default Nav radio frequencies to be more appropriate for SFO.
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* Retrimmed the C172
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* Added seats and other interior stuff to the J3 Cub, and retrimmed. Also
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fixed wing incidence in the 3d visual model.
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* Fixed C310u3a-3d. 3d cockpit instruments can now be seen.
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* Fixes to the DC-3 such as tank location; other surface and wheel position
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adjustments. Increase effectiveness of rudder, vstab, and hstab.
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* Updated some of the preconfigured joystick files.
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* Updated man pages
|
|
* Fixed problem with pressure/altitude getting botched up after a reset
|
|
* Use a nicer helvetica font for the menus.
|
|
* Various fixes to the internal pui property browser.
|
|
* Fixed a typo in the scenery file loader that could cause a crash on
|
|
some platforms.
|
|
* More joystick configuration defaults. (Saitek Cyborg Gold 3D USB,
|
|
non FF sidewinder precision 2 usb)
|
|
* More texture tweaks.
|
|
* Additional fixes and panel work for the J3 Cub.
|
|
|
|
|
|
New in 0.7.10
|
|
* April 20, 2002
|
|
|
|
* Much work on drawing and animating 3d aircraft models for things like the
|
|
chase and tower views. Propellers spin, control surfaces move, gear
|
|
retracts, etc.
|
|
* Overhauled mouse handling code and make it user configurable.
|
|
* Added a new environment (as in weather) subsystem.
|
|
* Added a new logging module
|
|
* Aded a new ATC subsystem.
|
|
* Virtual 3d Cessna 172 cockpit (work in progress) but many things are
|
|
animated and working.
|
|
* Virtual 3d Cessna 310 cockpit.
|
|
* Instrument panel background can now be a set of tiled textures so we can
|
|
achieve *much* higher resolution.
|
|
|
|
* Major property manager overhaul.
|
|
* Major view code overhaul. All views are now configurable via config files.
|
|
* Major overhaul of the sound manager, it is now much more
|
|
configurable with many sound effect improvements.
|
|
* Seperate XML I/O opertions into a separate header.
|
|
* Impliment a standard FGSubsystem interface for module consistency.
|
|
* Add waypoint dialog now shows entire current waypoint list in a scroll box.
|
|
* Elevator trim position now shown on the HUD.
|
|
* Use an LED font for radios (and added infrastructer/support for
|
|
additional fonts.)
|
|
* Continued work on developing a generalized network interface to an external
|
|
flight dynamics model running as a separate process on the same or different
|
|
machine.
|
|
* Initial glideslope and climb rate can be specified from the command line.
|
|
* Fixes and improvements to make ground trimming more robust.
|
|
* Many JSBSim updates and improvements, JSBSim now exports all it's
|
|
interesting internal state via the property manager.
|
|
* Many updates to UIUCsim including support for non-linear models, flaps.
|
|
* Move tower view location when teleporting to a new airport.
|
|
* Created a new /devices subtree in the property manager to display
|
|
current device status.
|
|
|
|
* Many YASim updates and bug fixes, autogen contact points for
|
|
collision detection, support for full engine startup procedure,
|
|
minimal support for magnetos, support skid objects (non-rolling gear
|
|
objects), reduce idle power a bit, export gear compression amount to
|
|
the property tree, include wind when computing airspeed,
|
|
|
|
* Fixes to the property picker/browser.
|
|
* Fixes and updates to the configure script.
|
|
* Several potential memory abuse bugs detected (valgrind) and fixed (Melchior)
|
|
* Fix an instrument panel text bug ... an integer overflow could prevent
|
|
the text from displaying if the panel was turned off for more than 37.8
|
|
minutes.
|
|
* Fixed a segfault when trying to audibly ident a nav station. Changes in
|
|
the sound manager code broke some assumptions.
|
|
* Fixed a bug (another int overflow) which could trick the event
|
|
manager into thinking the next time to run the events is *way* in
|
|
the future.
|
|
* Various performance optimizations.
|
|
* More work on saving/restoring flights
|
|
* Of all the ILS stations of the specified frequency, pick the one the most
|
|
directly points at us.
|
|
* Various restructures in the scenery loading code in preparation for
|
|
more flexible runway lighting support.
|
|
* Fixes/improvements to the scenery/line interesection code.
|
|
|
|
* Various IRIX fixes.
|
|
* Various MSVC fixes.
|
|
* Various compiler warning messages fixed.
|
|
|
|
|
|
New in 0.7.9 (final)
|
|
* February 16, 2002
|
|
|
|
* Fixes to the Thanks file.
|
|
* Fix --time-offset in the man page and options help.
|
|
* Fixed the spelling of Celsius.
|
|
* Cleaned up some stray cout's
|
|
* Removed some redundant FG* class qualifiers in various headers.
|
|
* GUI dialog box fixes for autopilot.
|
|
* Ensure that initial engine settings are copied over from FlightGear
|
|
to JSBSim.
|
|
* FreeBSD fix from JSBSim.
|
|
|
|
|
|
New in 0.7.9pre2
|
|
* February 13, 2002
|
|
|
|
* JSBSim FGPiston mixture improvements
|
|
* Enable Audio by default in MSVC builds
|
|
* Added a clock freeze option.
|
|
|
|
|
|
New in 0.7.9pre1
|
|
* February 12, 2002
|
|
|
|
* Switch to JSBSim (jsbsim.sf.net) as our default flight model.
|
|
* Added additional aircraft: Cessna 182, Cessna 172 (ifr panel),
|
|
and a Cessna 310 (twin prop).
|
|
* Added an entirely new set of flight dynamics modeling code by Andy Ross.
|
|
Includes several aircraft such as a 747, A4, and DC-3.
|
|
This is (Y)et (A)nother Flight Dynamics (Sim)ulator. It is a first cut
|
|
of a "different take" on FDM design. It's intended to be very simple
|
|
to use, producing reasonable results for aircraft of all sorts and sizes,
|
|
while maintaining simulation plausibility even in odd flight conditions
|
|
like spins and aerobatics. It's at the point now where one can
|
|
actually fly the planes around.
|
|
* Added an optional embedded http server that provides a property
|
|
manager interface to external programs and scripts.
|
|
* Added an optional embedded http server that can serve out live
|
|
screen shots to anyone on the web.
|
|
* Sync with the latest JSBSim code.
|
|
* Added simple ATIS support.
|
|
* More flexible autopilot that can be tuned per aircraft.
|
|
* Many updates to the HUD to allow it to handle a much bigger set of
|
|
symbology and functionality
|
|
* Support for back course ILS approaches.
|
|
* Implimented DME ETE and speed.
|
|
* Added support for rudder and aileron trim.
|
|
* Many improvents with piston engine and propeller modeling. Engine
|
|
startup procedures work, and engine guages work.
|
|
* Added support for retractable gear.
|
|
* Added 'master freeze' and 'fuel freeze' modes. Would like to add
|
|
other freeze modes soon.
|
|
* Added a 'high' level aircraft config file that specifies things like
|
|
the FDM code to use, the aircraft config file, the 3d model, the
|
|
instrument panel, autopilot config, etc.
|
|
* Added a neat external 'chase' view control panel.
|
|
* Added a GUI interface to the property manager system.
|
|
* Moved keybinding definitions to a config file.
|
|
* Many additions and improvements to the sound effects including
|
|
stall horn, tire squeek, ground rumble, wind noise, flaps, etc.
|
|
* Enable introduction music in windows (off by default on all platforms)
|
|
* Added support for the OpenGC glass cockpit project.
|
|
* Added support for flying ILS approaches in both runway directions if the
|
|
same frequency is used in both cases.
|
|
|
|
* Added an autogen.sh script for those compiling from CVS code.
|
|
* Attempt to support more incompatible varients of the
|
|
automake/autoconf tools.
|
|
* Added basic man pages.
|
|
* Removed old remnants of plib-1.2.x support. Plib-1.4.x is now required.
|
|
* Added support for building mandrake packages (other packaging system
|
|
contributions welcom.)
|
|
* Various initialization and startup sequence fixes and tweaks.
|
|
This helps get the flight dynamics model going reliably and robustly.
|
|
It also helps get initial time of day effects correct.
|
|
* Fixed a config problem that could lead to bogus builds for people with
|
|
Voodoo cards.
|
|
* Better support for running with an alternate time/date for when we
|
|
are being slaved to an external data source.
|
|
* Fixed (simplistic) terrain following autopilot mode.
|
|
* Fixes to problems with window aspect ratio that could surface if the
|
|
window was resized.
|
|
* Fix several off by one errors in hud_card.cxx
|
|
* Fix gauge spelling error.
|
|
* Modified FGSubsystem::update() to take an int parameter for delta time.
|
|
* Many internal fixes and enhancements to the core code that manages
|
|
instrument panel modeling and rendering.
|
|
* LaRCsim EGT doesn't show 'running' values while cranking.
|
|
* Fixes to JSBSim so that the slip/skid ball is much more realistically modelled
|
|
* Added support for an unlimited number of fuel tanks.
|
|
* Multi-engine throttle fixes.
|
|
* A round of updates to the UIUC flight dynamics model.
|
|
* Fixed an annoying tile cache scheduling bug. This makes tile paging
|
|
much more robust even with teleporting and reseting.
|
|
* Fixed a potential mouse freeze up condition on windows.
|
|
* Converted the materials file to xml.
|
|
* Tweaked and updated initial option and config file parsing to be
|
|
more intuitive and robust.
|
|
* Check for the proper version of the base file and exit gracefully
|
|
if not found.
|
|
* Fixed a problem with the initial view offset being lost.
|
|
* Various floating point / initial value bug fixes
|
|
* Added support for tracing property manager reads and writes (for
|
|
debugging purposes.)
|
|
* Fixed the problem where the simulator clock time would go goofy
|
|
when scenery was being loaded.
|
|
* Make the tile cache system more tolerant of situations where the tile
|
|
cache is full, but no entry qualifies for removal.
|
|
|
|
* MSVC fixes.
|
|
* IRIX fixes.
|
|
* FreeBSD fixes.
|
|
* Mac OS X fixes.
|
|
* Better cygwin and mingwin support.
|
|
* Better support for gcc-3.0
|
|
|
|
|
|
New in 0.7.8
|
|
* July 13, 2001
|
|
* Updated to the latest JSBSim flight dynamics model (http://jsbsim.sf.net)
|
|
* First release of a bundled utility: fgjs which assists you in creating
|
|
a joystick/button configuration for your setup.
|
|
* Updated airport data file with taxiways at many major airports.
|
|
* Better support for using an external browser to view online help
|
|
components. Windows support for this will be included in the next
|
|
revision.
|
|
* Now using plib-1.4.x which supports more than 3 concurrent sounds.
|
|
* Most of the README's and documentation has been reviewed and brought
|
|
up to date.
|
|
* Support for ultra-hires screen dumps suitable for large scale
|
|
printed output.
|
|
* Updated, more flexible binary scenery format.
|
|
* Support for using digital axes (i.e. a hat) as a pair of buttons
|
|
which can be mapped to any function a button could be mapped to.
|
|
* Added user documentation to the base package
|
|
* Added a c172 mini panel.
|
|
* Improved c172 panel graphics.
|
|
* Added units to configuration files
|
|
* Fixed X15 panel
|
|
* External view panning fix ups.
|
|
* Fixed the segfault on exit bug.
|
|
* Lots of property manager tweaks. Appened units to property name to
|
|
make it explicit, adjusted read/write/archive bits and defaults
|
|
* MSVC fixups.
|
|
* gcc-3.0 fixups.
|
|
* Irix fixups.
|
|
* Fixed a potential segfault in radio station lookup/search code.
|
|
* Fixed a bug in the audio system intialization order that could cause
|
|
a segfault in some circumstances.
|
|
* Fixed a typo in the 2nd tank property name so it's value is now accessible
|
|
from the instrument panel.
|
|
* Fixed a bug when loading the "old" binary scenery which prevented ground
|
|
lighting from being generated.
|
|
* Jettison old conditionally compiled plib-1.2.x code, we now require
|
|
plib-1.4.x or higher.
|
|
* Eliminated some convoluted that generated a harmless, but confusing
|
|
"*** NO TIMEZONE" error message,
|
|
* Fixed doubled bindings for joystick buttons.
|
|
* Threading fixups.
|
|
* Fixed a bug with the time warping/offset code. You can again
|
|
startup with a proper time offset if you like.
|
|
* Fixed a couple memory problems ... attempting to access/use/write to
|
|
previously freed memory.
|
|
|
|
New in 0.7.7
|
|
* June 20, 2001
|
|
|
|
* Cleaned up various warning messages
|
|
* Various Cygwin fixes.
|
|
* Various MSVC fixes.
|
|
* Various Irix Mips fixes.
|
|
|
|
* Check for null panel before passing mouse events to panel object.
|
|
* Fixed panel edge artifacts (due to unwanted texture wrapping.)
|
|
* Fixed a typo in the base/materials file.
|
|
* Various property manager fixes.
|
|
* Various property manager lookup optimizations.
|
|
* Fixed a bug in the autopilot altitude hold that crept in.
|
|
|
|
* Converted from hardcoded to configurable keyboard bindings.
|
|
* Added an FGSubsystem base class so subsystems can be managed with a
|
|
common api.
|
|
* Keyboard commands are now completely remapable. Removed BFI and
|
|
keyboard in place of remapable inputs.
|
|
* Started to impliment a command manager. This along with the
|
|
property manager will go a long ways toward building infrastructure
|
|
for scripting.
|
|
* Started laying infrastructure for creating ultra-high-res tiled
|
|
screen shots suitable for printers.
|
|
* Synced with a recent version of JSBSim.
|
|
* GUI code split into smaller logical subcomponents.
|
|
* FGOptions converted to use property manager directly.
|
|
* "delta-t" and fdm interface timing fixes and tweaks.
|
|
* Added a sound effect manager class at the FlightGear level.
|
|
|
|
* Support for setting a starting position as and offset distance (and /
|
|
or radial) from your specified starting postition. This allows you to
|
|
initialize on final x miles out at y altitude.
|
|
* Many updates to make a much more realistic single engine and prop model
|
|
with atmospheric and velocity dependencies. Fuel flow now modeled.
|
|
* Straightened out magnetic offset issues with VOR stations so we can
|
|
navigate properly from real avaition charts.
|
|
* Added a direct network interface support for the "Atlas" moving map
|
|
program. (Output radio stack settings so current VOR and OBS can be
|
|
visualized.)
|
|
* Autopilot made to work more like a real world autopilot (rather than
|
|
based on perfect values.) Autopilot wing leveler is slaved off the
|
|
turn coordinator. Heading hold is slaved from the DG (which drifts).
|
|
Nav and ILS holds slave off the needle position.
|
|
* Backcorse ILS needle should move in correct direction now.
|
|
* Identing of NAV radios (and individual volume control) now work.
|
|
* Don't play DME ident if no colocated DME.
|
|
* VOR/ILS/ADF range pickup realistically modeled as per AIM.
|
|
* Added support for marker beacons.
|
|
* Support for loading and saving the current 'simulator state' using
|
|
an xml formated file.
|
|
* Added threaded tile paging for systems with pthread support.
|
|
* Added high level support for creating airport taxiway and runway signs.
|
|
* Many updates and fixes to the "installation and getting started" manual.
|
|
* Support for adding static objects to the scenery.
|
|
* Many updates and new features for the xml configurable panel engine.
|
|
Many corresponding improvements to the default instrument panel.
|
|
* Support added for incrementally numbering screen snapshots.
|
|
* Added support for a new, smaller, faster binary scenery format.
|
|
* Added an xml configurable HUD engine.
|
|
* Added interface glue to propogate wind values to LaRCsim.
|
|
|
|
New in 0.7.6
|
|
* December 15, 2000
|
|
* Added night ground cover lights with user controllable densities on
|
|
a per texture basis. Lights have a bit of a "fog punch through" effect.
|
|
* Support added for "shaped" instrument panels.
|
|
* Added support for virtual panels that are larger than the screen
|
|
space which can scroll.
|
|
* Added waypoint and route flying support to the autopilot and HUD.
|
|
* New highly detailed runway textures with accurate markings.
|
|
* Added a basic piston engine model, with support for rpm, egt, cht, mp,
|
|
and mixture.
|
|
* Many tweaks and improvements to the c172 instrument panel.
|
|
* Corrections and additions to the airport and navaid database.
|
|
* Added an external interface to the property manager so you can
|
|
"telnet" into a running copy of FlightGear, cd through the property
|
|
tree and examine and even change values, all from a remote computer.
|
|
* Improvements to flight model initialization.
|
|
* Fixes and improvements to the save/restore code.
|
|
* Added a load/save dialog box for saving/restoring your current flight.
|
|
* Program notes max texture size for your card/driver so it can load
|
|
higher resultion textures if they are available and if you can use
|
|
them.
|
|
* Added a visibility= command line option for setting intial visibility
|
|
distance.
|
|
* Range of tiles loaded and drawn are now directly calculated from the current
|
|
visibility distance so that the ground always blends smoothly into sky.
|
|
* Rewrote the tile caching scheme so it is now more flexible, more dynamic,
|
|
simpler, and more robust.
|
|
* Updates to the FDM bus.
|
|
* Many clean ups with the view code to prepare the way for a greater
|
|
variety of external views.
|
|
* MSVC project files now included in the source distribution.
|
|
* Fixed a view bug that could make the aircraft model appear rotated
|
|
incorrectly
|
|
* Fixed a bug with the autopilot rate of climb hold.
|
|
* Internal property manager tweaks.
|
|
* Additional materials can be aliased to an existing material to save
|
|
texture space (at the expense of less texture variety)
|
|
* MSVC tweaks.
|
|
* MacOS tweaks.
|
|
|
|
New in 0.7.5
|
|
* September 18, 2000
|
|
* Aircraft now starts at end of runway closest to desired heading.
|
|
* Runways now have accurate markings.
|
|
* Addition of a completely reconfigurable instrument panel.
|
|
* Tons of panel tweaks and fixes. Gyro now drifts, relocated whisky compass,
|
|
skid ball moves in the right direction, etc.
|
|
* Updates and tweaks to network multiplayer code.
|
|
* Tweaks to ground steering sensitivity.
|
|
* Updates to the UIUC flightmodel and icing research code.
|
|
* Fixed the sound problem in the previous version.
|
|
* Current scenery normal is now available for use.
|
|
* Current load queue size is now available for use.
|
|
* Added a configure time check for proper simgear version.
|
|
* Explicitely link in -lpthread if it exists.
|
|
* Fixed a couple namespace problems.
|
|
* MacOS and MSVC tweaks.
|
|
* Renamed JSBsim to JSBSim
|
|
* Added support in the material library for non-repeating textures.
|
|
|
|
New in 0.7.4
|
|
* July 19, 2000
|
|
|
|
* VOR reception now scales with altitude.
|
|
* Added differential braking support.
|
|
* Landing gear modeling code now works in JSBSim
|
|
* Overhauled cloud code substantially, new cloud textures.
|
|
* Added support for Ray Woodworth's 5 axis motion chair.
|
|
* Red light the panel at night and shade based on time of day.
|
|
|
|
* Fixed autopilot altitude hold increment bug.
|
|
* Fixed screen snap shot function.
|
|
* Fixed mach number for LaRCsim.
|
|
* --start-date-gmt option fixed.
|
|
* Fixes to uiuc includes and initializations
|
|
* Fixes to periodic scheduler.
|
|
* Fixed a tile loading bug if the load queue wasn't empty before a reset or
|
|
teleport.
|
|
|
|
* Some additional MSVC5 portability fixes.
|
|
* Tweaks to build with newest gcc under Irix contributed by Erik Hofman.
|
|
|
|
* Clean out a pile of old junk in the material manager library from the
|
|
pre-ssg days, and majorly overhauled it.
|
|
* Complete reengineering of the panel code in preparation for moving the
|
|
configuration out into a data file.
|
|
* Lots of hashing around with Joystick support trying to achieve something
|
|
that is flexible enough to handle the zillions of possible configurations
|
|
out there. Hopefully we are approaching a workable solution.
|
|
* Better windows support in our joystick module.
|
|
* View code simplifications and optimizations contributed by Norman Vine.
|
|
|
|
* Added support for $FG_SCENERY and --fg-scenery=path so scenery can have a
|
|
different location from the base package.
|
|
* Moved drop in sky module, world time module, ephemeris module, and low
|
|
level communications modules over to simgear.
|
|
* Replaced gdbm with metakit
|
|
* Added David Megginson's property manager
|
|
|
|
|
|
New in 0.7.3
|
|
* May 18, 2000
|
|
* Added a radio stack 2 VOR/ILS and an ADF to the instrument panel.
|
|
You can change the frequencies by clicking on the knobs on the
|
|
instrument panels. You can now navigate with VOR/ADF/DME and fly
|
|
ILS approaches.
|
|
* Added a chronometer to the instrument panel.
|
|
* Added a "wet" compass to the top of the instrument panel.
|
|
* Compass, vsi, and altitute instruments and vacuum system are more
|
|
accurately modeled.
|
|
* Added a magnetic variation model.
|
|
* Added navaid database management and query code.
|
|
* Added magvar offset to VOR radials.
|
|
* Heading bug now display magnetic heading rather than true heading.
|
|
* Autopilot now has modes to track a VOR and GS.
|
|
* Added custom joystick client support so sim can be flown from a
|
|
remote joystick connected to another machine. This is in support of
|
|
some custom hardware located in the human factors research lab of the
|
|
university of minnesota.
|
|
* HUD controls are a bit different "h" toggles through day/night/off
|
|
modes and "H" cycles through brightness levels.
|
|
* Norman Vine contributed code to optionally do antialiased hud lines
|
|
on hardware that supports this. Norman also contributed additional
|
|
hud cleanups and updates.
|
|
* Updates to JSBsim flight dynamics code that includes a generic
|
|
reconfigurable flight control system, a initial state trimming routine,
|
|
support for wind and weather, support for flaps, independent trim control,
|
|
config files changes
|
|
* Updates to LaRCsim flight dynamcis code contributed by UIUC that
|
|
allows loading aircraft specifications at runtime from config files.
|
|
UIUC is using flightgear as a platform to do icing research. The UIUC
|
|
aircraft use the c172 gear model for now which causes some weirdness
|
|
on the ground for some of the larger aircraft.
|
|
* Flight model no longer has to be chosen at compile time.
|
|
* Separated ephemeris code from the actual sky rendering code and gave
|
|
this whole section a big overhaul. The moon should now consistantly
|
|
have the correct phase.
|
|
* Rebuilt the sky dome using ssg.
|
|
* Removed dependencies on mat3.h and friends (old srgp support lib)
|
|
* Airport lookups now done through gdbm (a light weight embedded database.)
|
|
* Converted ssgVTable's to ssgVtxTables which do proper memory
|
|
management and should facilitate use of compiled vertex arrays once
|
|
ssg add support for these.
|
|
* Overhauled autopilot internals, separated out the gui controls from
|
|
the actual autopilot code.
|
|
* Cygwin32 build fixes
|
|
* MSVC++ build fixes
|
|
* Mac build fixes
|
|
|
|
New in 0.7.2
|
|
* February 17, 2000
|
|
* Lots of code reorganizations
|
|
* Build requires plib-1.1.x
|
|
* Build requires SimGear-0.0.x
|
|
* LaRCsim/c172 is now the default aircraft model.
|
|
* Added flaps support to control model.
|
|
* Lots of updates and tweaks for the LaRCsim/c172 model.
|
|
* Use a more standard texture/blend mode combination for sun/moon halos to
|
|
avoid render path that's not supported by all cards/drivers.
|
|
* Change reported speed on hud from V_equiv_kts to V_calibrated_kts
|
|
* Instrument panel rewrite by David Megginson. This isn't quite as flashy
|
|
as the first pass, but is much more functional, plays much better with
|
|
opengl, and it should be relatively easy for someone with graphical skills
|
|
to make it look more spiffy.
|
|
* MacOS fixes contributed by Darrell Walisser.
|
|
* Many JSBsim updates.
|
|
* Added a screen snapshot facility (F3).
|
|
* Added a load/save state function contributed by David Megginson.
|
|
* Added support for various I/O protocols and channels so that flightgear
|
|
can communicate with itself and other programs through a variety of means.
|
|
* Bug fix: The aircraft model used for external views was being included in
|
|
the height above terrain check so when the view position and the aircraft
|
|
model collided the current altitude kept getting pushed up to compensate,
|
|
but of course the aircraft model would get pushed up as well because it
|
|
tracks the current aircraft position and orientation. Thus you had a never
|
|
ending cycle ...
|
|
* Oliver's multiplayer network code now moved to his own subdirectory:
|
|
NetworkOLK
|
|
* Added simulated cloud puffs as we pass through the cloud layer.
|
|
* Cleaned up some memory leaks occuring between ssg and flightgear.
|
|
* Update to Christian's weather data base code.
|
|
|
|
New in 0.7.1
|
|
* Durk Talsma added a nifty cloud layer.
|
|
* Default to Christian Mayer's new weather system.
|
|
* Added routines to do screen printing contributed by Mark Vallevand.
|
|
* Added routines to do screen shots to ppm graphics file (all platforms)
|
|
contributed Rich Kaszeta.
|
|
* Added a magic carpet (aka slew) mode.
|
|
* Added a hot air balloon simulator mode. (alpha)
|
|
* Added a simple (direct lincage) autocoordation feature.
|
|
* Added a mode to control view (side to side and up and down) with the mouse.
|
|
* Fixed a DEM decoding problem which caused most of the terrain to be 256
|
|
meter too high (and regenerated the world scenery with proper elevations.)
|
|
* Updates to JSBsim.
|
|
* Added support for a pilot view offset from the center of gravity.
|
|
* Various platform portability fixes.
|
|
* Updated time-offset/syncing command line options.
|
|
* Updated the FDM <==> Flight Gear interface to be more object oriented.
|
|
This should hopefully pave the way for being able to simulate several
|
|
concurrent entities.
|
|
* Removed unimplemented menu entries.
|
|
* Various scenery tools changes and enhancements in preparation for adding
|
|
runways (hopefully for the next release.)
|
|
|
|
New in 0.7.0
|
|
* Autopilot can now fly great circle routes.
|
|
* Incorporated a first stab at some networking code contributed by Oliver
|
|
Delise.
|
|
* Added Christian Mayer's new weather subsystem.
|
|
* Started adding support for "external" views ... still needs some work.
|
|
* Added a flight model acceleration funtion.
|
|
* Added support for mouse yoke control contributed by David Megginson.
|
|
* FDM model hertz now definable from the command line.
|
|
* Added initial timezone support so the user can have better control and more
|
|
options for setting the starting time of the sim.
|
|
* We now draw nonexistant tiles as ocean which means we only have to create
|
|
and distribute tiles that contain some sort of land mass.
|
|
|
|
* Replaced basic render engine with plib's ssg (simple scene graph).
|
|
* Now expect plib to be installed in it's one true and official location.
|
|
* Added support for timegm() if it exists which explicitely expects GMT input.
|
|
* A bit of your basic code reorganization and shuffling.
|
|
|
|
* Removed tools dependency on libgfc. Functionality is now covered by
|
|
shapelib which has been added into the Tools tree.
|
|
* Added support for the wonderful GSHHS global land mass data set.
|
|
* Removed dependecy on process-dem.pl script.
|
|
* Created a new distributed/parallel tile build system ... hmmm kind of super
|
|
computer or beowulf style stuff for getting large chunks of scenery built
|
|
as fast as possible.
|
|
* Only generate tiles that have land mass data since the sim can recreate pure
|
|
ocean tiles on the fly.
|
|
* First stab at a water flattening scheme to prevent oceans, lakes, and rivers
|
|
from running up and down the sides of hills.
|
|
* Changed the default "Work/" subdirectory layout.
|
|
* Updates to better handle segment boundaries in preparation for real airport
|
|
runway and lighting modeling.
|
|
* Updates and enhancements to my polygon management class.
|
|
|
|
* Updates to JSBsim.
|
|
* Updates to Tony's c172 model.
|
|
* Updated getting started guide from Micheal Basler.
|
|
|
|
* FreeBSD portability tweaks.
|
|
* MACos portability tweaks.
|
|
* Borland C++ tweaks.
|
|
* MSVC++ tweaks.
|
|
|
|
New in 0.6.0
|
|
* Tons of improvements with scenery creation. Inter-tile gaps have been
|
|
fixed, distorted textures have been fixed, real coastlines have been added,
|
|
and many other subtle improvements.
|
|
* Tools for parallelizing the scenery building tasks. For instance by using
|
|
20 machines in parallel, scenery for the entire USA can be regenerated in
|
|
just over 4 hours vs. 70+ hours on a single machine.
|
|
* Texture scale can be specified (and changed)( in the materials file. The
|
|
sim must be rerun for the change to take effect.
|
|
* Windows now uses plib joystick code so rudder pedals should now work.
|
|
* Now builds against Steve Baker's plib (portable game devel library)
|
|
distributed separately (www.woodsoup.org/~sbaker/plib/)
|
|
* Many source code changes for the MacOS port contributed by Darrell
|
|
Walisser (the port isn't quite there yet ...)
|
|
* Source code changes for better compiling with the Borland compiler.
|
|
* Source code changes for better compiling with the native Irix compilers.
|
|
* Fixed a bug so you can now fly across the international date line (or
|
|
more precisely the division between longitude = +/-180.
|
|
* Tweaks to the Astro section contributed by Durk Talsma.
|
|
* Autopilot improvements contributed by Norman Vine.
|
|
* Fonts/characters now drawn with texture maps for increased speed.
|
|
* Instrument panel can be toggled on and off with "P".
|
|
* GUI interface for tweaking some autopilot parameters.
|
|
* HUD appearance and layout changes contributed by Norman Vine, includes
|
|
faster font drawing for much better performance.
|
|
* Reset function added to reset you to your starting conditions.
|
|
* GUI function to enter a new airport id (and be transported there)
|
|
* Added serial output support for an "in-development" full motion cockpit.
|
|
* "Just in time" texture loading to reduce initial sim loading time.
|
|
|
|
|
|
New in 0.59 (This is an intermediate/stepping stone release. Skip this
|
|
release if you are interested in stability.)
|
|
* IRIX portability changes and support for native SGI compilers.
|
|
* Solaris portability tweaks
|
|
* Incorporated some MacOS portability changes (although the port is not
|
|
yet complete.)
|
|
* Changes to allow adjustment of the autopilot settings while it is
|
|
activated.
|
|
* Began complete overhaul of scenery generation tools.
|
|
* Fixed a view frustum culling bug.
|
|
* separated lib GPC (generic polygon clipper.) GPC is not "freeware" and
|
|
the author has explicitely refused our request to distribute source code
|
|
for this library with Flight Gear.
|
|
* updated installation and getting started guide
|
|
* switched to a simpler, lighter weight frame rate calculation method.
|
|
* new tile division scheme.
|
|
* GPS serial *output* fixes.
|
|
* Added a nifty halo to both the sun and moon. Preparation for allowing
|
|
subtle moon lighting effects at night.
|
|
* Incorporated Jon Berndt's new C++ flight model rewrite.
|
|
* Autopilot settings can be adjusted while active.
|
|
* Updates to the instrument panel.
|
|
* Fixed AOA reading on the HUD.
|
|
* Added random splash screens.
|
|
* Modified scenery loader to accept tri-fans.
|
|
* Other non-backwards compatible changes to scenery file format and tile
|
|
layout.
|
|
|
|
|
|
New in 0.58
|
|
* Added JSBsim alpha code ... this is Jon S. Berndts alpha FDM rewrite.
|
|
Still lots to do, but you can watch a balistic flight for a short time.
|
|
* Renamed Simulator/Flight to Simulator/FDM
|
|
* Tweaks to assist building FGFS on solaris platforms.
|
|
* Moved Lib/DEM to Tools/DEM
|
|
* Started preparations for scenery generation tools overhaul.
|
|
* More MSVC++ support.
|
|
* Removed code that made the sun bigger at the horizon since this is just
|
|
an optical illusion in real life.
|
|
* Bug fixed so that the sim can start out at an airport below sea level.
|
|
|
|
New in 0.57
|
|
* Converted to a simpler frame rate counting method.
|
|
* Fixed the AOA reading on the HUD.
|
|
* Removed gpc from the Lib section of distribution by request of the
|
|
gpc Author. The gpc license is unfortunately not compatible with
|
|
the GPL. I may look for an alternative library, or just require
|
|
that developers download this library separately.
|
|
* First slew of changes from the MacOS porting effort contributed by
|
|
"Robert Puyol" <puyol@abvent.fr>.
|
|
* Support for an arbitrary number of serial ports + additional serial port
|
|
output tweaks.
|
|
* Serial output tweaks to make things more robust and act more like a GPS.
|
|
* Portability enhancements for Borland, Solaris, and SGI.
|
|
* Some internal class renaming and reorganizations. fgFLIGHT becomes FGState.
|
|
fgCONTROLS becomes FGControls.
|
|
* Started work on an "external" flight model so the sim can be driven from
|
|
external input (serial port, network, file, etc.)
|
|
* Fixed a problem that creeped in with setting the initial startup altitude.
|
|
This could cause an unrecoverable bounce and you'd end up flipped on your
|
|
back. Should be fixed now.
|
|
* Sun now appears to grow in size as it gets very low in the horizon.
|
|
* Fixed a view frustum culling bug where the scene was not accurately culled
|
|
when your view was anything other than straight forward.
|
|
|
|
New in 0.56
|
|
* Changed default HUD units to the more standard feet units. You can still
|
|
use meters by specifying the command line option "--units-meters".
|
|
* Added some initial joystick support using Steve's joystick interface class.
|
|
This works great under Linux, but Steve's class now needs to be ported to
|
|
Windoze and other platforms.
|
|
* Also added a fall back to the GLUT joystick routines for windows (until
|
|
we can find better joystick support.)
|
|
* Added some initial serial port support for acting like gps and outputing
|
|
nmea data such that could be fed into a flight map software package.
|
|
* Miscellaneous code clean ups, portability improvements, and optimizations.
|
|
* Switched to a streams based error/debug logging system that can be
|
|
completely stripped out for a release build (./configure --without-logging)
|
|
* Support for cygwin32 b20 compiler (latest release)
|
|
* Continued progress on instrument panel
|
|
* Support for starting fgfs at higher resolutions.
|
|
|
|
New in 0.55
|
|
* New version of gpc (generic polygon clipping library) from
|
|
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/alan/software/
|
|
* Brakes (use "b" to toggle)
|
|
* Added an altitude hold module to the autopilot. Lock your current altitude
|
|
with "ctrl-a", "cntr-a" again will deactivate. (Also lock your current
|
|
heading with "ctrl-h", and again to deactivate.)
|
|
* Added a terrain following module ... "ctrl-t" to activate.
|
|
* Added an autothrottle ... "ctrl-s" to activate.
|
|
* Fixes so that terrain tools will work in windoze.
|
|
* More STL & Compiler compatibility fixes.
|
|
* Changes to use a Point3 class.
|
|
* Fixed win95/98 time problem that limited fps to about 18.3
|
|
|
|
New in 0.54
|
|
* Implimented audio envelopes so that pitch of engine changes with throttle
|
|
* Textured moon, and rewritten/restructured Astro code.
|
|
* More optimizations and code cleanups. (Norman Vine, Bernie Bright, Charlie
|
|
Hotchkiss.)
|
|
* Bug fixed that was causing odd display artifacts due to a degenerate
|
|
fragment being created for every tile.
|
|
* Bug fixed that caused scenery generation to go bad (misplaced fclose on an
|
|
invalid file descriptor.)
|
|
* Code changes to support g++ 2.7 STL (from Bernie Bright)
|
|
|
|
New in 0.53
|
|
* Some initial "GameGLUT" support contributed by Gary R. Van Sickle
|
|
(tiberius@braemarinc.com)
|
|
* Tracked down and eliminated some memory access type bugs that were
|
|
causing segfaults on some platforms, with some compilers using various
|
|
optimization flags.
|
|
* Assorted code optimizations submitted by Norman Vine.
|
|
* Renamed fg -> fgfs
|
|
* Shuffled files.
|
|
- Created a new directory Simulator/Airports/ to handle airport data
|
|
specific tasks
|
|
- Created Simulator/Object/ to handle basic rendering objects
|
|
* Panel code update from Friedemann Reinhard (use --enable-panel to activate)
|
|
* Contributions from Bernie Bright
|
|
- Created some new classes to enable pointers-to-functions and
|
|
pointers-to-class-methods to be treated like objects. These objects
|
|
can be registered with fgEVENT_MGR.
|
|
- File "Include/fg_callback.hxx" contains the callback class defns.
|
|
- Modified fgEVENT and fgEVENT_MGR to use the callback classes. Also
|
|
some minor tweaks to STL usage.
|
|
- Added file "Include/fg_stl_config.h" to deal with STL portability
|
|
issues. Added an initial config for egcs (and probably gcc-2.8.x).
|
|
Don't have access to Visual C++ so I've left that for someone else.
|
|
- This file is influenced by the stl_config.h file delivered with egcs.
|
|
- Added "Include/auto_ptr.hxx" which contains an implementation of the
|
|
STL auto_ptr class which is not provided in all STL implementations
|
|
and is needed to use the callback classes.
|
|
- Deleted fgLightUpdate() which was just a wrapper to call
|
|
fgLIGHT::Update().
|
|
- Modified fg_init.cxx to register two method callbacks in place of the
|
|
old wrapper functions.
|
|
- The new classes in libmisc.tgz define a stream interface into zlib.
|
|
I've put these in a new directory, Lib/Misc. Feel free to rename it
|
|
to something more appropriate. However you'll have to change the
|
|
include directives in all the other files. Additionally you'll have
|
|
add the library to Lib/Makefile.am and Simulator/Main/Makefile.am.
|
|
|
|
The StopWatch class in Lib/Misc requires a HAVE_GETRUSAGE autoconf
|
|
test so I've included the required changes in config.tgz.
|
|
|
|
There are a fair few changes to Simulator/Objects as I've moved
|
|
things around. Loading tiles is quicker but thats not where the delay
|
|
is. Tile loading takes a few tenths of a second per file on a P200
|
|
but it seems to be the post-processing that leads to a noticeable
|
|
blip in framerate. I suppose its time to start profiling to see where
|
|
the delays are.
|
|
|
|
I've included a brief description of each archives contents.
|
|
|
|
Lib/Misc/
|
|
zfstream.cxx
|
|
zfstream.hxx
|
|
C++ stream interface into zlib.
|
|
Taken from zlib-1.1.3/contrib/iostream/.
|
|
Minor mods for STL compatibility.
|
|
There's no copyright associated with these so I assume they're
|
|
covered by zlib's.
|
|
|
|
fgstream.cxx
|
|
fgstream.hxx
|
|
FlightGear input stream using gz_ifstream. Tries to open the
|
|
given filename. If that fails then filename is examined and a
|
|
".gz" suffix is removed or appended and that file is opened.
|
|
|
|
stopwatch.hxx
|
|
A simple timer for benchmarking. Not used in production code.
|
|
Taken from the Blitz++ project. Covered by GPL.
|
|
|
|
strutils.cxx
|
|
strutils.hxx
|
|
Some simple string manipulation routines.
|
|
|
|
Simulator/Airports/
|
|
Load airports database using fgstream.
|
|
Changed fgAIRPORTS to use set<> instead of map<>.
|
|
Added bool fgAIRPORTS::search() as a neater way doing the lookup.
|
|
Returns true if found.
|
|
|
|
Simulator/Astro/
|
|
Modified fgStarsInit() to load stars database using fgstream.
|
|
|
|
Simulator/Objects/
|
|
Modified fgObjLoad() to use fgstream.
|
|
Modified fgMATERIAL_MGR::load_lib() to use fgstream.
|
|
Many changes to fgMATERIAL.
|
|
Some changes to fgFRAGMENT but I forget what!
|
|
|
|
New in 0.52
|
|
* Stars added in 8 stages as sky gets darker for a smoother more realistic
|
|
transition.
|
|
* rewrote star loader to significantly improve load times.
|
|
* Tweaked sky brightness and dawn/dusk colors.
|
|
* Fixed a small problem with moon rendering.
|
|
* Fog color tries to track the sky color at the center of view in sunrise
|
|
and sunset situations.
|
|
* Optimizations from Norman Vine
|
|
* Code fixes and tweaks from Charlie Hotchkiss.
|
|
* Added an --enable/disable-sound option.
|
|
* Added a pause key "p"
|
|
* Added command line options to specify initial position and orientation.
|
|
* Added command line option to start in paused or unpaused state.
|
|
|
|
New in 0.51
|
|
* Translucent menus
|
|
* Various HUD intensities so you can find something that is readable for the
|
|
current conditions and lighting.
|
|
* Tie visibility to far clip plane & view frustum culling so reducting
|
|
visibility can increase frame rates by increasing what is culled.
|
|
* Fixed stupid bug with misplaced initial position.
|
|
* Hopefully fixed a bug when parsing system.fgfsrc on windoze.
|
|
|
|
New in 0.50
|
|
* HUD updates from Charlie Hotchkiss (ladder number rotate w/ ladder, control
|
|
position indicators are back)
|
|
* Only draw the PUI cursor if Mesa/Glide/Fullscreen.
|
|
* Added mipmapping.
|
|
* Calculate the model view transformation matrix once per tile per iteration.
|
|
Then glLoadMatrixd() it for each fragment rather than calling push(),
|
|
translate(), pop().
|
|
* Added a basic splash screen.
|
|
* Added support for switching between fullscreen and window mode for
|
|
Mesa/3dfx/glide.
|
|
* added an enable/disable splash screen option
|
|
* added an enable/disable intro music option
|
|
* added an enable/disable instrument panel option
|
|
* added an enable/disable mouse pointer option
|
|
* Ground collision detection. You can now land or test for collision with
|
|
any scenery surface.
|
|
* Converted angle of attack scale into a radio altimeter.
|
|
|
|
New in 0.49
|
|
* Managment of multiple textures
|
|
* Incorporated Friedemann Reinhard's initial panel code.
|
|
* Fog mode is now GL_FOG_EXP2 instead of GL_FOG_LINEAR
|
|
* Build the non-shared pieces of the FG sim as static libs.
|
|
|
|
New in 0.48
|
|
* Incorporated Steve Baker's PUI user interface library written
|
|
entirely on top of OpenGL
|
|
* Incorporated Steve Baker's Audio library which currently only
|
|
supports Linux, but a win32 port is very close to being done.
|
|
* Sort object fragments by material property before rendering. This
|
|
will be a big help to performance when we start including objects
|
|
with a wide variety of material properties and textures.
|
|
* Overlapped scenery tiles to reduce the chance of an occasional
|
|
floating point precission induced gaps.
|
|
* Fixed a bug in zlib exposed by Borland Win32 compiler.
|
|
* Impose a maximum triangle area during scenery generation so even
|
|
very flat areas will get split into a few smaller sub triangles.
|
|
* Fine grained (fragment level) view frustum culling.
|
|
* view transformation optimizations -- Norman Vine.
|
|
* Fixed polygon winding problem in scenery generation, so all
|
|
tri-strips are wound counter clockwise (opengl default).
|
|
|
|
New in 0.47
|
|
* Course (per tile) view frustum culling.
|
|
* Added a command line option to specify --fg-root which will override
|
|
$FG_ROOT
|
|
* Hard coded default locations for FG_ROOT for situations when nothing
|
|
is specified. Unix = /usr/local/lib/FlightGear Win32 = \FlightGear
|
|
* Restructured the command line processing code so that it can process
|
|
these sames comands (one per line) out of a config file.
|
|
* Added a command line option to specify field of view. This is
|
|
adjustable at run time using "X / x". Supporting code contributed
|
|
by Norman Vine.
|
|
|
|
New in 0.46:
|
|
* Complete C++ re-write of the HUD section.
|
|
* Miscellaneous bug fixes and tweaks.
|
|
|
|
New in 0.45:
|
|
* Added an option to enable/disable wireframe rendering.
|
|
* Added an option to enable/disable fog/haze.
|
|
* Added an option to enable/disable sky blending.
|
|
* Added an option to select smooth/flat polygon shading.
|
|
* Added an option to enable full-screen mode.
|
|
* Added a visual frame rate counter on the HUD. (Contributed by Durk Talsma)
|
|
* Autopilot updates (Jeff Goeke-Smith)
|
|
* Added an option to control the number of neighboring tiles that are drawn
|
|
|
|
New in 0.44:
|
|
* Fixed a horible bug that cause the time to be *WAY* off when
|
|
compiling with the CygWin32 compiler.
|
|
* Wrap up zlib so we can conditionally compile back in normal behavior
|
|
on systems that have trouble building zlib.
|
|
* Minor adjustment to texture coordinate generation to reduce texture
|
|
swimming.
|
|
* Added a command line option to enable/disable texture maps
|
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* Minor transformation adjustments to try to keep scenery tiles closer
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to (0, 0, 0) GLfloats run out of precision at the distances we need
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to model the earth, but we can do a bunch of pre-transformations
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using double floats and then cast to GLfloat once everything is
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close in where we have less precision problems.
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* command line option to set starting position by airport ID
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* Cleaned up initialization sequence to eliminate interdependencies
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between sun position, lighting, and view position. This creates a
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valid single pass initialization path.
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* use already calculated LaRCsim values to create the roll/pitch/yaw
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transformation matrix
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New in 0.43:
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* material properties bug fixed when rendering terrain.
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* bug in sky color generation fixed.
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* bug in fog color generation fixed.
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* zlib on the fly decompression/compression support.
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* more code reorganization and clean ups.
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* a fixed up 30 arcsec DEM file preprocessor. World wide DEM's are
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available in this format.
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New in 0.42:
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* Simple autopilot heading hold contributed by
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Jeff Goeke-Smith <jgoeke@voyager.net>
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* More code reorganization and clean ups.
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New in 0.41:
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* Many autoconf cleanups and tweaks
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* make and make install work in unix
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* make works for cygnus win32 (but not install yet)
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* make dist now works
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* added the Tools directory into the main source tree
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New in 0.40:
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* Gnu automake/autoconf/libtool make system
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* Initial texture support
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* Bug fixes
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