Cedric Loup
17.09.2008, 00:57
Hallo Zusammen
So wie es ausschaut ist die Version 9.20 nun nicht mehr als Beta verfügbar.
New Stuff for 9.20:
Countless frame-rate and RAM optimizations. One of the many examples is the new scenery-loader: Texture loading now uses as many cores as you have. Photo scenery should load a lot faster on multi-core machines, especially if you have four or eight cores.
General New Features:
DOME projection option!
It is in the rendering options screen.
This is designed for the bigger sims... It requires a level-2 key to use!
All sorts of edge-blending and offsets are avail as well in the Rendering Options screen to get multi-projector setups on conical or cylindrical screens!
Pick a joystick axis (on MASTER machine if a network) to be VIEW LEFT/RIGHT
Pick a joystick axis (on MASTER machine if a network) to be VIEW UP/DOWN
Go to the buttons: ADV
Pick a joy button to be: view/circle
Pick a joy button to be: view/forward
Pick a joy button to be: view/3d_path_toggle
Pick a joy button to be: general/zoom_in
Pick a joy button to be: general_zoom_out
Now fly around with a different joystick, or on autopilot, or with PFC hardware, or with A/I flies, or whatever.
Then, hit the joy button for view/circle, then the button for view/3d_path_toggle, and you will see the plane from the outside, leaving a flightpath behind it.
Hit the buttons for general/zoom_in and general_zoom_out to get a better look, and steer your view around with the joystick
NOW HERE IS WHERE THIS GETS AMAZINGLY COOL: YOU CAN DO THIS WITH MANY EXTERNAL VISUALS, AND THE DISPLAY WILL SPAN THEM ALL.
NOW HERE IS WHERE IT GETS EVEN COOLER: AN INSTRUCTOR CAN HAVE HIS OWN JOYSTICK AT THE INSTRUCTOR OPERATORS STATION TO STEER THE VIEW AROUND AFTER AN APPROACH TO SHOW THE PILOT WHAT HE DID!
So, if you have networked copies of X-Plane, and an instructor station, and an extra joystick, the instructor can steer the view around with a joystick at the IOS with the flight-plan displayed to show the pilot what he just flew!
MAP page shows a magenta line sprouting out from any VORs that you have tuned on the OBS radial you have selected....
kind of nice for evaluating whether you are tracking the radials OK. Really useful on the IOS.
BOUNCERS!
See the systems screen in Plane-Maker, BOUNCERS tab.
You can enter the spring and damping constants of various stuff that could bounce around in the cockpit.
The data you enter here will drive datarefs that you can then use in your custom OBJECT cockpit files that you make.
Click on the links below to see some possible 'bouncer' type objects:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU9USxJ9vPs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8gPRgw5_y8
Garmin-400 support as well as 430 and 530... This is nice for the Eclipse-jet, which uses this system.
Marker flares!
Put them on in the special equipment page in Plane-Maker, and be sure to add a parachute-flare button to the panel as well.
Then, toss out marker flares that float down!
They will float down, and sit on the ground and burn as well!
There is also a joystick command to deploy them.
You can have up to 4 landing lights. New "named lights" let you create independently controllable landing lights in your attached OBJ files. More docs on Airplane development:
http://wiki.x-plane.com/Category:Aircraft_Development
klick (http://www.x-plane.com/demo.html)
Gruss Cedric
So wie es ausschaut ist die Version 9.20 nun nicht mehr als Beta verfügbar.
New Stuff for 9.20:
Countless frame-rate and RAM optimizations. One of the many examples is the new scenery-loader: Texture loading now uses as many cores as you have. Photo scenery should load a lot faster on multi-core machines, especially if you have four or eight cores.
General New Features:
DOME projection option!
It is in the rendering options screen.
This is designed for the bigger sims... It requires a level-2 key to use!
All sorts of edge-blending and offsets are avail as well in the Rendering Options screen to get multi-projector setups on conical or cylindrical screens!
Pick a joystick axis (on MASTER machine if a network) to be VIEW LEFT/RIGHT
Pick a joystick axis (on MASTER machine if a network) to be VIEW UP/DOWN
Go to the buttons: ADV
Pick a joy button to be: view/circle
Pick a joy button to be: view/forward
Pick a joy button to be: view/3d_path_toggle
Pick a joy button to be: general/zoom_in
Pick a joy button to be: general_zoom_out
Now fly around with a different joystick, or on autopilot, or with PFC hardware, or with A/I flies, or whatever.
Then, hit the joy button for view/circle, then the button for view/3d_path_toggle, and you will see the plane from the outside, leaving a flightpath behind it.
Hit the buttons for general/zoom_in and general_zoom_out to get a better look, and steer your view around with the joystick
NOW HERE IS WHERE THIS GETS AMAZINGLY COOL: YOU CAN DO THIS WITH MANY EXTERNAL VISUALS, AND THE DISPLAY WILL SPAN THEM ALL.
NOW HERE IS WHERE IT GETS EVEN COOLER: AN INSTRUCTOR CAN HAVE HIS OWN JOYSTICK AT THE INSTRUCTOR OPERATORS STATION TO STEER THE VIEW AROUND AFTER AN APPROACH TO SHOW THE PILOT WHAT HE DID!
So, if you have networked copies of X-Plane, and an instructor station, and an extra joystick, the instructor can steer the view around with a joystick at the IOS with the flight-plan displayed to show the pilot what he just flew!
MAP page shows a magenta line sprouting out from any VORs that you have tuned on the OBS radial you have selected....
kind of nice for evaluating whether you are tracking the radials OK. Really useful on the IOS.
BOUNCERS!
See the systems screen in Plane-Maker, BOUNCERS tab.
You can enter the spring and damping constants of various stuff that could bounce around in the cockpit.
The data you enter here will drive datarefs that you can then use in your custom OBJECT cockpit files that you make.
Click on the links below to see some possible 'bouncer' type objects:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU9USxJ9vPs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8gPRgw5_y8
Garmin-400 support as well as 430 and 530... This is nice for the Eclipse-jet, which uses this system.
Marker flares!
Put them on in the special equipment page in Plane-Maker, and be sure to add a parachute-flare button to the panel as well.
Then, toss out marker flares that float down!
They will float down, and sit on the ground and burn as well!
There is also a joystick command to deploy them.
You can have up to 4 landing lights. New "named lights" let you create independently controllable landing lights in your attached OBJ files. More docs on Airplane development:
http://wiki.x-plane.com/Category:Aircraft_Development
klick (http://www.x-plane.com/demo.html)
Gruss Cedric