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== Development news == | == Development news == | ||
===2020.1.2 Bugfix released on May 26=== | ===2020.1.2 Bugfix released on May 26=== | ||
2020.1.2 has been [https://www.flightgear.org/download/ released]. See [[Changelog_2020.1#2020.1.2_point_release|changelog]]. | '''2020.1.2''' has been [https://www.flightgear.org/download/ released]. See [[Changelog_2020.1#2020.1.2_point_release|changelog]]. | ||
2020.1.2 also allows selecting the two ''Work-In-Progress'' Compositor pipelines from the [[FlightGear_Qt_launcher|in-sim launcher]]. In Windows there is a Compositor shortcut under the Flightgear 2020.1 folder in the startmenu. | 2020.1.2 also allows selecting the two ''Work-In-Progress'' Compositor pipelines from the [[FlightGear_Qt_launcher|in-sim launcher]]. In Windows there is a Compositor shortcut under the Flightgear 2020.1 folder in the startmenu. | ||
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===2020.1 released on May 10=== | ===2020.1 released on May 10=== | ||
2020.1.1 was [https://www.flightgear.org/download/ released]. See the [[Changelog_2020.1|changelog]] for what's new. | '''2020.1.1''' was [https://www.flightgear.org/download/ released]. See the [[Changelog_2020.1|changelog]] for what's new. | ||
2020.1.x is a preview release including new features and infrastructure changes that that will be in the next long term stable release (LTS), but receive less testing and some aircraft maybe incompatible. Please test. | 2020.1.x is a preview release including new features and infrastructure changes that that will be in the next long term stable release (LTS), but receive less testing and some aircraft maybe incompatible. Please test. | ||
Aircraft developers, as always, if you notice a system that is meant to be working, is buggy or broken in a new release, please report it as a bug instead of working around it. The same input aircraft data working differently is | Aircraft developers, as always, if you notice a system that is meant to be working, is buggy or broken in a new release, please report it as a bug instead of working around it. The same input aircraft data working differently is a classic way to detect a problematic change in Flightgear. This applies to performance degradations too. The [https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/codetickets/ Sourceforge Tickets] or the [https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/ devel] mailing list are options for reporting. The sooner problems are reported the quicker (possibly serious) underlying causes can be identified and fixed. These underlying causes may affect other areas where the symptoms are harder to pick up. One of the strengths of opensource 'release early, release often', needs reporting to work. As a general point, it is less work to make any structural changes needed as a result of problems identified early, compared to structural changes after possibly building on those foundations. | ||
====WiP Compositor enabled in 2020.1.x==== | ====WiP Compositor enabled in 2020.1.x==== | ||
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|{{#ev:youtube|QoWwZH8o3LM|480| |Keflavik airport using the Compositor in 2012.1.1 by MrChillstorm. Note shadows by objects ground. Some shader settings may not be maxed as they are not ported. Overlays need 2020.1.2 to work. OSM2City is not installed.}} | |{{#ev:youtube|QoWwZH8o3LM|480| |Keflavik airport using the Compositor in 2012.1.1 by MrChillstorm. Note shadows by objects ground. Some shader settings may not be maxed as they are not ported. Overlays need 2020.1.2 to work. OSM2City for Iceland is not installed.}} | ||
|{{#ev:youtube|Lee1vimc9CM|480| |Compositor shadows in multiplayer by Wlbragg. The helicopter is a work-in-progress branch of the [[Aircrane]] with a lot of improvements that is only compatible with the Compositor.}} | |{{#ev:youtube|Lee1vimc9CM|480| |Compositor shadows in multiplayer by Wlbragg. The helicopter is a work-in-progress branch of the [[Aircrane]] with a lot of improvements that is only compatible with the Compositor.}} | ||
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Iceland is one of the more [[Suggested_airports#Developed_airports_situated_in_developed_regions|developed regions]] of Flightgear currently, and features detailed depiction of the striking volcanic terrain of the world's geologically youngest country with overlays as well as several [[Volcanoes|volcanoes]] including Eyjafjallajökull which caused severe disruption to aviation in 2010. | Iceland is one of the more [[Suggested_airports#Developed_airports_situated_in_developed_regions|developed regions]] of Flightgear currently, and features detailed depiction of the striking volcanic terrain of the world's geologically youngest country with overlays as well as several [[Volcanoes|volcanoes]] including Eyjafjallajökull which caused severe disruption to aviation in 2010. | ||
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|[[File:Bell 412 in Iceland (Flightgear 2019.x).jpg|thumb|left|700px|Iceland, at high settings in Flightgear with [[:Category:Screenshots_of_overlays|overlays]] on and [[Anti-aliasing#Transparency_anti-aliasing|transparency AA]] set high. Try overlays in Iceland - the lack of vegetation means there is spare performance in somewhat recent systems with discrete GPUs (laptops may only have integrated GPUs or slower mobile GPU variants)]] | |[[File:Bell 412 in Iceland (Flightgear 2019.x).jpg|thumb|left|700px|Iceland, at high settings in Flightgear with [[:Category:Screenshots_of_overlays|overlays]] on and [[Anti-aliasing#Transparency_anti-aliasing|transparency AA]] set high. Try overlays in Iceland - the lack of vegetation means there is spare performance in somewhat recent systems with discrete GPUs (laptops may only have integrated GPUs, or much slower mobile GPU variants in GPU series before GTX 10xx)]] | ||
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{{#ev:youtube|QclYjcqkGn0|480||What's new in FlightGear 2020.1? Video by Parnikaporre}} | {{#ev:youtube|QclYjcqkGn0|480||What's new in FlightGear 2020.1? Video by Parnikaporre}} | ||