X-Git-Url: https://git.mxchange.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=386eeb6969ceaaa566f692045acd92119ae01590;hb=26d12e4b69696b07dff7533115554361543c0023;hp=3e9448470389516dcc7d5e047d43eed1b4a48ad3;hpb=f64ad212ee261dbdbd15d47bcc5d6fea7de4f6cb;p=flightgear.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3e9448470..386eeb696 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,167 @@ +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.