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von Austin (20120127_06h25)

Tons of news for you today!

1: X-Plane 10.04 Beta-1 is here! This has a TON of tuning-tye bug fixes. 10.04 has TONS of stuff like "Real-Weather METAR reports are read more accurately" and "A-I ATC and A-I airplanes are now much smarter" and stuff like that. As people are using the sim, we are now finding the stuff that just needs to be tuned, perfected, and fixed to run just as well as anyone would want. With 10.04, we are starting to get pretty close to a pretty stable platform to work from.. THIS is a really nice build!

REMEMBER, 10.04 BETA-1 IS A BETA, SO YOU DO NEED TO CHECK THE 'GET BETA' BOX ON YOUR UPDATER TO GET IT!

2: CARENADO has just come out with a cool new add-on aircraft for X-Plane: A very nice Cessna 185... check it out here!
http://www.carenado....oduct&correl=66
As Microsoft FS-X fades further and further into oblivion, and Microsoft FLIGHT is shown as a videogame, the add-on developers are switching to X-Plane at a pretty decent pace now.. and Carenado is one of the companies leading the migration.. with very nice results!

3: From time to time, people ask me if I could just use GoogleMaps for scenery in X-Plane. I always stick with the plausible 3-D world that we are building because I like it a lot more... BUT, someone that wants to fly over GoogleMaps has finally put his money where is mouth is and made a little plugin that lets you do just that! This little plugin is totally amateur, and is done by someone in his spare time... so tech support and quality control are NOT guaranteed... BUT, if you wan to check out what it might be like to fly X-Plane over GoogleMaps, then you might try http://members.ferra...i/GMaps/#plugin
I cannot vouch for it's quality, but I am sure a decent number of people will be very interested to give this a try!

See all the notes here: http://wiki.x-plane.com/Beta
And grab the updater from http://www.x-plane.com if you don't already have it to update your copy of X-Plane.
AND REMEMBER, 10.04 BETA-1 IS A BETA, SO YOU DO NEED TO CHECK THE 'GET BETA' BOX ON YOUR UPDATER TO GET IT!

So, have at it and let me know how it goes!

austin

von Austin:

2012-01-12

WHAT'S NEW
Version 10.03 Release 2:

Rendering:

Fixed corrupt geometry at KBTR and other locations. (These were facade roofs being stretched off into space!)
Sim will refuse to run with a clear error message for old non-supported hardware.




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2012-01-11

WHAT'S NEW
Version 10.03 Release 1:

Performance:

Framerate improved for 2-d panel views and forward-no-HUD, particularly with HDR enabled.
Rendering:
Clouds look better.. best yet!

ATC:
Fixed some minor crashes
Improved approach altitudes slightly
Fixed step descents and made the descents a bit shallower.

von Austin, 6.1.2012 - 00:05

X-Plane 10.03 Beta-10 is here now!

Run your updater to get it.
This fixes a bug where the Cirrus Jet would crash the sim after a little bit of flight time... but fixed now!

Have at it and let me know how it goes!

austin

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von Austin:

WHAT'S NEW
Version 10.03b9:
Beta 9 is a quick fix to beta 8. Beta 8 was removed from distribution due to a fatal crash; all of beta 8's bug fixes are of course included in beta 9, as well as:

Fixed a Windows crash bug in beta 8.
Fixed missing runway and city lights at some monitor settings.
Restored framerate with clouds visible.
Fixed crash in ATC system on startup.
Fixed missing sunlight in planet-wide view.



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ACHTUNG - BETA 8 mit Fehlern... Am besten auf Beta 9 warten!!


Posted on January 4, 2012 by Ben Supnik:
Happy New Year! I will try to get a few more posts out over the next few days; we spent a lot of December with our heads down trying to fix as many bugs as possible despite the chaos that the holidays always inflict on any company.

We had a slight fire-drill with beta 8 last night; it turns out it crashes on Windows, so we pulled back to beta 7. X-Plane 10.03 Beta 9 will come out today and fix the Windows crash and 1 or 2 other issues.


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von Austin, 4.1.2012

WHAT'S NEW
Version 10.03b8:
Coolness:

City lights are better tuned to look nice at a wide variety of resolutionsand fields of view.
Cloud lighting is more accurate, which is really nice, especially for overcastand stratus clouds.
Aircraft lighting is a hair nicer in cloud shadow.
Rendering options are streamlined and organized a hair better... with "one-pushto set to max frame-rate" button.
Flight-Control:
Joystick should now be more responsive! You should see a more instant andaccurate response.
You now get help with joystick calibration on your first start-up.
Fixed weather datarefs when real weather is in use
Fixed airplane loading by plugins on Windows
Fixed disappearing objects when Real Weather is in use
Fixed diseappearing horizon artifacts
Tuned shadow options - hopefully they should be a bit less blurry and alittle bit faster
Improved GPU fill rate a little bit in 3-d cockpit view with HDR on
Bug-Fix:
Now you can tke screenshots even if already recording a quicktime movieor sending imagery to EFIS-App.





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von Austin:

X-Plane 10.03 Beta 7 is here now!
All of our focus is on squashing every bug and inconsistency, and raising frame-rate!
This beta is mostly bug-fixes, but frame-rate improvements are going to be our main focus in the coming weeks and months!
In SOME cases you may some MINOR frame-rate improvements in this beta (especially if you have a lot of planes, minimal scenery, and only 1 CPU), but over the coming weeks and months my main focus is going to be on getting the sim to run faster in ALL scenarios.

Anyhoo, simply grab the updater app from X-Plane.com and tun it to update your copy of X-Plane and let me know how it goes!

austin

ATC:

Fixed bug sometimes causing the wrong controller to be assigned during a taxi reroute (gnd vs twr)
Fixed bug preventing Delivery from giving clearances to people who were given gate holds for weather.
Runway Flow changes less unstable
AI Flies Plane now picks less silly destinations
ATC works properly with --no_sound options now
File Flight Plan menu item now properly disabled when necessary
Weather:

No more seeing the inside of the clouds
No more seeing stars from inside the clouds
General:

When you create a navaid in the editing screen in the map page, you CAN see that navaid, making it easier to edit
Replay mode shows properly in IOS
A little more room for airport data in the low enroute map when you click on an airport... leaves room for frequencies with longer descriptions
Slight speed improvement when world level of detail is turned down and autogen is turned up
Aircraft:

Weapons now move with wing flex
Wing flex a hair faster and tighter
More runways displayed in the map, if there is room based on your texture resolution
172 starter dialed down a hair
Tire puffs from other planes should always be at right elevation
Custom prop discs aren't used for AI planes
For this build, if you are running a 32-bit version of Windows and have not set up your computer to allow 3 GB of virtual memory per process, X-Plane will detect the virtual memory limit and suggest this page: Running_Out_of_Memory




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von Austin:

Beta-6

Run the updater from X-Plane.com to get it!

We continue to fix bugs and tune code and work on optimizations!

Full list:

ATC:
Fixed bug preventing lowercase routings from working
Fixed numerous crashes in the ATC system.
Fixed bug causing AI planes to suddenly taxi through a hold short line wildly.
Fixed bug causing the view to change while using the arrows to navigate ATC menus.
Adjusted timers to let users communicate with ATC more easily.
Adjusted "off course" tolerances to make it less annoying.
Improved automatic layout generation at KTCM (and hopefully other airports that are long and thin)
Aircraft:

CRJ and other aicraft cockpits should work at night in HDR mode on OS X Lion.
Sim is more tolerant of missing textures - the rules now match v9 for OBJs.
Slight improvement to braking model to aid in erroneous aircraft drifting.
Baron 58: Added cockpit night lighting. Use the four lighting knobs under the copilot yoke to adjust.
F4 Phantom: Adjusted the flight model for better in-flight handling and more reasonable manners on approach and landing.
Fixed seg fault in weight/weapons window.
Rendering:

Fixed cut-off global lights on ATI hardware

Have at it and let me know how it goes!

austin

X-Plane 10.03 Beta 5 is here now!
Mostly just bug-fixes!

Rendering:
Fixed cut-outs in rain when HDR mode is enabled.
Fixed square white runwy lights in heavy Cat-III IFR when HDR is disabled.
Fixed corrupt drawing on UFMC when HDR mode is enabled.

ATC:
Fixed a bug causing bad taxi routings which may have caused ATC to constantly issue new taxi clearances.
Joystick General Command Up/Down and Contact ATC key assignments now work with the ATC menus.

Instruments:
FMS should now operate normally.

Grab an UPDATER from X-Plane.com if you have not already ( http://www.x-plane.c...lane_10_update/ ) and run it with beta-box checked to get the beta!

Have at it and let me know how it goes!

austin



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Version 10.03b4:

What's New:

Scenery:
Custom scenery packs with legacy file organization now work
Fixed crash for RealScenery Oahu (and any DSF with car-only road networks)
Restored some v9 library paths for overlay scenery
This update should install the bug fixes to Paris, Denver, and a few other tiles if you have them installed from DVD.

Aircraft:
Fixed erroneous FMS clear
Fixed Auto-throttle auto-engage
Prop disc plugin override is not reset when the flight is restarted
Fixed out-of-order key-frame tables for generic rotaries
Fixed black area in 3-d cockpit of P180 and other planes with HDR on
Temporarily removed generic map instrument - we'll put it back once it's fully finished

ATC:
Fixed a common ATC related crash due to weather changes
Fixed common ATC related crash due to an audio issue
Corrected Heading/Altitude Rounding
Improved efficiency and quality of ATC taxi routes

Misc:
Removed 16-bit color option from monitor-res popup. 16-bit color is not supported!
Fixed ghosting on NVidia cards


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diesmal von Ben:


X-Plane 10.03 beta 3 is here

Hi Y'all,

So I sort of, um, screwed up the beta 2 build process...the result was
no Plane-Maker and Airfoil-Maker. This is fixed for beta 3, which is
now available. Just let X-Plane auto-update and Plane-Maker and
Airfoil-Maker will be back. This beta also has a few more crash bug fixes.

cheers
ben



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Hi Y'all,

X-Plane 10.03 Beta 2 is available - simply run the updater found here

http://www.x-plane.c...lane-10-update/

or let X-Plane auto update when you start it.

This build has some bug fixes, including some crash bug fixes - we'll
keep posting new betas as we get the crash bugs and airplane-related
bugs knocked down!

Release notes here:

http://wiki.x-plane.com/Beta

cheers
ben



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X-Plane 10.03 Beta-1 is here!
Run your v-10 updater to grab it.

grab your updaters here if needed:

http://www.x-plane.c...tive-downloads/

We continue to work on optimizations and bug-fixes to make this sim perfect!

Have at it and let me know how it goes!

austin

X-Plane 10.03 Beta 1

Aircraft
Forward-no-panel views now never show random parts of the airplane. This may help some users with performance in that view.
Fixed a number of rendering bugs with HDR mode and weapons, including weapons with missing or pixelated fuselages.
Steerable landing light goes in the right direction.
Fix for v9 aircraft crashing when saved in v10 format.
Fixed needle deflection generic instrument to actually deflect.
Updater

When this beta is updated to the next, restarting X-Plane on Mac/Lin won't fail with a UDP socket error.
Web update URL fixed - this may help with some ISPs.
General Data

Updated Nav and Airport database to 2011.13 to correct problems with incorrect/impossible controller comm frequencies e.g.(109.60)
Scenery/Rendering

V9 DSF roads with duplicate points will load correctly.
Fixed black spots in KSEA demo area.
Stars dimmed slightly.
ATC

Fixed issue where going to some remote untowered airports would cause the AI aircraft to spawn and be destroyed repeatedly.
ATC now continues to function even in special situations e.g.(Tow/Shuttle/Carrier etc.)
Fixed several smaller stability issues related to active zones.
Fixed broken runway phrase during takeoff/landing clearances.
ATC now properly stops running when the sim is paused, in replay mode or in a modal dialog.

X-Plane 10.02 Beta 2 is here now!

Just more bug-fixes and refinements, and A LITTLE MORE FRAME-RATE IMPROVEMENT!

As well, we know of a handful of ways to FURTHER improve frame-rate and possibly even load-time, so the next 30 days or so of updates will feature more bug-ficing, tuning, and frame-rate optimizations above all else. THEN, we will start looking into increasing variety of scenery! (or, so goes my plan)

Anyway, grab the updaters here if you have not already:

http://www.x-plane.c...tive-downloads/

have at it, and let me know how it goes!

thanks!

austin

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X-Plane 10.02 Beta-1 is here!

Run your X-Plane 10 updaters (which you can get at the bottom of the page here:

http://www.x-plane.c...tive-downloads/

) to get up to the latest version.

This update has a ton of bug-fixes and even some speed optimizations (with MANY more to come!)

Grab it for sure and have at it! This is a big improvement over the previous build, fixing the stuff we have found from the first release!

Have at it and let me know how it goes!

austin

Ab sofort steht die X-Plane 10-Demo zum Download auf http://www.x-plane.com/ bereit!

Als Auslieferungstermin ist der 7. Dezember 2011 angegeben. Für 79.99 Dollar kann X-Plane 10 vorbestellt werden.