X-Git-Url: https://git.mxchange.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=9833947e3484b7bfc03a3a12f0a45718a54ac52e;hb=1d058b0bac42aa38b19762fcfaca64ff8c7608fd;hp=ec4fc1acb165f030dad7cdec2f718ede934a7ce8;hpb=a4600f85c7ab155d0273ea0a9ac115c0815754ef;p=flightgear.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ec4fc1acb..9833947e3 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,166 @@ +New in 0.9.3 +* October 15, 2003 + +* Added a flight "replay" system. +* Many updates to the ATC and AI aircraft subsystem. (David Luff) +* Add support for moving cloud layers. +* New "symbolic" time of day dialog box for easily setting dawn, dusk, + noon, etc. +* Aircaft are now each self contained in their own individual + subdirectories for easier end user addition and removal. +* Many improvements to scene lighting throughout the day->night range + including more realistic sky and fog colors, more relistic scene + illumination, better dusk/dawn sky coloring, better specular + lighting support. +* A nice new chase view has been added. +* Added displaced thresholds on all runways that have them. +* Updated default scenery for the KSFO area. +* Many buildings and bridges added in the San Francisco area. +* Updated airport and navaid database, many new taxiways, many + corrected runways, many new airports (especially outside the USA.) + +* Use the field elevation for GS when no specific altitude listed in + FAA/DAFIF data +* Fix to translate DME and TACAN X/Y channels to paired VHF frequencies + correctly. Thanks to Jorge Van Hemelryck for the fix. +* Fixes to runway search routines (didn't always work correctly under + some circumstances.) +* Many fixes and updates to the autopilot. Autothrottle tracks speed + much better with much less jumping around. +* Expose the tuned navid via the property system to support building + more advanced avionics. +* Improvements to the environment manager and gui's, more control over + turbulence, ability to specify boundary condition layers as well as + aloft condition layers. +* JSBSim updates including a new turbine engine model that supports + things like starting and stopping procedures and thrust reversing. +* UIUCsim updates (compiler warning and namespace conflict fixes.) +* YASim updates (fix drag from shutdown engine.) +* Support for "clock" instruments that operate independently of + computer system time. +* Annunciators shouldn't work if electrical system not serviceable. +* A few updated splash screens. +* Added various fields to net_ctrls and net_fdm to include various + failures, faults, control surface positions, and other interesting + things. +* A few updated joystick definition files. +* Various keyboard mapping tweaks and changes. +* Many updates and tweaks to default material properties and random + land cover objects. +* Updated aircraft: 747, A320, T-38, A-10, B-52, F-104, Fokker 50, + Fokker 100, Piper Cub, P-51, UFO, YF-23, Ornithopter, A-4, C172, + and F-16 +* New Aircraft: J-22, Paraglider, SGS-126 Sailplane, ASW 20, and AN-225. +* Updated cloud textures. + +* Removed dependency on Metakit. The airport and runway databases are now + stored in a simple flat file ascii database. + +* FreeBSD, Solaris, MSVC, Irix, cygwin, and mingwin fixes. + + +New in 0.9.2 +* June 4, 2003 + +* New aircraft available: P51-D (w/ full 3d cockpit), Sea Hawk + (WV908), a research ornithopter (propelled by actual flapping + wings), A10, B-52, F-104, F-15, F-16, OV10, PA28-161, T-6A Texan II, + T-38, British TSR2, YF-23, 737, + +* Updated aircraft: airwave extreme hang glider, asw20 glider, A-4 + Skyhawk, Beech-99, Cessna 172 w/ 3d cockpit, Cessna 310 w/ 3d + cockpit, DC3, Piper J3 Cub, 1903 Wright Flyer, Sopwith Camel, Space + Shuttle, Boeing 747-400 + +* Overhauled menu/gui system and made it xml configurable rather than + hardwired. Include support for things like checkboxes, sliders, and + dials. + +* Added some early multiplayer features. + +* Added support for in-air presets relative to a VOR, NDB, or fix. + +* Support for Futaba, Airtronics, Hitec, JR, Multiplex and Tower R/C + transmitters using the RCJoy USB interface box (see + http://www.rcjoy.com). + +* Much improved sky and coloring as well as more realistic coloring of + the sunset and sunrise. + +* Clouds are drawn on a surface that better matches the underlying + curve of the earth. + +* A few updated terrain textures, better variety of random ground + cover objects. + +* Most weather options can now be set via the GUI. Added an option to + randomize the weather. + +* Various instruments and systems can now be failed/unfailed via the + GUI. + +* Developed scripts to build Navaid and ILS databases from DAFIFT, + FAA, and other data sources. +* Update Navaid and ILS databases based on DAFIFT, FAA, and other data + sources. + +* Continued development of voice ATC, robot aircraft AI, logical + taxiway networks (continues to be a work in progess, but much + progress has been made.) +* Separated out much of the low level model/material management code + and moved it over to SimGear where it can be potentially used by + other projects. +* Separated out the low level sound effect playing/management code and + moved it over to SimGear. +* Added functions to the "telnet" interface to allow remote management + of autopilot waypoints. +* Support the parking brake in the "external" flight dynamics interface. +* Added support for an audio panel (set of switches to set various + avionics audio sources on/off in the aircraft.) +* Add support for speed brake and spoiler controls. +* Many code updates to UIUCmodel including support for ornithopters + (flapping wing vehicles.) +* Many JSBsim code updates include a new turbine engine model. +* Added a "named pipe" external flight dynamics model interface. +* YASim updates including support for manual-pitch control props, + support for wing washout, and adjusting aircraft masses as fuel is + consumed. +* The property picker interface now shows the property values changing + dynamically. +* Added support for a simple annunciator panel (fuel, oil, vacuum, + volts dummy warning lights.) +* Added a "gyro" model. This can be driven electrically (turn + coordinator) or via vacuum (attitude indicator). If one of these + systems failes, the corresponding gyro will spin down realistically + an introduce realistic errors in the gauge reading. +* Model attitude indicator tumbling at extreme attitudes. +* Modeled the pitot system and use that drive the air speed indicator. +* Added a very simplistic volts/amps model to the electrical + system...enough to make the gauges behave plausibly and drive the + annunciator panel correctly. +* Updated the vacuum/suction model to behave more realistically. +* Added Italian and Polish translation for the GUI. + +* Mac OS X fixes. +* Better FreeBSD support. +* Mingwin fixes. +* Improved native sgi compiler support. +* MSVC fixes. + +* Fixed problems in marker beacon audio. +* Fixed several subtle problems in the modeling/positioning of glide + slope transmitters in FlightGear +* Don't allow the dewpoint to go higher than the temperature. +* Don't allow gust speed to be less than base wind speed. +* Fix a couple problems in the external fdm interface that prevented + FlightGear from being driven properly by an external source (i.e. to + act as a image generator only.) +* Fixes to camera parameters for external views (especially when rotating + the view around the different axes.) +* Many miscellaneous code clean ups, many bug fixes, and much code + refactoring. + + New in 0.9.1 * December 5, 2002