From f98eaad097527f69d7c1a469d397c3c366fffa46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: curt Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 03:01:04 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Updated for next release. --- NEWS | 82 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 82 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ddba72f32..b45ab6658 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,85 @@ +New in 0.7.11pre1 +* August 31, 2002 + +* The world is now populated with random ground objects with + apropriate type and density for the local ground cover type + (buildings, water towers, farm houses, silos, cows, trees, etc.) +* Many (most?) ground textures updated for a much nicer, more coherent, + more realistic overall look and feel. +* Added a java client library for FlightGear. +* Added some external scripting examples (python.) +* Implimented a Bendix/King KT 70 transponder. +* Implimented a Bendix/King KR 87 adf. +* Added support for 3d instrument panels inside 3d cockpits. +* Added support for animation of 3d models tied to internal properties. +* New/updated aircraft include: Cessna 172, Piper J3 Cub, DC-3, A4 + Skyhawk, Cessna 310, 747, 1903 Wright Flyer (non-linear with stall + modeled, based on wind tunnel data.) +* Convert the magic carpet into a UFO, complete with sound effects and + a 3d model (based on real world data of course.) :-) +* Environment manager overhaul +* Support for a base wind speed with gusts. +* Support for a base wind direction with variation. +* Support for more dynamically reconfigurable cloud layers. Cloud + layers are no longer hard coded. + +* Updates and additions to the FAQ +* Improvements to the sound effects module. +* Autopilot fixes to allow it to work much better on large airliners. +* Added a generic interface for running the flight dynamics model as a + seperate process communicating via a network connection. +* Synced with the latest JSBSim code. +* Synced with the latest UIUCmodel code. +* Many fixes and updates to the YASim FDM (fixed flap drag issue, new + tail wheel lock, lots of solver fixes, and fixes to other internal + stuff.) +* Added support for menus defined in an xml file. +* Make the help system start more robustly/quickly in Win32 +* Added support for detecting the name of a joystick and using the + appropriate default joystick config file. +* Overhauled the remote/network property interface. +* Added a --show-aircraft option to dump out a list of all the + available aircraft you can select with the --aircraft=NAME option. +* Added a --random-wind command line option. +* --wind= option can now contain ranges, + i.e. --wind=min_dir:max_dir@min_speed:max_speed; the system will + automatically vary the wind within these ranges. +* A "physical" crash (i.e. too-hard impact with the ground) causes the + sim to freeze. You can then reset the sim to the starting state + with the menu->reset option. + +* Support in the scenery tile cache for maintaining tiles in the cache + relative to several view points that could be *very* far apart. +* Brake makes the magic carpet fly backwards. +* Many clean ups, fixes, and improvements with the tile pager. Memory free + is now done incrementally and spread out through multiple frames to hide it. +* Modernized the autoconf/make scripts. +* Cleaned up old cruft from the build system. +* Default to using FGEnvironment +* Removed support for efence (in favor of valgrind.) +* Bumped minimum plib version required up to 1.4.2, however the latest + cvs (and hopefully release) works much better. +* Added valgrind debugging config files/scripts. +* Weeded out many warnings/errors flaged by valgrind. +* Overhauled the FGSubsystem class. +* Fixed reporting of winds, cloundbase and altimeter setting. +* FGSteam converted to a proper FGSubsystem. +* Fix fog on 3dfx cards. +* Added internal support for turning each tank on/off individually. +* Added support for a fuel selector switch. +* Fixes to builtin property browser. +* Fixed several math overflow problems with time elapsed calculations + that had crept in. Thes would cause some things to stop updating + (like portions of the instrument panel, and radio station frequency + matching.) +* Updates to the network OpenGC interface. + +* Irix fixes. +* Mac OS X fixes. +* MSVC fixes. +* IA-64 w/ Intel compiler fixes. + + New in 0.7.10 * April 20, 2002